> > 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.
=> Well, there is no requirement that the flow label is globally unique. So this should work as long as you use a unique value between 2 addresses. Hesham -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
