Re: [Autoconf] new charter

"Teco Boot" <teco@inf-net.nl> Fri, 27 February 2009 17:01 UTC

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|-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
|Van: Alexandru Petrescu [mailto:alexandru.petrescu@gmail.com]
|Verzonden: vrijdag 27 februari 2009 14:24
|Aan: Teco Boot
|CC: 'Alexandru Petrescu'; autoconf@ietf.org
|Onderwerp: Re: [Autoconf] new charter
|
|Teco Boot a écrit :
|> Hi Alex,
|>
|> Let's try to be accurate:
|>
|> [skip]
|> |Sorry... in the picture above the addresses are also /128.  It was an
|> |abbreviation for me to show only 2001:db8:1::1/64 assigned to Host1.
|> |The full notation should have been 2001:db8:1::/64 prefix and
|> |2001:db8:1::1/128.  Would the following picture satisfy the need for
|> |/128 addresses?:
|>
|> When prefix::/64 is assigned to a host, it configures a /64 address
|and not
|> an /128 address.
|
|I'm not sure I understand.
|
|The prefix::/64 is typically assigned to a link, not to a host.  If a
|host is connected to that link then it configures a /128 address and a
|/64 subnet prefix, both "128" and "64" numbers are visible in its
|tables.
|
|I don't understand why the need for /128 prefixes, why isn't the above
|/64-prefix-and-/128address not sufficient?

This is interesting. I meant generating an address in the /64 prefix.
I don't know what is specified in RFCs. I checked behavior on Vista, 
Linux and IOS: 
  o Linux (debian lenny) adds a /128 prefix in the routing table, to 
    the loopback interface, similar to what I propose in my addressing 
    model mail. It also adds a /64 address-prefix to the Ethernet interface
    this is a bit weird, as two interfaces has the same address configured.

  o Vista assigns addresses to the Ethernet interface (in my case),
    and adds /128 prefixes in the routing table. Vista also adds the 
    /64 in the routing table.
  o IOS behavior is as Vista, addresses to interfaces and /128 in 
    routing table.

Details on Linux behavior: the /64 are on Ethernet (eth0) and the /128 
are on loopback (lo).

# ifconfig lo | egrep 'inet6|encap'
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
# netstat -6rn | grep 128
::1/128                        ::       Un   0   1    17 lo
2001:db8:1:0:20c:29ff:fee3:bdf5/128 ::  Un   0   1    11 lo
fe80::20c:29ff:fee3:bdf5/128   ::       Un   0   1     3 lo
fe80::20c:29ff:fee3:bdff/128   ::       Un   0   1     0 lo

# ifconfig eth0 | egrep 'inet6|encap'
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0c:29:e3:bd:f5  
          inet6 addr: 2001:db8:1:0:20c:29ff:fee3:bdf5/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fee3:bdf5/64 Scope:Link
# netstat -6rn | grep 64 
2001:db8:1::/64                ::       UAe  256 0    15 eth0
fe80::/64                      ::       U    256 0     0 eth0
fe80::/64                      ::       U    256 0     0 eth1


Conclusion: I was wrong with my statement. Linux behaves as I mentioned, 
other IPv6 stacks have different characteristics.





|> Routers may generate a /128 prefix-address, and advertize this in the
|> routing domain.
|
|A host-based route propagated and deleted throughout a domain?  I don't
|see the necessity of doing so.  Assuming the routers are mobile within
|25m ranges then they wouldn't need to change their addresses, thus no
|need to propagate host-based routes.

If the /128 is not propagated, there will be no multi-hop network. In a
MANET, I expect nodes to run a MANET Routing protocol and forward packets.
In ad hoc networks, one (you ?) would say nodes could be hosts or Mobile
Routers acting as hosts. 


|Do you agree we consider routers mobile only within 25m ranges?

Absolutely not. For me, 25km is a reasonable distance! Just 10^3 times the
distance and 10^6 times the power per bit (single hop) or 10^3 times the
power per bit if multi-hop is enabled (and 1000 intermediate nodes....).
Just physical laws here.


Teco.


|Alex
|
|> Some mechanisms should make sure the /128 routing prefix is unique, if
|> required. It is not required if the prefix is meant as anycast
|address,
|> routers may use "duplicate prefixes" if this is useful. I think
|anycast is
|> out-of-scope for [Autoconf], but we should be careful when specifying
|"MUST"
|> for prefix uniqueness. We should use "SHOULD" instead.
|>
|> Teco.
|>
|>
|>
|>