On 2010-08-04 00:49, Rémi Després wrote: ... > In my understanding, a reason why it is usually set to 0 is that a stateful > operation, which is complex, is so far mandatory (because a pseudo-random > number has to be assigned to each flow, not a stateless hash). > If a 5-tuple hash is permitted in the future, stateless operation will become > possible, and more and more hosts can be expected to set the field.
No, that can't be the reason, because RFC 3697 sets no strong rules - it doesn't even forbid just counting 1,2,3... as successive labels. At the time, nobody wanted to set any rules. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
