Hello Ali,
Thank you kindly for clarifying this, really appreciated.
Best Regards,
Menachem
From: Ali Sajassi (sajassi)
Date: Monday, 5 February 2024 at 20:06
To: Menachem Dodge , Matthew Bocci (Nokia)
, draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432...@ietf.org
Cc: bess-cha...@ietf.org , bess@ietf.org
Subject: R
Hi Menachem,
The use of control word is not mandatory and it is situation dependent. Both
RFC 7432 (and now bis) and RFC 8469 (which is basically elaboration of section
18 of RFC7432/bis) mention that the control word is not needed when there is no
chance of packet re-ordering – e.g., when unde
Hello Ali,
Thank you kindly for your response.
The question that Mathew and I raised, is why make the control-word dependent
on the presence of the Entropy Label (per RFC6790)?
Transit Routers may or may not perform their load balancing based on the
Entropy Label.
Some transit routers do perfo
