Re: [mobile-ip] Draft on IPv6 source address selection socket API

2003-03-27 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / $B?@L@C#:H(B
(In this reply, I'm very specific to the BSD kernel, which may not be appropriate in this list. If the discussion continues on this particular topic, I'll change the place.) > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 22:46:51 +0100, > Francis Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> => I have a major concer

RE: A use for site local addresses?

2003-03-27 Thread Jeroen Massar
Naiming Shen wrote: > i know of some companies employee can be fired by surfing the > Internet during work hours. i would think those employee love to > have private addresses on their workstations and no NAT devices at > all, just in case they don't "accidentally" get fired. you can > have many u

RE: A use for site local addresses?

2003-03-27 Thread Jeroen Massar
EricLKlein wrote: Who did you qoute here again? > > >> People didn't see the need for RFC1918 space in IPv6. > > > > Because of site-locals. With site-locals gone it is an entirely new > ballgame. There is a need for private addresses, > Others are looking at how hard it will be to implement i

Internetworking 2003: Call for Papers

2003-03-27 Thread CAITR
Dear Colleagues: Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS    Internetworking 2003  June 22-24, 2003   San Jose, California  In technical cooperation wit

Re: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Pekka Savola wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Michel Py wrote: > > > Brian E Carpenter > > > That's correct as long as the RFC3056 code is only enabled in > > > the site border router. If it's enabled in any internal routers, > > > the packets will get black holed internally. > > > > I don't think

RE: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Michel Py
>> Michel Py wrote: >> If the routing table contains IGP or connected routes with >> a mask of /64 as it should be the longest match route will >> prevail over the 2002::/16 route associated with the tunnel >> interface and traffic should flow. > Pekka Savola wrote: > You're making an assumption t

Re: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > > If the routing table contains IGP or connected > > > routes with a mask of /64 as it should be the longest match route will > > > prevail over the 2002::/16 route associated with the tunnel interface > > > and traffic should flow. > > > > You're

RE: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Michel Py wrote: > >> Michel Py wrote: > >> If the routing table contains IGP or connected routes with > >> a mask of /64 as it should be the longest match route will > >> prevail over the 2002::/16 route associated with the tunnel > >> interface and traffic should flow. > > >

RE: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Michel Py
>> Michel Py wrote: >> Well, yes but these nodes are only routers. Hosts MUST NOT >> have any 6to4 pseudo-interfaces (or have it deactivated). > Pekka Savola wrote: > There is no such statement anywhere that I know of. Please > correct me if I'm wrong. Hosts indeed have 6to4 pseudo-interfaces. >

RE: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Michel Py
> Christian Huitema wrote: > Making rules as we speak, uh? Nope, see Brian's post. Nothing new in this. Michel. IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP arch

RE: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Christian Huitema
> > You're making an assumption that all nodes implementing 6to4 > > pseudo-intefarce take part in the IGP to get the more specific > > 2002:FOO routes, > > Well, yes but these nodes are only routers. Hosts MUST NOT have any 6to4 > pseudo-interfaces (or have it deactivated). Making rules as we sp

Re: A use for site local addresses?

2003-03-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Naiming Shen wrote: ... > though i'm absolutely against to have routing/dns > support to SL. SL's have to be routed within the site anyway, and probably have to be in local DNS to be of any use, which pretty much forces the use of two-faced DNS to avoid accidentally exporting them. In other word

dual stack [Re: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
EricLKlein wrote: ... > Our final decision > was that we can not convert our database to pure IPv6 and let the hardware > translate for us, so we will have to do it in the appliaction. Of course. Full dual stack support is the only rational starting point; all the other coexistence mechanisms are

RE: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Mika Liljeberg
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 19:00, Pekka Savola wrote: > > Well, yes but these nodes are only routers. Hosts MUST NOT have any 6to4 > > pseudo-interfaces (or have it deactivated). > > There is no such statement anywhere that I know of. Please correct me if > I'm wrong. Hosts indeed have 6to4 pseudo-in

RE: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Pekka Savola
On 27 Mar 2003, Mika Liljeberg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 19:00, Pekka Savola wrote: > > > Well, yes but these nodes are only routers. Hosts MUST NOT have any 6to4 > > > pseudo-interfaces (or have it deactivated). > > > > There is no such statement anywhere that I know of. Please correct me i

RE: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Tony Hain
Mika Liljeberg wrote: > You're right. However, I think it's just common sense that a > host, which sets up a 6to4 pseudo interface by default, > should also automatically disable it if a router is sending > RAs with 2002:xyz:: prefixes. Otherwise the host > implementation is broken. Not necess

Re: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Ole Troan
> On 27 Mar 2003, Mika Liljeberg wrote: >> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 19:00, Pekka Savola wrote: >> > > Well, yes but these nodes are only routers. Hosts MUST NOT have any 6to4 >> > > pseudo-interfaces (or have it deactivated). >> > >> > There is no such statement anywhere that I know of. Please corre

RE: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Mika Liljeberg
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 20:32, Tony Hain wrote: > Not necessarily. As long as the RA based prefix has a lower metric than > the local pseudo interface, there is no reason to disable it. Depending > on the implementation, this might allow for a faster recovery when the > RA disappears. Nope. If your

Re: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Pekka Savola wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Michel Py wrote: > > >> Michel Py wrote: > > >> If the routing table contains IGP or connected routes with > > >> a mask of /64 as it should be the longest match route will > > >> prevail over the 2002::/16 route associated with the tunnel > > >> interf

