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

2010-10-20 Thread Thomas Narten
Thanks for this info. Clarification question: I know I'm responding to an old message here, but in case anyone finds this by searching the archive, I'd like to point out that Apple supports DHCPv6 in current AirPort, Time Capsule, Apple TV, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad products. (As a policy

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

2010-10-20 Thread james woodyatt
On Oct 20, 2010, at 05:25, Thomas Narten wrote: Thanks for this info. Clarification question: [I wrote:] [...] I'd like to point out that Apple supports DHCPv6 in current AirPort, Time Capsule, Apple TV, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad products. [...] Does this include DHCPv6 support for

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

2010-10-20 Thread Lee, Yiu
James, Thanks for the information. I also assume it will support IA_PD. If the AirPort and Time Capsule receive a PD shorter than /64, what is the behavior? Yiu On 10/20/10 12:08 PM, james woodyatt j...@apple.com wrote: On Oct 20, 2010, at 05:25, Thomas Narten wrote: Thanks for this info.

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

2010-10-19 Thread james woodyatt
On Sep 22, 2010, at 02:24, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Rémi Després wrote: Of course, if MS and Apple announce an upgrade of all their IPv6 stacks, to the effect that they use DHCPv6 requests to obtain what they no longer get in RAs, that would mitigate the need for

Re: New version available

2010-09-23 Thread Benny Amorsen
Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se writes: I deployed one-vlan-per-customer-subvlan with a shared /27 supernet on Extreme Networks equipment in ~2002, the same thing can be done on Cisco as well (ip address unnumbered lo10 and static routes for each /32 to a specific vlan interface). Thank

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

2010-09-22 Thread Rémi Després
Le 22 sept. 2010 à 03:06, Christian Huitema a écrit : no one is arguing nd/ra be removed entirely, as subnet anycast should be. the argument is that there are environments where it is not needed and dhcp should be able to be used in its place. That's reasonable. There are cases where

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

2010-09-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Rémi Després wrote: Of course, if MS and Apple announce an upgrade of all their IPv6 stacks, to the effect that they use DHCPv6 requests to obtain what they no longer get in RAs, that would mitigate the need for backward compatibility. But is this realistic? As far as I

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

2010-09-22 Thread Rémi Després
Le 22 sept. 2010 à 11:24, Mikael Abrahamsson a écrit : On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Rémi Després wrote: Of course, if MS and Apple announce an upgrade of all their IPv6 stacks, to the effect that they use DHCPv6 requests to obtain what they no longer get in RAs, that would mitigate the need for

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

2010-09-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Rémi Després wrote: As far as I know Apple doesn't support DHCPv6 at all. You are misinformed, and that's IMHO important information: I have been using IPv6 from my MacBook SINCE DECEMBER 2007. http://ipv6int.net/systems/mac_os_x-ipv6.html Mac OS X does not include

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

2010-09-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Mark Smith wrote: * Assuming a baseline of DNS being the only additional parameter over addresses, you'd end up with - o RA/SLAAC/RA DNS I never supported RA DNS, I think it is a genuinely bad idea. o RA/SLAAC/Stateless DHCPv6 o RA/Stateful DHCPv6 o Stateful DHCPv6

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

2010-09-22 Thread Randy Bush
also, do not underestimate the co$t of the of operational change to move from dhcp4 to nd/ra. folk who want to keep dns and ip audit may have to go static without dhcp6. another non-trivial barrier to ipv6 deployment. Randy, could you elaborate please? Not sure I see what you are getting

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

2010-09-22 Thread Karl Auer
On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 07:01 -0400, Randy Bush wrote: also, do not underestimate the co$t of the of operational change to move from dhcp4 to nd/ra. folk who want to keep dns and ip audit may have to go static without dhcp6. another non-trivial barrier to ipv6 deployment. Randy, could you

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

2010-09-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Karl Auer wrote: Hm. Any host can take an address in its subnet - i.e. bypass DHCP. This is as true of IPv6 as it is of IPv4. Any host that does SLAAC is bypassing DHCPv6. So something has to watch the DHCP traffic and dynamically permit addresses that have been allocated

