Packet Field Documentation Convention

Many of the fields contained in a packet are comprised of subfields. When the specification refers to a subfield, it is frequently represented as:

FieldName:SubFieldName.

As an example, LRH:SL is referring to the Service Level subfield within the packet's Local Route Header field.

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