# 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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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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