RE: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-21 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert)
18, 2010 4:53 PM To: JP Vasseur Cc: IPv6 WG; ROLL WG Subject: Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable Le 18 sept. 2010 à 02:22, JP Vasseur a écrit : On Sep 15, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: ... However, it would be pretty easy to put something

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-21 Thread Rémi Després
: roll-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:roll-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Rémi Després Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 4:53 PM To: JP Vasseur Cc: IPv6 WG; ROLL WG Subject: Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable Le 18 sept. 2010 à 02:22, JP Vasseur a écrit : On Sep 15

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-21 Thread Michael Richardson
Pascal == Pascal Thubert (pthubert) pthub...@cisco.com writes: Pascal Hi Rémi: Pascal We'll be very glad that 6LoWPAN compresses RPL Pascal optimally. But RPL being layer 2 agnostic cannot depend on Only when the security is provide by the layer 2 can the layer 2 do any

RE: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-21 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert)
today. Take care, Pascal -Original Message- From: Carsten Bormann [mailto:c...@tzi.org] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 4:18 PM To: Michael Richardson Cc: Pascal Thubert (pthubert); ROLL WG; IPv6 WG Subject: Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable On Sep

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-21 Thread Rémi Després
Pascal -Original Message- From: Rémi Després [mailto:remi.desp...@free.fr] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 2:28 PM To: Pascal Thubert (pthubert) Cc: JP Vasseur; IPv6 WG; ROLL WG Subject: Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable Le 21 sept. 2010 à 14:08

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-21 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 21, 2010, at 15:48, Michael Richardson wrote: Pascal We'll be very glad that 6LoWPAN compresses RPL Pascal optimally. But RPL being layer 2 agnostic cannot depend on Only when the security is provide by the layer 2 can the layer 2 do any compression. Otherwise, the encryption

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-18 Thread JP Vasseur
On Sep 15, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: Has anybody discussed adding a header with just the 3 bytes you need *before* the IP header? Yes. Ever since you proposed pretty much that at a previous IETF meeting, I've been thinking that architecturally it makes a lot of sense to

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-18 Thread Rémi Després
Le 18 sept. 2010 à 02:22, JP Vasseur a écrit : On Sep 15, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: ... However, it would be pretty easy to put something in 6lowpan to carry those 3 bytes. (Consider it an advanced form of header compression for the 48-byte IP-in-IP thing, if you don't

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-17 Thread Carsten Bormann
Has anybody discussed adding a header with just the 3 bytes you need *before* the IP header? Yes. Ever since you proposed pretty much that at a previous IETF meeting, I've been thinking that architecturally it makes a lot of sense to think about ROLL as a sub-IP protocol. The downside is

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-15 Thread Carsten Bormann
Has anybody discussed adding a header with just the 3 bytes you need *before* the IP header? Yes. Ever since you proposed pretty much that at a previous IETF meeting, I've been thinking that architecturally it makes a lot of sense to think about ROLL as a sub-IP protocol. The downside is

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-15 Thread Rémi Després
Le 15 sept. 2010 à 04:35, Erik Nordmark a écrit : ... Has anybody discussed adding a header with just the 3 bytes you need *before* the IP header? That avoids the overhead. In www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipv6/current/msg12204, I essentially proposed that (quote below). The downside is

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-15 Thread Fred Baker
So that might use the mesh network header part of the 6lowpan header? On Sep 15, 2010, at 12:06 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: Has anybody discussed adding a header with just the 3 bytes you need *before* the IP header? Yes. Ever since you proposed pretty much that at a previous IETF meeting,

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-15 Thread JP Vasseur
On Sep 15, 2010, at 7:19 AM, Fred Baker wrote: So that might use the mesh network header part of the 6lowpan header? We would need be using the compressed ID header On Sep 15, 2010, at 12:06 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: Has anybody discussed adding a header with just the 3 bytes you need

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-15 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 15, 2010, at 16:19, Fred Baker wrote: So that might use the mesh network header part of the 6lowpan header? That would be a bit more radical, I think (and there is no place to put a rank or instance ID in RFC 4944). But the effect is similar, as the ROLL-specific information would

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-14 Thread Erik Nordmark
On 08/11/10 04:41 PM, Philip Levis wrote: Basically, RPL puts up to two pieces information in packets that it routes. The first is which routing topology this packet should be routed on: RPL supports multiple parallel topologies, e.g., one optimized for low latency and a second optimized for

RE: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-12 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert)
Pascal [Pascal] The FL based proposal for RPL uses 12 mutable bits. Pascal They are used as an in-band control plane that checks the Pascal consistency of routing states along a path. Those states can Pascal easily get out of sync due to the nature of the links, but

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-12 Thread Rémi Després
Le 12 août 2010 à 10:47, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) a écrit : We'll note that the Hop by Hop + IP in IP is costly but solves the generic problem *within* the RPL network. The use of the Flow label *within* the RPL network would be an alternate so it could have a more limited applicability,

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-11 Thread Philip Levis
On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:00 AM, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote: Pascal [Pascal] The FL based proposal for RPL uses 12 mutable bits. Pascal They are used as an in-band control plane that checks the Pascal consistency of routing states along a path. Those states can Pascal

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Philip Levis
On Aug 10, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carsten == Carsten Bormann caboc...@gmail.com writes: Carsten On Aug 10, 2010, at 14:57, Michael Richardson wrote: The only case where there is a problem is when there is a packet

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Aug 10, 2010, at 14:57, Michael Richardson wrote: The rational for lots of bits would be to encourage random allocation such that in the event that two uncoordinated ROLL networks happened to merge (even for a few minutes!!!) that the likelyhood of cross talk would be reduced. Hmm. If

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Carsten Bormann
RPL networks consists of leafs and routers. Both typically act as hosts. Routers are just hosts that happen to be between other nodes. (Although, some hosts are too weak to be routers) OK, I'm not talking of host as in originates or terminates traffic, but host in the sense of does not

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philip == Philip Levis p...@cs.stanford.edu writes: Philip I feel like we're running in circles, in part due to Philip different expectations of how RPL will be used. Philip It's clear that in proprietary or vertically integrated

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carsten == Carsten Bormann caboc...@gmail.com writes: RPL networks consists of leafs and routers. Both typically act as hosts. Routers are just hosts that happen to be between other nodes. (Although, some hosts are too weak to be

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Fred Baker
On Aug 10, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: OK, I'm not talking of host as in originates or terminates traffic, but host in the sense of does not participate in routing. It appears there is no such thing inside a RPL world then. A RPL or Manet world doesn't have the

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Philip Levis
On Aug 10, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: I guess I don't see the problem to be as big a deal as you suggest. I'm happy if flow label 0 gets some default RPLinstanceID. It would be convenient if the rules were relaxed such that on ingress, the RPL edge router could *set*

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-09 Thread Philip Levis
On Aug 9, 2010, at 3:17 AM, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote: Hi Michael: With http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-roll-rpl-07#section-7.2 I tried to stay within the lines of RFC 3697 as you also defend in your mail. I think the question we have now is not whether that proposal is