RE: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-04-01 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hello Ohta-san > > - there's no way to know if 2 locations are OK (anycast) > > If you mean IPv6 anycast to allow 2 or more hosts sharing an anycast address, > it is just broken not useful for any purpose and ignored. One case I have in mind is when one wants to bundle multiple physical interfa

Re: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-04-01 Thread Masataka Ohta
Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote: You can't expect people still working primarily on v6 have much sense of engineering. That includes me Sorry for confusion. I mean "people still working primarily on v6" are people who insist on IPv6 and ND as is, because any required repair on it would delay

RE: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-31 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
> > Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote: > > > You're perfectly correct. This is exactly what the registration would > > be for. I'm concerned about its adoption that I do not see coming on > > Wi-Fi/ Ethernet, even for v6 (SLAAC) where the problem is a lot > > worse*. > > You can't expect people st

Re: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-31 Thread Masataka Ohta
Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote: You're perfectly correct. This is exactly what the registration would be for. I'm concerned about its adoption that I do not see coming on Wi-Fi/ Ethernet, even for v6 (SLAAC) where the problem is a lot worse*. You can't expect people still working primarily on

RE: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-31 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
nt: jeudi 31 mars 2022 14:10 > To: nanog@nanog.org > Cc: Pascal Thubert (pthubert) ; Masataka Ohta > > Subject: Re: IPv6 "bloat" history > > On 3/31/22 7:44 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote: > > [heavy sigh] > > > > All of these things were well un

RE: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-31 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
: William Allen Simpson > Sent: jeudi 31 mars 2022 13:44 > To: nanog@nanog.org > Cc: Pascal Thubert (pthubert) ; Masataka Ohta > > Subject: Re: IPv6 "bloat" history > > On 3/29/22 5:21 AM, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG wrote: > > * APs today snoop D

Re: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-31 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 3/31/22 7:44 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote: [heavy sigh] All of these things were well understood circa 1992-93. That's why the original Neighbor Discovery was entirely link state. ND link state announcements handled the hidden terminal problem. Also, it almost goes without saying that

Re: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-31 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 3/29/22 5:21 AM, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG wrote: * APs today snoop DHCP; DHCP is observable and stateful, with a lifetime that allows to clean up. So snooping it is mostly good enough there. The hassle is the SL in SLAAC which causes broadcasts and is not deterministically observ

RE: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-29 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
em is specific to IPv6. We already have the registration to avoid snooping DHCP and SLAAC; yet we do not observe any adoption in mainline APs and STAs. > -Original Message- > From: Masataka Ohta > Sent: mardi 29 mars 2022 10:57 > To: Pascal Thubert (pthubert) ; nanog@na

Re: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-29 Thread Masataka Ohta
Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote: I tried exactly what you suggested for IPv6 with RFC 8505 and 8929. But to few people in mainstream networks realize what you just said. I found, theoretically by reading 802.11 specification, broadcast/multicast reliability problem and reported to IPv6 WG abou

Re: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-28 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG
Hello Ohta-San I tried exactly what you suggested for IPv6 with RFC 8505 and 8929. But to few people in mainstream networks realize what you just said. It started long long ago with the idea to use inverse ARP for the registration, I guess it is still doable but I am not optimistic about adopti

Re: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-28 Thread Masataka Ohta
William Allen Simpson wrote: > After so many times reinventing the wheel, IP uber alles is a > better goal. Speaking as somebody familiar with the effort. I'm afraid you misunderstand my point. John Gilmore recently gave a good history of the ARP origin. ARP is perfectly good for CSMA/CD bu

Re: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-25 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 3/23/22 2:25 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote: William Allen Simpson wrote: Neighbor Discovery is/was agnostic to NBMA.  Putting all the old ARP and DHCP and other cruft into the IP-layer was my goal, so that it would be forever link agnostic. To make "IP uber alles", link-dependent adaptation mec

Re: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-25 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 3/23/22 2:25 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote: William Allen Simpson wrote:   6) The Paul Francis (the originator of NAT) Polymorphic Internet Protocol (PIP) had some overlapping features, so we also asked them to merge with us (July 1993).  More complexity in the protocol header chaining.

Re: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-22 Thread Masataka Ohta
William Allen Simpson wrote:  6) The Paul Francis (the originator of NAT) Polymorphic Internet Protocol     (PIP) had some overlapping features, so we also asked them to merge     with us (July 1993).  More complexity in the protocol header chaining. With the merger, Paul Francis was saying

Re: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-22 Thread William Allen Simpson
Admitting to not having read every message in these threads, but would like to highlight a bit of the history. IMnsHO, the otherwise useful history is missing a few steps. 1) The IAB selected ISO CLNP as the next version of IP. 2) The IETF got angry, disbanded, replaced, and renamed IAB. 3)

Re: IPv6 "bloat"

2022-03-22 Thread Masataka Ohta
Owen DeLong wrote: IPv6 optional header chain, even after it was widely recognized that IPv4 options are useless/harmful and were deprecated is an example of IPv6 bloat. Extensive use of link multicast for nothing is another example of IPv6 bloat. Note that IPv4 works without any multicast.

