Re: a frag measurement of interest

2013-10-02 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
platforms in live networks have default settings that slow-path packets with fragmentation header regardless of size. It would be interesting to actually see data of this. The comment part seems to be moderated so my posting hasn't made it out yet. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: s

Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-13.txt

2013-09-04 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
ee more SAVI WG documents referenced not only by this document :) Apart from that, nothing I read stood out and document looks good. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.or

Re: 6MAN WG Last Call:

2013-08-20 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
ter the above config kicked in. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: 6MAN - active documents

2013-08-20 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
ortunately there has been too little atention on SAVI lately. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: 6MAN - active documents

2013-08-20 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
SID, and not the router's MAC address or the like. If it's tricky, doesn't that specifically warrant more text on the subject? -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group maili

Re: 6MAN - active documents

2013-08-20 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
new network as well? I think some text on this would be good guidance for implementors. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://

Re: [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6874 (3630)

2013-05-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
t the client's zoneid, then the client will be unable to use said uri because it won't know which interface to use. Yes the server doesn't care but the client depends on it (for link local anyways). How would the server know the clients zoneid? It derives this from the initial

Re: IPv6 Address Resolution in Linux 2.6.27

2013-02-08 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
l get much enthusiasm there to fault find a kernel that was released in october 2008. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.iet

Re: Announcing Prefix Delegation extensions to ND draft-kaiser-nd-pd-00.txt

2012-10-20 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
say it's an absolute requirement that any proposal do not break existing implementations. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.

Re: Announcing Prefix Delegation extensions to ND draft-kaiser-nd-pd-00.txt

2012-10-20 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
we should focus on keeping IPv6 stable when it comes to how it works, and get implementations going, not new standards. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: Announcing Prefix Delegation extensions to ND draft-kaiser-nd-pd-00.txt

2012-10-20 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
ppy to take part if it happens. For me, this is that discussion. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: Announcing Prefix Delegation extensions to ND draft-kaiser-nd-pd-00.txt

2012-10-19 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
was "DHCPv6-PD might not be available". -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: Announcing Prefix Delegation extensions to ND draft-kaiser-nd-pd-00.txt

2012-10-19 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
ad of implementing a new standard? Isn't ND handled by the kernel in a lot of OSes? Does prefix delegation really belong there? -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv

Re: DAD question

2012-08-11 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
assigned by default to their NAT boxes and then added an option to "clone" an inside PC address if one wanted to change the WAN facing address. MAC addresses being non-unique is happening a lot more commonly than it should, and needs to be taken in account. -- Mikael Abrahamsson

Re: about DHCPv6/SLAAC interaction

2012-08-01 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
to change) who in presence of telling the router to advertise the M-flag, automatically removes the A flag and prefix from its outgoing RAs. I do not agree with their interpretation of the standard (that in the presence of M flag, clients must not do SLAAC). -- Mikael Abrahamsson

Re: /64 ND DoS

2011-07-13 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
behaviour somewhere, what would this feature be called that I can ask vendors if they have in their equipment? Just to be sure, we're now saying that reachability won't be had from the outside unless the internal device keeps itself "registered" with the ISP router. -

Re: How to deploy IPv6 to endusers (Was: /64 ND DoS)

2011-07-13 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
ult-gw for customer which want to directly hook up SLAAC devices). For routed scenarios I prefer LL only between PE and CPE. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Admi

Re: How to deploy IPv6 to endusers (Was: /64 ND DoS)

2011-07-13 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
ethernet interface, but then it's not really a /64, it's a /128 that you reach via ethernet. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Reque

Re: How to deploy IPv6 to endusers (Was: /64 ND DoS)

2011-07-13 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
else there will be directly an ICMP unreachable. Simple as that. A tunnel is not a broadcast medium, it's a point to point device. You already statically tell it what the other end address is, right? Thus, this is not a problem on this type of tunnel. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...

