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There are maybe many buggy routers still out there that reset the IPv6 flow label field when they shouldn't, breaking hash-based load-balancers (the symptom is TCP connections spontaneously reset).

IIRC, a workaround was to prevent Linux from setting this field, or force-reset it on every outbound packet using netfilter.



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