>Hi all,
>I have some questions depending the usage of the flow
>label field within IPv6. Background of my questioning is
>that actually within 3GPP standardization the discussion
>appears if the flow label could be used for bearer
>identification if IPv6 would be chosen as transport
>option within the UMTS Radio Access Networks.
>
>Within RFC2460 the usage of the flow label field is not
>fully described and for me it is not clear if anything
>mentioned in the Appendix is part of the standard or
>only for information. Therefore I have the following
>questions:
I tried to clarify some of the issues with flowlabel and its API,
it is documented in draft-itojun-ipv6-flowlabel-api-00.txt. i really
appreciate your feedbacks. i'll be presenting about it at San Diego
IETF.
>- Can intermediate routers change the flow label?
> Appendix A of RFC2460 states that hosts or routers that
> do not support the flow label should pass the field on
> unchanged. Is this also true for hosts or routers that
> do support the flow label? What is the procedure if an
> router supports flow labels but has no context about a
> specific flow label?
seems to me, no.
itojun
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