Flowlabel/Traffic Class

Brian E Carpenter brian@hursley.ibm.com
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:43:17 +0000


Hi,

The traffic class field is defined in RFC 2474 and 2475, but these
are so new that I expect it will be a little while before
we see implementations.

   Brian Carpenter

J. Marsman wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We've got an small IPv6 network and like to test some programs. At the
> moment we have an webserver up and running and IE communicating with it
> over IPv6. Are there any other programs, next to finger,ping,telnet and
> ftp, which are IPv6 compatible? like video and audio conferencing.
> 
> Another question is: What is the status of the traffic calss field and
> the flowlabel. In RFC 2460 we can read that testing is going on but..
> Can we participate in this kind of testing or can we test it ourselfs.
> None of the software we've found is using QoS.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jan Marsman
> Telematica Institute
> Marsman@telin.nl