Re: wildcard flowid in framework PIB?

Hi Emmanuel.
Please see comments inline.
/brian

Emmanuel Dumont wrote:

>Hi Brian,
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>Do you think a wildcard is needed for the FlowId attribute ?
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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 ?
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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...
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>Brian : Do you think that others wildcards are missing ?
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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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>France Telecom OCISI/DIeP (Guyancourt, France)
>Mail: [email protected] / [email protected]
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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?
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>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.
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>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
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>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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