Description: This object identifies a network address to be used as a parameter in the address based packet selection process.

If the associated vdsAddrSelType object is equal to 'host(1)', then this object is ignored by the agent.

Otherwise, this object must identify a well-formed address according to the encoding rules defined for the network protocol for this entry (identified by the vdsAddrSelNetProtoID and vdsAddrSelNetProtoParms objects), and the following algorithm is used to select packets on behalf of this entry:

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

1) 'Bitwise AND' each octet of the vdsAddrSelHost1Addr 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' this each octet of object object with each octet of the associated vdsAddrSelHost2Mask 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. 3) 'Bitwise AND' each octet of the network source address in the packet with each octet of the associated vdsAddrSelHost1Mask value 4) 'Bitwise AND' the each octet of the network destination address in the packet with each octet of the associated vdsAddrSelHost2Mask value 5) (Check if host1 is sending to host2) Compare the results of step (1) and step (3); Compare the results of step (2) and step (4); If the results of step (1) equals the results of step (3), and the results of step (2) equals the results of step (4), then the packet is selected; Otherwise continue to step (6) 6) (Check if host2 is sending to host1) Compare the results of step (1) and step (4); Compare the results of step (2) and step (3); If the results of step (1) equals the results of step (4), and the results of step (2) equals the results of step (3), then the packet is selected; Otherwise the packet is not selected.

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