Re: question about IPv6 Flow label

[marcelo bagnulo braun <marcelo@it.uc3m.es>]

Rémi Denis-Courmont escribió:
> On Mon, 18 May 2009 20:50:51 +1000, Hesham Soliman
> <hesham@elevatemobile.com> wrote:
>   
> > > For UDP, I think the flow label will default to zero.
> > >       
> > => Do you know why the same was not done for UDP?
> >     
>
> Flow is an application-layer-dependent notion. The UDP layer does not know
> about it, and should hence not try to guess either.
>   

mmm, what about setting a non zero flow label per UDP connected socket?
For non connected sockets, i agree with you, it should be up to the 
application to define it through the API and the default should be zero
regards, marcelo