RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-06 Thread Bound, Jim
> Bound, Jim wrote: > > But it is possible to change the meaning of A=0 to mean use > dhc if you have > > it. > > > > Also multiple prefixes can be provided. > > > > L and A are orthogonal. If you set L and not A all that was > stated is use > > these for link knowlege but not for autoconfi

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-06 Thread Erik Nordmark
Bound, Jim wrote: But it is possible to change the meaning of A=0 to mean use dhc if you have it. Also multiple prefixes can be provided. L and A are orthogonal. If you set L and not A all that was stated is use these for link knowlege but not for autoconfigure. But the fact that the A flag

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-04 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 4-jun-2005, at 7:30, Bound, Jim wrote: But it is possible to change the meaning of A=0 to mean use dhc Sure. if you have it. But not that part. If the autonomous address configuration flag is zero for all prefixes in an RA, a host not implementing DHCPv6 is dead in the water. (Som

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-03 Thread Bound, Jim
: Erik Nordmark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 1:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Bound, Jim; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dhcwg@ietf.org; ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Yes, agreed. Goin

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-03 Thread Erik Nordmark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, agreed. Going further, maybe A=0 could signal this? But the A flag is per prefix, not per RA. And so far we haven't assigned any semantics to a flag in the prefix being zero; the semantics are associated with the flags being set to one. That model seems to be use

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-03 Thread Templin, Fred L
L; Christian Schild; dhcwg@ietf.org; ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit > > > Fred, > > Good questions. But could cause gigantic rat-hole :--) > > > At the risk of covering old ground, one question I had is > > whether a client mu

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-03 Thread Bound, Jim
Mat, > Yes, agreed. Going further, maybe A=0 could signal this? Not bad Mat. That might actually work. Kudos to your logic parsing here. In our fury to make sure we told clients use stateless we added the M bit. O bit was an anomaly IMO. Need to roll this around in my brain with implementer

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-03 Thread Bound, Jim
> -Original Message- > From: Christian Schild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 2:38 AM > To: Bound, Jim > Cc: dhcwg@ietf.org; ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit > > Hi Jim, > > Am Donnerstag, den 02.06.2005

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-03 Thread matthew . ford
Hi Jim, Bound, Jim wrote: > Mat, > >> stateful/stateless is of no concern to the client, right? so if the >> initiator is always the same, then the question of authority becomes >> moot. > > Let me restate I don't think you parsed my question, which > may have been > unclear in hingsight? I thi

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-03 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 3-jun-2005, at 8:38, Christian Schild wrote: I don't believe that suppression of (client) DHCPv6 packets is enforceable. What if the client is not pleased with what he got? Whether something is enforceable is not the point. The IETF can't enforce _anything_, that's a given. What's impor

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-03 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 3-jun-2005, at 0:00, Templin, Fred L wrote: At the risk of covering old ground, Yeah, we wouldn't want that. :-) one question I had is whether a client must wait to receive an RA before initiating stateless or stateful DHCPv6? How would it know the value of the M and O bits if it didn

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-02 Thread Christian Schild
Hi Jim, Am Donnerstag, den 02.06.2005, 12:23 -0400 schrieb Bound, Jim: > > So you don't believe that the RA in ND should be the authority to > > use a stateful model on an IPv6 link? Thanks for your question, I think that's a key part of the discussion. I know what you are trying to achieve.

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-02 Thread Bound, Jim
Fred, Good questions. But could cause gigantic rat-hole :--) > At the risk of covering old ground, one question I had is > whether a client must wait to receive an RA before initiating > stateless or stateful DHCPv6? Asked another way, can DHCPv6 > still be used if there are no advertising ro

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-02 Thread Templin, Fred L
Jim et al, At the risk of covering old ground, one question I had is whether a client must wait to receive an RA before initiating stateless or stateful DHCPv6? Asked another way, can DHCPv6 still be used if there are no advertising routers on the link? To an even more speculative question, if

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-02 Thread Bound, Jim
Mat, > stateful/stateless is of no concern to the client, right? so if the > initiator is always the same, then the question of authority becomes > moot. Let me restate I don't think you parsed my question, which may have been unclear in hingsight? For an IPv6 link the RA informs nodes whether t

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-02 Thread matthew . ford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> It would be really nice and handy to initiate either stateless or >> stateful DHCPv6 with the same message. If so, we wouldn't need >> the M/O bits anymore. In this case the client would simply initiate >> a(n Information) Request message and would get all the informatio

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-02 Thread Bound, Jim
> It would be really nice and handy to initiate either stateless or > stateful DHCPv6 with the same message. If so, we wouldn't need > the M/O bits anymore. In this case the client would simply initiate > a(n Information) Request message and would get all the information > that are available on t

Re: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-01 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 1-jun-2005, at 18:24, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: [always cool following up on your on posts...] Because I fell in the middle of this discussion, and there seems to be a rather substantial disconnect between my views and those of many others, I decided to read up on earlier posts a bit.

