Addressing & Packet Transport

• Direct UDP/IP

  • Addressing of a specific device

• Router Alert

  • processing overhead in conventional routers

• DSCP to trigger packet execution

  • can be used for direct addressing or for processing along a certain path.
  • DSCP can also be used to avoid loss of active packets in not-active routers
  • no processing overhead in not-active routers

• generic packet filter