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[Gaitonde Anandprasanna <prasanna@csa.iisc.ernet.in>]

This qeustion was asked by some person earlier but somehow i did not see
the answers in the mailing lists. If i have missed the answer then please
provide pointers to mail archives.

I wanted to know why the format of the IPv4 Prefix is that way:

 RSVP ERO subobject IPv4 address:-
 
 In RSVP-TE, the format of subobject 1: IPv4 address (4.4.1.1) is
 
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
           Type | Length | IPv4 address
-----------------------------------------------------------------
        IPv4 address | Prefix Length | Flags
------------------------------------------------------------------
 
Can somebody explain to me: What is the advantage to split the IPv4
address in two words? From the
implementation point of view, it should be much easy to put IPv4 address   
in a single word.




Thanx in advance

Pras