diff --git a/holo-vrrp/src/debug.rs b/holo-vrrp/src/debug.rs
index 95312777..b5705575 100644
--- a/holo-vrrp/src/debug.rs
+++ b/holo-vrrp/src/debug.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ use std::net::IpAddr;
 
 use tracing::{debug, debug_span};
 
-use crate::packet::Packet;
+use crate::packet::VRRPPacket;
 
 // VRRP debug messages.
 #[derive(Debug)]
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ pub enum Debug<'a> {
     InstanceStart,
     InstanceStop(InstanceInactiveReason),
     // Network
-    PacketRx(&'a IpAddr, &'a Packet),
-    PacketTx(&'a IpAddr, &'a Packet),
+    PacketRx(&'a IpAddr, &'a VRRPPacket),
+    PacketTx(&'a IpAddr, &'a VRRPPacket),
 }
 
 // Reason why an VRRP instance is inactive.
diff --git a/holo-vrrp/src/events.rs b/holo-vrrp/src/events.rs
index 3508c073..9c41cf4b 100644
--- a/holo-vrrp/src/events.rs
+++ b/holo-vrrp/src/events.rs
@@ -8,14 +8,14 @@ use std::net::IpAddr;
 
 use crate::error::Error;
 use crate::instance::Instance;
-use crate::packet::{DecodeResult, Packet};
+use crate::packet::{DecodeResult, VRRPPacket};
 
 // ===== Network packet receipt =====
 
 pub(crate) fn process_packet(
     _instance: &mut Instance,
     _src: IpAddr,
-    _packet: DecodeResult<Packet>,
+    _packet: DecodeResult<VRRPPacket>,
 ) -> Result<(), Error> {
     // TODO
 
diff --git a/holo-vrrp/src/packet.rs b/holo-vrrp/src/packet.rs
index a9787b1e..4168cbf5 100644
--- a/holo-vrrp/src/packet.rs
+++ b/holo-vrrp/src/packet.rs
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ pub type DecodeResult<T> = Result<T, DecodeError>;
 //
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
 #[derive(Deserialize, Serialize)]
-pub struct Packet {
+pub struct VRRPPacket {
     // version + type [4 bits each]
     ver_type: u8, 
     vrid: u8,
@@ -63,14 +63,33 @@ pub struct Packet {
 #[derive(Deserialize, Serialize)]
 pub enum DecodeError {
     ChecksumError,
-    PacketLengthError(u8),
+    PacketLengthError(PacketLengthError),
     IpTtlError(u8),
     VersionError(u8)
 }
+ 
+#[derive(Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
+#[derive(Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub enum PacketLengthError {
+
+    // A maximum number of 16 IP addresses are allowed for 
+    // VRRP. 
+    AddressCount(u8),
+
+    // specified on the vrrp-ietf. when length of the 
+    // vrrp packet is less than 16 bytes. 
+    TooLow(u8),
+
+    // customized. while for addresscount we look for the count_ip 
+    // field in the header, in case the total length of the IP address 
+    // is not specified correctly there, we will also manually look
+    // if there are too many bytes in the whole packet. 
+    TooHigh(u8),
+}
 
 // ===== impl Packet =====
 
-impl Packet {
+impl VRRPPacket {
     // Encodes VRRP packet into a bytes buffer.
     pub fn encode(&self) -> BytesMut {
         let mut buf = BytesMut::with_capacity(114);
@@ -131,15 +150,32 @@ impl std::fmt::Display for DecodeError {
             DecodeError::ChecksumError => {
                 write!(f, "Checksum is not valid")
             },
-            DecodeError::PacketLengthError(rx_length) => {
-                write!(f, "Packet length too low: {rx_length}")
-            },
+            
             DecodeError::IpTtlError(rx_ttl) => {
                 write!(f, "TTL less than 255: {rx_ttl}")
             },
             DecodeError::VersionError(rx_version) => {
                 write!(f, "Invalid version: {rx_version}")
             }
+            DecodeError::PacketLengthError(err) => {
+                std::fmt::Display::fmt(err, f)
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl std::fmt::Display for PacketLengthError {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        match self {
+            PacketLengthError::TooHigh(rx_len) => {
+                write!(f, "Too many bytes for VRRP packet: {rx_len}")
+            },
+            PacketLengthError::TooLow(rx_len) => {
+                write!(f, "Not enough bytes for VRRP packets: {rx_len}")
+            },
+            PacketLengthError::AddressCount(rx_count) => {
+                write!(f, "Too many IP addresses {rx_count}")
+            },
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/holo-vrrp/src/tasks.rs b/holo-vrrp/src/tasks.rs
index 3fcd6a87..db3b5a67 100644
--- a/holo-vrrp/src/tasks.rs
+++ b/holo-vrrp/src/tasks.rs
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ pub mod messages {
 
     use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 
-    use crate::packet::{DecodeError, Packet};
+    use crate::packet::{DecodeError, VRRPPacket};
 
     // Type aliases.
     pub type ProtocolInputMsg = input::ProtocolMsg;
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ pub mod messages {
         #[derive(Debug, Deserialize, Serialize)]
         pub struct NetRxPacketMsg {
             pub src: IpAddr,
-            pub packet: Result<Packet, DecodeError>,
+            pub packet: Result<VRRPPacket, DecodeError>,
         }
     }
 
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ pub mod messages {
 
         #[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize)]
         pub struct NetTxPacketMsg {
-            pub packet: Packet,
+            pub packet: VRRPPacket,
             pub src: IpAddr,
             pub dst: IpAddr,
         }