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Re: survivability, rewriting



On 10-nov-03, at 23:13, Masataka Ohta wrote:

How about let routers accumulate (with XOR or something like
that) link CRC (or some psuedo random number involving link
specific numbers such as MAC addresses of a hop) into (so far
useless) flow label field to let upper layers notice the path
change to trigger the transport layer?

Similar to the record route option.


I myself am afraid that it is too late to change IPv6 router
behaviour. So, I never proposed any multihoming solution involving
router changes.

Another way to detect path changes, but not a very reliable one, is to monitor the hop limit value in incoming packets. And of course the round trip time.


However, I know transport people are actively proposing to change
router behaviour to help TCP and they have better chance with IPv6. :-)

Hm, maybe we can make a deal so that they change TCP behavior to help routers...