Thomas Narten wrote: > Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> writes: > >>> what's the threat if it changes in flight? multiple times even? > >> That presumably depends on the use case. The idea is that someone >> figures out what flow label values will screw you, and sets such >> values. > > And exactly how is this is different that what we have today, where > the same can be done by setting values for the src/dest addresses and > ports?
No worse *if* you randomize the Flow Label -- because we do randomize the source ports. Thanks, -- Fernando Gont e-mail: [email protected] || [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
