> Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 16:33:41 +0200
> From: "Pascal Thubert (pthubert)" <[email protected]>
>
> The flow label helps the router select the instance for a packet.
"Helps"? Doesn't the flow label tell the router exactly
which instance to use?
> It does not help a host that needs to select a router that serves that
> instance.
The trouble I have with this is that "select a router"
sounds a lot like routing. We already have a mechanism
for selecting which router to send a packet to: DIOs.
If a device wants to select between next hops based on
routing metrics then it should be a router.
Why is this such a burden? Listening to DIOs and making
routing decisions based on them does not require sending
DIOs or forwarding packets for others.
-Richard Kelsey
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