Re: [Autoconf] RFC 5889 (Was: Call for comments to a new AUTOCONF charter proposal)

Alexandru Petrescu <alexandru.petrescu@gmail.com> Fri, 23 July 2010 08:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Autoconf] RFC 5889 (Was: Call for comments to a new AUTOCONF charter proposal)
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Le 23/07/2010 10:15, Thomas Heide Clausen a écrit :
>
> On Jul 23, 2010, at 10:11 , Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
>
>> Le 23/07/2010 09:51, Henning Rogge a écrit :
>>> On Fri July 23 2010 09:43:02 Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
>>>>> if each of the MRs use a wireless interface, the linklocals WILL
>>>>> BE VISIBLE outside their direct link.
>>>>
>>>> Well, the link local addresses will not be visible outside their
>>>> direct link, because the different links are on different ESSIDs
>>>> and moreover on different channels.  Using wireshark on IP packets
>>>> on these different links shows that the link local addressess are
>>>> not visible from one link to another.
>>>
>>> This would only work with preplanned links,
>>
>> Most deployments have a high degree of planning.
>
> Then, they're (by definition) not ad-hoc networks.
>
>>> because otherwise you would have trouble to do neighborhood
>>> detection. How do you detect new nodes coming into range if they
>>> cannot announce their presence with a broadcast, because they got no
>>> unique ESSID to their neighbors ?
>>
>> Well good question - and I have tried.  The difficult thing is the first
>> detection - the "wifi scan" phase; once the drivers have their data set
>> up then re-detection is very fast, in the order of tens of milliseconds.
>> We could use that to signal between two approaching vehicles.
>>
>> More specifically, on WiFi, a beacon is sent periodically, but there are
>> also periodic requests replied with a beacon.  These help a lot to
>> detect presence of a neighbor previously learned, and fast.
>>
>>> MANET routing protocols are specially designed for the case of
>>> unplanned networks. You have a single shared medium which the routing
>>> protocol use for it's work, to do neighborhood/link detection.
>>
>> Well very good.  Is there a case where wireless multi-hop networks are
>> possible _without_ MANET routing protocols?  I believe yes, and I
>> prototyped and demo.
>
> Very well, but then that's not a MANET.
>
>> Besides, there exist deployments where even though the MRs are mobile
>> they stay relatively fixed with respect to each other, in some very
>> simple topology: truck convoy, wagons in a train, etc.  These things
>> stay formed for long hours and reform right after.  These things don't
>> need the power of MANET routing protocols because there are never loops
>> formed at link layer, the topology is really simple.
>
> Very well, but then that's not a MANET.
>
> Alex, can we agree that things that are not MANETs tautologically are not MANETs?

Sure!

Make the Charter tautologically MANET and then we're all clear.

Alex

>
> Thomas
>
>
>>> If you push this down to link layer, you just move the whole problem
>>> down one layer, because you need unique addresses on the link layer
>>> to do neighborhood detection and link establishment.
>>
>> WEll yes... I tend to agree.
>>
>> However, one would avoid to bring existing link layer mechanisms up to
>> the IP stack too.  These link layer mechanisms are there and work very
>> well in their domain.
>>
>> The IP stack is not fast enough on the CPU to work at vehicular speeds,
>> interruptable by some GUI or heavy TCP.
>>
>> The link layer driver executing on a dedicated chipset is much more
>> reliable for these kinds of movements.
>>
>>> If you already have a unique link-layer address, just use it to
>>> generate a unique linklocal-IP.
>>
>> Hmmm... right, that's how link local addresses are generated.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>>
>>> Henning Rogge
>>>
>>
>>
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