7.1. Traffic Rate in Bytes (traffic-rate-bytes) Sub-Type 0x06

7.1. Traffic Rate in Bytes (traffic-rate-bytes) Sub-Type 0x06

The traffic-rate-bytes Extended Community uses the following Extended Community encoding:

The first two octets carry the 2-octet id, which can be assigned from a 2-octet AS number. When a 4-octet AS number is locally present, the 2 least significant octets of such an AS number can be used. This value is purely informational and SHOULD NOT be interpreted by the implementation.

The remaining 4 octets carry the maximum rate information in IEEE floating point [IEEE.754.1985] format, units being bytes per second. A traffic-rate of 0 should result on all traffic for the particular flow to be discarded. On encoding, the traffic-rate MUST NOT be negative. On decoding, negative values MUST be treated as zero (discard all traffic).

Interferes with: May interfere with the traffic-rate-packets (see Section 7.2). A policy may allow both filtering by traffic-rate-packets and traffic-rate-bytes. If the policy does not allow this, these two actions will conflict.