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Re: Flow label and its uses

To: Bora Akyol <bora@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: Flow label and its uses
From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:38:18 +0000
Cc: v6ops@ops.ietf.org
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 04:41:53PM -0800, Bora Akyol wrote:
> I am looking at pointers on how commonspread the usage of the "Flow
> Label" field is in IPv6 (specifically end-node operating systems).

Orla McGann did some measurements of this in her thesis:

	http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~orly/thesis.pdf

Section 5.2.4 (page 101 of the PDF, numbered 91) has some live
measurements of how many hosts were setting the flow label and some
fingerprinting to determine what OS they were running.

	David.

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