Well, that may be true, but it's also not how it should be, according to the rfcs... and apps assuming such misbehavior isn't going to make the situation any better.
today tcp relies on routers not introducing huge reordering, and net admins hopefully know that... so they cause harm by configuring differently. it would be good if that was the same for the flow label. Sent from my iPhone > On 15 May 2017, at 05:10, Erik Kline <e...@google.com> wrote: > > WRT the IPv6 flow label: there really aren't any requirements on semantics > that can be relied upon by applications on the wide open Internet. It's > basically just something you can use within cooperating administrative > domains. > > That said, it might be nice to be able to influence its value (even if only > for applications that are used with an administrative domain). _______________________________________________ Taps mailing list Taps@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/taps
