Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-26 Thread Michael Richardson
> "james" == james woodyatt writes: james> Correct. But remember: I *never* write NAT66 when what I mean james> is NPTv6. I really did mean NAT66 and not NPTv6. james> In this scenario, we would number HOMENET domains with 16 james> bits of ULA subnet identifier and 64 bits

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-26 Thread Ted Lemon
On Feb 26, 2013, at 4:33 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: > Routing is better? > Yes. > Warning ... my home network includes exactly 1 802.11g AP that cost $50 6 > years ago and effectively is Zero configuration. > You think it's zeroconf, but it's using DHCP on both ends. It's not zeroconf, but it

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-26 Thread Cameron Byrne
Sent from ipv6-only Android On Feb 26, 2013 8:19 PM, "Ole Troan" wrote: > > >> Ok. I see it in the charter. I dont find it particularly appealing or worth a great trade off for the level of complexity involved. Especially if the tradeoffs require nat66 or something similarly complex > > > > Touché

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-26 Thread james woodyatt
On Feb 25, 2013, at 19:35 , Lorenzo Colitti wrote: > > However, the moment you try to use more /64s internally than you have > externally, stateless NPTv6 doesn't work any more, right? Correct. But remember: I *never* write NAT66 when what I mean is NPTv6. I really did mean NAT66 and not NPT

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-26 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Feb 25, 2013, at 6:56 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message <1d1732d1-ac03-450a-add2-611f2fb1c...@apple.com>, james woodyatt > wri > tes: >> p3. All this pain can be traded away for the reasonably well-understood pain >> of NAT66 and a single ULA prefix with a constant 16-bit subnet ident

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-26 Thread Ole Troan
>> Ok. I see it in the charter. I dont find it particularly appealing or worth >> a great trade off for the level of complexity involved. Especially if the >> tradeoffs require nat66 or something similarly complex > > Touché. > > Seriously, though, the point of routing in the home is that you r

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-26 Thread Ted Lemon
On Feb 26, 2013, at 1:01 AM, Cameron Byrne wrote: > Ok. I see it in the charter. I dont find it particularly appealing or worth a > great trade off for the level of complexity involved. Especially if the > tradeoffs require nat66 or something similarly complex Touché. Seriously, though, the po

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-25 Thread Cameron Byrne
Sent from ipv6-only Android On Feb 26, 2013 1:54 PM, "Cameron Byrne" wrote: > > Sent from ipv6-only Android > > On Feb 26, 2013 11:53 AM, "Lorenzo Colitti" wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: > >> > >> > The alternative is basically a vicious circle: if ISPs ignore

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-25 Thread Cameron Byrne
Sent from ipv6-only Android On Feb 26, 2013 11:53 AM, "Lorenzo Colitti" wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: >> >> > The alternative is basically a vicious circle: if ISPs ignore the IETF's advice and assign a /64 because they see additional address space as an upsell opp

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-25 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: > > The alternative is basically a vicious circle: if ISPs ignore the IETF's > advice and assign a /64 because they see additional address space as an > upsell opportunity, then someone will figure out how to share the /64 by > using ugly hacks l

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-25 Thread Ted Lemon
On Feb 25, 2013, at 10:35 PM, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: > The alternative is basically a vicious circle: if ISPs ignore the IETF's > advice and assign a /64 because they see additional address space as an > upsell opportunity, then someone will figure out how to share the /64 by > using ugly hacks

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-25 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:22 AM, james woodyatt wrote: > p1. I don't believe it's reasonable to assume that service providers will > always provide a short enough prefix to number all the links in a > subscriber's network, or that those that currently do will continue to do > so into the foresee

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-25 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <1d1732d1-ac03-450a-add2-611f2fb1c...@apple.com>, james woodyatt wri tes: > p3. All this pain can be traded away for the reasonably well-understood pain > of NAT66 and a single ULA prefix with a constant 16-bit subnet identifier spa > ce, where collisions will be rare and stateless pre

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-25 Thread james woodyatt
On Feb 25, 2013, at 16:28 , Lorenzo Colitti wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:21 AM, james woodyatt wrote: >> As a result, it means that Automatic Prefix Management here is basically >> unable to do it statelessly, i.e. by randomly generating subnet numbers from >> an identifier space of conve

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-25 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:21 AM, james woodyatt wrote: > As a result, it means that Automatic Prefix Management here is basically > unable to do it statelessly, i.e. by randomly generating subnet numbers > from an identifier space of conventional size and testing for collision > before using them

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-25 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Feb 25, 2013, at 11:21 AM, james woodyatt wrote: > Basically, we've given up on stateless router autoconfiguration in HOMENET, > and we're forced into a stateful solution. There are no good choices here, > and the worst case outcome is that we will force the widespread adoption of > NAT66