Re: How to deploy IPv6 to endusers (Was: /64 ND DoS)

2011-07-13 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
Test it out today and complain to your vendor ;) Wow. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: How to deploy IPv6 to endusers (Was: /64 ND DoS)

2011-07-13 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
rly when handling 10k ND state changes per second. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: /64 ND DoS

2011-07-13 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
l equipment is the default gw on the customer LAN). This is even without any ddos discussion, this is just normal operations. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf

Re: [ipv6] Re: /64 ND DoS

2011-07-13 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
its of MAC BIA information or even in extremis dare I say 12 bits? /120 would be more doable. When I think of ND table size per customer, I'm thinking limitation to 16-32 entries, after that the customer needs to get a router. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: s

RE: /64 ND DoS

2011-07-13 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
, so I do not ever have to keep any state regarding individual customer placed devices. We have already requested that our L3 switch vendors have ND starvation protection, but there is serious lack of documentation to point to. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se

Re: /64 ND DoS

2011-07-12 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
Pv6 router platforms today and give it 10kpps to random destinations to its attached /64 (10kpps of small packets is 5 megabit/s) it'll stop working normally. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6

Re: [v6ops] Question regarding RA-Guard evasion (ND and extension headers)

2011-06-23 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
the Internet. Service providers want to keep malicious clients from degrading their network. Exactly. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative

Re: [v6ops] Question regarding RA-Guard evasion (ND and extension headers)

2011-06-23 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
rnet again? -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: [v6ops] Question regarding RA-Guard evasion (ND and extension headers)

2011-06-23 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
ss network). -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: [v6ops] Question regarding RA-Guard evasion (ND and extension headers)

2011-06-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
c and pre-distributing keys, ethernet can't be fixed without the "bandaids" you seem to call the measures being used widely to assure ethernet can in fact be used securely. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se --

Re: [v6ops] Question regarding RA-Guard evasion (ND and extension headers)

2011-06-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
tacks on each other. This requires some kind of limitation of traffic they can send to each other using L2, and full L2 isolation is of course the best. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group ma

Re: [v6ops] Question regarding RA-Guard evasion (ND and extension headers)

2011-06-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Ted Lemon wrote: On Jun 22, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: I agree, that's the deployment model I advocate for hostile scenarios. Use DHCPv6 for stateful addressing, advertise default GW via RA, don't advertise any on-link prefix, and make sure h

Re: [v6ops] Question regarding RA-Guard evasion (ND and extension headers)

2011-06-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
communicate at all with each other by means of enforcement in switches (or just separate them into different L2 domains). -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Admin

Re: [v6ops] Question regarding RA-Guard evasion (ND and extension headers)

2011-06-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
t;obvious" have historically been overlooked numerous times. Just the same way describing how to do SAVI L2.5 functionality to solve different security implications needs to be done to provide guidance to vendors, I also feel that they need to be helped to handle fragmentation attacks.

Re: [v6ops] Question regarding Ra-Guard evasion (ND and extensio headers)

2011-06-13 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
implementations of this wouldn't also have some kind of idea or concept of "client ports" and "server ports"? -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv

Re: Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD

2011-05-31 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
for ETTH for the past 10 years. On IPv4, this was done by means of local-proxy-arp by the gateway, which is suboptimal for other reasons. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6

Re: Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD

2011-05-31 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
and H3 to communicate between each other even though they're in the same vlan, will make this completely stop working if R1 doesn't have a knob to disallow it from sending redirects that might indicate that H2 and H3 is on the same L2 domain (on-link). -- Mikae

Re: Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD

2011-05-31 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
s routing table? -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: Neighbor Unreachability Detection is too impatient

2011-05-25 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
chatty, and it does cause problems on large networks. One might call this multiple faults on multiple levels (bad linecard code, bad L2 platform, bad low-performing CPU on the RP), but it does cause problems in real life regardless. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se

Re: Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD

2011-05-13 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 13 May 2011, Thomas Narten wrote: Per a previous thread, there are indications that the WG may now be willing to recommend that DHCPv6 be a SHOULD for all hosts. This is based on the following rationale: I support moving it to SHOULD. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se

Re: Short 6MAN WG Last Call:

2011-05-09 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
ind a phone we can get it working with. Right now we presume it's a baseband issue on the phones we have available. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Admi

Re: PMTU blackhole detection

2011-04-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, Philip Homburg wrote: PMTU blackhole detection seemed so obvious to me, that I never bothered to find out if there was an RFC specifying that it should be done. <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4821> is what you're looking for I guess? -- Mikael Abrahamsson

RE: question regarding draft-ietf-6man-rfc3484-revise-02 section 2.3

2011-03-28 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
here. Anyhow, the above text seems fine to me from a technical point of view, nothing pops up as weird or wrong anyway. I think it needs a second look over before it's ready for publishing? -- Mikael Abrahamssonema

