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Abstract:
This document describes the Equal Cost Multipath (ECMP) behavior of currently
deployed MPLS networks. This document makes best practice recommendations for anyone defining an application to
run over an MPLS network that wishes to avoid the reordering that can result
from transmission of different packets from the same flow over multiple different equal
cost paths. These recommendations rely on inspection of the IP version number field in
packets. Despite the heuristic nature of the recommendations, they provide a relatively safe way
to operate MPLS networks, even if future allocations of IP version numbers were made
for some purpose. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for
the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
Authors:
George Swallow <swallow@cisco.com>
Stewart Bryant <stbryant@cisco.com>
Loa Andersson <loa@pi.se>
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