The Transit counter information element may, optionally, be included in the SETUP message to indicate the number of private network transit exchanges which intervene in the requested connection. The Transit counter information element has a maximum length of 3 octets.
The Transit counter information element is defined in codeset 4.
8 |
7 |
6 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
Octet |
Transit counter information element identifier |
1 |
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0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
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Length of Transit counter |
2 |
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ext. |
Reserved |
Transit count (binary value) |
3 |
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0 |
0 |
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