RE: question regarding draft-ietf-6man-rfc3484-revise-02 section 2.3

2011-03-28 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
m together) was present in the draft (or a referral to other text describing it), I'd be fine. Right now I couldn't help reading the text in section 2.3 and wondering how it was supposed to achieve what was described. -- Mikael Abrahamsson

Re: question regarding draft-ietf-6man-rfc3484-revise-02 section 2.3

2011-03-28 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Brian Haberman wrote: Hi Mikael, On 3/28/11 4:25 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: Hello. I read through 2.3 of the draft, and I am a bit unclear as to how the next-hop should be selected. In the case of my SLAAC machine, I see the next-hop for my default-route as a LL

question regarding draft-ietf-6man-rfc3484-revise-02 section 2.3

2011-03-28 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
ngs recent discussions in v6ops, perhaps there would be benefit in using different terminology here? -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Reque

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

2011-03-09 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
privacy extensions. Just because privacy extensions is the only address widely seen today as being non-EUI64, doesn't mean that if you disable privacy, you get only single EUI64. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se

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

2011-03-09 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
eciate some reasoning in the draft why this was chosen as a SHOULD option. I do not like the "disable Privacy"-flag thinking at all and I really oppose going with that solution. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se ---

Re: draft-yhb-6man-slaac-improvement-00

2011-03-06 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
s the behaviour I've seen is correct, you end up with a /128 pointing to yourself and a default route pointing to the router LL address, nothing else. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working gro

Re: draft-yhb-6man-slaac-improvement-00

2011-03-06 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
that's not the same as "not working", it might just be suboptimal in some deployment scenarios and highly desired in others. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: draft-yhb-6man-slaac-improvement-00

2011-03-06 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
e. I don't see any theoretical or practical MUST requirement for an on-link prefix. I'm not quite sure which 4.1 you're referring to. Point 1. of section 4 of RFC5942? Yes. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se -

Re: draft-yhb-6man-slaac-improvement-00

2011-03-06 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
that it needed to use (and actually used) DHCPv6 to get its IPv6 address. No on-link prefix was needed (or even desireable in some deployment scenarios). Does RFC5942 says this is mandatory? I interpret 4.1 as this is definitely not mandatory, rather the opposite? -- Mikael Abrahamsson

RE: draft-yhb-6man-ra-privacy-flag-01

2011-03-04 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
hemes. - No, DHCPv6 can't stop the user configuring a static address. Together with SAVI functionality it can. Well, they can configure it, but they won't be allowed to send packets to the network with it. <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/savi/> -- Mikael Abra

Re: draft-yhb-6man-ra-privacy-flag-01

2011-03-04 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
or DHCPv6 (stateless and stateful) than to fiddle with RAs where the router vendor also has to implement this functionality. Let's try to change RA as few times as possible, please. Let the routers do forwarding of policy-required queries and handle these in a server that is not on

Re: draft-yhb-6man-ra-privacy-flag-01

2011-03-04 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
tionality into RA than what is absolutely needed. If you need to know what host had what IP address at what time, disallow SLAAC and run DHCPv6. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing lis

Re: draft-yhb-6man-ra-privacy-flag-01

2011-03-04 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
ange RA more than is absolutely needed. The problem description sounds exactly like what DHCPv6 was designed to solve. If you need to track what IPs are used at a given time and by whom, SLAAC is not the way to go. The proposed solution doesn't solve the problem described. -- Mikael Abrahamsson

Re: draft-yhb-6man-ra-privacy-flag-01

2011-03-02 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: How should I configure things when it comes to information in RA and DHCPv6? If this isn't possible, was this intentional behaviour from the beginning, that DHCPv6 hosts without SLAAC can't get an on-link prefix but they must go through

Re: draft-yhb-6man-ra-privacy-flag-01

2011-03-02 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
es to information in RA and DHCPv6? If this isn't possible, was this intentional behaviour from the beginning, that DHCPv6 hosts without SLAAC can't get an on-link prefix but they must go through the router to talk to ea

Re: DHCPv6 vs ND strikes again (was: New version available)

2010-09-23 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
ed to do all the same filtering as I would have to without the CPE. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/lis

