>> I don't disagree with you - however my point was I thought that the
>> application should be involved in what value of the flow label is used.
>
>Is it really the case that the application needs to be involved in
>choosing the flow label value? Or is it more reasonable to say that
>the app needs to be able to indicate that it wants to use *a* flow
>label?
>
>I can see the flow label management issue being more efficient in
>the IPv6 stack itself.
FYI, draft-itojun-ipv6-flowlabel-api-01.txt provides no way to
set flowlabel value from the userland. the (sending) kernel decides
the value. receiver apps can inspect the value.
itojun
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