RE: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Tony Hain
Ole Troan wrote: > it should disable it for any received RA, i.e when it is on a > native link. No, because this would force traffic to 6to4 sites through a relay. The RA receiving interface should be the path to default, and the 6to4 interface should be used for those prefixes. > a host connect

RE: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Tony Hain
Mika Liljeberg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 20:32, Tony Hain wrote: > > Not necessarily. As long as the RA based prefix has a lower metric > > than the local pseudo interface, there is no reason to disable it. > > Depending on the implementation, this might allow for a faster > > recovery when

RE: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Tony Hain wrote: > Mika Liljeberg wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 20:32, Tony Hain wrote: > > > Not necessarily. As long as the RA based prefix has a lower metric > > > than the local pseudo interface, there is no reason to disable it. > > > Depending on the implementation,

Re: A use for site local addresses?

2003-03-27 Thread Naiming Shen
] Naiming Shen wrote: ] ... ] > though i'm absolutely against to have routing/dns ] > support to SL. ] ] SL's have to be routed within the site anyway, and probably have to be ] in local DNS to be of any use, which pretty much forces the use of two-faced ] DNS to avoid accidentally exporti

RE: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Mika Liljeberg
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 21:14, Pekka Savola wrote: > Note that "metric" is a bit vague term; it has significantly different > implications whether it's applied before or after the > longest-prefix-match. Ie. whether it is used as a sequential number in > which to look for prefixes in different proto

RE: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Tony Hain
Mika Liljeberg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 21:14, Pekka Savola wrote: > > Note that "metric" is a bit vague term; it has > significantly different > > implications whether it's applied before or after the > > longest-prefix-match. Ie. whether it is used as a > sequential number > > in whic

RE: A use for site local addresses?

2003-03-27 Thread Tony Hain
Naiming Shen wrote: > ... > but if this list is sure there is no need for private > addresses, lets abolish them completely, not just from the > special routing support sense. The point is that those commenting against SL don't run a real network. There will be filtering done in real networks. T

RE: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Mika Liljeberg
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 21:43, Tony Hain wrote: > > Exactly my point. If the pseudo interface has a 2002::/16 > > on-link route, longest prefix match will home in on it > > instead of the default route. > > You are missing the point that your scenario has a 2002::/16 on-link > route on the native

Re: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Markku Savela
> From: Mika Liljeberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Exactly my point. If the pseudo interface has a 2002::/16 on-link route, > longest prefix match will home in on it instead of the default route. Ahem, I need to step in here... a router is advertising 6to4 prefix, it will advertise it as (at least on

RE: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Pekka Savola
On 27 Mar 2003, Mika Liljeberg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 21:43, Tony Hain wrote: > > > Exactly my point. If the pseudo interface has a 2002::/16 > > > on-link route, longest prefix match will home in on it > > > instead of the default route. > > > > You are missing the point that your scena

RE: A use for site local addresses?

2003-03-27 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Hi Tony, The point is that those commenting against SL don't run a real network. There will be filtering done in real networks. This filtering creates addresses and/or prefixes with a local scope of applicability. IE: There will be local scope addresses in any case. The only question is if we have

RE: A use for site local addresses?

2003-03-27 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Tony Hain wrote: > Naiming Shen wrote: > > ... > > but if this list is sure there is no need for private > > addresses, lets abolish them completely, not just from the > > special routing support sense. > > The point is that those commenting against SL don't run a real netwo

RE: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Michel Py
> Ole Troan wrote: > a host connected to a native link should not > automatically enable a 6to4 pseudo interface. Agree, and especially not if this native link RAses a prefix within 2002::/16. > Brian Carpenter wrote: > Some hosts can support such a pseudo-interface, but having > it on by defaul

Re: A use for site local addresses?

2003-03-27 Thread Naiming Shen
i know of some companies employee can be fired by surfing the Internet during work hours. i would think those employee love to have private addresses on their workstations and no NAT devices at all, just in case they don't "accidentally" get fired. you can have many use of private address without

Re: A use for site local addresses?

2003-03-27 Thread Leif Johansson
Pekka Savola wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Tony Hain wrote: Naiming Shen wrote: ... but if this list is sure there is no need for private addresses, lets abolish them completely, not just from the special routing support sense. The point is that those commenting against SL don't run

Re: 6to4 and 2002:PRIV:ATE [RE: A use for site local addresses?]

2003-03-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Markku Savela wrote: > > > From: Mika Liljeberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Exactly my point. If the pseudo interface has a 2002::/16 on-link route, > > longest prefix match will home in on it instead of the default route. > > Ahem, I need to step in here... a router is advertising 6to4 prefix, >

Re: A use for site local addresses?

2003-03-27 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
One of the downsides of site locals is the same downside you get with 1918 space -- merge two companies using private address space and you'll probably have to deal with address space collisions, forcing one of the two to renumber. There at least two drafts to make site-local addresses unique. A

Re: A use for site local addresses?

2003-03-27 Thread Keith Moore
On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 01:10 AM, Naiming Shen wrote: ] > ok, but if any special routing support for SL is removed, then the only ] > thing left is a private address space for SL. as in ipv4 case, i'm not ] > aware of any application treating 10.x.x.x addr any different from the ]

Re: A use for site local addresses?

2003-03-27 Thread Keith Moore
i know of some companies employee can be fired by surfing the Internet during work hours. i would think those employee love to have private addresses on their workstations and no NAT devices at all, just in case they don't "accidentally" get fired. so we should cripple the v6 architecture just so