RE: Address Resolution with ND verus MAC address from the EUI-64 form at

2001-11-28 Thread Jung Cyndi-ACJ099
The EUI-64 ID is just one way to build the 64-bit interface ID, and is the way specified for auto-address configuration. The 64-bits may also be manually configured - simple numbers that might be easier to organize than a seemingly random number, or even intentionally random numbers that change p

Re: a comment on draft-droms-dnsconfig-dhcpv6-00.txt

2001-11-28 Thread Ralph Droms
The Inform message is defined in the -21 rev of the DHCPv6 spec, which was submitted before the publication deadline last week but has not yet been published at www.ietf.org. You can get a copy from www.dhcp.org now... - Ralph On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > a comment on d

a comment on draft-droms-dnsconfig-dhcpv6-00.txt

2001-11-28 Thread itojun
a comment on draft-droms-dnsconfig-dhcpv6-00.txt. quoting section 3: > 1. Multicast a DHCPv6 Inform message to a well-known multicast > address requesting DNS configuration information, including: > * IPv6 addresses of DNS server(s) > * Domain name >

DRAFT IPv6 working group agenda for Salt Lake City IETF

2001-11-28 Thread Bob Hinden
The draft agenda is attached. When we put together the agenda we give priority to current working group activities and documents, new individual submissions, and last to status reports. Please send us comments, corrections, additions, and deletions. Thanks, Bob Hinden & Steve Deering ---

address autoconfiguration

2001-11-28 Thread Nemeth Daniel
Dear IPNGWG Members! My name is Daniel Nemeth, and I'm a student at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics. The subject of my Project Laboratory is examination of IP micromobility protocols. At the moment I've got some questions related

Address Resolution with ND verus MAC address from the EUI-64 format

2001-11-28 Thread Huber Matthias
Hello all, I've read already a couple of RFCs and books to familiarize myself with IPv6. I'm struggling with the following: Neighbor discovery is used to find out the corresponding Layer-2 address to a given IPv6 unicast address ( similar to the ARP process in IPv4). On the other hand I have lea

reverse delegation under ip6.arpa.?

2001-11-28 Thread JOIN Project Team
Hello, recently I was very surprised, when I found that there is an existing ip6.arpa. domain, where the reverse IPv6 nibble format is delegated to the registries. I found no mail or announcement anywhere that from now on ip6.arpa should be used for the reverse nibble format. Is that a fact

Question on Site local address forwarding

2001-11-28 Thread Krishna Mohan Doddappaneni
HI Guys, If The DA of the packet is site local i would not forward the packet outside the scope.But if the SA of the packet is site local and the DA is global,would i forward the packet outside the site? Thanks in Advance, Krishna -

Re: Request to Advance "IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture"

2001-11-28 Thread Jim Fleming
http://www.dot-biz.com/IPv4/Tutorial C@t-32-BitOID:UnirVerse0GGGWWWX32-Bit Managed Address Jim Fleming http://www.ddj.com/articles/search/search.cgi?q=fleming Oct93: The C+@ Programming Language - Original Message - From: "Bob Hinden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <

Re: Request to Advance "IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture"

2001-11-28 Thread Francis Dupont
Just a comment, not about the document itself. At the last ETSI IPv6 plugtest I did some tests about anycast support: - source routing with a subnet anycast (something like please go through this routing domain / sub-network) - source routing with multiple anycasts (the same one) - ping to a

Re: IPv6 support

2001-11-28 Thread Damien Mascre'
Merav Haran wrote: > Hi, > > I need your help with the following questions for host IPv6 support: > > 1.Does IPv6 fragmentation occur in TCP/IP applications? Since the > sending host should know the path MTU and there is no fragmentation by > intermediate routers, is there a reason for th

Request to Advance "IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture"

2001-11-28 Thread Bob Hinden
Erik, Thomas, The chairs of the IP Next Generation working group, on behalf of the working group, request that the following document be published as an Draft Standard: Title : IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture Author(s) : B. Hinden, S. Deering Filena

IPv6 support

2001-11-28 Thread Merav Haran
Hi, I need your help with the following questions for host IPv6 support: 1. Does IPv6 fragmentation occur in TCP/IP applications? Since the sending host should know the path MTU and there is no fragmentation by intermediate routers, is there a reason for the TCP to send bigger segments than

Re: Hop Limit in IPv6 Hdr.

2001-11-28 Thread Ignatios Souvatzis
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:34:04AM -0800, Steve Deering wrote: > At 10:08 AM +0530 11/28/01, Jagan wrote: > >The Hop limit in IPv6 hdr is decrimented by every intermediate node in > >the journey of the packet. Does it mean the packet can only tranverse > >through 256 intermediate nodes ( 2^8 )? >

Update of "Minimum IPv6 Functionality for a Cellular Host" draft

2001-11-28 Thread john . loughney
Hi All, We have submitted an update to the "Minimum IPv6 Functionality for a Cellular Host" draft on Tuesday November 20th. It looks like it has not yet been announced. In the meantime, the draft can be found here: http://www-nrc.nokia.com/sua/draft-manyfolks-ipv6-cellular-host-02.txt The aut

I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2553bis-04.txt

2001-11-28 Thread Internet-Drafts
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the IPNG Working Group of the IETF. Title : Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 Author(s) : R. Gilligan, S. Thomson, J. Bound, W. Stevens Fil

I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-07.txt

2001-11-28 Thread Internet-Drafts
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the IPNG Working Group of the IETF. Title : IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture Author(s) : B. Hinden, S. Deering Filename: draft-ietf-ipng

I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipngwg-dns-discovery-03.txt

2001-11-28 Thread Internet-Drafts
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the IPNG Working Group of the IETF. Title : IPv6 Stateless DNS Discovery Author(s) : D. Thaler, J. Hagino Filename: draft-ietf-ipngwg-dns-di

Re: Hop Limit in IPv6 Hdr.

2001-11-28 Thread Jim Fleming
Unless someone has an iptables module that mangles the TTL count in a "non-standard" manner... This may help... http://www.dot-biz.com/IPv4/Tutorial/ The Netfilter Project: Packet Mangling for Linux 2.4 http://netfilter.samba.org Jim Fleming http://www.IPv8.info IPv16One Better !! - O

Re: Hop Limit in IPv6 Hdr.

2001-11-28 Thread Steve Deering
At 10:08 AM +0530 11/28/01, Jagan wrote: >The Hop limit in IPv6 hdr is decrimented by every intermediate node in >the journey of the packet. Does it mean the packet can only tranverse >through 256 intermediate nodes ( 2^8 )? Yes, it is limited to 255 IP hops (where a single IP hop may span multip

Re: ipv6 & wlan

2001-11-28 Thread Martin . Stiemerling
Quoting Francis Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In your previous mail you wrote: > >There is presently now trouble with wlan cards and multicast from > Lucent and > ^^^ > > => I believe you mean "no" ? > Yes, thanks for the correction. Martin ---