I am working on a user mode DECnet router and I have a question about the Level 1 Routing message. Specifically, sometimes I receive a level 1 routing message with routing information for destination address 0. The spec says this represents the nearest level 2 router . What I am not clear about is how this is supposed to be treated in the Decision Process, specifically Section 4.7.3 item F in the specification. The reason I ask is that if I blindly accept address 0 I think it corrupts the hop and cost tables, because the Check process then gets failures. Thanks Rob