RE: wildcard flowid in framework PIB?

["Emmanuel Dumont" <em.dumont@wanadoo.fr>]

Hi Brian,

Do you think a wildcard is needed for the FlowId attribute ?
Which one could you suggest ?
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 ?

Emmanuel Dumont
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France Telecom OCISI/DIeP (Guyancourt, France)
Mail: em.dumont@wanadoo.fr / emmanuel.dumont@francetelecom.com
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De : owner-rap@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-rap@ops.ietf.org]De la part de
Brian Williams
Envoye : mercredi 6 novembre 2002 00:46
A : rap@ops.ietf.org
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