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-25 Thread james woodyatt
On Feb 23, 2013, at 14:24 , Fred Baker (fred) wrote: > > One: the v6ops result reflects the operational result in the ARIN community: > operators there would like to be able to allocate /56 prefixes to smaller > customers and /48s to larger ones. If you want castigate someone, castigate > them

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-24 Thread SM
Hi James, At 13:11 22-02-2013, james woodyatt wrote: When there was still a consensus that subscribers should always get a /48 prefix, it was reasonable to expect that a randomly chosen 16-bit subnet identifier would be unlikely to collide with another subnet in most automatically numbered rout

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-23 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Feb 22, 2013, at 1:11 PM, james woodyatt wrote: > On Feb 22, 2013, at 06:16 , Michael Richardson wrote: >> >> If the ISP with the longest prefix is alive first, then the routers >> pick subnet-id parts that fit into that. If that ISP has provided >> enough subnets, then even when another

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-23 Thread Roger Jørgensen
It might be a sidetrack on the discussion but I'll answer anyway On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:11 PM, james woodyatt wrote: > On Feb 22, 2013, at 06:16 , Michael Richardson wrote: >> >> If the ISP with the longest prefix is alive first, then the routers >> pick subnet-id parts that fit into that.

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 22/02/2013 16:54, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: ... > BTW, a side-note on the issue of non-volatile memory. The OSPF autoconfig > draft says that an allocated prefix MUST be stored in non-volatile memory and > as a result survive a reboot. Speaking for myself, I don't see the need for > that; I'm

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 22/02/2013 21:11, james woodyatt wrote: > This problem is precisely why I campaigned bitterly and vigorously against > the adoption and V6OPS and later the publication of RFC 6177. > > When there was still a consensus that subscribers should always get a /48 > prefix I think you must have m

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-22 Thread james woodyatt
On Feb 22, 2013, at 06:16 , Michael Richardson wrote: > > If the ISP with the longest prefix is alive first, then the routers > pick subnet-id parts that fit into that. If that ISP has provided > enough subnets, then even when another ISP comes along, the "xx23" > part might remain stable for a

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-22 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Feb 23, 2013, at 3:18 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: > Can you elaborate the scenario where a subnet-id renumbering would be > desireable, and would we want to actually signal this situation explicitly? There is a BAA (a request for a research proposal) from the US Air Force for a technolo

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-22 Thread Michael Richardson
> "fred" == fred > writes: fred> If you would like I can change fred> This prefix is chosen at random, but may not collide with any fred> prefix currently advertised within the network and therefore fred> in the LSP database. fred> to read fred> In the absence of ot

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-22 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Feb 23, 2013, at 3:16 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: > >> "Lorenzo" == Lorenzo Colitti writes: >>> I.e. the "0123" is identical for the two prefixes? >>> > >Lorenzo> In the general case where the prefixes assigned by the >Lorenzo> operators are of different lengths, it cannot

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-22 Thread Michael Richardson
> "fred" == fred > writes: fred> my draft that if the autoconfig prefix is withdrawn, I expect fred> prefixes dependent on it to be withdrawn, and if stored in fred> permanent storage, erased. The implication is that if the same fred> prefix is then readvertised, there's a goo

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-22 Thread Michael Richardson
> "Lorenzo" == Lorenzo Colitti writes: >> I.e. the "0123" is identical for the two prefixes? >> Lorenzo> In the general case where the prefixes assigned by the Lorenzo> operators are of different lengths, it cannot be. Right? True. If the ISP with the longest prefix is ali

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 22/02/2013 04:50, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: > On Feb 22, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Michael Richardson > wrote: > >> For a network where there is more than one ISP, is it >> acceptable for a CPE that has decided that it is >> PREFIX1:0123::/64, to "randomly" decide to be >> PREFIX2:0123::/64? > > I don

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-21 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Feb 22, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: > For a network where there is more than one ISP, is it acceptable for a CPE > that has decided that it is PREFIX1:0123::/64, to "randomly" decide to be > PREFIX2:0123::/64? I don't see why not, at least in the home. There is a case, whi

Re: [homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-21 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: > I.e. the "0123" is identical for the two prefixes? > In the general case where the prefixes assigned by the operators are of different lengths, it cannot be. Right? ___ homenet mailing list h

[homenet] automatic prefix management (OSPF or ISIS version)

2013-02-21 Thread Michael Richardson
{possible resend} Fred, wrt: draft-baker-ipv6-isis-automatic-prefix-00 for a network where there is more than one ISP, is it acceptable for a CPE that has decided that it is PREFIX1:0123::/64 (and gone through the process of advertising it and backing things off...), to "randomly" decide to be