>> On 24.10.21 17:36, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>> The issue is a good deal deeper than just debugging.  As long as there's an 
>> option to specify a variable length parameter without being able to specify 
>> the length in the protocol, then the protocol is fundamentally ambiguous and 
>> its interpretation is entirely context dependent.
> 
> You mean, like a subnet mask?

No, you can parse the addresses in a packet perfectly without knowing the 
subnet mask. More like variable length addresses without encoding what the 
length actually is…

Cheers,
Sander
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