This section explains instances of exceptional route compression behavior.
When a node does not have any best route.
Consider the routing table shown in the following table. When a node does not have any best route, children are uncompressed, if they were already compressed. Also this node is uncompressed, if it had previously been compressed.
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When a node contains only a multicast route.
Route compression is applied to unicast routes only. If a node contains only a multicast route, the compression algorithm is not applied to the node. Therefore multicast nodes are considered as nodes with no best unicast routes as shown in the table below.
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