8.2.189 Tunnel Preference

29.2443GPPInterface between the Control Plane and the User Plane nodesRelease 17TS

The Tunnel Preference IE type shall be encoded as shown in Figure 8.2.189-1. It contains a Tunnel Preference value which indicates the preference to be given to the L2TP tunnel to which it refers; higher preference is given to lower values, with 0x000000 being most preferred and 0xFFFFFF least preferred (see 3GPP TS 29.061 [39]).

Bits

Octets

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

1 to 2

Type = 281 (decimal)

3 to 4

Length = 3

5 to 7

Tunnel Preference value

Figure 8.2.189-1: Tunnel Preference

The Tunnel Preference value shall be encoded as three octets binary integer value.