Re: wildcard flowid in framework PIB?

Hi Kwok.
I still am not clear how you would indicate a value to match all 
FlowIDs, and hence the FlowId can be ignored. Please see further inline.
/brian

Kwok Ho Chan wrote:

> Brian, Emmanuel:
> We do not need wildcard for the frwkIpFilterFlowId attribute in the
> Framework PIB's frwkIpFilterEntry.
>
> The reasoning is as follows:

<snip>

>>    If an IPv6 node is not providing flow-specific treatment, it MUST
>>    ignore the field when receiving or forwarding a packet.
>
I assume you are using this as the key point. What I am after is how you 
tell the node that it is not doing flow-specific treatment, and 
therefore the field can be ignored. That is, what do you send in the PIB 
to tell the node that the FlowId is not used? This is not case 1, 2, or 
3 below.

> the draft-ietf-ipv6-flow-label-03.txt draft indicate that there can be 
> 3 conditions
> for the Flow Label field of the IPv6 header:
> 1. It contain the value of zero, meaning it is not used.
> 2. It contain some specific value, with no defined syntax and semantics.
>     Hence each value is unique on its own with no relationship to Flow 
> Labels
>     of containing another value.
> 3. It contain some value other than zero.
>
> For the first 2 cases indicated above, the filter setup for them is 
> trivial, just
> set the frwkIpFilterFlowId to zero or the specific value needed.

This is clear.

> For the 3rd case, the filtering definition should use the 
> frwkBaseFilterNegation
> set to true and frwkIpFilterFlowId set to zero.  This will indicate a 
> filter match
> for all Flow Label values other than zero.

This is also clear.

> Please let me know if this does not resolve the question you have.
> Thanks!
> -- Kwok --
>
>
> At 09:13 AM 11/8/02 +1100, Brian Williams wrote:
>
>> 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 : [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]De la part de
>>> Brian Williams
>>> Envoye : mercredi 6 novembre 2002 00:46
>>> A : [email protected]
>>> 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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