> Hi HEsham, I'm not sure how it's thought routers in the fixed network > load-balance traffic without informing end-hosts. IETF has some nice > qos reservation mechanisms that are triggered by end-node after which > routers in the middle look at packet markings and load-balance > accordingly. COPS, RSVP, Traffic Class, Diffserv are keywords for > search. It's the end-node who tags the packets anyways.
=> This is not related to reality in deployed networks. End hosts don't use RSVP and hosts hardly ever mark TOS fields. Anyway, your response is not related to what I said earlier, routers do split flows to different links all the time (of course one flow is expected to take the same path in the network under normal circumstances). This is a fact and I don't see why an end host has to know which specific links its traffic goes through on every hop. That makes no sense. > > It's even true for a MIP6 HA: HA copies the traffic class > from inner to > outer header, so what's decided by MN is respected by HA. > (there's an > option with pre-configured Traffic Class at HA , but > optional that is). => Again, this is not related to my comment or this thread in general. Hesham _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
