[138513] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: L3DSR server side bits open sourced
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igor Gashinsky)
Wed Mar 9 02:36:06 2011
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 02:35:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Gashinsky <igor@gashinsky.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2d3m19tst.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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)
