Re: wildcard flowid in framework PIB?

[Brian Williams <brian.williams@ericsson.com.au>]

Hi Emmanuel.
Please see comments inline.
/brian

Emmanuel Dumont wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> Do you think a wildcard is needed for the FlowId attribute ?
>  
I consider that a wildcard would be needed for FlowId as much as for the 
other attributes (eg DSCP). I think there would need to be an 
explanation of why one is not provided.

> Which one could you suggest ?
I would think a value of -1 (as used for DSCP) would be appropriate.

> Kwok: is it an omission in the FR-PIB ?
> Maybe an IPv6 expert can help us to solve that question...
>
> Brian : Do you think that others wildcards are missing ?
This is the only one that I have identified is missing from the filter. 
I have not done a careful check on anything else in the document.

> Emmanuel Dumont
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : owner-rap@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-rap@ops.ietf.org]De la part de
> Brian Williams
> Envoye : mercredi 6 novembre 2002 00:46
> A : rap@ops.ietf.org
> Objet : wildcard flowid in framework PIB?
>
> Hi All.
> I have a question on the framework PIB. When I look at many of the
> filter attributes, there exist values that can be used as wildcards.
>
> The following are a few examples:
> - for source and destination addresses, a prefix length of 0 indicates a
> match of any address
> - for DSCP, a value of -1 will match all DSCP values
> - for port numbers, you can set the min and max to include all values
> - for protocol number, a value of 255 means match all
>
> However, for the FlowId, the range is specified as 0..1048575 which is
> the valid range of the 20 bit label. How is a wildcard FlowId indicated?
> /brian
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