On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> >>>>> C M Heard writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Mike> 1.)  Appropriateness of using DSCP (differentiated services code
> Mike> point) as a forwarding table index.
> 
> I raised my voice several times that the indexing is not flexible
> enough to represent existing frowarding data structures but I got
> strong push back since we only do "minimal changes" - even if boxes
> have to cheat in order to implement this MIB...

I saw that when I went through the archived e-mail.  Do you think
that having an OCTET STRING-based policy selector (in addition to
destination prefix/prefix length and next hop) as I suggested can
provide the required flexibility?  As far as I can see it does,
although it might not be the most convenient way.

//cmh

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