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+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 The Magma Authors.
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Open Networking Foundation <support@opennetworking.org>
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+syntax = "proto3";
+
+package magma.orc8r;
+option go_package = "magma/orc8r/lib/go/protos";
+
+message RedisState {
+    bytes serialized_msg = 1;
+    uint64 version = 2;
+    bool is_garbage = 3;
+}
+