Re: Usage of IPv6 flow label

[Brian E Carpenter]

Francis Dupont wrote:
...
> => just associate a QoS to a SPI and send the information (ie. how to
> classify packets (addresses, ..., SPI) and the QoS) to the classifier
> (which is by definition on-path).

Wrong model. That requires signalling; diffserv doesn't have signalling.

This works for RSVP as itojun explained, but it doesn't work for diffserv.

  Brian
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