Re: [tipc-discussion] TIPC Port ID Ref of 0

[Stephens, A. <all...@wi...>]

Felix wrote:
> 
> Is it possible for the ref portion of a TIPC Port ID to have a value of
> 0?  Or is that always considered non-valid?
> 
> Thanks,
> Felix

The answer is both "no" and "yes". You are correct in stating that no TIPC port will ever have an address with a reference value of zero. However, you may still encounter TIPC messages in which the "destination port" field in the message is zero; for example, when TIPC does multicasting to a name sequence the destination port field is set to zero until name table translation is actually performed on the receiving node (i.e. the step that translates a TIPC name into a TIPC port id).

Regards,
Al