On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 18:23 +0300, Ran Liebermann wrote:

> The only reason for the value of be kept e2e is if this value should
> signal something to routers in the path of the flow (the reason why
> not including the value in upper layers) and still be used by the
> destination for something (for example - so that the destination would
> know what value the source put in there in order to insert a new value
> for returning traffic which has a meaning that's derived from the
> former value of the original data). Can you think of an application
> for that?

See shim6.

> Other than that, using the label for 6LSAs would just spare the need
> to encapsulate the packet with MPLS.

How do you stack flow labels?


Regards,

// Steve


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