On 2010-10-02 08:47, Yiu L. Lee wrote: > (Sorry for sending an empty email by hitting the "send" by accident) > > Hi Brian and Remi, > > If I understand correctly, RFC 3697 allows the packet source to design how > the FL should be generated. In the GI-DS-lite case, the source is the GW > which is a trusted device inside the network, the FL will be used between > the Gateway and AFTR, so the security risk is fairly low. The only > limitation is each GW (BRAS) can support up to 2^20 (~1M) CPEs. I think 1M > per BRAS is a high number, I don't know this will cause any real issue in > real deployment.
Indeed, that is an engineering question, not a standards compliance question. If the flow label is only a small increment on the per-customer state in the BRAS, I suppose it's OK, but that's for a BRAS designer to decide. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
