Re: IPv6 Flow Label

[Philip Matthews <philip_matthews@magma.ca>]

On Mon, 5-May-08, at 08:33 , Rémi Després wrote:
> Rémi Denis-Courmont a écrit :
> > Le Friday 02 May 2008 22:16:02 ext Philip Matthews, vous avez écrit :
>
> > > TURN-08 will say that a server should copy the flow label, and if  
> > > this
> > > cannot be done, then treat the packets to/from each peer as a  
> > > separate
> > > flow with separate labels. This is all part of the new concept of a
> > > Preserving allocation (what I called a "Fully-Compliant  
> > > allocation" in
> > > Philly) that I am in the process of adding right now.
> > I myself am not sure what the "proper" handling of the flow infos  
> > is. If anyone knows, that would be some 6man and/or v6ops people  
> > (not including me). Flow infos is not just like DSCP. Reflecting  
> > this, the Linux(-specific) API for flow infos is completely  
> > different from that of DSCP and TTL...
>
> Pending any approved use of flow labels, there is IMU only one  
> consistent behavior, everywhere: the flow label field MUST be  
> ignored when received, and MUST be set to 0 when created .
>
> If and when some use is approved, it will be time to decide whether,  
> in TURN in particular, another behavior is more appropriate.


What about RFC 3697 ??
Are you saying that this does not describe approved behavior?

- Philip