Re: [Autoconf] Autoconf addressing model

Alexandru Petrescu <alexandru.petrescu@gmail.com> Wed, 04 March 2009 17:19 UTC

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Teco Boot a écrit :
> Alex,
> 
> It happen to be I am working on the customer side, not the equipment
> vendor / supplier side. I can say your limitations for 25meter and a
> requirement for relay nodes with multiple interfaces are far, far
> from acceptable. I go for what Stan says. Sorry, I cannot go into
> details on what the specs are. I am not in the position to say you,
> this is not the medium to publish and moreover, there is no need for
> these details. We in IETF never went in this before (e.g. there is no
> range limitation for ICMP messages).

I meant to say to explicitely consider the characteristics of the
link-layers you consider for AUTOCONF ad-hoc networks.  These all have
specifications about their physical lengths (for wired), for dbm
powerlevels and range in meters (wireless).

I can't build a network without knowing these specifications
in detail; its IP addressing architecture is impossible to agree on.

Alex

> 
> Thanks, Teco
> 
> |-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- |Van: autoconf-bounces@ietf.org
> [mailto:autoconf-bounces@ietf.org] Namens |Alexandru Petrescu 
> |Verzonden: woensdag 4 maart 2009 16:03 |Aan: Stan Ratliff (sratliff)
>  |CC: autoconf@ietf.org |Onderwerp: Re: [Autoconf] Autoconf
> addressing model | |Stan Ratliff (sratliff) a écrit : |[...] |> 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. |>> |>>
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