Re: OSI IP routing on the DDN?

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From: hagens
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1989 15:38

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> also, would someone explain the parsing?  Do ISO IP
> packets have protocol IDs larger than 64 to avoid
> colliding with ARPA IP packets?  (ISO IP has the
> protocol ID in the first octet, whereas ARPA IP
> uses the first nybble- if ISO IP had a protocol ID
> field less than 64, it would look like an old version
> ARPA IP packet with confused length and checksums).
> Are the checksums and length fields parsed in a "i'll
> try to parse it ARPA and see if it works" strategy?

ISO 8473 is 10000001b I don't have my ESIS spec handy to see what it uses.

rob hagens

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