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RFC 7098
Title: Using the IPv6 Flow Label
for Load Balancing in Server Farms
Author: B. Carpenter, S. Jiang,
W. Tarreau
Status: Informational
Stream: IETF
Date: January 2014
Mailbox: brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com,
jiangsheng@huawei.com,
willy@haproxy.com
Pages: 13
Characters: 30884
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-intarea-flow-label-balancing-03.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7098.txt
This document describes how the currently specified IPv6 flow label
can be used to enhance layer 3/4 (L3/4) load distribution and
balancing for large server farms.
This document is a product of the Internet Area Working Group Working Group of the IETF.
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