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

2010-09-22 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Karl Auer ka...@biplane.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 07:01 -0400, Randy Bush wrote: also, do not underestimate the co$t of the of operational change to move from dhcp4 to nd/ra.  folk who want to keep dns and ip audit may have to go static without

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

2010-09-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Christopher Morrow wrote: I can see that in the ipv6 world I'd want to do the same sort of thing, assign addresses (and retain the capability to shift dns, tftp, wins, etc) around from a central control point. I'd also like to not have random things plugged into my LAN

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

2010-09-22 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: As far as I know Apple doesn't support DHCPv6 at all. = things are not so simple, i.e., I have a concern about the 'at all': - Apple doesn't provide DHCPv6 (client, server or relay) in its MacOS X distrib (this can change but on the MacOS X 10.6.4 I am

Re: New version available

2010-09-22 Thread Alexandru Petrescu
Le 21/09/2010 00:49, Brian E Carpenter a écrit : On 2010-09-20 17:31, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Thanks for that. Now, what is needed for those techniques to be fully deployable for IPv6, except work by the vendor(s)? Is there any work needed on

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

2010-09-22 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:49:10 +0200 (CEST) Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Christopher Morrow wrote: I can see that in the ipv6 world I'd want to do the same sort of thing, assign addresses (and retain the capability to shift dns, tftp, wins, etc) around

Re: New version available

2010-09-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Benny Amorsen wrote: If you want to give customers public IPv4 addresses and they each get their own broadcast domain, you will have to give them 4 public IPv4 addresses per 1 usable address. No, you don't. RFC3069. I deployed one-vlan-per-customer-subvlan with a shared

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

2010-09-22 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Mark Smith wrote: If your concerns about end-node trust are as strong as they seem to be, wouldn't you be using 802.1x link layer authentication to identify and track the end-user? Wouldn't that be a much more effective mechanism to track who was attached to the network,

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

2010-09-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Ole Troan wrote: I don't understand what you mean when you say ND isn't needed. basic ND has this set of functions: Router Discovery Prefix Discovery Parameter Discovery Address Autoconfiguration Address resolution Next-hop determination Neighbor

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

2010-09-21 Thread Ole Troan
Mikael, I don't understand what you mean when you say ND isn't needed. basic ND has this set of functions: Router Discovery Prefix Discovery Parameter Discovery Address Autoconfiguration Address resolution Next-hop determination Neighbor Unreachability Detection

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.pp.se

Re: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Hesham Soliman
On 21/09/10 3:41 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I think the technical issue there is that ND and RA were designed as a package, and you certainly can't run without ND. Well, the DHCPv6 standard can be changed to hand out

Re: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Hesham Soliman wrote: = Before getting into the merits of your idea, why do you want to do that? A pointer to some requirements or an email with the foreseen benefits would be useful. I mentioned it earlier in this thread (about 8 messages back), please see the message

Re: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Hesham Soliman
On 21/09/10 9:36 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Hesham Soliman wrote: = Before getting into the merits of your idea, why do you want to do that? A pointer to some requirements or an email with the foreseen benefits would be useful. I mentioned it

Re: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Rémi Després wrote: It seems to be too late anyway: - A LAN without ND/RA wouldn't support currently existing hosts Why not? DHCP could populate the neighbour table with very long lifetime? The only change I see would be for the operation of DHCPv6 to always run if

RE: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Manfredi, Albert E
Mikael Abrahamsson: Why not? DHCP could populate the neighbour table with very long lifetime? The only change I see would be for the operation of DHCPv6 to always run if there isn't any response to RS and no RA is seen. Perhaps some minor changes need to be made to allow for

RE: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Manfredi, Albert E wrote: I think your idea makes most sense in cases where Internet access is provided via cable head-ends or PONs. Where everything from customer premises has to go through the head-end anyway. Yes, the need for ND in this particular case is probably

