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Authors:

B. Carpenter
S. Amante

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IETF

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6man (int)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6438

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Abstract

The IPv6 flow label has certain restrictions on its use. Thisdocument describes how those restrictions apply when using the flowlabel for load balancing by equal cost multipath routing and for linkaggregation, particularly for IP-in-IPv6 tunneled traffic. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.