Subject: IP min-max in FTN entry

From: Lior Keren <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:04:49 +0200

Hi,

draft-ietf-mpls-ftn-mib-01.txt defines MplsFTNEntry as follows:

MplsFTNEntry  ::=  SEQUENCE {
      mplsFTNIndex               MplsFTNIndex,
      mplsFTNRowStatus           RowStatus,
      mplsFTNDescr               DisplayString,
      mplsFTNApplied             TruthValue,
      mplsFTNMask                BITS,
      mplsFTNAddrType            InetAddressType,
      mplsFTNSourceIpv4AddrMin   InetAddressIPv4,
      mplsFTNSourceIpv6AddrMin   InetAddressIPv6,
      mplsFTNSourceIpv4AddrMax   InetAddressIPv4,
      mplsFTNSourceIpv6AddrMax   InetAddressIPv6,
      mplsFTNDestIpv4AddrMin     InetAddressIPv4,
      mplsFTNDestIpv6AddrMin     InetAddressIPv6,
      mplsFTNDestIpv4AddrMax     InetAddressIPv4,
      mplsFTNDestIpv6AddrMax     InetAddressIPv6,
      mplsFTNSourcePortMin       MplsPortAddr,
      mplsFTNSourcePortMax       MplsPortAddr,
      mplsFTNDestPortMin         MplsPortAddr,
      mplsFTNDestPortMax         MplsPortAddr,
      mplsFTNProtocol            INTEGER,
      mplsFTNActionType          INTEGER,
      mplsFTNActionPointer       RowPointer,
      mplsFTNStorageType         StorageType
   }

Do you know why ranging IP-addr is done using min-max and not with
IP-perfix as usually done for IP ?

Thanks, Lior.

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From: "Thomas D. Nadeau" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:22:09 -0400

>IP-perfix as usually done for IP ?

         This is done so that you can specify a range
of IP addresses to be affected by a single rule.
The IP address may be a prefix too

         --Tom