Re: [RFC v2] RoCE v2.0 Entropy - IPv6 Flow Label and UDP Source Port

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On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 12:41:53PM -0500, Tom Talpey wrote:
> On 2/19/2020 8:06 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 02:06:28AM +0000, Mark Zhang wrote:
> > > The symmetry is important when calculate flow_label with DstQPn/SrcQPn
> > > for non-RDMA CM Service ID (check the first mail), so that the server
> > > and client will have same flow_label and udp_sport. But looks like it is
> > > not important in this case.
> > 
> > If the application needs a certain flow label it should not rely on
> > auto-generation, IMHO.
> > 
> > I expect most networks will not be reversible anyhow, even with the
> > same flow label?
> 
> These are network flow labels, not under application control. If they
> are under application control, that's a security issue.

Eh? ipv6 puts them under application control.

Jason



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