(Cc:s trimmed)

On 2018-12-12 09:06, Wes Hardaker wrote:
> Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> "By in large, this flow label changing behaviour has been traced to
>> IPv6 supporting CPE/firewalls, which change the flow label between the
>> initial syn and the ack."
>>
>> Broken middleboxes can prevent anything from working properly.
> 
> With my <operator> hat on, we have indeed run into a problem where a
> small (~ 2%) of IPv6 TCP sessions to us were failing due to FlowLabels
> being used in ECMP hashing.  We had to turn off the usage of FlowLabel
> in the hashing because of even a small real world impact to end-users.

It's a shame. Can you characterise those sessions in any way?

(This shouldn't invalidate ECMP/LAG usage as described in RFC6438,
since there it is the operator that sets the flow label.)

   Brian

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