Re: [Int-area] Comments and suggestiosn to draft-ietf-intarea-flow-label-balancing-00

2013-04-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hello Olivier, On 17/04/2013 12:28, Olivier Bonaventure wrote: Hello, Here are some additional comments on the above draft. Section 4 suggests the utilisation of a hash to perform the load balancing based on the source-address/flow label pair. Hash functions are often used in load

Re: [Int-area] Comments and suggestiosn to draft-ietf-intarea-flow-label-balancing-00

2013-04-17 Thread Olivier Bonaventure
Brian, Here are some additional comments on the above draft. Section 4 suggests the utilisation of a hash to perform the load balancing based on the source-address/flow label pair. Hash functions are often used in load balancing applications. I think that it could be useful to point the

Re: [Int-area] Comments and suggestiosn to draft-ietf-intarea-flow-label-balancing-00

2013-04-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Linda, Thanks for the review. Some comments in line. I have added our co-author in cc because I'm not sure whether he's on the list. On 05/04/2013 21:53, Linda Dunbar wrote: Sheng, Brian, el at: I reviewed draft-ietf-intarea-flow-label-balancing-00 Here are my comments:

[Int-area] Comments and suggestiosn to draft-ietf-intarea-flow-label-balancing-00

2013-04-05 Thread Linda Dunbar
Sheng, Brian, el at: I reviewed draft-ietf-intarea-flow-label-balancing-00 Here are my comments: - The draft is to suggest using IPv6 header's flow label field to identify different flows from IPv6 hosts. The draft tries to emphasize that the flow label