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2005 Oct 29
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Mangling TOS, or Precedence/SecurityOpts/Compartment?
...n, and/or Compartment” fields in an IP header from what we could tell. The RFC that led us to this information stated: With the advent of DiffServ, intermediate nodes may modify the Differentiated Services Codepoint (DSCP) [RFC2474] of the IP header to indicate the desired Per-hop Behavior (PHB) [RFC2475, RFC2597, RFC2598]. The DSCP includes the three bits formerly known as the precedence field. Because any modification to those three bits will be considered illegal by endpoints that are precedence-aware, they may cause failures in establishing connections, or may cause established connections to...