# Bit-level addressing in DNP3 - possible?

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**Created:** [June 17, 2023, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bit-level-addressing-in-dnp3-possible/75175 "2023-06-17T03:16:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![msteele](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/msteele/32/77889_2.png) [@msteele](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/msteele)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 3:16am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bit-level-addressing-in-dnp3-possible/75175/1 "2023-06-17T03:16:06Z")

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Is there a way for me to address booleans as bit-level tags within bitpacked analogs/counters in DNP3, similar to how it works in Modbus?

I am trying to avoid unpacking these with getBit() to avoid the expression performance hit relative to directly addressing the bit.

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**Author:** ![brian.mcenulty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b77776/32.png) [@brian.mcenulty](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/brian.mcenulty)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 3:48am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bit-level-addressing-in-dnp3-possible/75175/2 "2023-06-17T03:48:41Z")

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Not that I know of. I've had to read the DNP3 analog or counter tag as an integer and then use the getBit() expression as you mentioned on expression tags to read individual bits. A bit annoying but it has worked.