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Re: [v6ops] Flow Label Load Balancing

Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> Sat, 28 November 2020 03:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Flow Label Load Balancing
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On 27/11/20 21:32, Mark Smith wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2020, 10:32 Tom Herbert, <tom@herbertland.com 
> <mailto:tom@herbertland.com>> wrote:
[....]
> 
> If hosts start trying to take control of steering traffic by varying the 
> flow label value within a flow, making the network's job harder, and the 
> network being blamed for the possibility bad network performance that 
> may result, the response will be both quick and easy - network operators 
> will switch off looking the Flow Label.

THat is *exactly* why I noted that I'm concerned that we seem to be on 
the path of making the FLow Label unusable.

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Fernando Gont
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