Re: Usage of IPv6 flow label

[Grenville Armitage]

Jim Bound wrote:
> 
> Brian,
> 
> >It still isn't clear to me what the flow label adds to the semantics
> >used by existing 5-tuple QOS classifiers.
> 
> First go look at RSVP.  Thats one.

Although RSVP's use of flowlabel does provide a simpler,
not-munged-by-IPsec syntax for expressing a flow's identity,
I was under the impression the flowlabel+srcaddr is semantically
identical to the 5-tuple.

cheers,
gja
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