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RFC 6438
Title: Using the IPv6 Flow Label
for Equal Cost Multipath Routing and
Link Aggregation in Tunnels
Author: B. Carpenter, S. Amante
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: November 2011
Mailbox: brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com,
shane@level3.net
Pages: 9
Characters: 20999
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-6man-flow-ecmp-05.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6438.txt
The IPv6 flow label has certain restrictions on its use. This
document describes how those restrictions apply when using the flow
label for load balancing by equal cost multipath routing and for link
aggregation, particularly for IP-in-IPv6 tunneled traffic.
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