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Load balancing draft

  • From: George Swallow <swallow@cisco.com>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:48:48 -0500
  • cc: "Thomas D. Nadeau" <tnadeau@cisco.com>, "Alia Atlas" <aatlas@avici.com>, "David Allan" <dallan@nortelnetworks.com>, "'MPLS@UU.net'" <MPLS@UU.NET>, swallow@cisco.com

> In that sense, it "would be nice" to suggest that a BCP should be to ignore
> reserved labels.  While various implementations may not be able to follow this
> guideline, it is still a reasonable suggestion, somewhat along the lines of
> saying don't use certain fields in the IP header for hashing.

This is a poor analogy.  It is easy to avoid sepecific fields.
Avoiding specific values means testing whether the label is one of
those values.  Burns cycles! (or gates, take your pick)

...George

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