[Babel-users] Propagation of unknown sub-TLV?

2018-01-24 Thread Lorenzo Ghiro
> > <<[…] If the explicit length of a TLV defined by the original protocol is > larger than its natural length, the extra space present in the TLV is > silently ignored by an implementation of the original protocol; > extended implementations MAY use it to store arbitrary data and > SHOULD structur

Re: [Babel-users] Propagation of unknown sub-TLV?

2018-01-24 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> I would like that Babel-nodes running an implementation of the original > protocol (call them standard-nodes) would be able to "forward > information" contained in sub-TLVs coming from "extended-nodes". [...] > Is it possible to accomplish this kind of “silent-propagation”? No. In Babel, an u