Re: Usage of IPv6 flow label

[Brian E Carpenter]

Grenville Armitage wrote:
> 
> 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.

No, not until the flow label has some semantics, which it doesn't
today. And itojun's point about IPSEC is important.

  Brian
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