Re: Why has RFC 4941 been designed in such a way, that it might cause address conflicts?

2011-03-16 Thread Brian Haley
On 03/16/2011 07:06 AM, Markus Hanauska wrote: > > On 2011-03-16, at 11:27 , Philip Homburg wrote: > >> You look up the MAC address for that IPv6 address and then block the MAC >> address on your switches. Problem solved. > > Sure, that will work. However, that means I have to invest time and wo

Re: draft-gont-6man-managing-privacy-extensions-00.txt

2011-03-16 Thread Brian Haley
On 03/12/2011 06:29 AM, Fernando Gont wrote: > On 09/03/2011 08:17 a.m., Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > >>> I recommend that folks read the above draft. I haven't seen the >>> I-D announcement get cross-posted to the IPv6 WG, perhaps due to >>> the volume of recent I-D postings, and the topic seems

Re: Ping6 utility issue:-

2010-05-04 Thread Brian Haley
Hagen Paul Pfeifer wrote: > Small addendum: RFC 3542 specify a socket option (11.2.) called IPV6_DONTFRAG, > maybe this is the option you are searching for: > > This specification defines a mechanism to turn off the automatic > inserting of a fragment header for UDP and

Re: Review requested: draft-kawamura-ipv6-text-representation-02

2009-05-14 Thread Brian Haley
nded to cover text representation > of IPv6 addresses + ports, and discuss this issue? > > -Dave > ________ > From: Brian Haley [brian.ha...@hp.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:31 AM > To: IPv6 WG Mailing List > Cc: Dave Thaler; Bria

Re: Review requested: draft-kawamura-ipv6-text-representation-02

2009-05-14 Thread Brian Haley
Dave Thaler wrote: > I read and I agree with the document except for Appendix A. > > For one, I disagree that v4 mapped addresses are not recommended. > They're commonly used for sockets that support both IPv4 and IPv6. I would agree with Dave. If you ssh to any recent Linux system over IPv4 you

Re: [Mip6] DHAAD and source address selection

2007-10-17 Thread Brian Haley
Hi, Nicolas Dichtel wrote: I've a question about source address selection in HAAD Reply message. ... RUT is a Home Agent and the Home Link is Link0. This is important. MN1X sends a HAAD Request message to its home agent (RUT). The destination address of this message is an anycast address.

Re: narten's review of 2461bis

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Haley
Thomas Narten wrote: For changes to the router intervals, that seems like the kind of minor change/clarification that has been allowed in other documents. And note that we are _recycling_ at draft, not _advancing_ to draft. A discussion about advertisement intervals happened back on 10/29/06 -

Re: Endianness of IPv6 and payloads

2006-09-18 Thread Brian Haley
Thomas Narten wrote: This is in a lab, before deployment, before many other vendors start writing their own code to make use of this message. Let's be real. Anyone doing an implementation from scratch from the specs would (with high probality) do its first test against a well-known, readily av

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-chakrabarti-ipv6-addrselect-api-03.txt

2005-07-22 Thread Brian Haley
Overall comment: 1. The draft talks about setting flag X and flag not-X, but the only place I see where this can happen is trying to set these together: IPV6_PREFER_SRC_CGA | IPV6_PREFER_SRC_NONCGA AI_PREFER_SRC_CGA | AI_PREFER_SRC_NONCGA Am I missing something? Can I somehow t

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-chakrabarti-ipv6-addrselect-api-03.txt

2005-07-20 Thread Brian Haley
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : IPv6 Socket API for source address selection Author(s) : E. Nordmark, et al. Filename: draft-chakrabarti-ipv6-addrselect-api-03.txt Hi Samita, Erik, and Julie

Re: ICMP rate limit discussion was Re: Section 2.4, item (f) of draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-v3-04.txt

2004-08-19 Thread Brian Haley
Alex Conta wrote: The ICMPv6 specification describes the ICMPv6 protocol, a set of ICMPv6 error and informational messages, and some rules and/or suggestions on handling ICMPv6 messages. Why should "in transit" ICMP messages be outside its scope? Others have pointed out that's not how they read

Re: Section 2.4, item (f) of draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-v3-04.txt

2004-08-09 Thread Brian Haley
Alex Conta wrote: Are there any implementations were ICMP rate limiting is implemented separately from other protocol packets traffic management (traffic shaping)? HP has at least one UNIX that does ICMPv6 and Mobility Header in common code, Linux does ICMPv4/v6 together on a per-route basis. I