RE: Question about SLAAC: how the host determines the prefixesallocated from different prefix pools

2010-06-18 Thread Fortune HUANG
Hi Barbara, Thank you very much for your comment. I am glad to see that you agree with that it would be more logical to do all prefix-related configuration in RA. But yes, you are right that we need to prove what we have is insufficient or broken before we change the existing implementation. I onc

Re: Question about SLAAC: how the host determines the prefixes allocated from different prefix pools

2010-06-18 Thread Behcet Sarikaya
Hi Suresh,   I think multicast advantage of RAs is lost in case of point to point links anyways. Regards, Behcet - Original Message > From: Suresh Krishnan > To: Fortune HUANG > Cc: "ipv6@ietf.org" > Sent: Fri, June 18, 2010 9:24:36 AM > Subject: Re: Question about SLAAC: how the

RE: Question about SLAAC: how the host determines the prefixesallocated from different prefix pools

2010-06-18 Thread STARK, BARBARA H (ATTLABS)
> Do you think that the service type of > the prefix should be classified to the prefix related configuration or not? > If yes, do you agree that it should be carried in RA in the stateless > case? Nobody is disagreeing that *if* we could turn the clock back 10 years or so and have a greenfield di

Re: Question about SLAAC: how the host determines the prefixes allocated from different prefix pools

2010-06-18 Thread Suresh Krishnan
Hi Fortune, I have to agree with Brian, Mark and Doug here. SLAAC was conceived for use in simple scenarios. The scenario you are describing is a bit more complex. I think it calls for DHCPv6. On a purely technical note, since the prefixes come from different pools it is no longer possible

RE: Comment for Request for guidance about the flow label

2010-06-18 Thread Yong Lucy
snipped > > Text: > > > > It might be possible to make this classifier stateless, by using a > > > > suitable modulo(N) hash of the inner IP header's 5-tuple as the > > > > pseudo-random value. > > > > > > > > The document text uses N in referring N paths. It causes a confusion in > >

Re: Comment for Request for guidance about the flow label

2010-06-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Lucy, On 2010-06-16 09:46, Yong Lucy wrote: > Brian and Shane, > > > > I read the draft. It is well written. Here are some comments: ... > Two paragraphs are the same except one has "hash SHOULD" and another has > "hash MUST". Oops. > > > > Text: > > It might be possible to make this