On 2010-07-31 08:18, Lee, Yiu wrote: > Removed the incorrect NAT66 reference. > > > On 7/30/10 4:08 PM, "Yiu Leung Lee" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> In RFC 3697, it says: >> >> "A flow is a sequence of packets sent from a particular source to a >> particular unicast, anycast, or multicast destination that the source >> desires to label as a flow." >> >> It later says the usage of a flow: >> >> "The usage of the 3-tuple of the Flow Label and the Source and >> Destination Address fields enables efficient IPv6 flow >> classification, where only IPv6 main header fields in fixed positions >> are used." >> >> I am confused why we can't use a flow label to effectively identify a flow >> from a host behind a CPE in the AFTR. In what part this usage is against the >> specification?
The devil is in the details. You'd have to define the use case completely before I (as a co-author of 3697) would try to answer the question. The use case still has to work with hosts that do not set a flow label, which is of course essentially all of them today. Brian _______________________________________________ Softwires mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/softwires
