RE: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local address - any RFC?

2010-05-27 Thread Parav Pandit
--- On Thu, 5/27/10, Brian Zill wrote: > From: Brian Zill > Subject: RE: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local > address - any RFC? > To: "Parav Pandit" > Cc: "ipv6@ietf.org" > Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 10:24 PM > Hi Para

Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local address - any RFC?

2010-05-27 Thread james woodyatt
On May 27, 2010, at 09:54, Brian Zill wrote: > > [...] > Typically, any reasonable protocol that uses link-local addresses will learn > any peer's addresses by receiving packets from that peer on that particular > link. The protocol will then keep both the link-local address *and* the > scope-

Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local address - any RFC?

2010-05-27 Thread Bob Hinden
Original Message- > From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Parav > Pandit > Sent: Thursday, 27 May, 2010 08:25 > To: Suresh Krishnan > Cc: ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local > address - any

RE: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local address - any RFC?

2010-05-27 Thread Brian Zill
Parav --- On Thu, 5/27/10, Suresh Krishnan wrote: > From: Suresh Krishnan > Subject: Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local > address - any RFC? > To: "Parav Pandit" > Cc: "ipv6@ietf.org" > Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 8:04 P

Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local address - any RFC?

2010-05-27 Thread Parav Pandit
esh Krishnan > Subject: Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local > address - any RFC? > To: "Parav Pandit" > Cc: "ipv6@ietf.org" > Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 8:04 PM > On 10-05-27 09:28 AM, Brian Haberman > wrote: > > You will ne

Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local address - any RFC?

2010-05-27 Thread Suresh Krishnan
On 10-05-27 09:28 AM, Brian Haberman wrote: You will need the scope_id in order to use ping6. In order to send any packet to a link-local address, you will need the scope_id first. +1. So my question to you is, how did you get the LL address in the first place? That should give you clues as t

Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local address - any RFC?

2010-05-27 Thread Brian Haberman
to rely on ping6 > to get the right interface_id. See above. Regards, Brian > > Regards, Parav Pandit > > > --- On Thu, 5/27/10, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > >> From: Mikael Abrahamsson Subject: Re: which >> interface to choose to send to destination link-local ad

Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local address - any RFC?

2010-05-27 Thread Parav Pandit
response processing. so I believe it should be o.k to rely on ping6 to get the right interface_id. Regards, Parav Pandit --- On Thu, 5/27/10, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > From: Mikael Abrahamsson > Subject: Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local > address - any

Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local address - any RFC?

2010-05-27 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 27 May 2010, Parav Pandit wrote: I don't know on which vlan the destination link-local address is. Well, you pretty much know that to send packets to it. A link-local address is not just an address, you need to provide what interface you're referring to. It's of local signifance only

Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local address - any RFC?

2010-05-27 Thread Parav Pandit
to send to destination link-local > address - any RFC? > To: "Parav Pandit" > Cc: ipv6@ietf.org > Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 3:01 PM > > > > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Parav Pandit wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > In IPv6 stack implementation, > &

Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local address - any RFC?

2010-04-22 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:58:05 -0400, Simon Perreault wrote: > > So in case of TCP, client which tries to connect to the server, should > > provide its link-local source address during socket(), bind() calls. > > No. On the client side there should be no bind() call, and the socket() > call is un

Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local address - any RFC?

2010-04-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I think this topic belongs to the MIF WG. Maybe they have already discussed it. If not, they probably should. http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mif/charter/ Brian On 2010-04-14 21:00, Parav Pandit wrote: > Hi, > > In IPv6 stack implementation, > > How IPv6 stack should select the outgoing inte

Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local address - any RFC?

2010-04-14 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2010-04-14 06:56, Parav Pandit wrote: So in case of TCP, client which tries to connect to the server, should provide its link-local source address during socket(), bind() calls. No. On the client side there should be no bind() call, and the socket() call is unaffected since it doesn't take

Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local address - any RFC?

2010-04-14 Thread Parav Pandit
, Parav Pandit --- On Wed, 4/14/10, Mohacsi Janos wrote: From: Mohacsi Janos Subject: Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local address - any RFC? To: "Parav Pandit" Cc: ipv6@ietf.org Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 3:01 PM On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Parav Pa

Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local address - any RFC?

2010-04-14 Thread Mohacsi Janos
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Parav Pandit wrote: Hi, In IPv6 stack implementation, How IPv6 stack should select the outgoing interface to choose (when multiple interfaces) are available? Typically when the destination is the link-local address which may be on-link on both the interfaces (before t

Re: which interface to choose to send to destination link-local address - any RFC?

2010-04-14 Thread Rémi Denis-Courmont
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:00:36 -0700 (PDT), Parav Pandit wrote: > How IPv6 stack should select the outgoing interface to choose (when > multiple interfaces) are available? Typically when the destination is the > link-local address which may be on-link on both the interfaces (before the > neighbor d

which interface to choose to send to destination link-local address - any RFC?

2010-04-14 Thread Parav Pandit
Hi, In IPv6 stack implementation, How IPv6 stack should select the outgoing interface to choose (when multiple interfaces) are available? Typically when the destination is the link-local address which may be on-link on both the interfaces (before the neighbor discovery) is done? Should IPv6 s