Jim whats CE bits?
-- thomas
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Bound
> Sent: den 4 december 2000 18:41
> To: Steve Deering
> Cc: Francis Dupont; Brian E Carpenter; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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> Subject: Re: Usage of IPv6 flow label
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> >>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?
>
> Obviously I agree with Steve and this is a killer point.
> Recall in dec
> when we pushed the CE bit and it would only work exactly as
> Steve states
> won't work above. It never got used or deployed. It needs
> to come from
> the source and honored by the routers.
>
> /jim
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