Re: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Rémi Després
Thanks for the explanation. That's still too much a change IMHO. Regards, RDRD Le 21 sept. 2010 à 17:45, Mikael Abrahamsson a écrit : On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Rémi Després wrote: It seems to be too late anyway: - A LAN without ND/RA wouldn't support currently existing hosts Why not? DHCP

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

2010-09-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-09-22 03:00, Randy Bush wrote: Well, I think what would help is to be able to run a DHCPv6 only environment without RA/RS, it would also help if one didn't need NS either. The whole L2 environment would need a lot less code, it basically would only need to be able to filter the above

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

2010-09-21 Thread Randy Bush
I'm not against new-and-better, and I have some spare Token Ring PCMCIA cards if you need them, but we already have an IPv6 legacy. Mikael is arguing for a mode in which there is no ND/RA traffic whatever, so that layer-violation code in layer 2 doesn't have to watch out for it. That isn't

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

2010-09-21 Thread Christian Huitema
no one is arguing nd/ra be removed entirely, as subnet anycast should be. the argument is that there are environments where it is not needed and dhcp should be able to be used in its place. That's reasonable. There are cases where auto configuration does not work well. A centrally

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

2010-09-21 Thread Randy Bush
no one is arguing nd/ra be removed entirely, as subnet anycast should be. the argument is that there are environments where it is not needed and dhcp should be able to be used in its place. That's reasonable. There are cases where auto configuration does not work well. A centrally

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

2010-09-21 Thread Karl Auer
On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 21:10 -0400, Randy Bush wrote: also, do not underestimate the co$t of the of operational change to move from dhcp4 to nd/ra. folk who want to keep dns and ip audit may have to go static without dhcp6. another non-trivial barrier to ipv6 deployment. Randy, could you

Re: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Hesham Soliman
I agree. You want this minor change to be done in all host stacks. At this stage IMO it's way too late. I'm dealing with some vendors now and I don't hear any complaints about supporting ND in their routers/switches, that's anecdotal but we didn't see this on the mailing list either. I can't see

Re: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Hesham Soliman wrote: I agree. You want this minor change to be done in all host stacks. At this stage IMO it's way too late. I'm dealing with some vendors now and I don't hear any complaints about supporting ND in their routers/switches, that's anecdotal but we didn't see

Re: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Hesham Soliman
On 22/09/10 3:21 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Hesham Soliman wrote: I agree. You want this minor change to be done in all host stacks. At this stage IMO it's way too late. I'm dealing with some vendors now and I don't hear any complaints about

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 ND. -- Mikael

Re: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
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 don't think you can count on people modifying their host implementations to support this scenario. Do you count the

Re: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Hesham Soliman
On 22/09/10 3:30 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se 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 don't think you can count on people modifying

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 swm...@swm.pp.se 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 don't

Re: New version available

2010-09-21 Thread Hesham Soliman
On 22/09/10 3:39 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Hesham Soliman wrote: On 22/09/10 3:30 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Hesham Soliman wrote: = I understand that, but I think that to make this work you will need

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

2010-09-20 Thread Ole Troan
Mikael, [changing subject as this has departed from discussing the RS mark draft] I think the technical issue there is that ND and RA were designed as a package, and you certainly can't run without ND. Well, the DHCPv6 standard can be changed to hand out information so ND isn't needed.

Re: New version available

2010-09-19 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Thanks for that. Now, what is needed for those techniques to be fully deployable for IPv6, except work by the vendor(s)? Is there any work needed on the basic IPv6 standards? Well, I think what would help is to be able to run a DHCPv6 only

Re: AW: New version available

2010-09-14 Thread Suresh Krishnan
Hi Ole, On 10-09-13 03:16 AM, Ole Troan wrote: 4) full IPv6 support without DHCPv6 5) full IPv6 support with DHCPv6 by partly broken I mean lacking dual stack / IPv4/IPv6 multihoming support. i.e happy eyeballs or having other serious short comings. I do not want to enable IPv6 on hosts

Re: AW: AW: New version available

2010-09-14 Thread Suresh Krishnan
Hi Ole, On 10-09-13 05:20 AM, Ole Troan wrote: Olaf, let us say we have 5 classes of host implementations: 1) IPv4 only and those which will never be upgraded with IPv6 support 2) partly broken IPv6 support and without DHCPv6 3) partly broken IPv6 support with DHCPv6 4) full IPv6 support

