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denser ar$pro space.

  • From: James Watt <james@newbridge.com>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 21:42:34 -0400 (EDT)
  • CC: ip-atm@matmos.hpl.hp.com, gja@thumper.bellcore.com

Andrew Smith writes:
+---------
|Of course, I've already had substantial grief from LANE having
|chosen 0000 as a "special" code. This mostly comes from IEEE
|people who claim this is a "reserved" value, at least in 802.3
|sorts of packets. Is there a 00 NLPID allocated?
+------
	 "A NLPID value of 0x00 is defined within ISO/IEC TR 9577 as the
          Null Network Layer or Inactive Set"

So it is defined and reserved...

I too like Grenville's proposal.

Regards,
-james

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