Re: [spring] Question about IPv6 EH-insertion in draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming

2019-09-07 Thread Fernando Gont
On 7/9/19 15:53, Robert Raszuk wrote: > Hi, > > why do you use IPv6 addresses (IDs of global scope) to > identify the SR nodes? > > > Well one valid reason would be to avoid need for yet another mapping > table like LDP or SR-MPLS requires. If you care about overhead, that's an area th

Re: [spring] Question about IPv6 EH-insertion in draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming

2019-09-07 Thread Xiejingrong
in draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming On 7/9/19 14:43, Robert Raszuk wrote: > > So, double-checking if I understood correctly: You are saying that the > two uses cases that you are referring to already have an alternative > specification with encap/decap, but t

Re: [spring] Question about IPv6 EH-insertion in draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming

2019-09-07 Thread Fernando Gont
On 7/9/19 14:43, Robert Raszuk wrote: > > So, double-checking if I understood correctly: You are saying that the > two uses cases that you are referring to already have an alternative > specification with encap/decap, but this document proposes to use EH > insertion to avoid the ex

Re: [spring] Question about IPv6 EH-insertion in draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming

2019-09-07 Thread Robert Raszuk
> So, double-checking if I understood correctly: You are saying that the > two uses cases that you are referring to already have an alternative > specification with encap/decap, but this document proposes to use EH > insertion to avoid the extra overhead of adding an additional IPv6 header? > That

Re: [spring] Question about IPv6 EH-insertion in draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming

2019-09-07 Thread Fernando Gont
Hello, Ketan, Inline... On 7/9/19 08:14, Ketan Talaulikar (ketant) wrote: > < An engineer comes out from the trenches/ > > > Hi Fernando, > > I will attempt to answer and but also setup the context first. Thanks for elaborating, by the way. > 4) This is not about the IPv6 Internet. All of SR

Re: [spring] Question about IPv6 EH-insertion in draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming

2019-09-06 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 7 Sep 2019, 15:18 Bernier, Daniel, wrote: > Hi Fernando, > > > > Let’s say I have a native *IPv6 application flow* to which I want to > apply a service policy (i.e. chain of functions), carry metadata through > TLVs or perform a very simplistic filtering action via the tag field. All > of

Re: [spring] Question about IPv6 EH-insertion in draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming

2019-09-06 Thread Bernier, Daniel
Hi Fernando, Let’s say I have a native IPv6 application flow to which I want to apply a service policy (i.e. chain of functions), carry metadata through TLVs or perform a very simplistic filtering action via the tag field. All of which are real use cases by the way. Should I not leverage insert

Re: [spring] Question about IPv6 EH-insertion in draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming

2019-09-06 Thread Ketan Talaulikar (ketant)
g-srv6-network-programm...@ietf.org Subject: [spring] Question about IPv6 EH-insertion in draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming Folks, I have one specific question regarding this I-D: What is the motivation for doing EH-insertion, instead of creating a new packet with the necessary EHs,

[spring] Question about IPv6 EH-insertion in draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming

2019-09-06 Thread Fernando Gont
Folks, I have one specific question regarding this I-D: What is the motivation for doing EH-insertion, instead of creating a new packet with the necessary EHs, and include the original packet in the payload? Thanks! Cheers, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fg...@si6networks.com PGP Fingerp