Re: AW: New version available

2010-09-14 Thread Ole Troan
Suresh, 4) full IPv6 support without DHCPv6 5) full IPv6 support with DHCPv6 by partly broken I mean lacking dual stack / IPv4/IPv6 multihoming support. i.e happy eyeballs or having other serious short comings. I do not want to enable IPv6 on hosts implementations that e.g have 75 second

RE: AW: New version available

2010-09-14 Thread Jason.Weil
Krishnan Cc: olaf.bonn...@telekom.de; ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: AW: New version available Suresh, 4) full IPv6 support without DHCPv6 5) full IPv6 support with DHCPv6 by partly broken I mean lacking dual stack / IPv4/IPv6 multihoming support. i.e happy eyeballs or having other

Re: AW: AW: New version available

2010-09-14 Thread Ole Troan
Sursh, let us say we have 5 classes of host implementations: 1) IPv4 only and those which will never be upgraded with IPv6 support 2) partly broken IPv6 support and without DHCPv6 3) partly broken IPv6 support with DHCPv6 4) full IPv6 support without DHCPv6 5) full IPv6 support with

Re: AW: New version available

2010-09-14 Thread John Jason Brzozowski
...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Ole Troan Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 10:32 AM To: Suresh Krishnan Cc: olaf.bonn...@telekom.de; ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: AW: New version available Suresh, 4) full IPv6 support without DHCPv6 5) full IPv6 support with DHCPv6

RE: AW: New version available

2010-09-14 Thread Jason.Weil
: olaf.bonn...@telekom.de; ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: AW: New version available XP has limitations but is still usable if IPv6 is enabled. On 9/14/10 10:40 AM, Jason Weil jason.w...@cox.com wrote: The whole lack of IPv6 transport in XP for DNS kinda fails the 'full IPv6 support

Re: AW: New version available

2010-09-14 Thread John Jason Brzozowski
To: Weil, Jason (CCI-Atlanta); otr...@employees.org; Suresh Krishnan Cc: olaf.bonn...@telekom.de; ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: AW: New version available XP has limitations but is still usable if IPv6 is enabled. On 9/14/10 10:40 AM, Jason Weil jason.w...@cox.com wrote: The whole lack

Re: AW: New version available

2010-09-14 Thread Suresh Krishnan
Hi Jason, On 10-09-14 10:50 AM, jason.w...@cox.com wrote: True. Usable in a dual-stack environment. Not usable IPv6-only. Absolutely right. The BBF architecture in question is dual-stack. Thanks Suresh IETF IPv6 working

Re: AW: New version available

2010-09-14 Thread Randy Bush
XP has limitations but is still usable if IPv6 is enabled. on a dual-stack lan, or one with a specific dns-over-v4 crutch for xp randy IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests:

Re: AW: New version available

2010-09-14 Thread John Jason Brzozowski
I was referring to dual stack. On 9/14/10 12:08 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: XP has limitations but is still usable if IPv6 is enabled. on a dual-stack lan, or one with a specific dns-over-v4 crutch for xp randy = John Jason Brzozowski

AW: New version available

2010-09-13 Thread Olaf.Bonness
...@69706e6720323030352d30312d31340a.nosense.org; ipv6@ietf.org; f...@cisco.com Betreff: Re: New version available On 10 September 2010 12:52, olaf.bonn...@telekom.de wrote: PPP is not used here. There are numerous different deployment models, PPP is an expensive one that should be avoided unless

Re: AW: New version available

2010-09-13 Thread Ole Troan
Olaf, thx for your comments. I nearly forgot that an ISP has to offer its customers a good service, thx for reminding me ;-). I'm just inserting as an answer a sentence, I found in an email posted by Tom Petch on this mailing list in another context: Tom Petch wrote on Fr 10.09.2010

