Hi Bob,

I agree that if you dont keep your flow together that's a bad thing and you
will experience packet re-ordering. 

I also note that this is a topic where potentially the flow label could be
used. Nothing strange really, since the flowlabel identifies a flow.

-- thomas

>>While the RFC is about routers performing the loadsharing 
>over multiple
>>paths, I would think the issues it raises would probably also apply to
>>hosts.
>
>The issues are similar.  Load sharing approaches that don't keep flows 
>together are not a good thing.
>
>Bob
>
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