Rob, I think something with similar properties to TCP's initial sequence number selection would be about right. A toaster-class device will have to deal with that as well.
Bob >Please also recall that there exist toaster-class devices whose only >persistant storage is flash RAM or some similar technology that has a >finite number of write cycles before becoming, well, toast. In such >environments preserving frequently-changing data across reboots is not >a trivial matter, and I'm not convinced that flow labels pass the >cost/benefit test. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
