Description: This object identifies a network address to be used as a parameter in the address based packet selection process. It must be a well-formed address according to the encoding rules defined for the network protocol for this entry (identified by the vdsAddrSelNetProtoID and vdsAddrSelNetProtoParms objects).

For each examined packet which matches the network type (according to the algorithm defined in the vdsAddrSelNetProtoID object):

1) 'Bitwise AND' each octet of this object with each octet of the associated vdsAddrSelHost1Mask value. Note that the result of this step is a constant value, and may be used for all relevant packets, rather than re-computing this value each time a packet is processed. 2) 'Bitwise AND' each octet of the network source address in the packet with each octet of the associated vdsAddrSelHost1Mask value 3) Compare the results of step (1) and step (2); if equal, the packet is selected; otherwise continue to step (4) 4) 'Bitwise AND' each octet of the network destination address in the packet with each octet of the associated vdsAddrSelHost1Mask value 5) Compare the results of step (1) and step (4); if equal, the packet is selected, otherwise it is not selected.

This object may not be modified if the associated vdsAddrSelStatus object is equal to active(1).