Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-22 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:43:28 -0400, > Ralph Droms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Do we need a server-less solution for every IPv6 > configuration problem? > > But a solution to server-less configuration of IPv6 addresses does not > imply

Re: scoping-arch and link-local addresses in RH

2002-04-22 Thread Pekka Savola
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, JINMEI Tatuya / [ISO-2022-JP] 神明達哉 wrote: > > I think we need to have a much much more clearer view of what is possible > > and what is not when crossing zone boundaries with routing headers. > > I admit the notion is quite complicated and the text may have unclear

RE: ICMPv6 too big with a "too small" MTU

2002-04-22 Thread Richard Draves
> Is there an implementation that does not support the SIIT > client function but is compliant to the exceptional case of RFC 1981? Yes. Rich IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://pl

Re: ICMPv6 too big with a "too small" MTU

2002-04-22 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:44:17 -0700, > Steve Deering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> In my understanding, the only "translating router" that needs the >> indication of the fragment header is an SIIT (or similar) translation >> router. In fact, neither NAT-PT (RFC 2766) nor TCP-relay (RFC

Re: scoping-arch and link-local addresses in RH

2002-04-22 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:33:11 -0700, > "Richard Draves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> E.g are you able to send a packet like: >> >> src=global1 >> dst=globalA >> routing header=site_localA, segments left=1 >> >> which would be translated at globalA to: >> >> src=global1 >> dst=site_lo

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-22 Thread Rob Austein
At Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:57:02 -0700, Bob Hinden wrote: > > Could you comment on the definition I used for server-less? There > was more than just the use of the word. I think that Ralph already addressed the main point, I doubt that I can improve much on his comments, and I implore you to read w

Re: ICMPv6 too big with a "too small" MTU

2002-04-22 Thread Rob Austein
Well, I don't think it's worth getting into a discussion about whether NAT-PT is required to have per-flow state or SIIT is forbidden from having per-flow state, so I'll just observe that, unless there's also port mapping going on, NAT-PT mostly just deals with addresses. There is an address mapp

Re: scoping-arch and link-local addresses in RH

2002-04-22 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:45:22 +0300 (EEST), > Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > ==> Wow, a 5-line sentence :-). Anyway, my imagination is failing here > what kind of non-global addresses can be placed in the routing header? > There may be a conflict with the previous comment th

Re: sockaddr_in6::sin6_scope_id use

2002-04-22 Thread Jack McCann
>The current basic socket enhancements draft >(draft-ietf-ipngwg-2553bis-05.txt) specifies that this 32-bit integer >"identifies a set of interfaces". More specifically, a "interface index" >for a link-local scope sin6_addr, or a "site identifier" for a site-local >sin6_addr. (section 3.3) (Mor

Re: ICMPv6 too big with a "too small" MTU

2002-04-22 Thread itojun
>Er, NAT-PT is basicly a supserset of SIIT, so anything one needs to do >for SIIT one also needs to do for NAT-PT. >Or am I misunderstanding something? NAT-PT gateway can do fragmentation/reassembly on its own as it can have (per-flow) state information. SIIT gateway can't, as it

Re: Why fragmentation is prevented at intermediate routers in IPv6?

2002-04-22 Thread itojun
>In IPv6 fragmentation is prevented by intermediate routers. Only sender can >fragment IP packet. >Why so? Do we have any extra advantage because of this. simpler router implementation (= hardware routing acceleration easier to implement). itojun -

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-22 Thread Bill Manning
% > as rob pointed out, with dnssec, you will need accurate time, i.e. an ntp % > server as well. % % You don't need submillisecond-accurate NTP time, though -- accurate to % the nearest hour will likely be sufficient in many cases. actually, it seems the failures occur when clocks are m

RE: deprecated addrs in src addr selection question

2002-04-22 Thread Richard Draves
> The "Default Address Selection for IPv6" draft's source > address selection seems to prefer addresses of appropriate > scope over "preferred" or non-deprecated addresses. What is > the reasoning behind that? > > For example, a system has one interface configured with a > deprecated site-lo

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-22 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
> as rob pointed out, with dnssec, you will need accurate time, i.e. an ntp > server as well. You don't need submillisecond-accurate NTP time, though -- accurate to the nearest hour will likely be sufficient in many cases. - Bill --

