>> >- 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.
> => Agreed. Also based on my comment above I
> don't think it would be a good idea.
> I can't remember if it's included in the AH calculation
> or not.
flow label field is not part of AH calculation, but as RSVP already
requires it to be end-to-end (not hop-by-hop) i think we shouldn't
rewrite it in transit.
itojun
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