Re: subnet prefix length 64 breaks IPv6?

2011-12-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 03:46:48 AM sth...@nethelp.no wrote: And there are other platforms, e.g. Juniper M/MX/T, where there is no concept of punt a packet to software to perform a forwarding decision. The packet is either forwarded in hardware, or dropped. IPv6 prefixes 64 bit are

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Michael Painter
Masataka Ohta wrote: Because that's the Microsoft quality. PERIOD. We knew it was a crooked game, but it was the only game in town.

Re: subnet prefix length 64 breaks IPv6?

2011-12-29 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2011-12-29 16:56 +0800), Mark Tinka wrote: On Thursday, December 29, 2011 03:46:48 AM sth...@nethelp.no wrote: And there are other platforms, e.g. Juniper M/MX/T, where there is no concept of punt a packet to software to forwarded in hardware, or dropped. IPv6 prefixes 64 IOS

Re: IPTV and ASM

2011-12-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 05:50:58 AM Marshall Eubanks wrote: From what I understand, the answer is likely to be yes and the reason is likely to be deployed equipment only supports IGMP v2. This is true for us - the broadcaster whose IPTv traffic we carry supports only IGMPv2. This

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Valdis Kletnieks: According to the end to end argument, the only possible solution to the problem, with no complete or correct alternatives, is to let hosts directly participate in IGP activities. If it's the only possible spolution, how come 99.8% of the end nodes do just fine without

Re: IPTV and ASM

2011-12-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 06:19:14 AM Mike McBride wrote: Agreed. I'm seeking confirmation, from IPTV implementers, that non igmpv3 support is the reason for using ASM with IPTV. Versus other reasons such as reducing state. Or is this a non issue and everyone is using SSM with IPTV? We

Re: IPTV and ASM

2011-12-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 07:32:38 AM Jeff Tantsura wrote: To my knowledge in most today's networks even if legacy equipment don't support IGMPv3 most likely 1st hop router does static translation and SSM upstream. Yes, SSM Mapping allows for PIM-SSM to be used in a network where the

Re: IPTV and ASM

2011-12-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 07:58:53 AM Glen Kent wrote: SSM is also used since we *know* the IP addresses of the content servers that are the sources - You dont need ASM. I dont think maintaining RP infrastructure is trivial. Who wants to deal with register packets, etc. Small routers

Re: IPTV and ASM

2011-12-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:55:31 PM Antonio Querubin wrote: That and numerous clients which don't know anything about SSM. With SSM Mapping, they don't need to. Mark. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: IPTV and ASM

2011-12-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 08:02:04 AM Keegan Holley wrote: Isn't source discovery and efficiency a big concern for ASM? If individual streams are tied to a specific source then it's possible to live without some of the overhead involved in ASM. Joins go straight to the source,

RE: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
(*) If you think I'm going to run an IGP on some of my file servers when default route to the world out the public 1G interface, and 5 static routes describing the private 10G network is actually the *desired* semantic because if anybody re-engineers the 10G net enough to make me change the

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:53:29 +0900, Masataka Ohta said: IGP snooping is not necessary if the host have only one next hop router. You don't need an IGP either at that point, no matter what some paper from years ago tries to assert. :) pgpOVkl5pWSgU.pgp Description: PGP signature

next-best-transport! down with ethernet!

2011-12-29 Thread Christopher Morrow
(you forgot to change subj:) On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Cameron Byrne cb.li...@gmail.com wrote: Next topic, ethernet is too chaotic and inefficient to deploy and support mission critical applications in LAN or WAN or data center. yes, let's get something with say fixed sized packets,

Re: subnet prefix length 64 breaks IPv6?

