IS-IS TLV’s

TLV (Type-Length-Value or Tag-Length-Value) is an encoding scheme used for optional information element in a certain protocol. The type and length are fixed in size (typically 1-4 bytes), and the value field is of variable size. Type: It is simply the data being processed, a binary code, often simply alphanumeric, which indicates the kind of field that this part of the message represents. Length: It specifies the length/size of the value field, typically in bytes Value: Variable-sized series of bytes which contains data for this part of the message. It is the third field and contains a “length” amount of data representing the value for Read More …