Le 7 mai 2010 à 18:51, Templin, Fred L a écrit :

> Hi Remi,
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rémi Després [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 9:20 AM
>> To: Templin, Fred L
>> Cc: Mark Townsley; softwires
>> Subject: Re: [Softwires] I-D Action:draft-ietf-softwire-ipv6-6rd-09.txt
>> 
>> Hi Fred,
>> 
>> 
>> Le 6 mai 2010 à 16:52, Templin, Fred L a écrit :
>> 
>>> Not sure whether any changes are necessary,
>> 
>> AKAIKT, ll changes that were agreed in Anaheim are now in the document, so 
>> that it can proceed.
>> 
>>> but in terms
>>> of MTU the tunnel should try for more than 1280 if possible.
>> 
>> Right.
> 
> You tend to cut out important parts of messages. The high
> order consideration is the following:
> 
> + Otherwise, it may be difficult to configure other tunnels
> + (VPNs, etc.) over the 6rd tunnel.

Please consider that, since I explicitly did agree with what you said, I didn't 
find it necessary to repeat WHY you said it.

Sorry that read from you that I "tend to tend to cut out important parts of 
messages".
This is NOT my approach to debates (which I strive to keep useful).


> This point is in fact the sole reason for my post.

I was aware of this, and found it pertinent.

RD






> Any device
> within a 6rd site that would like to configure a VPN or other
> tunnel that connects to a device outside the site is dependent
> on the 6rd router setting a sufficiently large MTU on its
> tunnel interface.
> 
>> And this is in fact implied by the current text:
>> 
>>  "the 6rd Tunnel MTU should be set to the known IPv4
>>   MTU minus the size of the encapsulating IPv4 header (20 bytes)"
> 
> No problem there.
> 
>> Since ISPs know in general that they support IPv4 MTUs well beyond 1300, 
>> they should tunnel MTUs to
>> well beyond 1280.
>> 
>> It is only "Absent of more specific information" that "the 6rd Tunnel MTU 
>> SHOULD default to 1280
>> bytes."
> 
> If 6rd router implementations take the overly conservative
> route suggested above and turn the configuration knob all
> the way down to 1280, devices inside the site that wish to
> configure tunnels that leave the site will see a path MTU
> that would result in either failure to configure the tunnel
> or the need for inner IP fragmentation - both undesirable
> results.
> 
> Fred
> [email protected] 
> 
>> Regards,
>> RD
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Otherwise, it may be difficult to configure other tunnels
>>> (VPNs, etc.) over the 6rd tunnel.
>>> 
>>> Thanks - Fred
>>> [email protected]
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
>>>> Behalf Of Mark Townsley
>>>> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 1:39 AM
>>>> To: softwires
>>>> Subject: Re: [Softwires] I-D Action:draft-ietf-softwire-ipv6-6rd-09.txt
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> FYI: This was an idnits-related update prior to passage to the IESG.
>>>> 
>>>> - Mark
>>>> 
>>>> On 5/6/10 10:30 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
>>>>> directories.
>>>>> This draft is a work item of the Softwires Working Group of the IETF.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>   Title           : IPv6 via IPv4 Service Provider Networks "6rd"
>>>>>   Author(s)       : M. Townsley, O. Troan
>>>>>   Filename        : draft-ietf-softwire-ipv6-6rd-09.txt
>>>>>   Pages           : 19
>>>>>   Date            : 2010-05-06
>>>>> 
>>>>> This document specifies an automatic tunneling mechanism tailored to
>>>>> advance deployment of IPv6 to end users via a Service Provider's IPv4
>>>>> network infrastructure.  Key aspects include automatic IPv6 prefix
>>>>> delegation to sites, stateless operation, simple provisioning, and
>>>>> service which is equivalent to native IPv6 at the sites which are
>>>>> served by the mechanism.
>>>>> 
>>>>> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>>>>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-softwire-ipv6-6rd-09.txt
>>>>> 
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