Re: ICMPv6 too big with a "too small" MTU

2002-04-22 Thread Steve Deering
At 5:05 PM +0900 4/22/02, JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= wrote: >In my understanding, the only "translating router" that needs the >indication of the fragment header is an SIIT (or similar) translation >router. In fact, neither NAT-PT (RFC 2766) nor TCP-relay (RFC 3142) >n

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-22 Thread Bob Hinden
Could you comment on the definition I used for server-less? There was more than just the use of the word. Bob At 10:30 AM 4/19/2002, Rob Austein wrote: >At Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:50:01 -0700, Bob Hinden wrote: > > > > I suspect that most people can tell the difference. > >No, Bob, that's exactly

RE: scoping-arch and link-local addresses in RH

2002-04-22 Thread Richard Draves
> E.g are you able to send a packet like: > > src=global1 > dst=globalA > routing header=site_localA, segments left=1 > > which would be translated at globalA to: > > src=global1 > dst=site_localA > routing header=globalA, segments left=0 ? > > I think we need to have a much much more cleare

I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2292bis-07.txt

2002-04-22 Thread Internet-Drafts
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the IP Version 6 Working Group Working Group of the IETF. Title : Advanced Sockets API for IPv6 Author(s) : R. Stevens, M. Thomas, E. Nordmark, T. Jinmei

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-22 Thread Ralph Droms
Thanks, Bob, for writing a draft doc on DNS Discovery requirements. We need something concrete to center this discussion. So, here are some discussion points around the draft doc... Is a server-less solution the best solution for DNS Discovery?

scoping-arch and link-local addresses in RH

2002-04-22 Thread Pekka Savola
Hello, Elena Vengerova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, in an email exchange, brought up some need for clarifications wrt. scoped addresses and routing header. This made me look deeper in to the scoping arch document. A few comments: 9. Forwarding [...] o After the next-hop interface is chosen

Re: Stateless DNS discovery draft

2002-04-22 Thread Bill Manning
% % > % % > % Yes, there are security issues, but no worse than % > non-well-known address % > % methods. % > % > hogwash. if one expects DNS servers to always be available % > at, for example, fe80:dead:beef::53, then -anyone- can make % > a server available at that add

Why fragmentation is prevented at intermediate routers in IPv6?

2002-04-22 Thread Srinivasa Rao Nalluri
Hi In IPv6 fragmentation is prevented by intermediate routers. Only sender can fragment IP packet. Why so? Do we have any extra advantage because of this. Regards Nalluri **Disclaimer Information contained in this E-MAIL being pro

new rfc2292bis draft

2002-04-22 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
As some of you have already noticed, I submitted a new version of the advanced API (rfc2292bis) draft. The only change (other than minor wording nits) is as follows: - Revised the "minimum MTU" section so that path MTU discovery would be disabled for multicast by default. A new (default) va

Re: ICMPv6 too big with a "too small" MTU

2002-04-22 Thread Rob Austein
Er, NAT-PT is basicly a supserset of SIIT, so anything one needs to do for SIIT one also needs to do for NAT-PT. Or am I misunderstanding something? IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http:

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-22 Thread Ole Troan
> > > IPv6 provides two approaches to basic IPv6 configuration. One is > > > server-less and is defined in IPv6 Neighbor Discover > > [RFC2461] and the IPv6 > > > Stateless Address Autoconfiguration [RFC2462]. > > > > Note: I don't know that I understand this distinction. Calling

RE: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-22 Thread Hesham Soliman (ERA)
> > IPv6 provides two approaches to basic IPv6 configuration. One is > > server-less and is defined in IPv6 Neighbor Discover > [RFC2461] and the IPv6 > > Stateless Address Autoconfiguration [RFC2462]. > > Note: I don't know that I understand this distinction. Calling ND > "ser

RE: Stateless DNS discovery draft

2002-04-22 Thread Hesham Soliman (ERA)
> % > % Yes, there are security issues, but no worse than > non-well-known address > % methods. > > hogwash. if one expects DNS servers to always be available > at, for example, fe80:dead:beef::53, then -anyone- can make > a server available at that address, not ju

ICMPv6 too big with a "too small" MTU

2002-04-22 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
I have a question wrt RFC 1981 (path MTU discovery for IPv6). The RFC says in Section 4. as follows: Note: A node may receive a Packet Too Big message reporting a next-hop MTU that is less than the IPv6 minimum link MTU. In that case, the node is not required to reduce the siz