Re: DHCPv6 vs ND strikes again (was: New version available)

2010-09-23 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
osoft Xbox 360 and ask them how easy it is. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: DHCPv6 vs ND strikes again (was: New version available)

2010-09-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
and apply them to the link layer port. I'm sure this is one thing SAVI WG has looked at and is part of their requirements. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.or

Re: New version available

2010-09-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
tomer) for ADSL (ethernet DSLAMs), I'm sure there is the equivalent for DHCP, I just haven't had the need to deploy it so I haven't looked into it. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 w

Re: DHCPv6 vs ND strikes again (was: New version available)

2010-09-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
isms used for IPv4 to achieve this. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: DHCPv6 vs ND strikes again (was: New version available)

2010-09-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
had what IPv6 address at what time, because the network will filter any traffic coming from addresses not handed out by DHCP and one knows what physical port was allocated the IP address at the time. So SLAAC is out of the question for these types of applications. M and O flag set. -- Mik

Re: DHCPv6 vs ND strikes again

2010-09-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
operating systems seem to handle RA in the kernel and not in userspace, extending RA to do more things is harder than doing it in DHCP (which is generally handled in userspace). -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se

Re: DHCPv6 vs ND strikes again (was: New version available)

2010-09-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
HCPv6 Only I see quite a lot of code overlap in the last two. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: DHCPv6 vs ND strikes again (was: New version available)

2010-09-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
nk you provided doesn't include the word "DHCP" (or DHCPv6) at all. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: DHCPv6 vs ND strikes again (was: New version available)

2010-09-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
know Apple doesn't support DHCPv6 at all. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: DHCPv6 vs ND strikes again

2010-09-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
asier it is for all involved. Static filtering is easier than dynamic inspection and filtering based on that. It means less punting packets to CPU in the L2 devices, less DoS vectors, less everything. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se --

Re: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Hesham Soliman wrote: On 22/09/10 3:30 PM, "Mikael Abrahamsson" wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Hesham Soliman wrote: => I understand that, but I think that to make this work you will need to do that with zero modifications to the host's IPv6 stack. I d

Re: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
Do you count the DHCP client as part of the stack? -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Hesham Soliman wrote: ND is a show-stopper or even delaying any router vendor. Nobody is saying a router shouldn't do ND. What we're saying is that an L2 network shouldn't have to do ND inspection, so it should be possible to make things work without

Re: DHCPv6 vs ND strikes again

2010-09-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
off (Cisco switch off RAs by default on some interface types already) and will have static configuration mechanisms. .. and what (I, and others) are saying is that we would like DHCPv6 to be able to do the same "static" configuration. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.

Re: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
#x27;s anecdotal but we didn't see this on the mailing list either. I can't see how ND is a show-stopper or even delaying any router vendor. ND is an integral part in any IPv6 implementation. Nobody is saying ND shold go away, what we're saying is that it should be possible to r

Re: DHCPv6 vs ND strikes again

2010-09-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
tion at all, it only needs to look into DHCPv6. So I can certainly see how we could make ND/RA redundant for certain types of managed network, but I don't see how we can behave as if they don't exist, at least from a security viewpoint. Of course not. -- Mikael Abrahamsson

RE: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
bility and security, and I can only do that if my customers only communicate to each other via L3 via my router. I never want customer to talk direct L2 to each other. Q-in-q is expensive to terminate so I still want them to be in the same vlan.

Re: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
this doesn't work on unmodified hosts with standards that exists today, but the changes needed should be minor... - A host without ND/RA wouldn't work on currently existing LANs That's not what I'm proposing. I'm not talking about ripping out anything. --

Re: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
endors do not have this support yet for IPv6. You might not think this is worthwile because you don't have this deployment model in your network. That doesn't mean it's not worthwile to ISPs with millions of subscribers who use an L2 ETTH deployment model. -- Mikael

Re: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
age from "Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:31:05 +0200 (CEST)". "The whole L2 environment would need a lot less code, it basically would only need to be able to filter the above mechanisms, not inspect them." -- Mikael Abrahamsson

Re: DHCPv6 vs ND strikes again (was: New version available)

2010-09-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Ole Troan wrote: in IPv4 access networks you do ARP from the CPE at least. how did you intend for the CPE to learn the default router's mac address? glean it from DHCP? Yes. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.

