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[George Swallow <swallow@cisco.com>]

Hi -

Thanks for the comments:

> 	Thus a simple change vs the longer one here, is
> 	to specify the "mis-ordering of flow between" to
> 	re-ordering of individual flows.

point taken.

> 	2) ECMP can only occur when multiple paths exist,
> 	thus I would suggest "splitting aggregated flows" to
> 	splitting aggregated flows where multiple paths
> 	exist.

A nit, but I can add it.

> 
> 	One should also be aware that some intermediate
> 	systems are intercepting flows between a source and
> 	destination and then modifing source
> 	addresses for security purposes. These modifications
> 	may alter the effectiveness of of removing ECMP
> 	routing behaviour. Of course, on the return to the
> 	modified source address, if the return flow is not
> 	modified, the flow is then re-directed back to the
> 	original source.

This one is a bit off topic and I think it could add more confusion than
light.  I'm not planning on adding it.

...George

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