RE: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-01 Thread matthew . ford
Mohacsi Janos wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Ralph Droms wrote: 2) Ability for a host to get all desired and available DHCP configuration with a single DHCP message exchange - if a host wants HCB, it sen

RE: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-01 Thread Bound, Jim
> Treating RA information that DHCPv6 servers aren't available as a > hint and ignoring the hint is an implementation of the ability to do > DHCP without having to configure routers. I agree and I think most agree that the router RA determines if dhc is to be used at all. Thus that purpose of

Re: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-01 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 1-jun-2005, at 14:25, Bernie Volz ((volz)) wrote: 4 Ability to do DHCP without having to configure routers I'm not sure I'd draw that conclusion. I think the point was that hosts *MAY* ignore any RA "hints" and do what they are manually configured to do Treating RA information that D

RE: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-01 Thread Mohacsi Janos
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Ralph Droms wrote: 2) Ability for a host to get all desired and available DHCP configuration with a single DHCP message exchange - if a host wants HCB, it sends an HCB request (Solicit) and rec

RE: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-01 Thread matthew . ford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Ralph Droms wrote: >> 2) Ability for a host to get all desired and available DHCP >> configuration with a single DHCP message exchange >> - if a host wants HCB, it sends an HCB request (Solicit) and >> receives HCB and/or ICB replies > > It wo

RE: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-01 Thread Bound, Jim
> We need to agree on requirements before we try to engineer solutions. > Here is what I've heard as requirements: > > 1) Ability to indicate to a host "DHCP is not available on this link", >with the expectation that the host won't send any DHCP messages > > 2) Ability for a host to get all

Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-01 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Ralph Droms wrote: 2) Ability for a host to get all desired and available DHCP configuration with a single DHCP message exchange - if a host wants HCB, it sends an HCB request (Solicit) and receives HCB and/or ICB replies It would be even better to keep backward comp

Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-01 Thread Ralph Droms
Pekka - In theory, I agree. In practice, it's early enough to make a change before we have extensive deployments and the lack of backward compatibility only affects a few deployments, where a host requesting HCB would be satisfied with and ICB response. So, I don't think backward compatibility is

RE: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-01 Thread Bernie Volz \(volz\)
CTED] > On Behalf Of Iljitsch van Beijnum > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 8:05 AM > To: Ralph Droms (rdroms) > Cc: dhcwg@ietf.org; IETF IPv6 Mailing List > Subject: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit > > On 1-jun-2005, at 13:31, Ralph Droms wrote: > > >

Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-01 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 1-jun-2005, at 13:31, Ralph Droms wrote: We need to agree on requirements before we try to engineer solutions. :-) Here is what I've heard as requirements: 1) Ability to indicate to a host "DHCP is not available on this link", 2) Ability for a host to get all desired and available D

Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-01 Thread Ralph Droms
We need to agree on requirements before we try to engineer solutions. Here is what I've heard as requirements: 1) Ability to indicate to a host "DHCP is not available on this link", with the expectation that the host won't send any DHCP messages 2) Ability for a host to get all desired and ava

Proposal for m/o bits, was: RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-06-01 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 30-mei-2005, at 22:23, Bound, Jim wrote: Folks, the purpose of this thread is to define the purpose of the bits for ND and addrconf not resolve how dhc works. We need to finish that first ok. The router is sending m and o bits now. What is their purpose and do they work. If we change th

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-30 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 30-mei-2005, at 17:16, Christian Schild (JOIN Project Team) wrote: It would be really nice and handy to initiate either stateless or stateful DHCPv6 with the same message. I don't see a use case for this. Assume you have a stateless server available on a link and M/O bits are missing or

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-30 Thread Bound, Jim
Folks, the purpose of this thread is to define the purpose of the bits for ND and addrconf not resolve how dhc works. We need to finish that first ok. The router is sending m and o bits now. What is their purpose and do they work. If we change them it affects far more than dhc. The thread to h

