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Re: [mpls] Last Call: <draft-ietf-mpls-in-udp-04.txt> (Encapsulating MPLS in UDP) to Proposed Standard

Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> Mon, 13 January 2014 17:10 UTC

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On Monday, January 13, 2014 11:35:01 AM Stewart Bryant 
wrote:

> It can be arbitrary, but the router designers try rather
> hard to make sure that flows follow the same path. This
> is because the transport protocols in the hosts complain
> if the routers introduce misordering.  Remove that
> constraint and the forwarders become a lot simpler and
> we can do all sorts of anti-PM in the network.

I'm not talking about flow load sharing. I'm talking about 
simple, linear flows.

Mark.

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