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From: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 0/7] net/ipv6: Add support for path selection
 using hash of 5-tuple
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On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com> wrote:

> [...] note we have two ends to deal with here (1) generation (2) usage
>
> E.g if the kernel generates flow label but uses source port we have inconsistent
> environment. Problem is that the generation and usage typically don't happen
> on the same network point.

David, what's your thinking here? e.g for overly networks environments