RE: [Diffserv] RE: FW: FlowId and FlowIdOrAny

[Branislav Meandzija <bran@arraycomm.com>]

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Procedurally, very complex fix for something very simple but it seems the best possible one.

Branislav

  > 
  > My proposal is to do the following:
  > 
  > - Someone creates a new ID that contains a small MIB module
  >   that contains two TCs:
  > 
  >   FlowId            TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
  >       DISPLAY-HINT "d"
  >       STATUS        current
  >       DESCRIPTION  "The flow identifier or flow Label in an IPv6
  >                     header that may be used to discriminate traffic
  >                     flows.
  >                    "
  >       SYNTAX        Integer32 (0..1048575)
  > 
  >   FlowIdOrAny       TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
  >       DISPLAY-HINT "d"
  >       STATUS        current
  >       DESCRIPTION  "The flow identifier or flow lable in an IPv6 
  >                     header that may be used to discriminate traffic
  >                     flows.  The value of -1 is used to indicate a
  >                     wildcard, i.e. any value.
  >                    "
  >       SYNTAX        Integer32 (-1 | 0..1048575)