Re: pingCtlDSField in remops

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 04:14:00PM +0200, Juergen Quittek wrote:
> Implementations of RFC 2925 take the value of the pingCtlDSField object
> and write it to the TOS / Traffic Class octet, because as defined in
> RFC 2474 the DiffServ Field originally had a length of 8 bits.
> 
> If we want to maintain compatibility with implementations of RFC 2925,
> then we should not focus on strictly following the DSField definiton,
> that was shortened to 6 bits by RFC 3260.
> 
> Rather, the DESCRIPTION clause should just state that the value of the
> octet is copied into the TOS / Traffic Class octet, for example

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If that is what implementations do - fine with me.

/js

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