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RFC 7098
Using the IPv6 Flow Label for Load Balancing in Server Farms,January 2014
- File formats:
- Status:
- INFORMATIONAL
- Authors:
- B. Carpenter
S. Jiang
W. Tarreau - Stream:
- IETF
- Source:
- intarea (int)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7098
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Abstract
This document describes how the currently specified IPv6 flow labelcan be used to enhance layer 3/4 (L3/4) load distribution andbalancing for large server farms.
For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.
For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.