Re: AW: New version available

2010-09-13 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Ole Troan wrote: 4) full IPv6 support without DHCPv6 we don't care about 1. we do _not_ want to deliver IPv6 service to 2 + 3. so the problematic one is 4. does anyone know of any class 4 IPv6 implementation? I'd imagine cany class 4 IPv6 devices will quickly be pushed

AW: AW: New version available

2010-09-13 Thread Olaf.Bonness
...@gmail.com; ipv6@ietf.org Betreff: Re: AW: New version available Olaf, -- ... -- so which solutions do we have: 1) only support DHCP on the BBF link-layer in the N:1 VLAN case. this will affect some legacy host implementations in the case where the customer has

Re: New version available

2010-09-13 Thread Wojciech Dec
...@gmail.com] *Gesendet:* Freitag, 10. September 2010 16:14 *An:* Bonneß, Olaf *Cc:* roberta.magli...@telecomitalia.it; swm...@swm.pp.se; i...@69706e6720323030352d30312d31340a.nosense.org; ipv6@ietf.org; f...@cisco.com *Betreff:* Re: New version available On 10 September 2010 12:52, olaf.bonn

Re: AW: AW: New version available

2010-09-13 Thread Ole Troan
Olaf, let us say we have 5 classes of host implementations: 1) IPv4 only and those which will never be upgraded with IPv6 support 2) partly broken IPv6 support and without DHCPv6 3) partly broken IPv6 support with DHCPv6 4) full IPv6 support without DHCPv6 5) full IPv6 support with DHCPv6

AW: New version available

2010-09-13 Thread Olaf.Bonness
Hi Woj, thx for your answer. I think, that you 've misunderstood / misinterpreted my words. I'm sure that you know very well that a service provider wants to change as little as possible and that he can not influence / modify all host implementations on customer site. Regarding I-D

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

2010-09-12 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 07:29:10 +0200 (CEST) Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se 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 it's a layer violation,

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

2010-09-12 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:58:45 +0200 (CEST) Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Mark Smith wrote: On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 07:29:10 +0200 (CEST) Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Mark Smith wrote: So my question was how would you

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

2010-09-12 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Mark Smith wrote: So I accept layer violations to perform some of these functions, but I think it'd be preferable if they could be avoided. Of course it is preferrable if they can be avoided. Problem is that the method you're suggesting to solve this with, is not

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

2010-09-12 Thread Fred Baker
On Sep 12, 2010, at 4:01 AM, Mark Smith wrote: What I said was, and I'll highlight the key word, Layer 2 devices inspecting traffic isn't *architecturally* acceptable because it's a layer violation The best place to fix IPv6 issues in in IPv6. well, yes, but... let me give you one

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

2010-09-11 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Mark Smith wrote: How would you solve the problem? If you give end-nodes the ability to Exactly the way it has been done for IPv4 with the mechanisms I've given examples of before. L2 devices look at DHCPv6 etc and then enforce policy accordingly. The thing here is that

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

2010-09-11 Thread Fred Baker
On Sep 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Mark Smith wrote: How would you solve the problem? If you give end-nodes the ability to Exactly the way it has been done for IPv4 with the mechanisms I've given examples of before. L2 devices look at DHCPv6 etc

Re: New version available

2010-09-11 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Fred Baker wrote: If I may make a humble request - could we get back to work, please? Good post. I guess I've been part of the bashing. It's a fine line between saying that things haven't been done to solve current problems and there is a lot of improvement to do, and

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

2010-09-11 Thread Jari Arkko
Doug, But it's not. ... We _really_ want to get this right NOW. Adding more kludges so that we can Just get it deployed is actually going to make life (and future deployment) harder down the road, not easier. Agreed so far. Suresh wants to support a particular type of a deployment, and it

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

2010-09-11 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 08:06:39 +0200 (CEST) Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Mark Smith wrote: How would you solve the problem? If you give end-nodes the ability to Exactly the way it has been done for IPv4 with the mechanisms I've given examples of before.

