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

Florent Fourcot <ietf@flo.fourcot.fr> Sat, 15 November 2014 11:41 UTC

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Hello,

> but I have not found a hardware device yet that is actually
> using it for that purpose,

You are aware of the ECMP problem, so you should know that the Linux
kernel already use flow labels for that. And it is embedded in many
hardwares.

Some links:

 * http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/343108/
 * http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/321696

Best regards,

-- 
Florent Fourcot.

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