Re: flow label demultiplexing

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On 19-apr-05, at 11:46, marcelo bagnulo braun wrote:

> > There are two obvious options:

> > 1. The flow label is relevant regardless of the addresses: this can't 
> > work because of the possibility of clashes with flow labels in 
> > unrelated packets
> > 2. The flow label is only relevant with certain source/dest address 
> > combinations: but what's the additional benefit of the flow label 
> > here, we can demultiplex on the addresses

> Well, there could packets with the same src and dst address, that 
> belong to different communications with different ULIDs, right? the 
> flow label is to determine the proper demux context.

Under what circumstances would having different associations between 
the same source and destination locator sets be necessary and/or 
useful?