2011-12-29 Thread Kevin Loch
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 24 Dec 2011, at 6:32 , Glen Kent wrote: I am trying to understand why standards say that using a subnet prefix length other than a /64 will break many features of IPv6, including Neighbor Discovery (ND), Secure Neighbor Discovery (SEND) [RFC3971], .. [reference

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:14:20 GMT, Florian Weimer said: Because there's a CPE which acts as a mediator, or the host uses some dial-up-type protocol which takes care of the IGP interaction. So what percent of the *CPE* in the average cable-internet or DSL farm *actually uses* an IGP, and how much

Re: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Alan Clegg
On 12/28/2011 11:50 PM, Masataka Ohta wrote: With DHCP only, there is no DAD necessary. Plonk AlanC -- a...@clegg.com | acl...@infoblox.com 1.919.355.8851 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Masataka Ohta
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: So what percent of the *CPE* in the average cable-internet or DSL farm *actually uses* an IGP, As I wrote: If a host receives RAs only from a router, the host can do nothing other than installing the router as the default router. If not, however, the host

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Ray Soucy
Sounds like we have one group saying that IPv6 is too complicated and that all the overhead of IPv6 had resulted in slow adoption. Meanwhile we have others saying it doesn't have enough functionality, and should also include IGP. Seems like IPv6 as it is has struck a balance somewhere in the

RE: Notifying customers of upstream modifications

2011-12-29 Thread Andy Susag
Ding Ding Ding! The answer, speaking as a downstream and a transit provider, is to just peer where you need guaranteed connectivity. If change is a problem to your customers, they don't understand how BGP works and they need to cut out the middle-man. Tom

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Masataka Ohta
Ray Soucy wrote: Sounds like we have one group saying that IPv6 is too complicated and that all the overhead of IPv6 had resulted in slow adoption. Meanwhile we have others saying it doesn't have enough functionality, and should also include IGP. Not at all. It is wrong that ND is so

Re: IPTV and ASM

2011-12-29 Thread Curtis, Bruce
On Dec 28, 2011, at 10:55 PM, Antonio Querubin wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2011, Marshall Eubanks wrote: From what I understand, the answer is likely to be yes and the reason is likely to be deployed equipment only supports IGMP v2. That and numerous clients which don't know anything about

Re: subnet prefix length 64 breaks IPv6?

2011-12-29 Thread Alexandru Petrescu
Le 28/12/2011 16:45, sth...@nethelp.no a écrit : If every route is nicely split at the 64-bit boundary, then it saves a step in matching the prefix. Admittedly a very inexpensive step. My point here is that IPv6 is still defined as longest prefix match, :-) yes agree, except that it's not

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Stefan Fouant
On 12/29/2011 7:59 AM, Cameron Byrne wrote: Next topic, ethernet is too chaotic and inefficient to deploy and support mission critical applications in LAN or WAN or data center. See IEEE1588v2 (Precision Time Protocol), SyncE, and Data center bridging (DCB) - all attempts to remedy such

RE: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Vitkovsky, Adam
... host systems should participate in IGP We tried that. It didn't scale well. The Internet today is very different than the Internet in 1981. -did you? I thought CLNS with plethora of ip addresses compared to ipv4 was buried before it could be widely deployed, I was not around back than but

Re: subnet prefix length 64 breaks IPv6?

2011-12-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On Thursday, December 29, 2011 05:10:15 PM Saku Ytti wrote: Of course this isn't strictly true,... Of course, not strictly. What I meant was the CRS and ASR9000 don't operate like the 6500/7600 and other Cisco switches that punted packets to CPU if, for one reason or another, a bug or

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Dec 29, 2011 6:38 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: Sounds like we have one group saying that IPv6 is too complicated and that all the overhead of IPv6 had resulted in slow adoption. Meanwhile we have others saying it doesn't have enough functionality, and should also include IGP.

Re: IPTV and ASM

2011-12-29 Thread Olivier Benghozi
For example Apple products don't support IGMPv3. Implemented at last in 2011 (!) under OSX Lion, 10 years after Windows XP... $ sysctl net.inet.igmp.default_version net.inet.igmp.default_version: 3

Re: subnet prefix length 64 breaks IPv6?

2011-12-29 Thread Alexandru Petrescu
Le 28/12/2011 13:13, Ray Soucy a écrit : On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum iljit...@muada.com wrote: Also somehow the rule that all normal address space must use 64-bit interface identifiers found its way into the specs for no reason that I have ever been able to uncover.

Re: next-best-transport! down with ethernet!

2011-12-29 Thread Tom Hill
On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 10:06 -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote: yes, let's get something with say fixed sized packets, ability to have predictable jitter and also, for fun, no more STP! Ethernet is too complex, maybe something simpler? I hear there's this new tech 'ATM'? it seems to fit the bill!

