Re: Reference based Routing (RbR)

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Sun, 24 May 2020 21:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: Reference based Routing (RbR)
To: Robert Raszuk <robert@raszuk.net>, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 09:45:56 +1200
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On 25-May-20 09:06, Robert Raszuk wrote:
> Hi Nick, 
> 
> FYI 
> https://blog.apnic.net/2018/01/11/ipv6-flow-label-misuse-hashing/  

The IETF is not the protocol police. If vendors ignore published standards, it really isn't something we can fix.

   Brian

> 
> Thx,
> R. 
> 
> On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 11:04 PM Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org <mailto:nick@foobar.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Ole Troan wrote on 24/05/2020 21:50:
>     > Inside a limited domain using encapsulation, which is what all these
>     > solutions cover, you could likely use the flow label as a “path
>     > tag”.
> 
>     this is not a safe assumption.  The target deployment scenarios appear
>     to be own-tenancy networks with an emphasis on large-scale datacentre
>     implementations.  In this sort of situation it would be normal for the
>     network fabric to use multiple links between routing nodes, thereby
>     creating a requirement for load balancing.  Removing one of the entropy
>     sources for bucket management would be unwise in these circumstances,
>     particularly given the likelihood of elephant flows.
> 
>     Nick
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