Question on IPv6 Route table.

2011-09-26 Thread Naarumanchi Kaushik
Hi All, In linux, route command has an entry for default(which is 0.0.0.0). There will ONLY ONE such entry and it chooses only one physical interface. default 192.168.2.254 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 I have configured my linux system with an IPv6 address in my

Re: Question on IPv6 Route table.

2011-09-26 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2011-09-26 12:18 , Naarumanchi Kaushik wrote: Hi All, In linux, route command has an entry for default(which is 0.0.0.0). Please note that ipv6@ietf is not the Linux configuration help mailinglist. (then again, not any other similar location afaik ;) There will ONLY ONE such entry and

Re: Question on IPv6 Route table.

2011-09-26 Thread Naarumanchi Kaushik
Before I try what you have suggested, i have a question. the way we have a default interface to be used(when there are multiple interfaces) in the route table for ipv4, why there was no unique default entry for ipv6 too? Assuming my route table looks like this: Destination Gateway

Re: Offset Indicating option

2011-09-26 Thread Libor Polčák
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Hi, draft-zhang-6man-offset-option-01 proposes an idea for how to make it easier for a node that needs to skip over an IPv6 header chain to do so quickly, for example for flow classification or flow logging, or (perish the thought) for payload inspection. The idea is to

Re: Question on IPv6 Route table.

2011-09-26 Thread Ray Hunter
IMHO there is no requirement AFAIK for there to be a SINGLE default route for any address family (either IPv4 or IPv6). If there are multiple candidate default routes available, most sensible systems will install the default route with the lowest administrative distance into the forwarding

Re: IPng Mailinglist Archives (1994-2004) + Nice SIPP-list quote: nearly 19 years of IPv6

2011-09-26 Thread Brian Haberman
On 9/25/11 4:17 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: For IPng Directorate material (pre-August 1994) there's Scott Bradner's archive: http://www.sobco.com/ipng/ but yours is slightly more cool as it can be reached via IPv6 ;-) Does anybody have the material formerly at

Re: Offset Indicating option

2011-09-26 Thread Hagen Paul Pfeifer
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:06:26 +0200, Libor Polčák wrote: Unfortunately, I believe that if we want to fix extension headers we have to obsolete the current model and introduce a new one. For example allow only L4 protocol numbers in IPv6 header or a special value indicating that extension

Question about Subnet-Router anycast address

2011-09-26 Thread François-Xavier Le Bail
Hi All, I try to ping some routers on one of their Subnet-Router anycast addresses (SRAA). (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4291#section-2.6.1) Some (Cisco) reply with an unicast source address (same subnet prefix). Another one (Alcatel) reply with the SRAA as source address. A Linux kernel in

Re: Last Call: draft-gundavelli-v6ops-pmipv6-address-reservations-00.txt (Reserved IPv6 Interface Identifier for Proxy Mobile IPv6) to Informational RFC

2011-09-26 Thread Thomas Narten
Donald Eastlake d3e...@gmail.com writes: IPv6 Interface Identifiers (IIDs) are 64 bit quantities. Various RFCs say you can use a Modified EUI-64 for an IID on the basis that you control the base EUI-64. And control of some EUI-64s can derive from control of an EUI-48 (i.e., a MAC address) or

Re: IPng Mailinglist Archives (1994-2004) + Nice SIPP-list quote: nearly 19 years of IPv6

2011-09-26 Thread Thomas Narten
The mailing list archives are available via the IETF FTP server ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf-mail-archive/ipngwg Right. But these are missing a few months worth of stuff that Jeroen has on his site (specifically Jeroen has a year's worth of stuff prior to 1995-02, that the IETF site doesn't list).

Re: Offset Indicating option

2011-09-26 Thread John Leslie
Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: draft-zhang-6man-offset-option-01 proposes an idea for how to make it easier for a node that needs to skip over an IPv6 header chain to do so quickly... Alas, Brian, this strikes me as a rather bad idea -- introducing ambiguity and

Re: Offset Indicating option

2011-09-26 Thread Libor Polčák
Hagen Paul Pfeifer wrote: Hello Libor, ich published a I-D: IPv6 Extension Headers Reserved Space http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pfeifer-6man-exthdr-res-01 which try to address some of the problems. Introducing a new number model don't work, but maybe a solution somewhere between - as

Question about RFC 3484

2011-09-26 Thread François-Xavier Le Bail
Hi All, Section 4 of RFC 3484 states:     (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3484#section-4)     4. Candidate Source Addresses     [. . .]        In any case, anycast addresses, multicast addresses, and the        unspecified address MUST NOT be included in a candidate set. Are a reply to an UDP

Re: IPng Mailinglist Archives (1994-2004) + Nice SIPP-list quote: nearly 19 years of IPv6

2011-09-26 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2011-09-26 16:07 , Thomas Narten wrote: The mailing list archives are available via the IETF FTP server ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf-mail-archive/ipngwg Right. But these are missing a few months worth of stuff that Jeroen has on his site (specifically Jeroen has a year's worth of stuff prior

Re: IPng Mailinglist Archives (1994-2004) + Nice SIPP-list quote: nearly 19 years of IPv6

2011-09-26 Thread Bob Hinden
On Sep 25, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: For IPng Directorate material (pre-August 1994) there's Scott Bradner's archive: http://www.sobco.com/ipng/ but yours is slightly more cool as it can be reached via IPv6 ;-) Does anybody have the material formerly at

Re: IPng Mailinglist Archives (1994-2004) + Nice SIPP-list quote: nearly 19 years of IPv6

2011-09-26 Thread Bob Hinden
Brian, I found what I think was the latest content dated around 2003. I think that about when stopped being updated. Bob On Sep 26, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Bob Hinden wrote: On Sep 25, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: For IPng Directorate material (pre-August 1994) there's Scott

Re: Offset Indicating option

2011-09-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-09-27 03:38, John Leslie wrote: Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: draft-zhang-6man-offset-option-01 proposes an idea for how to make it easier for a node that needs to skip over an IPv6 header chain to do so quickly... Alas, Brian, this strikes me as a rather

Re: Offset Indicating option

2011-09-26 Thread John Leslie
Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-09-27 03:38, John Leslie wrote: Alas, Brian, this strikes me as a rather bad idea -- introducing ambiguity and almost inviting gaming the system so that the same packet looks different to a DPI device and the actual destination.