Re: draft-baker-6man-multiprefix-default-route-00.txt is a newdraft

2007-11-20 Thread James Carlson
Iljitsch van Beijnum writes: > On 13 nov 2007, at 13:46, James Carlson wrote: > works. (Such as the shim6 REAP protocol is designed to do although > REAP doesn't know about routes.) So it should clearly be possible to > send packets that don't conform to the source address / route > alignment

Re: draft-baker-6man-multiprefix-default-route-00.txt is a newdraft

2007-11-20 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 13 nov 2007, at 13:46, James Carlson wrote: Matter of fact, it seems to address something that also occurs with IPv4, with multihomed hosts. And that apparently, some OSs screw up royally. I don't agree that those OSes "screw up royally." They are, in fact, doing what their users *tell* t

RE: draft-baker-6man-multiprefix-default-route-00.txt is a newdraft

2007-11-13 Thread James Carlson
Manfredi, Albert E writes: > > -Original Message- > > From: James Carlson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I don't agree that those OSes "screw up royally." They are, in fact, > > doing what their users *tell* them to do. > > > > If an application binds the source address on Subnet B and

RE: draft-baker-6man-multiprefix-default-route-00.txt is a newdraft

2007-11-13 Thread Manfredi, Albert E
> -Original Message- > From: James Carlson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I don't agree that those OSes "screw up royally." They are, in fact, > doing what their users *tell* them to do. > > If an application binds the source address on Subnet B and then sends > a packet with a destination

RE: draft-baker-6man-multiprefix-default-route-00.txt is a newdraft

2007-11-13 Thread James Carlson
Manfredi, Albert E writes: > Matter of fact, it seems to address something that also occurs with > IPv4, with multihomed hosts. And that apparently, some OSs screw up > royally. Which is, if a multi-homed IPv4 host, connected to two > different IP subnets, transmits an IP packet over Subnet A, it o

Re: draft-baker-6man-multiprefix-default-route-00.txt is a newdraft

2007-11-13 Thread marcelo bagnulo braun
Hi Albert, El 12/11/2007, a las 19:28, Manfredi, Albert E escribió: I found nothing objectionable at all in the draft. Matter of fact, it seems to address something that also occurs with IPv4, with multihomed hosts. And that apparently, some OSs screw up royally. Which is, if a multi-homed IP

Re: draft-baker-6man-multiprefix-default-route-00.txt is a newdraft

2007-11-12 Thread Pekka Savola
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Havard Eidnes wrote: Instead, my inclination would be to "solve" this problem in a much simpler manner, simply by declaring it a configuration error. A site which receives prefixes from more than a single provider is clearly multihomed, and needs to have its providers make a

Re: draft-baker-6man-multiprefix-default-route-00.txt is a newdraft

2007-11-12 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Havard Eidnes wrote: Instead, my inclination would be to "solve" this problem in a much simpler manner, simply by declaring it a configuration error. A site which receives prefixes from more than a single provider i

RE: draft-baker-6man-multiprefix-default-route-00.txt is a newdraft

2007-11-12 Thread Manfredi, Albert E
> -Original Message- > From: Fred Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 8:40 AM > To: marcelo bagnulo braun > Cc: IETF IPv6 Mailing List > Subject: Re: > draft-baker-6man-multiprefix-default-route-00.txt is a newdraft > > On Nov 12,

Re: draft-baker-6man-multiprefix-default-route-00.txt is a newdraft

2007-11-12 Thread marcelo bagnulo braun
Hi Havard, El 12/11/2007, a las 17:27, Havard Eidnes escribió: AFAIU, you are essentially proposing to perform source address based routing by the hosts and by the routers in a multiprefix site, is that correct? I don't like the term, because I first do a destination lookup and only look up t

Re: draft-baker-6man-multiprefix-default-route-00.txt is a newdraft

2007-11-12 Thread Havard Eidnes
> > AFAIU, you are essentially proposing to perform source address > > based routing by the hosts and by the routers in a multiprefix > > site, is that correct? > > I don't like the term, because I first do a destination lookup and > only look up the source address in certain cases. Kind of l

Re: draft-baker-6man-multiprefix-default-route-00.txt is a newdraft

2007-11-12 Thread marcelo bagnulo braun
Hi Fred, El 12/11/2007, a las 14:39, Fred Baker escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 12, 2007, at 12:27 PM, marcelo bagnulo braun wrote: AFAIU, you are essentially proposing to perform source address based routing by the hosts and by the routers in a multiprefix

Re: draft-baker-6man-multiprefix-default-route-00.txt is a newdraft

2007-11-12 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 12, 2007, at 12:27 PM, marcelo bagnulo braun wrote: AFAIU, you are essentially proposing to perform source address based routing by the hosts and by the routers in a multiprefix site, is that correct? I don't like the term, because I fi

Re: draft-baker-6man-multiprefix-default-route-00.txt is a newdraft

2007-11-12 Thread marcelo bagnulo braun
Hi Fred, AFAIU, you are essentially proposing to perform source address based routing by the hosts and by the routers in a multiprefix site, is that correct? Regards, marcelo El 08/11/2007, a las 18:15, Fred Baker escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is somethin