RE: next-best-transport! down with ethernet!

2011-12-29 Thread Holmes,David A
If I am not mistaken the IETF efforts to standardize the TRILL spec, and IEEE efforts to standardize the DCB spec will provide the desired features to Ethernet: lossless delivery, QoS, and bringing an IS-IS layer 3 model to layer 2. I think Cisco has a pre TRILL/DCB standards feature set called

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Tony Li
On Dec 29, 2011, at 2:27 AM, Vitkovsky, Adam wrote: ... host systems should participate in IGP We tried that. It didn't scale well. The Internet today is very different than the Internet in 1981. -did you? I thought CLNS with plethora of ip addresses compared to ipv4 was buried

Re: subnet prefix length 64 breaks IPv6?

2011-12-29 Thread Ray Soucy
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Kevin Loch kl...@kl.net wrote: The 64 bit mattress tag This phrase made my year. -- Ray Soucy Epic Communications Specialist Phone: +1 (207) 561-3526 Networkmaine, a Unit of the University of Maine System http://www.networkmaine.net/

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Masataka Ohta
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: IGP snooping is not necessary if the host have only one next hop router. You don't need an IGP either at that point, no matter what some paper from years ago tries to assert. :) IGP is the way for routers advertise their existence, though, in this simplest

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Dec 29, 2011, at 5:30 16PM, Masataka Ohta wrote: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: IGP snooping is not necessary if the host have only one next hop router. You don't need an IGP either at that point, no matter what some paper from years ago tries to assert. :) IGP is the way for

Re: next-best-transport! down with ethernet!

2011-12-29 Thread Randy Bush
yes, let's get something with say fixed sized packets, ability to have predictable jitter and also, for fun, no more STP! Ethernet is too complex, maybe something simpler? I hear there's this new tech 'ATM'? it seems to fit the bill! atm-2, aka mpls

Re: next-best-transport! down with ethernet!

2011-12-29 Thread Darius Jahandarie
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 19:11, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: atm-2, aka mpls I knew MPLS was fishy... -- Darius Jahandarie

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:30:16 +0900, Masataka Ohta said: IGP is the way for routers advertise their existence, though, in this simplest case, an incomplete proxy of relying on a default router works correctly. Which is sufficient for 99.8% of hosts out there. Beyond that, if there are

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 68424.1325204...@turing-police.cc.vt.edu, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:30:16 +0900, Masataka Ohta said: IGP is the way for routers advertise their existence, though, in this simplest case, an incomplete proxy of relying on a default router works

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:12:43 +1100, Mark Andrews said: Well I'd like to be able to plug in the cable router and the DSL router at home and have it all just work. Just because it is 0.2% today doesn't mean that it will be 0.2% in the future. As home users get more and more dependent on the

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Jeff Kell
On 12/29/2011 8:12 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: Well I'd like to be able to plug in the cable router and the DSL router at home and have it all just work. Well, that's not too far removed from the plugged-in laptop with the wireless still active. Toss-up which one wins default route. What would

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Masataka Ohta
Steven Bellovin wrote: Considering that the reason to have multiple routers should be for redundancy, there is no point to use one of them as the default router. VRRP? The Router Discovery Protocol (RFC 1256). But given how much more reliable routers are today than in 1984, I'm not

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Joel Maslak
On Dec 29, 2011, at 7:00 PM, Jeff Kell jeff-k...@utc.edu wrote: The real-world case for host routing (IMHO) is a server with a public interface, an administrative interface, and possibly a third path for data backups (maybe four if it's VMware/VMotion too). Unless the non-public interfaces

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 69748.1325208...@turing-police.cc.vt.edu, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:12:43 +1100, Mark Andrews said: Well I'd like to be able to plug in the cable router and the DSL router at home and have it all just work. Just because it is 0.2% today doesn't

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-29 Thread Ray Soucy
OK, this is getting ridiculous. Let's assume that we have a model where host systems receive the global routing table from service providers.  The stated reason for this is so that they could make their own routing decisions when multi-homed environment.  Presumably with each ISP connected to a L2