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... new type of service correctly without having to understand its
semantics.
Appendix B of this memo provides a more detailed explanation of the
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... bits (where each
bit has its own meaning). This memo defines the semantics of the
following TOS field values (expressed as binary numbers):
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... was set.
Although the semantics of values other than the five listed above are
not defined by this memo, they are perfectly legal TOS values, and
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... except as described in Section 8 should not) make any distinction
between TOS values whose semantics are defined by this memo and those
that are not.
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... TOS
field in an IP datagram (including those values whose semantics
are yet to be defined). Any routes learned using routing
protocols which support TOS ...
... bits would indicate that none of the types of
optimization was any more important than any of the others.
Although one could perhaps assign reasonable semantics to most
pairs of bits, it is unclear that the range ...
... route
better). Since a router would need to understand the semantics of
all of the TOS values to make a more intelligent choice, there
...
... TOS values would require
that routing protocols be cognizant of the semantics of the
TOS values and use special algorithms ...
... that there are a number of legal TOS values that have no
currently defined semantics.
(2) This specification assumes that network managers ...