Re: Flow Label consistency question

2005-04-25 Thread Ran Liebermann
On 25/04/05, Steven Blake wrote: > > 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? Ofcourse if you need multiple label stacks you'll have to either encapsulate it by another IPv6 header (oversized for

Re: Flow Label consistency question

2005-04-25 Thread Ran Liebermann
Hi Brian and all, On 25/04/05, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Until 6LSA explains how it will restore the label to its > original value, or the IETF changes its mind about immutability > of the label, this just isn't going to happen. I think that's > why the 6LSA people wrote their recent draft. On t

Re: Flow Label consistency question

2005-04-24 Thread Ran Liebermann
Hello all, On 22/04/05, David Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using the flow label to validate recieved ICMP error messages is > quite appealing in light of draft-gont-tcpm-icmp-attacks-03. It > could also be used for validating ICMP messages generated by UDP > packets, where sequence numbers

Flow Label consistency question

2005-04-21 Thread Ran Liebermann
Hi, I've been reading a few drafts and RFCs in this matter and I couldn't find an explanation why the Flow Label field has to read the destination with the same value the source sent it. Wouldn't it introduce a whole lot of new capabilities (without as many limitations) if the Flow Label field ha