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Date:      Tue, 30 Apr 2002 08:41:09 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        mark tinguely <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ip_flow and ipf_tos
Message-ID:  <3CCEBB15.D89B94E7@mindspring.com>
References:  <200204301507.g3UF7tN32713@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>

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mark tinguely wrote:
> >  Right now, ip_tos (and ipf_tos) is an 8 bit value, of which only
> >  the first 6 bits are used in the hash, while the hash value pass
> >  itself is a 32 bit value (in most cases: it's "unsigned").  I'd
> >  like to push the value into the same space as the src.s_addr
> >  feedback, which would have the net effect of making 2 more bits
> >  of the standard implementation useful.
> 
> I have no complaints to your proposal. The question I had was:
> what would happen when the high bits implement Early Congestion
> Notification (RFC3168)? Wouldn't we want to mask off these bits
> from the hash anyway?

Yes.  It would be nice if such masking were explicit, so that
the code could be read by mere mortals, though.  8-).

-- Terry

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