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Re: [Roll] using the flow label instead of hop by hop

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 25 October 2012 21:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Roll] using the flow label instead of hop by hop
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Philip Levis <pal@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:

    PL> What if an end-host outside the RPL instance wants to use a flow
    PL> label for its own purposes? It might think that a flow denotes a
    PL> stream of associated packets to a node within a RPL instance, not
    PL> the OF that instance happens to use.  

I presume that this end-host is interacting with the LLN in some way
(or the question is irrelevant)
When the packets arrive at the gateway, a 6in6 header is added.

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