>"So all you really need is for each router to make a consistent decision about packets in the same flow." Indeed this is what I was trying to articulate but m

>"So all you really need is for each router to make a consistent decision about packets in the same flow." Indeed this is what I was trying to articulate but maybe I didn't do a good job of that. I mentioned somewhere else you can also just change the hash at each tier in your network - add IP protocol in one, don't use IP protocol in another. This should achieve the same as adding a "seed." to a router's hash.