On Jan 9, 2011, at 5:45 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > I'm confused. We've been talking for months about recommending > pseudo-random flow label values as inputs to hash functions, > precisely to allow scaleable and stateless load balancing and ECMP. > > I completely agree that per-flow state doesn't scale.
This isn't exactly the first time I have made the statement. I've been on record on this point regarding the flow label since it was designed to answer NIMROD's definition of a flow. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
