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[Markus Jork <mjork@avici.com>]

It is in fact the token bucket rate, not the peak rate.

Markus

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> in my opinion,it must be the "token buchet rate" to  be used to specify the desired bandwidth.is it right?
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> >The 'peak data rate' is used to specify the desired bandwidth.
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> >-Vasanthi
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Hong Liao [mailto:hliao@telcordia.com]
> >Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:00 PM
> >To: mpls@UU.NET
> >Subject: how to request the desired bandwidth? RFC3209 section 4.7.3
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> >Hi,
> >
> >RFC3209 Section 4.7.3,  it says "When a new path message is considered for
> >admission, the bandwidth requested is compared with the bandwidth available
> >at the priority specified in the set up priority"
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> >Here I want to know how to request the desired bandwidth from the path msg.
> >As I know, in the path message, there is one Sender Tspec object, and
> >inside this object, it has traffic parameters like 'token bucket rate',
> >'token bucket size', 'peak data rate'.......  I want to know which
> >parameter can be used to specify the desired bandwidth the node wants.  Or
> >desired BW will not be defined from this object at all?
> >
> >Can someone tell me how to request the BW in the Path msg, and if it is not
> >available, a PathErr msg will be sent back?
> >
> >Thanks in an advance.
> >Julia
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