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

2010-09-11 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
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 it's a layer violation, +1 on what Steinar Haug wrote. Serious disconnect between map and reality here, Mark. --

RE: New version available

2010-09-10 Thread Maglione Roberta
...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Mikael Abrahamsson Sent: giovedì 9 settembre 2010 17.10 To: Mark Smith Cc: ipv6@ietf.org; Fred Baker Subject: Re: New version available On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Mark Smith wrote: I don't know about other vendors, however Cisco have a model of SLAAC

Re: New version available

2010-09-10 Thread Tina TSOU
in the RA PIO is a valid solution. Best Regards, Roberta -Original Message- From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Mikael Abrahamsson Sent: giovedì 9 settembre 2010 17.10 To: Mark Smith Cc: ipv6@ietf.org; Fred Baker Subject: Re: New version available

RE: New version available

2010-09-10 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Maglione Roberta wrote: PPP is not used here. There are numerous different deployment models, PPP is an expensive one that should be avoided unless there is serious use for it. While it is true that PPP is not used here, I won't say that PPP should be avoided. PPP is a

Re: New version available

2010-09-10 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Tina TSOU wrote: Some operators have serious use for PPPoE in large scale. It is a tradeoff for them to decide whether it is expensive or not from the whole picture point of view. Yes. I don't see where I said they shouldn't. I said it was expensive, I didn't deny there

RE: New version available

2010-09-10 Thread Maglione Roberta
-Original Message- From: Mikael Abrahamsson [mailto:swm...@swm.pp.se] Sent: venerdì 10 settembre 2010 12.10 To: Maglione Roberta Cc: Mark Smith; ipv6@ietf.org; Fred Baker Subject: RE: New version available On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Maglione Roberta wrote: PPP is not used here

Re: New version available

2010-09-10 Thread sthaug
PPP is not used here. There are numerous different deployment models, PPP is an expensive one that should be avoided unless there is serious use for it. While it is true that PPP is not used here, I won't say that PPP should be avoided. PPP is a valid and widely deployed model in DSL

AW: New version available

2010-09-10 Thread Olaf.Bonness
PPP is not used here. There are numerous different deployment models, PPP is an expensive one that should be avoided unless there is serious use for it. While it is true that PPP is not used here, I won't say that PPP should be avoided. PPP is a valid and widely deployed model in

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

2010-09-10 Thread Jari Arkko
Some of the discussion has gone into the history of IPv6 design, what configuration model was intended by the original designers as the right one, and so on. I would suggest that while that's interesting, it may be secondary to what we are discussing here. Suresh wants to support a particular

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

2010-09-10 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Jari Arkko wrote: Host support is important because that is an area where neither the IETF, any single vendor, or the DSL operators have any easy way to change the situation. But it is of course by no means the only constraint. The operators have their issues as well.

Re: New version available

2010-09-10 Thread Wojciech Dec
On 10 September 2010 12:52, olaf.bonn...@telekom.de wrote: PPP is not used here. There are numerous different deployment models, PPP is an expensive one that should be avoided unless there is serious use for it. While it is true that PPP is not used here, I won't say that PPP

Re: New version available

2010-09-10 Thread t.petch
- Original Message - From: Christopher Morrow christopher.mor...@gmail.com To: Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se Cc: ipv6@ietf.org Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 4:17 PM this is a case where 'listen to how the network is operated today, please.' is required I think. There are

Re: New version available

2010-09-10 Thread Doug Barton
On 9/10/2010 7:13 AM, Wojciech Dec wrote: 3. Set a bar on the minimum _CPE_ requirements that will be supported by the network (ensuring connectivity) within the given scenarios, along with potentially having a single configuration/provisioning method? An example of this would be requiring a

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

2010-09-10 Thread Doug Barton
On 9/10/2010 5:59 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: Some of the discussion has gone into the history of IPv6 design, what configuration model was intended by the original designers as the right one, and so on. I would suggest that while that's interesting, it may be secondary to what we are discussing here.