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-30 Thread Christian Schild (JOIN Project Team)
Am Montag, den 30.05.2005, 15:46 +0200 schrieb Iljitsch van Beijnum: > On 30-mei-2005, at 14:51, Christian Schild wrote: > > > In my mind RFC3736 is flawed, as it's clients use an > > Information-Request message to initiate communication with a > > DHCPv6 server and not a Solicit message like RFC3

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-30 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 30-mei-2005, at 14:51, Christian Schild wrote: In my mind RFC3736 is flawed, as it's clients use an Information-Request message to initiate communication with a DHCPv6 server and not a Solicit message like RFC3513. It is _too_ lite. What is it that you want to do for which full DHCPv6 is to

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-30 Thread Christian Schild
Am Freitag, den 27.05.2005, 13:45 -0700 schrieb Erik Nordmark: > The issue I see if we recommend that clients (which implement both > RFC > 3315 and 3736) always send a Solicit (when some bit is set in the RA > telling it to use DHCP), then such a client will not interoperate > with > currently

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-30 Thread Tim Chown
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:39:52AM -0700, Ted Lemon wrote: > On May 27, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Bound, Jim wrote: > >ughh. sorry know of three production servers in use Lucent, HP, and > >Linux version. > > > > That's not what I mean. The point is that it's early days, and > updating servers isn't a

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-29 Thread Pekka Savola
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Erik Nordmark wrote: The issue I see if we recommend that clients (which implement both RFC 3315 and 3736) always send a Solicit (when some bit is set in the RA telling it to use DHCP), then such a client will not interoperate with currently deployed 3736 DHCP servers. My u

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-28 Thread Bound, Jim
van Beijnum; ipv6@ietf.org; > Bernie Volz (volz); Ralph Droms (rdroms) > Subject: Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit > > On May 27, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Bound, Jim wrote: > > ughh. sorry know of three production servers in use Lucent, HP, and > > Linux version. > > >

Re: [dhcwg] RE: Where do we do this work: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-28 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 27, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Bound, Jim wrote: If others want the cross posting that is fine I just asked the question and would like to hear what people think that is all. Seems like part of what's going on is that we needed to have this discussion cross-posted a year or three ago, so it'

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-28 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 27, 2005, at 6:18 AM, Bernie Volz (volz) wrote: These changes would potentially cause some issues with any deployments today because the clients and servers do not support this "new" behavior, but it that's why it is critical we work this out ASAP. However, those clients, if they use the M

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-28 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 27, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Bernie Volz (volz) wrote: If people are really concerned about this, we can always add a DHCPv6 option to the Solicit that tells the server "I'm a new client and am able to receive other configuration parameters even if you're not going to give me any addresses."

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-28 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 27, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Bound, Jim wrote: ughh. sorry know of three production servers in use Lucent, HP, and Linux version. That's not what I mean. The point is that it's early days, and updating servers isn't a hard problem. My point is that I don't know of any widespread deploy

RE: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Anil Kumar Reddy
: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Behalf Of Iljitsch van Beijnum : Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 2:43 AM : : [Crossposted to dhcwg even though I'm not on that list, as : people there may be able to add some useful insights.] : All of this, coupled with the fact that, A

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Erik Nordmark
Bernie Volz (volz) wrote: But realisticly, do you expect any old client to check for these "other configuration" parameters and if they got them, what might they do? Drop the packet? Well, that is what the client would essentially have done anyway since it got no addresses. So, while a poorly imp

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 27-mei-2005, at 18:16, Bernie Volz ((volz)) wrote: 1 1 send Solicit send Information-Request But what happens if the stateful server is down and stateless is running? Buy more servers?? Some solutions are simple. :-) Though I would never recommend that a link have bo

RE: Where do we do this work: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Bound, Jim
> -Original Message- > From: Ralph Droms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 2:51 PM > To: Bound, Jim > Cc: dhcwg@ietf.org; ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: Re: Where do we do this work: purpose of m/o bit > > Jim - it would be great to sort this out in o

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Bound, Jim
TECTED] > On Behalf Of Ted Lemon > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 2:40 PM > To: Bernie Volz (volz) > Cc: dhcwg@ietf.org; Ralph Droms (rdroms); Erik Nordmark; > ipv6@ietf.org; Iljitsch van Beijnum > Subject: Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit > > On May 27, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Be

