Joe Touch <[email protected]> writes: > Even a NVI isn't really flow information, so might not have any > bearing on whether a set of packets (with the same NVI) should maintain > their relative order.
Well, the definition of "flow information" is not in the positive sense -- if the value is the same between two packets, their order must be maintained -- but rather in the negative sense -- if the value is *different* between two packets, their order *need not* be maintained. That causes devices to behave conservatively, in that they are allowed to reorder packets only if they have specific knowledge that the packets are "in different flows". From that point of view, if a device knows that a certain field is an NVI, then it can treat that field as flow information. Dale _______________________________________________ nvo3 mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nvo3
