Re: ECMP and flow label

2010-01-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
We had some conversation about this topic last November. I finally got around to a draft. Discussion welcome. Brian Original Message Subject: I-D Action:draft-carpenter-flow-ecmp-00.txt Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:15:02 -0800 (PST) From: internet-dra...@ietf.org Reply-To:

Re: ECMP and flow label

2009-11-12 Thread Brian Haberman
Hi Brian, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I may have not quite understood the comments about ECMP and the flow label in 6man today. But here goes: The flow label spec in RFC3697 says, very carefully and precisely: IPv6 nodes MUST NOT assume any mathematical or other properties of the Flow

Re: ECMP and flow label

2009-11-11 Thread Gorry Fairhurst
understood the comments about ECMP and the flow label in 6man today. But here goes: The flow label spec in RFC3697 says, very carefully and precisely: IPv6 nodes MUST NOT assume any mathematical or other properties of the Flow Label values assigned by source nodes. Router performance SHOULD

Re: ECMP and flow label

2009-11-10 Thread Gorry Fairhurst
not quite understood the comments about ECMP and the flow label in 6man today. But here goes: The flow label spec in RFC3697 says, very carefully and precisely: IPv6 nodes MUST NOT assume any mathematical or other properties of the Flow Label values assigned by source nodes. Router performance

Re: ECMP and flow label

2009-11-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
not quite understood the comments about ECMP and the flow label in 6man today. But here goes: The flow label spec in RFC3697 says, very carefully and precisely: IPv6 nodes MUST NOT assume any mathematical or other properties of the Flow Label values assigned by source nodes. Router

ECMP and flow label

2009-11-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I may have not quite understood the comments about ECMP and the flow label in 6man today. But here goes: The flow label spec in RFC3697 says, very carefully and precisely: IPv6 nodes MUST NOT assume any mathematical or other properties of the Flow Label values assigned by source nodes