On Aug 10, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: > > I guess I don't see the problem to be as big a deal as you suggest. > I'm happy if flow label 0 gets some default RPLinstanceID. > > It would be convenient if the rules were relaxed such that on ingress, > the RPL edge router could *set* the FL if it were zero, and it appears > that this matches up well with what the load balancing people want to > do. > > Today, if you ssh or HTTP or what-not, without doing anything special, > you will get a flow label of zero, which with the above rule, means you > get connectivity. Only if some intermediate node sets the FL=0 would it > be a problem today, and that's illegal so far.
Can you promise me that every device in the Internet does this, i.e. that there are no IP stacks which set the flow label? Phil -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
