At 7:21 PM +0100 12/1/00, Francis Dupont wrote:
>In the future I can see two cases:
> - the flow label is set by the source (first camp)
> - the flow label is set by an edge router (with the DiffServ definition
> of what is an edge router) because the source box (or its user) is
> too dumb to deal with QoS/..., according to the edge router manager.
If the Flow Label is set by something other than the source node, how
do you guarantee its uniqueness, over the topological scope in which
it must be unique? Do you need to invent a protocol between the routers
on a LAN to divvy up the Flow label space? What happens when the LAN
partitions, then routers in the different partitions assign duplicate
Flow Labels, and then the partition heals?
Steve
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