Re: problem with inetCidrRouteDest/inetCidrRoutePfxLen consistency check language in draft-ietf-ipv6-rfc2096-update-06.txt

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de> Wed, 04 February 2004 17:08 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de>
To: "C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com>
Cc: Brian Haberman <brian@innovationslab.net>, ipv6@ietf.org, "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>
Subject: Re: problem with inetCidrRouteDest/inetCidrRoutePfxLen consistency check language in draft-ietf-ipv6-rfc2096-update-06.txt
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On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 07:34:58AM -0800, C. M. Heard wrote:

[...]
 
> It seems to me that an easy fix for this problem would be to alter
> the text to exclude the zone index from the comparison.  Here is
> my suggestion:
> 
>             The values for the index objects inetCidrRouteDest and
>             inetCidrRoutePfxLen must be consistent.  When the value
>             of inetCidrRouteDest (excluding the zone index, if one
>             is present) is x, then the bitwise logical-AND
>             of x with the value of the mask formed from the
>             corresponding index object inetCidrRoutePfxLen MUST be
>             equal to x.  If not, then the index pair is not
>             consistent and an inconsistentName error must be
>             returned on SET or CREATE requests.

This text is clearly an improvement over what has been there before.

/js

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Juergen Schoenwaelder		    International University Bremen
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