Re: Common ICMP Type Assignment for Experimental Protocols

2004-06-04 Thread gabriel montenegro
Bob, Bob Hinden wrote: I also have a basic question on the partitioning of the ICMP code space into error and informational messages, as described in Section 2.1 of your draft. The partitioning of the ICMP type values has been around in all of the ICMPv6 RFCs. This draft is updating RFC2463 cur

Re: Common ICMP Type Assignment for Experimental Protocols

2004-06-04 Thread gabriel montenegro
Bob, Bob Hinden wrote: ... I am not sure it is necessary to deal with an extension mechanisms at this point in time. ... Ok, I believe this pretty much sums it up. My reading of the feedback is that (1) it probably does not make much sense to pursue a general extension mechanism at this time, and

Re: Common ICMP Type Assignment for Experimental Protocols

2004-06-03 Thread Bob Hinden
James, I also have a basic question on the partitioning of the ICMP code space into error and informational messages, as described in Section 2.1 of your draft. The partitioning of the ICMP type values has been around in all of the ICMPv6 RFCs. This draft is updating RFC2463 currently at Draft St

Re: Common ICMP Type Assignment for Experimental Protocols

2004-06-03 Thread Bob Hinden
Gabriel, At 02:32 AM 6/2/2004, gabriel montenegro wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please look at section 2.1 (Message General Format). The section adds type 100, 101, 200 and 201 for private experimentation. Also section 6 (IANA consideration) describes a policy on allocating reclaimable ICMP ty

Re: Common ICMP Type Assignment for Experimental Protocols

2004-06-02 Thread James Kempf
CTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 12:59 AM Subject: RE: Common ICMP Type Assignment for Experimental Protocols Gabriel, I have submitted the updated version of the ICMPv6 draft (draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-v3-04

Re: Common ICMP Type Assignment for Experimental Protocols

2004-06-02 Thread gabriel montenegro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please look at section 2.1 (Message General Format). The section adds type 100, 101, 200 and 201 for private experimentation. Also section 6 (IANA consideration) describes a policy on allocating reclaimable ICMP type and code values. Hi, Not sure we can use 100,101,200 o

Re: Common ICMP Type Assignment for Experimental Protocols

2004-06-02 Thread gabriel montenegro
Christian Huitema wrote: It makes sense, but there is one pitfall. More and more, firewalls come with restrictive rules about what ICMP packets will be allowed. These rules typically operate on ICMP type and ICMP code. Having a single type-code combination for all experimental packets will force an

RE: Common ICMP Type Assignment for Experimental Protocols

2004-06-02 Thread Mukesh . Gupta
Does this seem useful? Does the format make sense? Any other potential uses of such a facility if it were adopted? Thanks for any comments, -gabriel -------- Common ICMP Type Assignment for Experimental Protocols 1. Background Several experimental

RE: Common ICMP Type Assignment for Experimental Protocols

2004-06-01 Thread Christian Huitema
> Does this seem useful? Does the format make sense? Any other potential > uses of such a facility if it were adopted? It makes sense, but there is one pitfall. More and more, firewalls come with restrictive rules about what ICMP packets will be allowed. These rules typically operate on ICMP type

Common ICMP Type Assignment for Experimental Protocols

2004-06-01 Thread gabriel montenegro
ormat make sense? Any other potential uses of such a facility if it were adopted? Thanks for any comments, -gabriel -------- Common ICMP Type Assignment for Experimental Protocols 1. Background Several experimental protocols will soon be requesting