RE: Flow label and its uses

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

Hi,

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Bora Akyol wrote:
> From a switching hardware perspective, it would be nice
> to either define the use of this field as --endpoint only--
> or label it "Reserved."
>
> There has been significant time since RFC3697 and the lack
> of applications may indicate that this field (with
> the exception of NIMROD) may not have a use at all.

I've been watching this discussion with mild puzzlement.

There is (basically) nothing that the routers need to do with the flow 
label.  Whatever they might end up doing with it would likely mostly 
fall under the control plane, so it doesn't need to be put in the 
hardware.

So what's the problem?  Do you want to try to reuse the "basically 
unused 20 bits" for some local purposes?  That's not going to be 
allowed.

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