Re: [spring] [IPv6] Subject: Mandating SRH when using C-SIDs (draft-ietf-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2024-04-04 Thread Ole Troan
Tom, > Yes I am with you here. > > However let's observe that this is pretty common best practice to disable any > hardware offload on the box when running tcpdump or wireshark. > > In fact some implementations (F5) do it for you automagically :) > > And as it has been said based on the

Re: [spring] 6MAN WGLC: draft-ietf-6man-sids

2022-10-10 Thread Ole Troan
Joel, > On 10 Oct 2022, at 15:36, Joel Halpern wrote: > > Eric, you seem to be objecting to something I did not say. I have not asked, > and do not expect, for the document to mandate or even suggest that arbitrary > domains should drop packets with SRH. I will note that given that SRH is

Re: [spring] draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression-02

2021-10-09 Thread Ole Troan
> On 9 Oct 2021, at 22:02, Brian E Carpenter > wrote: > > It is mandated by the current IPv6 addressing architecture. Despite many > discussions, there has never been consensus to change it. So if /64 is not > the boundary between the routeable part and the host-specific part, it's not >

Re: [spring] CRH is back to the SPRING Use-Case - Re: Size of CR in CRH

2020-05-25 Thread Ole Troan
> On 25 May 2020, at 17:49, Ron Bonica wrote: > > Ole, > > When commenting on list, could you indicate whether hats are on or off? And that is important to you for this particular message because? > Juniper Business Use Only Ole > -Original Message- > From: otr...@employees.org

Re: [spring] We don't seem to be following our processes (Re: Network Programming - Penultimate Segment Popping)

2019-12-06 Thread Ole Troan
> On 6 Dec 2019, at 22:09, Fernando Gont wrote: > > I don't think there is much room for interpretation here, but anyway I > should ask: are you suggesting that I have attacked or been attacking > the process? I would rather say taking advantage of the process. By reiterating the same

[spring] 6man w.g. last call for

2019-12-04 Thread Ole Troan
Hello, As agreed in the working group session in Singapore, this message starts a new two week 6MAN Working Group Last Call on advancing: Title: Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) in Segment Routing Networks with IPv6 Data plane (SRv6) Author : Z. Ali, C. Filsfils,

Re: [spring] Question about SRv6 Insert function

2019-09-07 Thread Ole Troan
Fernando, >> The takeaway I attempted to highlight is that there is in fact agreement >> between 6man and spring on how to proceed, and we are proceeding as >> agreed to work on the relevant documents. > > I don't really know what the agreement is, other than the implicit > agreement that if

Re: [spring] Spirit and Letter of the Law (was: Question about SRv6 Insert function)

2019-09-06 Thread Ole Troan
>> I don’t see a need to continue this debate on meta issues, but since you >> framed this as criticism of me in the chair role I found it required to >> reply. > > I expect the chair to uphold a previously reached consensus and put the > requirement of justifying deviating from it with the

Re: [spring] Spirit and Letter of the Law (was: Question about SRv6 Insert function)

2019-09-06 Thread Ole Troan
> > > >> I think you have repeatedly made your point. > > Yes he has, and he makes a good point that should be heard. Your argument of > "RFCs aren't the law, and we can ignore parts of them if it suits us" just > isn't true. RFCs are based on consensus, and ignoring the outcome of that >

Re: [spring] Spirit and Letter of the Law (was: Question about SRv6 Insert function)

2019-09-05 Thread Ole Troan
Fernando, > On 5 Sep 2019, at 21:54, Fernando Gont wrote: > > On 5/9/19 22:30, Ole Troan wrote: >> >> >>>> On 5 Sep 2019, at 21:03, Fernando Gont wrote: >>> >>> We have wasted way too much time and energy with all the methafores an

Re: [spring] Spirit and Letter of the Law (was: Question about SRv6 Insert function)

2019-09-05 Thread Ole Troan
> On 5 Sep 2019, at 21:03, Fernando Gont wrote: > > We have wasted way too much time and energy with all the methafores and > curious interpretations of standards by folks pushing and/or supporting > EH insertion, really. Pot calling kettle black? This is an issue we all know is there. And

Re: [spring] Spirit and Letter of the Law (was: Question about SRv6 Insert function)

