----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:51 AM Subject: Re: Flow Label
> > Just a quick question from an interested lurker: Are these hums of > > acquiescence in response, specifically, to the idea that an originating > > node may set the flow label to any value, and that nodes forwarding > > packets will leave that value alone? -- George Mitchell > > not quite. if we someday define how the flow label is to be used, > originating nodes can follow that spec. that's not the same thing > as saying that originating nodes can set the flow label field to > whatever value they like. > Originating nodes can always set any values to anything they want. The consensus of the nodes in the network then works to process what the originating node sets the values to, and the result is observed. Some people may or may not change the way they set the values, based on the observed results. In summary, people will route around the damage and gravitate to solutions that work. Jim Fleming 2002:[IPv4]:000X:03DB http://www.IPv8.info -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
