Subject: disman issue REMOPS-7

From: Randy Presuhn <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:23:32 -0700 (PDT)

Hi -

disman issue REMOPS-7:

> From: Dave Thaler <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Review of draft-ietf-disman-remops-mib-05.txt
> To: [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:14:26 -0400 (EDT)
...
> >    pingCtlDataSize OBJECT-TYPE
> ...
> >           request is usually an ICMP message encoded
> >           into an IP packet.  An IP packet has a maximum size
> >           of 65535 octets.  Subtracting the size of the ICMP
> >           header (8 octets) and the size of the IP header
> >           (20 octets) yields a maximum size of 65507 octets."
> 
> Might be helpful to say "Subtracting the size of the ICMP or
> UDP header (both 8 octets)..." since both are allowed.
...

As a technical contributor, I agree with this clarification.

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