Re: Usage of IPv6 flow label

[Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino]

>>  except for IP address, they may be embedded into ESP, or may be buried
>>  in IP header chain.  so for efficient router operation we need to
>>  use flow label, which will effectively give us the following 3 items
>>  (depending on the definition of "flow"):
>>  - layer 4 port number pair
>>  - protocol type
>Only if we define a standard way of compressing the ports and protocol type
>into the flow label.

        i don't think there needs to be a standard way.  if there's some
        pseudorandom and unique number in flow label field (as suggested in
        RFC2460) it is more than enough.

itjun
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