On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Bob Hinden wrote: > 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.
Exactly (to the latter sentence). HOWEVER, note that TCP ISN is not conserved across reboots. So, in practise, a toaster-class device deals with it by not dealing with it. The same would be good for flow labels. I agree 100% with Rob that we have to justify flow label storage __really__ hard to make it something that must be conserved across boots. Actually I don't recall anything in the current IPv4 base TCP/IP specification which requires storage (apart from addresses etc. which are a non-issue). -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
