Re: ForCES Protocol Implementation Issues

Jamal Hadi Salim <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:47:08 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.forces
Organization ZNYX Networks
Message-ID <1190040428.4240.34.camel@localhost>
On Sun, 2007-16-09 at 22:28 -0400, SUBSCRIBE FORCES B. J. Kang wrote:

> So if I have a table and IDs is 1.3, I can use DEL opeation with IDs = 1.3 and 
> FULLDATA TLV = 4(only T+L, no Value) to kill all content of the table? 

Yes, but you dont need the FULLDATA  (in the past we thought we needed
it and if someone sends it to you).
Should we add an example which shows this feature? A table flush is a
common operation so it will make sense to have one more example in the
text.

> In the article "Draft Protocol", it defines a lot of return code of Result TLV. But 
> I have some confusion. Like "0x01 E_INVALID_HEADER", if I parse a packet and 
> its common header is incorrect, where can I put the Rusult TLV to report the 
> error?  

Very good question. I looked at our implementation and we dont use any
of those codes - silently drop instead. Do you have any suggestions?
Joel?

cheers,
jamal