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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
+ * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ */
+package org.opendaylight.controller.liblldp;
+
+/**
+ * Describes an exception that is raised when the process of serializing or
+ * deserializing a network packet/stream fails. This generally happens when the
+ * packet/stream is malformed.
+ *
+ */
+public class PacketException extends Exception {
+ private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+ public PacketException(String message) {
+ super(message);
+ }
+}