Diffserv MIB [was Re: wildcard flowid in framework PIB?]

[Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>]

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I think we had a couple of other minor bugs that someone found
in the MIB a few months back.

So, do we need to spin RFC 3289?

    Brian

Fred Baker wrote:
> 
> hmm. The field is
> 
> diffServMultiFieldClfrFlowId OBJECT-TYPE
>      SYNTAX         Unsigned32 (0..1048575)
>      MAX-ACCESS     read-create
>      STATUS         current
>      DESCRIPTION
>         "The flow identifier in an IPv6 header."
>      ::= { diffServMultiFieldClfrEntry 8 }
> 
> It allows you to set the value compared against, which is to say "decide
> what packets to select"; nothing in the MIB permits you to change the
> packet other than the "set" action, and that sets the DSCP.
> 
> I think I intended to have a boolean (a TruthValue) that allowed you to
> wildcard it, and have it default to being wildcarded (like all the other
> fields in the MFClassifier); however, I don't see the boolean in the MIB. oops.
> 
> At 03:07 AM 1/18/2003 +0100, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
> > >
> > > Correct. The FlowID is immutable (unlike the DSCP). Are you saying the
> > > MIB allows setting the FlowID? If so, that's a bug.
> > >
> >No, I think the flowID in the MIB is settable, but it functions as
> >the flowID on which one wants to filter or classify. So it is not changing
> >the flowid in the protocol PDUs that pass by, but only comparing it to
> >the SETable MIB value(s). And I do think that it makes sense to be
> >able to have a wildcard for that, no?
> >
> >Bert