[Diffserv] Re: FlowId and FlowIdOrAny

Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Wed, 22 January 2003 14:38 UTC

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Subject: [Diffserv] Re: FlowId and FlowIdOrAny
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I found some more objects that seem to model a flow label. It turns
out that MIB authors are really creative...

draft-ietf-ipsp-ipsec-conf-mib-05.txt:

  ihfIPv6FlowLabel OBJECT-TYPE
      SYNTAX      OCTET STRING (SIZE(3))
      MAX-ACCESS  read-create
      STATUS      current
      DESCRIPTION
          "The IPv6 Flow Label that the packet must match against.
          This object is only used if ipv6FlowLabel is set in ihfType."
      ::= { ipHeaderFilterEntry 13 }

  They obviously have another mechanism to control whether the
  object participates in a match.

draft-ietf-rmonmib-sspm-mib-06.txt:

   sspmSourceProfileFlowLabel OBJECT-TYPE
       SYNTAX      Integer32 (0..1048575)     -- 20-bit range (0 to 0xfffff)
       MAX-ACCESS  read-create
       STATUS      current
       DESCRIPTION
           "This object is  used to specify the Flow Label  in a IPv6
            packet (RFC 2460) to force special handling by the IPv6 routers for
            non-default quality-of-service.

            This object is meaningful only when sspmSourceDestAddressType is
            ipv6(2).  The value of this object defaults to zero if not
            set."
       DEFVAL { 0 }
       ::= { sspmSourceProfileEntry 7 }

  This object seems to actually control how the flow label looks like
  in packets coming from a synthetic traffic source.

Note that these objects are called flow label rather than flowid and
hence I did not find them the first time...

/js

-- 
Juergen Schoenwaelder    <http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/schoenw/>


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