Re: New official link-layer type request

[Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net>]

On May 11, 2019, at 1:39 PM, Damir Franusic <damir.franusic () gmail com> wrote:

> Like I sad, I don't have the complete documentation ready,

When you have the complete documentation ready, let us know.

> but this is the general format:
>
> +---------------------------------+
> |           Version               |
> |           (1 Octet)             |
> |                                 |
> +---------------------------------+
> |           PDU Type              |
> |           (1 Octet)             |
> |                                 |

What are the PDU type values?

> +---------------------------------+
> |       Source ELLE Node          |
> |  NULL terminated ASCII string   |
> |       (1 Octet min for \0)      |

So that's pure ASCII, without, for example, any letters with diacritical marks, so it doesn't need full UTF-8?

> |                                 |
> +---------------------------------+
> |       Destination ELEE Node     |
> |  NULL terminated ASCII string   |
> |       (1 Octet min for \0)      |

And the same applies there?

> |                                 |
> +---------------------------------+
> |       ELEE PDU Payload          |
> .      (Remaining octets)         .
> .                                 .
> .                                 .
>
> PDU Payload part is the rest of the packet data
> and will be interpreted based on PDU Type.

Presumably the formats of the PDU payloads will be described in the complete documentation.
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