Re: [Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-carpenter-6man-flow-update-02]

2010-04-21 Thread Philip Homburg
In your letter dated Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:33:03 +1200 you wrote: By contrast, a source host never has this problem, because it knows by construction when a flow ends (chances are, flow == socket). I'm wondering about the 'never' part. What if an application uses sendto() to communicate over UDP

Re: Draft-krishnan-ipv6-exthdr-08 to become asap a 6man WG draft ?

2010-04-21 Thread Rémi Després
Le 20 avr. 2010 à 19:35, james woodyatt a écrit : On Apr 20, 2010, at 09:56, Rémi Després wrote: Using the experimental status seems to me confusing (and why two numbers instead of one?) There are two numbers reserved for protocols, and I was plagued by the hobgoblins of consistency. I

Stateless assignment of flow-labels in source hosts

2010-04-21 Thread Rémi Després
Hi Brian, I wonder what you think of what I answered to James on another discussion thread. Regards, RD Début du message réexpédié : De : Rémi Després remi.desp...@free.fr Date : 21 avril 2010 10:43:55 HAEC À : james woodyatt j...@apple.com Cc : 6man 6man ipv6@ietf.org Objet : Rép :

Re: RFC 4861:-Link-Local address joining all-node multicast group.

2010-04-21 Thread niviya vijayan
Hi Suresh, RFC 4861 Statement:- 7.2.1.Interface Initialization “When a multicast-capable interface becomes enabled, the node MUST join the all-nodes multicast address on that interface, as well as the solicited- node multicast address corresponding to each of the IP addresses assigned to the

Ping...//Re: Questions on RFC 4293 Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (IP)

2010-04-21 Thread Tina TSOU
No answer from anywhere, even the State of Confusion... B. R. Tina http://tinatsou.weebly.com/contact.html - Original Message - From: Tina TSOU To: ipv6@ietf.org ; v6...@ops.ietf.org ; Bob Hinden ; Dan Romascanu ; fen...@fenron.com ; fen...@gmail.com ; dtha...@microsoft.com ;

RE: RFC 4861:-Link-Local address joining all-node multicast group.

2010-04-21 Thread JOSHI, SHRINIVAS ASHOK (SHRINIVAS ASHOK)
Niviya, When a multicast-capable interface becomes enabled, the node MUST join the all-nodes multicast address on that interface, as well as the solicited- node multicast address corresponding to each of the IP addresses assigned to the interface. Any idea What does this statement

Re: Questions on RFC 4293 Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (IP)

2010-04-21 Thread Bill Fenner
[sorry if you get duplicates, replying from an address that actually *works* this time] 2010/4/19 Tina TSOU t...@huawei.com: In RFC 4293, - ipAddressTable is described as writable, this table uses address as index, but the critical information for configuring address, the address prefix

Re: Questions on RFC 4293 Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (IP)

2010-04-21 Thread Bill Fenner
2010/4/19 Tina TSOU t...@huawei.com: In RFC 4293, - ipAddressTable is described as writable, this table uses address as index, but the critical information for configuring address, the address prefix ipAddressPrefix node is read-only. It seems contradict to me. Worse, the whole

Re: Questions on RFC 4293 Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (IP)

2010-04-21 Thread Fred Baker
we didn't pay enough attention is a very kind way to put it. The entire SNMP exercise was about monitoring; those like me who tried to make things writable pushed rocks uphill politically. That, and the experience of trying to make event triggered management rather than poll-driven management,

Re: [Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-carpenter-6man-flow-update-02]

2010-04-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-04-21 19:11, Philip Homburg wrote: In your letter dated Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:33:03 +1200 you wrote: By contrast, a source host never has this problem, because it knows by construction when a flow ends (chances are, flow == socket). I'm wondering about the 'never' part. What if an

Re: Stateless assignment of flow-labels in source hosts

2010-04-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-04-21 20:50, Rémi Després wrote: Hi Brian, I wonder what you think of what I answered to James on another discussion thread. I agree. I think that particular SHOULD in the RFC is an error. It SHOULD have said something like: The source node MUST select new Flow Label values by a

DRAFT: Request for guidance about the flow label

2010-04-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, Sheng and I would like to continue our attempt to make the flow label useful. The discussions in Anaheim and on this list have been very stimulating. I think we need to simplify the change proposed in draft-carpenter-6man-flow-update-02 even more after the recent discussions, while

Request for guidance about the flow label

2010-04-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, Sheng and I would like to continue our attempt to make the flow label useful. The discussions in Anaheim and on this list have been very stimulating. I think we need to simplify the change proposed in draft-carpenter-6man-flow-update-02 even more after the recent discussions, while