Re: [dhcwg] Load Balancing for DHCPv6

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> Wed, 29 August 2012 17:02 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com>
To: Andre Kostur <akostur@incognito.com>
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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Load Balancing for DHCPv6
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On Aug 29, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Andre Kostur <akostur@incognito.com<mailto:akostur@incognito.com>> wrote:
Does anybody recall why the original load balancing had the 16 byte
restriction?

Nope.   It might be worth visiting the question of whether the hash algorithm is the right one.