Soliman, Hesham wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
> I have question in regard to the field "header len" of the
> Mobility header (RFC 3775 [31]).
> Is That field indicates the length of the mobility header in
> *8-bits Unit (1 octet Unit)*, excluding *the first 8 bits (first
> octet)*, or is that really indicates the length of the mobility
> header in *8-octets (8*8 bits) Unit*, excluding *the first 8
> octets (8*8 bits)* _as it is currently written in the RFC_ ?
>
> => It's the length in 8-octet units.
>
>
As Hesham already responded, it is indeed counted in
units of 8 octets and the first 8 octets are not included
in the length. That is, if your message is 16 bytes
long you would place value 1 in the Length field.
For further questions, the mip6 list is probably a better
place:
http://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mip6
--Jari
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