2019-09-05 Thread Ole Troan
Joel, > Part of the reason we write restrictions and requirements into RFCs is so > that we do not have to repeat the arguments. > > If the proponents of the insertion have arguments for why it is now okay, > they need to make those arguments. And they need to make sure that the > discussion

Re: [spring] Spirit and Letter of the Law (was: Question about SRv6 Insert function)

2019-09-05 Thread Ole Troan
Fernando, >> The IETF is not writing de jure standards. >> In fact reality is quite different, and the Internet evolves the way it does >> somewhat independently of what documents the IETF produces. >> In fact I know of no networking products (or deployments) that follow the >> intent and

Re: [spring] Question about SRv6 Insert function

2019-09-05 Thread Ole Troan
o Gont wrote: > > On 4/9/19 09:58, Ole Troan wrote: >> Fernando, >> >>>>> Since there have been plenty of attempts to do EH insertion or >>>>> leave the IPv6 standard ambiguous in this respect, and the IETF has >>>>> had consensus that E

Re: [spring] Spirit and Letter of the Law (was: Question about SRv6 Insert function)

2019-09-05 Thread Ole Troan
> Ron > > > > Juniper Business Use Only > > -Original Message- > From: Ole Troan > Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 2:58 AM > To: Fernando Gont > Cc: Suresh Krishnan ; Ron Bon

Re: [spring] Question about SRv6 Insert function

2019-09-04 Thread Ole Troan
Fernando, >>> Since there have been plenty of attempts to do EH insertion or >>> leave the IPv6 standard ambiguous in this respect, and the IETF has >>> had consensus that EH insertion is not allowed, I think it would be >>> bad, wastefull, tricky, and even dangerous to let a document go >>>

Re: [spring] Question about SRv6 Insert function

2019-08-30 Thread Ole Troan
> End.B6.Insert specified in draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming-01 will > insert a new SRH in the received IPv6 packet, which results in two SRHs in > one IPv6 packet. It is contradict with RFC8200 that says Each extension > header should occur at most once, except for the Destination

Re: [spring] SRv6 Network Programming: ENH = 59

2019-05-09 Thread Ole Troan
is an extension point. If people found some use for that, what's the harm? That middle boxes get confused? Isn't that a feature? ;-) Cheers, Ole > > Yours, > Joel > > On 5/9/19 8:36 AM, Ole Troan wrote: >>> I think it is equally important to note that given an existing way

Re: [spring] SRv6 Network Programming: ENH = 59

2019-05-09 Thread Ole Troan
> I think it is equally important to note that given an existing way of > encapsulating Ethernet in IP, one ought to have a good reason for creating a > different one. There is no indication that this use case needs anything > different than next-header 97. > > And Ole, no next-header does

Re: [spring] SRv6 Network Programming: ENH = 59

2019-05-09 Thread Ole Troan
>>> I suspect that we will be far more likely regret this use of 59 in the long >>> term than we will regret changing to 97 at this early stage. >> But it’s not that nh=59 can be used to imply that Ethernet follows. That >> would be very bad. >> It’s that ip processing stops here. >> Then if the

Re: [spring] SRv6 Network Programming: ENH = 59

2019-05-09 Thread Ole Troan
> On 9 May 2019, at 11:05, Stewart Bryant wrote: > > > >> On 08/05/2019 19:13, Ole Troan wrote: >> Ron, >>> >>> >>> Folks, >>> >>> Sections 4.4 through 4.12 of draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming-

Re: [spring] SRv6 Network Programming: ENH = 59

2019-05-08 Thread Ole Troan
mation signalled separately? Cheers, Ole > > Ron > > > > Juniper Internal > >> -----Original Message- >> From: Ole Troan >> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 3:33 PM >> To: Ron Bonica >&

Re: [spring] SRv6 Network Programming: ENH = 59

2019-05-08 Thread Ole Troan
Sander, > > The next-header should identify what follows, so that anybody parsing the > packets knows what to expect. Using "No Next Header" should mean "nothing > follows". Once we start using No-next-header for "some stuff may follow" it > will become very hard to make sense of packets.

Re: [spring] SRv6 Network Programming: ENH = 59

2019-05-08 Thread Ole Troan
Ron > > > > Non-Juniper > >> -Original Message- >> From: Ole Troan >> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 2:14 PM >> To: Ron Bonica >> Cc: Bob Hinden ; Tom Herbert >> ; SPRING WG ; 6man WG >&