Hesham, > I had a preliminary idea and was going to write something > about it. Basically the sender can generate the flow label > based on a hash of the source and destination port numbers. > This is straight forward enough. If we want to make it > more sophisticated then we can add another number > to the hash input (e.g P1 || P2 || x). > Where x can be something specific to this flow. But > I think P1 and P2 are enough.
I guess this doesn't work where the source is setting up flows to more than one destination using the same source and destination port numbers. So I think you need to include destination address in the hash computation as well. Mat. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