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

2010-09-10 Thread Ralph Droms
: September-08-10 2:27 PM To: Joel M. Halpern Cc: Narten Thomas; IPv6 WG Mailing List; Suresh Krishnan Subject: Re: New version available (Was Re: Consensus call on adopting:draft-krishnan-6man-rs-mark-06.txt) Joel - only some operators have decided that they need to allow for the corner case

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

2010-09-10 Thread Laganier, Julien
Hi Suresh, Suresh Krishnan wrote: Hi Julien, On 10-09-08 07:43 PM, Laganier, Julien wrote: Thomas Narten wrote: [...] RAs/SLAAC work very well when RAs can be multicast to *all* nodes on a link, and *all* nodes receive exactly the same information about prefixes and SLAAC. I.e,

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

2010-09-10 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:34:42 +0200 (CEST) Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I'm sure there are a lot in the IETF that agrees with you that they don't understand why it's a problem, because the IETF has historically been totally

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

2010-09-10 Thread Suresh Krishnan
Hi Doug, Just clarifying one technical point that you raised. On 10-09-10 03:04 PM, Doug Barton wrote: Two responses. If we can't expect the hosts to be changed in order for this to work, how do we expect them to send clever new RS messages even if the draft is adopted (or perhaps I'm

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

2010-09-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-09-11 12:24, Mark Smith wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:34:42 +0200 (CEST) Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I'm sure there are a lot in the IETF that agrees with you that they don't understand why it's a problem, because the

Re: New version available

2010-09-10 Thread Fred Baker
On Sep 11, 2010, at 1:06 AM, t.petch wrote: So the onus is on operators to turn their good business reasons into engineering problems, eg as a requirements RFC, that the IETF will then solve. Thanks. I gather the operators have gotten a lot of bashing from IETF participants in the past; I'm

Re: New version available

2010-09-10 Thread Randy Bush
So the onus is on operators to turn their good business reasons into engineering problems, eg as a requirements RFC, that the IETF will then solve. no. it is the duty of operators to turn their business plans into operational practice, deliver packets, and charge the customers. and it is for

Re: New version available

2010-09-10 Thread Fred Baker
On Sep 11, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Randy Bush wrote: So the onus is on operators to turn their good business reasons into engineering problems, eg as a requirements RFC, that the IETF will then solve. no. it is the duty of operators to turn their business plans into operational practice,

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

2010-09-09 Thread JOSHI, SHRINIVAS ASHOK (SHRINIVAS ASHOK)
Suresh, There are still unanswered questions.. Comments inline ... -- Shree -Original Message- From: Suresh Krishnan [mailto:suresh.krish...@ericsson.com] [..snip..] 1. Prefix Lifetime Binding/Expiry.. Unlike DHCP there is no mechanism with SLAAC for a host (client) to

Re: New version available

2010-09-09 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 07:43:35 +0200 (CEST) Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I can't see why that would be a problem for an operator who uses DHCPv6 as their supported mechanism. I'm sure there are a lot in the IETF that agrees with

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

2010-09-09 Thread JOSHI, SHRINIVAS ASHOK (SHRINIVAS ASHOK)
Suresh, 5. Creating an alternative to DHCPv6 ? One SLAAC is defined to do functionality similar to DHCP (including per host prefixes/options) how long before options are added so SLAAC becomes an alternative to DHCPv6 ? The goal is not to come up with an alternative to DHCPv6. The

Re: New version available

2010-09-09 Thread Fred Baker
On Sep 9, 2010, at 7:29 PM, Mark Smith wrote: SAVI and things like SeND are beneficial halfway measures, avoiding full quarantining. I would generally agree. Just like being at a cocktail party, there is no way to know just how looped a neighbor is or how it will behave in that condition.

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

2010-09-09 Thread JOSHI, SHRINIVAS ASHOK (SHRINIVAS ASHOK)
- the network never knows when a host detaches, because the host does not send a goodbye RS. As a result, if a prefix were allocated by the network for the host, it cannot be returned to a free prefix pool based on signaling from the host. Are you planning to collect unused prefix based on an

Re: New version available

2010-09-09 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Mark Smith wrote: So why aren't operators involving themselves more? I don't know. I've been involving myself in IETF the past year or so, but it's not something I can spend huge amounts of time on. I've seen a number of invitations for feedback and comments on IETF in

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