Re: [lisp] IPv6 UDP checksum issue - Flowlabel use already specified

2009-08-04 Thread Rémi Després
Le 4 août 09 à 17:08, Joel M. Halpern a écrit : It has become clear with the passage of time that the description of the flow label in the original IPv6 specs served only to convince everyone not to use that field for anything. Even now, no one is sure what to do with it. RFC 3697,

Re: [lisp] IPv6 UDP checksum issue - Flowlabel use already specified

2009-08-04 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 4 aug 2009, at 19:57, Rémi Després wrote: RFC 3697, which is on standards track, specifies how to use flowlabels. I would personally have no objection to it's deprecation, but it's here. Since apparently nobody looks at it today, I'm tempted to attempt to scavenge some header bits

Re: [lisp] IPv6 UDP checksum issue - Flowlabel use already specified

2009-08-04 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-08-05 06:39, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 4 aug 2009, at 19:57, Rémi Després wrote: RFC 3697, which is on standards track, specifies how to use flowlabels. I would personally have no objection to it's deprecation, but it's here. Since apparently nobody looks at it today, I'm