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    Re: Target record not to span PDUs?



    
    Good point. I think that we can do this as we have a limit on the size of
    an individual record far lower than 4096.
    
    I'll ad the following text to 2.9.5:
    
       A Key=value pair must be confined to a given text response even in the
       presence of bookmark - i.e., it must start and end within one Text
       Response.
    
    Julo
    
    Tow Wang <Tow_Wang@adaptec.com> on 22-08-2001 05:06:44
    
    Please respond to Tow Wang <Tow_Wang@adaptec.com>
    
    To:   Julian Satran/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL
    cc:   "'ips@ece.cmu.edu'" <ips@ece.cmu.edu>
    Subject:  Target record not to span PDUs?
    
    
    
    Julian (and all):
    
    Hello. This is regarding draft 07; could we require that target records NOT
    span across
    PDU's if a text response for SendTargets is very long? Upon reading
    appendix E, it seems
    that a response (of 4096 bytes in length) could end with:
    
    [Begin data segment]
    ...
    TargetName=I.got.chopped.4096
    TargetAddress=10.1.1.45
    [End data segment]
    
    In the above case, one could not determine whether the address is IP V4 or
    V6. Even if it
    had had enough space to put in the whole address, port and group tag, one
    cannot parse and
    process the record until inspecting the data segment of the next text
    response PDU, and
    this would involve cumulative buffering, back-parsing, etc. I think the
    above complexity
    could be avoided, as I can't imagine any single record exceeding 4096 bytes
    in length.
    
    Tow Wang
    
    
    
    
    


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