Robert Elz writes:
> That seems wrong to me. With a 20 bit field, and a PRNG value in the
> field, then there's room for a million different flows, all passing through
> a router, and all being uniquely matched by just the flow label (with
> address verification later). My guess is that a million is already too
> small, but it is also most probably not so far away from what's needed
> as to be unusable (to use the million we'd need rather more flows than
> that, because we know we'll get collisions, which is what saves such a
> small number).
>
> Your proposal reduces that to 64K flows. That I know is way too small.
Er, the flow key is src/dst/flowlabel, right? That means it's
64k per host pair which seems like plenty.
Mike
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