Re: Where do we do this work: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Ralph Droms
Jim - it would be great to sort this out in one group or the other. But I think the eventual solution will require input from both ipv6 and dhc WGs, so we might have to continue the cross-posting or set up a short- lived mailing list just for this discussion. - Ralph On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:40

Where do we do this work: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Bound, Jim
Do we need to continue cross posting and we should decide where we sort this out IPv6 or DHC. My suggestion is the bits need to be understood for ND and Addrconf thus lets get this done in the IPv6 WG. That would make job of what DHC has to do easy. /jim --

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Ralph Droms
But the discussion says nothing about how complex the underlying issues are. I think there is significant room for simplification (but no more simplification than necessary!), especially if we set aside preconceptions about the M/O bits and look at what we've learned through discussion, implementa

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Bernie Volz \(volz\)
From: Erik Nordmark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 1:43 PM > To: Bernie Volz (volz) > Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum; ipv6@ietf.org; dhcwg@ietf.org; > Ralph Droms (rdroms) > Subject: Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit > > Bernie Volz (volz) wrote: > >

Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Ralph Droms
Erik - the idea is to allow a client to initiate either HCB or ICB with the same message, which turns into a 4 message exchange for HCB (2 messages w/ "rapid commit") or 2 message exchange for ICB. - Ralph On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 10:30 -0700, Erik Nordmark wrote: > Ralph Droms wrote: > > Seems to m

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Bound, Jim
gt; To: ipv6@ietf.org; dhcwg@ietf.org > Cc: Ted Lemon; Bound, Jim; Iljitsch van Beijnum; Ralph Droms > (rdroms); Bernie Volz (volz); Thomas Narten; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit > > Isn't it such a long idscussion a proof for the confusio

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Erik Nordmark
Bernie Volz (volz) wrote: Why? If we update the DHCPv6 protocol to allow "other configuration" options to be returned in an Advertise for a Solicit, Information-Request/Reply and Solicit/Advertise are then essentially the same in a stateless DHCPv6 environment (though the Solicit does require a

Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Erik Nordmark
Ralph Droms wrote: Seems to me I'm hearing two requirements out of this thread: 1) Ability to indicate to a host "DHCP is not available on this link", with the expectation that the host won't send any DHCP messages 2) Ability for a host to get all desired and available DHCP configuration

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Syam Madanapalli
Isn't it such a long idscussion a proof for the confusion in understanding the M/O bits? Instead of leaving the discussion here, thinking that there is no confusion or be fore taking any radical changes (either discarding M or O or both flags, or making changes to the DHCPv6 protocols), it is bett

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Bernie Volz \(volz\)
ie Volz (volz); dhcwg@ietf.org; Iljitsch van Beijnum; > ipv6@ietf.org; Ralph Droms (rdroms) > Subject: Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit > > On May 27, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Bound, Jim wrote: > > ughh. sorry know of three production servers in use Lucent, HP, and > > Linux ve

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Bound, Jim
I think now. /jim > -Original Message- > From: Ted Lemon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 12:40 PM > To: Bound, Jim > Cc: Bernie Volz (volz); dhcwg@ietf.org; Iljitsch van Beijnum; > ipv6@ietf.org; Ralph Droms (rdroms) > Subject: Re: [dhcwg] R

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Bound, Jim
Cc: dhcwg@ietf.org; ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit > > m == use dhc for addresses, o == use dhc for just configuration bow do > you do this with one bit? neither m or o not set says don't use dhc. > thus my reason for ternary. > > thx > /

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Bound, Jim
there is there. /jim > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Bernie Volz (volz) > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 9:18 AM > To: Iljitsch van Beijnum > Cc: ipv6@ietf.org; dhcwg@ietf.org; Ralph Droms (rdroms) > Subject: RE: [dhc

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Bound, Jim
.org; Iljitsch van Beijnum; ipv6@ietf.org; > Ralph Droms (rdroms) > Subject: Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit > > On May 27, 2005, at 6:18 AM, Bernie Volz (volz) wrote: > > These changes would potentially cause some issues with any > deployments > > today because the

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Bound, Jim
h Droms (rdroms); > dhcwg@ietf.org; ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit > > We don't but it avoids issues with backwards compatibility (though I > don't believe that is a big issue yet). > > I think if we come to agreement on having no distinction

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Bound, Jim
h Droms > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 8:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: dhcwg@ietf.org; ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit > > Mat - thanks for your review and input. I specified the two bits only > for backward compatibility with existing implementation

