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In ipv6, what field is used to indicate what sequence of packets from one source to one or multiple destinations a packet belongs to?

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Flow label

Step-by-step explanation:

A Flow label in IPv6 is a value given to a sequential flow of packets. To better understand what a flow label is, we need to know what a flow is first. A flow is a series of packets sent from a combination of a source address to a destination address. The routers configured to deal with IPv6 addresses handle these flows. Therefore, a flow label makes delivery of packets that belong to other similar sequential packets from source to destination or multiple destinations a priority.

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