RFC2597: Assured Forwarding PHB Group1999 RFC
- Authors:
- J. Heinanen,
- F. Baker,
- W. Weiss,
- J. Wroclawski
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This document defines a general use Differentiated Services (DS) [Blake] Per-Hop-Behavior (PHB) Group called Assured Forwarding (AF). The AF PHB group provides delivery of IP packets in four independently forwarded AF classes. Within each AF class, an IP packet can be assigned one of three different levels of drop precedence. A DS node does not reorder IP packets of the same microflow if they belong to the same AF class.
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