Re: DHCPv6 vs ND strikes again (was: New version available)

2010-09-20 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
hbours apart from your gateway need to be known or found. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: New version available

2010-09-20 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
for 5-10 years for some vendors, what they're doing is less to invent new IPv4 functions but to actually make them a standard and document them. IPv6 is another ballgame, there new stuff is happening. -- Mikael Abrahamssonema

Re: New version available

2010-09-19 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
lt;https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/savi/charter/> Sure. Are you holding your breath? Well, duplicating work is probably a bad idea. They have running code, I don't see why people who want to fix this shouldn't join them in their effort. Am I missing something? -- Mikael Abra

Re: exposing allocation policy externally

2010-09-14 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, bill manning wrote: you mean something like this? http://www.isi.edu/div7/publication_files/novel_use.htm Yes, that seems like a framework that my idea could fit into, absolutely. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se

Re: exposing allocation policy externally

2010-09-14 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2010-09-14 07:59, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: [..] Does this sound like madness or something that might be of use? What WG might be best suited to bring this idea to? What part can not be achieved with WHOIS/RPSL already? Why aren't people

exposing allocation policy externally

2010-09-13 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
ore information. External parties should be able to decide which level(s) they want to trust. Does this sound like madness or something that might be of use? What WG might be best suited to bring this idea to? -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se ---

Re: AW: New version available

2010-09-13 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
be pushed out of the market anyway. I consider DHCPv6 support as an essential component for any device connecting to the Internet, and I wouldn't even call it "Full" if DHCPv6 support is lacking. -- Mikael Abrahamsson

Re: SLAAC or not [Re: New version available]

2010-09-12 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
th, is not economically viable in my world. Now what? -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: SLAAC or not [Re: New version available]

2010-09-12 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Mark Smith wrote: On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 07:29:10 +0200 (CEST) Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Mark Smith wrote: So my question was how would you solve it (architecturally)? Layer 2 devices inspecting traffic isn't architecturally acceptable because i

Re: SLAAC or not

2010-09-11 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Brian E Carpenter wrote: So, indeed, those who market layer 2 solutions relying on layer violation will have to update their products when a new layer 3 arrives. That is perfectly understandable and that's not something anyone is opposing as far as I can see. -- M

Re: SLAAC or not [Re: New version available]

2010-09-11 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
here, Mark. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: New version available

2010-09-11 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
e lists. I've multiple times been thinking "why the hell am I doing this, my forehead is bloody enough as it is" and throwing my hands up and leaving, but I try to dig in and continue. I hope others do the same thing, we need to get IPv6 deployable. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm

Re: New version available

2010-09-10 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
and saying things I perhaps shouldn't, but I hope the above might explain a few things. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: SLAAC or not [Re: New version available]

2010-09-10 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
who don't, especially if they need to handle thousands of customers (ie thousands of interfaces). Compare this to a Cisco 3550 which can route thousands of customers in a few subnets if needed. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se

Re: New version available (Was Re: Consensus call on adopting:draft-krishnan-6man-rs-mark-06.txt)

2010-09-10 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
n floor or replace), rate limiting the RS packets per second from the end users, etc. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: New version available

2010-09-10 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
27;t deny there was a lot in use. It's great that IPv6 over PPP is solved (it was the easy one to solve), but we won't deploy PPPoE to our residential ETTH customers just to get them IPv6, that is just not a reasonable solution for us. -- Mikael Abrahamsson

RE: New version available

2010-09-10 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
e use that have not been properly adressed yet. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6

Re: SLAAC or not [Re: New version available]

2010-09-09 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
he protocols designed in the IETF hasn't had that part as a design criteria. It's definitely headed in the correct direction though, but there is still a lot of work to be done. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se ---

Re: Flow label (im)mutability

2010-09-09 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Fernando Gont wrote: Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: Last I checked, the standards said that if precedence/dscp changed, the host should reset the session (correct me if I'm wrong, I don't really have time to check it right now). You're right. And it doesn&#x

Re: New version available

2010-09-09 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
prefer the IETF model compared to ITU. Starting to comment and contribute on IETF lists is quite easy if you want to... -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administ

Re: New version available

2010-09-09 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
stand all these mechanisms and enforce this policy as they do L2 switching. That is the closest thing I've been able to come up with in IPv6-land that matches what we already do in IPv4-land. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se --

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