Re: [Autoconf] Autoconf addressing model

Alexandru Petrescu <alexandru.petrescu@gmail.com> Wed, 04 March 2009 15:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Autoconf] Autoconf addressing model
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Stan Ratliff (sratliff) a écrit :
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> We've already been over the 25m subnet thing. It's a non-starter. 
> Limiting movement, or mandating that a DHCP or DNS server is always 
> on and available is also a non-starter. 25m subnets with "always on" 
> DNS/DHCP servers sounds to me like a few guys gathering together to 
> play "Doom" at their local coffee shop. I deploy MANET networks for 
> governmental applications. Think disaster recovery, like after 
> Hurricane Katrina, or the last round of wildfires in California. Do 
> you think it appropriate to tell the firefighters "you can't let the 
> trucks get more than 25m apart, or your network breaks"? Or, "if your
>  DNS server should fail, just forget what you're doing and go home"?

No, I don't think it appropriate.

But I didn't mean to imply AUTOCONF networks span only 25meter range - 
they could be made of several such single subnets.

> So, once again, no -- 25m subnets don't make sense and won't work in 
> the environments where I'm deploying networks. Placing this type of 
> limitation on AUTOCONF will, IMO, make the work output useless.

How about a unit being a 25m subnet containing exposed terminals; and a
network growing as a chain of such units, linked by routers.  Would this
make more sense?

The disaster relief scenarios you describe also have certain limits of 
movements.  For example:
-firefighter never gets very far away from truck.
-among all intervening trucks only some are designated as special, for
  example command and control.
-etc.

Expressing this inherent structure in terms of subnet structure can be 
very useful.

Alex

> 
> Stan
> 
> 
>>> Watching your DNS server [(m) or not!] move from place to
>> place in an
>>> ad hoc network, sometimes finding itself partitioned from your 
>>> favorite node, could be an exciting and enlightening adventure.
>> I agree we could find very dynamic ways of Routers and Hosts of an 
>> ad-hoc network moving in and out such that subnet structure is not 
>> maintained, and thus servers not being reachable.  But unless we 
>> describe these movements we can't deal with them.
>> 
>>>>> Who said we had to avoid size limits?
>>>> Well we don't have size limits in the charter proposal, we
>> don't have
>>>> agreement on '25m IPv6 subnets', we don't have limits on
>> the types of
>>>> the link layers involved.
>>> If you are talking about an ad hoc network with 25,000,000 
>>> subnets, then I am basically not on the same page.  And not in 
>>> the
>> same decade.
>> 
>> Sorry I meant 25meters not millions.  A '25m IPv6 subnet' would be 
>> a wireless coverage area of radius 25meter, without obstacles, and 
>> within which there are only exposed terminals, fully transitive and
>>  symmetric communications.
>> 
>> Would you agree such a subnet makes sense?  Does not make sense?
>> 
>>>> However, your question seems to imply you think there may be a
>>>>  limit: AUTOCONF network is small enough to accommodate 
>>>> host-based routes.  Is it this?
>>> I think the network has to accomodate the routes needed for 
>>> connectivity to destinations within the network.
>>> 
>>> Again, just saying "subnet" doesn't buy even one gram of 
>>> additional scalability.  You need more.
>>> 
>>> You need a procedure for enabling aggregation. Such a
>> procedure is not
>>> always available.
>> If by aggregation is meant addressing aggregation (as Teco also 
>> proposes a /60 prefix assigned to several Routers themselves 
>> assigning /64 prefixes to their links) then I think we should not 
>> strive to respect aggregation.  Address aggregation wouldn't make 
>> sense if we talk host-based routes either.
>> 
>>>>> Well, to me it did sound very negative.  Moreover, I think it
>>>>>  is just fine to pass around subnet prefixes, if you have 
>>>>> subnets.
>>>> Charles, yes - the subnets are there first, before IP.
>> Once the link
>>>> is up the subnet is the set of nodes on it.  In this sense
>> I agree it
>>>> is just fine to pass subnet prefixes around.
>>> This is wrong*2.   First, there is IP, which fixes the
>> address format
>>> and address modes.  Then there are subnets. Some people
>> here probably
>>> remember when the word "subnet" starting coming into more
>> active use.
>>> 
>>> Second, just because nodes are reachable over the air as 
>>> neighbors, does not imply they are on the same IP subnet.  Trying
>>>  to maintain otherwise leads to madness.
>>> 
>>> Surely you will agree.  A subnet is an abstraction to support 
>>> more efficient routing.  It is not a wire or a piece of plastic 
>>> or a contiguous region of space.
>> I can live with that.
>> 
>> However, I think the simplest cases we have to deal with have very 
>> simple subnet structure that we should take advantage of.
>> 
>> Alex
>> 
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