Re: IPv6 "bloat"

2022-03-21 Thread Owen DeLong via NANOG
> On Mar 20, 2022, at 22:41, Masataka Ohta > wrote: > > Michael Thomas wrote: > >> So out of the current discussions a lot of people have claimed that ipv6 is >> bloated or suffers from second system syndrome, etc. > > IPv6 optional header chain, even after it was widely recognized > that

Re: IPv6 "bloat"

2022-03-20 Thread Masataka Ohta
Michael Thomas wrote: So out of the current discussions a lot of people have claimed that ipv6 is bloated or suffers from second system syndrome, etc. IPv6 optional header chain, even after it was widely recognized that IPv4 options are useless/harmful and were deprecated is an example of IPv6

Re: IPv6 "bloat"

2022-03-20 Thread Crist Clark
This is going to be one of the big things the US Federal govt requirements for agencies to meet the IPv6-only benchmarks will need. Solutions and products are going to have to mature quickly for agencies to hit 80% IPv6-only by end of FY25. On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 4:38 PM Owen DeLong via NANOG wr

Re: IPv6 "bloat"

2022-03-20 Thread Owen DeLong via NANOG
> On Mar 20, 2022, at 07:17, Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe > wrote: > > It seems sketchy to me to even retain client MAC information, no? Genuine > question. > > Didn’t we go to a distinct unique identifier system for this very reason? > > Am I in the 1990s here or? > > We’re just handin

Re: IPv6 "bloat"

2022-03-20 Thread Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe
It seems sketchy to me to even retain client MAC information, no? Genuine question. Didn’t we go to a distinct unique identifier system for this very reason? Am I in the 1990s here or? We’re just handing out addresses to UEs and things seem to work fine. For me personally, I find the notation

Re: IPv6 "bloat"

2022-03-20 Thread Enno Rey
Hi, On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 07:11:47PM -0400, Matt Hoppes wrote: > I misspoke... it's not UUID... It's DUID. > > This isn't a backend management issue. This is a protocol issue. The > MAC of the interface needs to be sent with a DHCP request so that it can > be properly authenticated to the p

Re: IPv6 "bloat"

2022-03-19 Thread Owen DeLong via NANOG
DHCPv6 includes the DEVICE Unique Identifier (DUID). DUID can be any one of several things. By far, the most common ones actually do include the MAC address. Some systems allow you to choose which type of DUID they supply. Macs use a long string that includes the EUI-64 at the end: (an expert f

Re: IPv6 "bloat"

2022-03-19 Thread Matt Hoppes
On a public network (such as WiFi - sure). On a private network where the only authentication taking place is to the modem which is provided by the service provider, not so much. It's a closed environment. The modem demarcs to the end-user and the end-user never touches the switching fabric.

Re: IPv6 "bloat"

2022-03-19 Thread Michael Thomas
Thanks, I didn't think that they'd something that interfered with AAA. Using a MAC address as authentication seems sort of sketch to me in the first place. Mike On 3/19/22 4:14 PM, Tom Beecher wrote: Primarily the ability to end-to-end authenticate end devices.   The primary and larg

Re: IPv6 "bloat"

2022-03-19 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Primarily the ability to end-to-end authenticate end devices. The > primary and largest glaring issue is that DHCPv6 from the client does > not include the MAC address, it includes the (I believe) UUID. > DHCPv6 Option 79 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6939 > > On Sat, Mar 19, 20

Re: IPv6 "bloat"

2022-03-19 Thread Matt Hoppes
I misspoke... it's not UUID... It's DUID. This isn't a backend management issue. This is a protocol issue. The MAC of the interface needs to be sent with a DHCP request so that it can be properly authenticated to the physical device. As long as the client and DHCPv6 server are on the same n

Re: IPv6 "bloat"

2022-03-19 Thread Michael Thomas
On 3/19/22 3:56 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote: On 3/19/22 6:50 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: On 3/19/22 3:47 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote: It has "features" which are at a minimum problematic and at a maximum show stoppers for network operators. IPv6 seems like it was designed to be a private network comm

Re: IPv6 "bloat"

2022-03-19 Thread Matt Hoppes
On 3/19/22 6:50 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: On 3/19/22 3:47 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote: It has "features" which are at a minimum problematic and at a maximum show stoppers for network operators. IPv6 seems like it was designed to be a private network communication stack, and how an ISP would use

Re: IPv6 "bloat"

2022-03-19 Thread Michael Thomas
On 3/19/22 3:47 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote: It has "features" which are at a minimum problematic and at a maximum show stoppers for network operators. IPv6 seems like it was designed to be a private network communication stack, and how an ISP would use and distribute it was a second though. Wha

Re: IPv6 "bloat"

2022-03-19 Thread Matt Hoppes
It has "features" which are at a minimum problematic and at a maximum show stoppers for network operators. IPv6 seems like it was designed to be a private network communication stack, and how an ISP would use and distribute it was a second though. On 3/19/22 5:29 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: S