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Re: draft-wang-6man-flow-label-reflection

Jeroen Massar <jeroen@massar.ch> Fri, 14 November 2014 23:39 UTC

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From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@massar.ch>
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To: Sheng Jiang <jiangsheng@huawei.com>, 6man WG <ipv6@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: draft-wang-6man-flow-label-reflection
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On 2014-11-14 23:48, Sheng Jiang wrote:
> 
> 
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Jeroen Massar [jeroen@massar.ch]
>>
>> The word "Flow Label" is hidden in the ECMP calculation.
> 
> Even there is failure in ECMP use case, it does not mean failure for other use cases.

As the load balancing use case is the number one reason for the Flow
Label to have an existance, which other use cases would that be?

Greets,
 Jeroen

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