Hi, Suresh, Le 25 oct. 2010 à 19:57, Suresh Krishnan a écrit : > ... > I strongly support the load-balancing use of the flow label.
Isn't it better, then, to quickly improve what we have for this, than inventing new uses that would prevent backward compatibility? > The question is how many bits are really required. I am not an operator and > hence cannot speak authoritatively, but talking to our customers leads me to > believe that 16 bits is sufficient for this purpose. I would love to see some > more data on this. What is clear is that: - 20 bits is always better than 16 for any hash function. - 20 it the number we have today. King regards, RD -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
