L3DSR server side bits open sourced

Igor Gashinsky igor at gashinsky.net
Wed Mar 9 07:35:21 UTC 2011


On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Randy Bush wrote:

:: a real use for the diffserv bits!  why not flowlabel in 6?  it's been
:: looking for a use for a decade.

Honestly, we figured flowlabel might actually find a use before all the
values of diffserv will :) In all seriousness, we are starting to set the 
spec for v6 l3dsr now, so, if you care, and believe that flowlabel would 
be a better field to "hijack" (or have a suggestion for another, better 
way then same DSCP methodology that we used for ipv4), we welcome input..

Thanks,
-igor (yahoo)





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