On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:00:43PM +0100, Niels M�ller wrote:
> > however, I could not find a good (a simple and usable) UNIX API to make
> > the above option happen, so I simplified the story.
> > At least, the latter case can easily be handled by "single TCP session
> > per single flow label".
>
> What about associating a flow-label with each open socket (which is
> used for all outgoing packets), and supporting these three operations:
>
> 1. Make up a new, unique, flow-label and associate it with the given
> socket.
>
> 2. Copy the flow-label association from one socket to another.
>
> 3. Reset the flow-label for a socket to zero.
I can think of a couple of others:
4. Retrieve the flow label from a socket.
5. Set the flow label on a socket to a specific value.
These together should allow UDP servers to associate flow labels with
particular traffic. When such an application wanted to create a new
flow F, it would use 1 and 4. When it sent packets to another
existing flow G, it could use 5. When the application resumed sending
packets to flow F, it would again use 5.
-Dave
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