Colleagues,

I may be missing something, but it appears that, in the cases described, the 
two hosts downstream of two separate cable modems are off link to each other. 
This brings up the question: Do there two cable modems constitute two virtual 
interfaces, like two VLANs on the same physical router interface? If so, this 
is an architectural, rather than an implementation, question. Thoughts?

Best Regards,

Jeffrey Dunn
Info Systems Eng., Lead
MITRE Corporation.
(301) 448-6965 (mobile)

From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Hemant 
Singh (shemant)
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 5:37 PM
To: Fred Baker (fred); Erik Nordmark; Hesham Soliman; JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉; 
Thomas Narten; Susan Thomson (sethomso); william.allen.simp...@gmail.com
Cc: 6man-...@tools.ietf.org; IETF IPv6 Mailing List; savi-...@tools.ietf.org; 
Robin Mersh; v6ops-...@tools.ietf.org; IPv6 Operations; SAVI Mailing List
Subject: RE: Broadband Forum liaison to IETF on IPv6 security

Yes, in a cable deployment even if two cable modems (CM) in two different homes 
on the same upstream physical layer to the Cable edge router (CMTS) cannot talk 
directly to each other – they have to send their data to the CMTS who then 
forwards the data to the other modem.   Still I am not convinced of any 
implications for DAD in SLAAC?  Without any loss of generality, I will only 
refer to a CMTS for the rest of the discussion but the same is applicable to a 
DSLAM (or whatever L3 router sits upstream of the DLAM as the first-hop IPv6 
router).  Since the CMTS sees all DAD messages from client in the downstream, 
if the CMTS detects a dup, the CMTS sends a NA to the client  - problem solved. 
  Of course, now the CMTS is doing ND Proxy which is already specified in cable 
standards and implemented on Docsis 3.0 IPv6 CMTS routers.  What did I miss?

If the BBF has any new multicast architecture for ND that I have not accounted 
for, please send me your arch doc and I can look at it and reply to that as 
well.

Hemant

From: owner-v6...@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-v6...@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of 
Fred Baker (fred)
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 5:18 PM
To: Erik Nordmark; Hesham Soliman; JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉; Thomas Narten; Susan 
Thomson (sethomso); william.allen.simp...@gmail.com
Cc: SAVI Mailing List; IETF IPv6 Mailing List; IPv6 Operations; 
savi-...@tools.ietf.org; v6ops-...@tools.ietf.org; 6man-...@tools.ietf.org; 
Robin Mersh
Subject: Fwd: Broadband Forum liaison to IETF on IPv6 security

Gentlemen:

I'm writing to you as the authors of RFCs 4861 and 4862. In a past meeting, I 
think the one in March, an issue came up in Savi that has now been brought to 
our attention in a formal manner. The problem is that in certain access network 
technologies, notably DSL and I believe Cable Modem, the connectivity between 
the CPE host or router and the ISP's first hop router is siloed - it looks like 
an Ethernet to the host but in fact is separated into separate channels. The 
effect is that while the ISP router can speak to and hear all of the CPEs it is 
connected to, the CPEs cannot hear each other. This has implications for 
Duplicate Address Detection in SLAAC.

We look forward to your advice.

Fred Baker
IPv6 Operations

Begin forwarded message:

From: Robin Mersh 
<rme...@broadband-forum.org<mailto:rme...@broadband-forum.org>>
Date: November 6, 2009 1:42:05 AM GMT+08:00
To: fen...@fenron.com<mailto:fen...@fenron.com>, 
christian.v...@ericsson.com<mailto:christian.v...@ericsson.com>, 
fred.ba...@cisco.com<mailto:fred.ba...@cisco.com>, 
kur...@kurtis.pp.se<mailto:kur...@kurtis.pp.se>, 
droma...@avaya.com<mailto:droma...@avaya.com>, 
rbon...@juniper.net<mailto:rbon...@juniper.net>, 
rdr...@cisco.com<mailto:rdr...@cisco.com>, 
jari.ar...@piuha.net<mailto:jari.ar...@piuha.net>, Mark Townsley 
<towns...@cisco.com<mailto:towns...@cisco.com>>
Subject: Broadband Forum liaison to IETF on IPv6 security

Dear colleagues,

For your review, please see the liaison from the Broadband Forum attached below.

Best regards,
Robin Mersh
COO
The Broadband Forum
phone: +1 336 288 8013
cell: +1 303 596 7448
email: rme...@broadband-forum.org<mailto:rme...@broadband-forum.org>


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