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Bernie Volz \(volz\)
Droms (rdroms); > dhcwg@ietf.org; ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit > > On 27-mei-2005, at 15:18, Bernie Volz ((volz)) wrote: > > > Why? > > Well, why not? > > I'm not too familiar with the internals of DHCPv6, but I can imag

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 27-mei-2005, at 15:18, Bernie Volz ((volz)) wrote: Why? Well, why not? I'm not too familiar with the internals of DHCPv6, but I can imagine that it would be moderately useful if a client knows in advance whether it's going to do full DHCP and may receive stateful information, or it's

Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 27-mei-2005, at 15:30, da Silva, Ron wrote: One of the permutations missing in your algorithm is if a device is configured for always-full-DHCPv6 on an interface AND it receives RA with AAC set...I presume in that case the device would get multiple addresses, right? Like Ralph, I didn't inc

RE: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Ralph Droms
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of Ralph Droms (rdroms) > > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 9:45 AM > > To: da Silva, Ron > > Cc: dhcwg@ietf.org; Iljitsch van Beijnum; IETF IPv6 Mailing List > > Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Re: purpo

RE: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Bernie Volz \(volz\)
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of da Silva, Ron > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 9:31 AM > To: Iljitsch van Beijnum > Cc: dhcwg@ietf.org; IETF IPv6 Mailing List > Subject: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit > > > To me, assuming the current specs, the following would make sense

RE: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Bernie Volz \(volz\)
tsch van Beijnum; IETF IPv6 Mailing List > Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit > > Ron - Use of AAC on specific prefixes advertised in RAs, as controlled > by the A bit in a prefix information option, is independent of the use > of DHCP ... so you're right, if there are pr

Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread da Silva, Ron
> To me, assuming the current specs, the following would make sense: One of the permutations missing in your algorithm is if a device is configured for always-full-DHCPv6 on an interface AND it receives RA with AAC set...I presume in that case the device would get multiple addresses, right? -ron

Re: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Ralph Droms
Ron - Use of AAC on specific prefixes advertised in RAs, as controlled by the A bit in a prefix information option, is independent of the use of DHCP ... so you're right, if there are prefixes in an RA with the A bit set, and the M and/or O bits are set in that RA, the host would configure both AAC

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Bernie Volz \(volz\)
able. It is just new clients with old servers that may have issues. - Bernie > -Original Message- > From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 9:07 AM > To: Bernie Volz (volz) > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ralph Droms (rdroms); > dhcwg@iet

Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 27-mei-2005, at 14:56, Bernie Volz ((volz)) wrote: I think if we come to agreement on having no distinction between the bits, we should deprecate one of the bits (O-bit?); though for backwards compatibility, we can't remove/reassign it until many years from now (if ever). I think havin

RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Ralph Droms
Mat - thanks for your review and input. I specified the two bits only for backward compatibility with existing implementations. I imagine we could design a specification that retains one bit and deprecates the other, with rules about the appearance of the depre backward compatibility. At least,

RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread Bernie Volz \(volz\)
ove/reassign it until many years from now (if ever). - Bernie > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 8:42 AM > To: Ralph Droms (rdroms); dhcwg@ietf.org; ipv6@ietf.org > Subjec

RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-27 Thread matthew . ford
Ralph Droms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems to me I'm hearing two requirements out of this thread: > > 1) Ability to indicate to a host "DHCP is not available on this link", >with the expectation that the host won't send any DHCP messages > > 2) Ability for a host to get all desired and a

Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-26 Thread Ralph Droms
Seems to me I'm hearing two requirements out of this thread: 1) Ability to indicate to a host "DHCP is not available on this link", with the expectation that the host won't send any DHCP messages 2) Ability for a host to get all desired and available DHCP configuration with a single DHCP me

Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-26 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 26-mei-2005, at 22:24, da Silva, Ron wrote: This seems way to complicated though, and it would be much more deterministic for a CM to simply do #4 in all cases which would make the M/O bits useless. You know what's really deterministic? Manual configuration. There is a baby in this bath

RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-26 Thread Bound, Jim
Ron, Thanks for doing this and this permits us to discuss it simply :--). Response on your matrix via my interpretation as implementer, no comment on your needs and appreciate you sharing that here big time, I find it very useful. Thanks. > There are nine scenarios, right? > > 1) RA w/auto-con

Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-26 Thread da Silva, Ron
There are nine scenarios, right? 1) RA w/auto-conf, M off, O off 2) RA w/auto-conf, M on, O off 3) RA w/auto-conf, M off, O on 4) RA w/auto-conf, M on, O on 5) RA w/o auto-conf, M off, O off 6) RA w/o auto-conf, M on, O off 7) RA w/o auto-conf, M off, O on 8) RA w/o auto-conf, M on, O on 9) No RA

RE: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-25 Thread Woundy, Richard
; Iljitsch van Beijnum; Thomas Narten Cc: dhcwg@ietf.org; IETF IPv6 Mailing List Subject: RE: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit So Rich, I'll ask. What would you like to see happen? - Bernie > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf

RE: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-25 Thread Woundy, Richard
ich -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Iljitsch van Beijnum Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:43 AM To: Thomas Narten Cc: dhcwg@ietf.org; IETF IPv6 Mailing List Subject: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit [Crossposted to dhcwg even though I'm not on t

RE: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-25 Thread Bernie Volz \(volz\)
cwg@ietf.org; IETF IPv6 Mailing List > Subject: RE: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit > > >All of this, coupled with the fact that, AFAIK, no OS implements > DHCPv6, means that there is essentially zero experience with DHCPv6 in > the operational community. This means that at this time,

Re: [dhcwg] Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-25 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
> On Wed, 25 May 2005 11:43:07 +0200, > Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > These implementations are: KAME DHCP6, the unnamed Linux fork of the > KAME implementation at http://dhcpv6.sourceforge.net/ and the Cisco > IOS implemenation. > Conclusion: the Cisco implementat

Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-25 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
[Crossposted to dhcwg even though I'm not on that list, as people there may be able to add some useful insights.] On 24-mei-2005, at 16:45, Thomas Narten wrote: I wonder if there is key question here that the community has simply not agreed on (yet), and that that question is at the heart of

Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-25 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 24-mei-2005, at 18:10, Bound, Jim wrote: Bernie, I think your honing down to valid points. I view m bit set implying o bit use too. but that is not stated. RFC 2462: In addition, when the value of the ManagedFlag is TRUE, the value of OtherC

RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-24 Thread Soohong Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Does the community feel that operators need RA bits that > control/indicate whether a client is to invoke DHC? That is, is there > a need for the sys admin to signal to client whether DHC is to be > invoked? YES > Second, is it important that such a signal be honored by clients? > (That is, if

RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-24 Thread Bernie Volz \(volz\)
eally don't care if it is two bits. - Bernie > -Original Message- > From: Soohong Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:15 PM > To: Bernie Volz (volz); 'Bound, Jim'; 'Thomas Narten'; > ipv6@ietf.org;

RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-24 Thread Soohong Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> But if the client supports both (really this means it is a "full" 3315 > client), does it do both in parallel, initiate stateful (Solicits) and > failover to stateless at some point (and does it continue to > do stateful in the background), or? These areas that are not well > documented in the

Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-24 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
> On Tue, 24 May 2005 11:35:41 -0400, > "Bernie Volz (volz)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I believe were there are issues are in the details about what each bit > means and how they interact and what happens if they're not set > correctly. > Personally I think the last issue should be a n

Re: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-24 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
> On Tue, 24 May 2005 10:45:19 -0400, > Thomas Narten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Does the community feel that operators need RA bits that > control/indicate whether a client is to invoke DHC? That is, is there > a need for the sys admin to signal to client whether DHC is to be > invoked?

RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-24 Thread Bound, Jim
pv6@ietf.org; dhcwg@ietf.org > Subject: RE: purpose of m/o bit > > Thomas/Jim: > > I believe that most of us are in agreement on the main points -- the > bit(s) are useful and SHOULD be acted on by clients accordingly. > > I believe were there are issues are in the details abou

RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-24 Thread Bernie Volz \(volz\)
red.) - Bernie > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bound, Jim > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:13 AM > To: Thomas Narten; ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: RE: purpose of m/o bit > > > > Does the community feel

RE: purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-24 Thread Bound, Jim
> Does the community feel that operators need RA bits that > control/indicate whether a client is to invoke DHC? That is, is there > a need for the sys admin to signal to client whether DHC is to be > invoked? yes. > > Second, is it important that such a signal be honored by clients? > (That i

purpose of m/o bit

2005-05-24 Thread Thomas Narten
I wonder if there is key question here that the community has simply not agreed on (yet), and that that question is at the heart of all this "confusion". Does the community feel that operators need RA bits that control/indicate whether a client is to invoke DHC? That is, is there a need for the sy