RFC 6592: The Null Packet

The ever-elusive Null Packet received numerous mentions in documents in the RFC series, but it has never been explicitly defined. This memo corrects that…

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Outgoing relationships (11 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 1144: Compressing TCP/IP Headers for Low-Speed Serial Links
Normative reference — RFC 3514: The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header
Normative reference — RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths
Informative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 3031: Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 5082: The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM)
Informative reference — RFC 6390: Guidelines for Considering New Performance Metric Development
Informative reference — RFC 2410: The NULL Encryption Algorithm and Its Use With IPsec
Informative reference — RFC 4571: Framing Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) and RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Packets over Connection-Oriented Transport
Informative reference — RFC 4259: A Framework for Transmission of IP Datagrams over MPEG-2 Networks
Informative reference — RFC 5320: The Subnetwork Encapsulation and Adaptation Layer (SEAL)