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[Shahram Davari <Shahram_Davari@pmc-sierra.com>]

Hi Pasi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pasi.vaananen@nokia.com [mailto:pasi.vaananen@nokia.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 3:03 PM
> To: Shahram Davari; MPLS@UU.NET
> Subject: RE: Traffic TLV in CR-LDP
> 
> 
> > I was wondering why the traffic TLV of CR-LDP has so many 
> parameters:
> > 
> > PDR, PBS, CDR, CBS, EBS.
> > 
> > According to CRLDP,  (PDR, PBS) and (CDR, CBS) and (CDR, EBS) 
> > define 3 Token
> > buckets. While what we need for different scenarios are:
> > 
> > 1) For GS (Intserv) we need only 2 TBs.
> > 2) For CLS (Intserv) we need only one TB.
> > 3) For EF (Diffserv) we need only one TB.
> > 4) For AF (Diffserv) we need only 2 TBs.
> > 
> > Don't you think one of the (PBS or EBS)  parameters is extra? 
> > If so which one should be used by an LSR?
> 
> I think that these were originally quite similar to parameters 
> to Juha's single-rate & two-rate three color markers, that have 
> been published as (informational ?) documents.
> 
> Pasi


I know. But only one of them (eitehr srTCM or trTCM) is required, not both.
How should a node find which one is requested? 

Note that these two metering scheme look very similar, but they are not
identical.

Regards,
-Shahram
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