Re: [Autoconf] Autoconf addressing model

"Teco Boot" <teco@inf-net.nl> Thu, 05 March 2009 14:51 UTC

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Hi Alex,

|> The 54 bits following 1111111011 are zero. There is little difference
|> between FE80::/10 and FE80::/64. On Ethernet, it is the latter.
|
|Which one should we picture on the AUTOCONF practical addressing scheme?
|  The /10 or the /64?

It depends.
With Ethernet (and related 802 addressing), it is /64.
For other interfaces, there is more freedom. But there is RFC4291:
   For all unicast addresses, except those that start with the binary
   value 000, Interface IDs are required to be 64 bits long and to be
   constructed in Modified EUI-64 format.



|
|In a picture like that I'd definitely put an address and the prefix like
|this, in the simplest case:
|
|---\
|     \ fe80::1/128   (the address)
|      ---------
|     / 2001:db8::/64 (the prefix of the subnet on which this interface
|is
|---/                 attached)
|

Why?
Please read RFC4291 section 2.3 (Address Prefixes)

This "fe80::1/128" is an invalid address prefix. 
Address fe80::1 is OK, Address prefixes fe80::1/64 and 2001:db8::1/64 are
also OK.



|> |> I repeated the test with the link local addresses. Here also, I
|> |> experienced no problems. This is because there are two links with
|> |> exactly the same address pairs (an advantage to use same LL
|addresses
|> |> on all interfaces).
|> |
|> |Demonstrating the advantage of loopback0 vs eth0 would have implied
|that
|> |you start OSPFv3 on eth0 instead of loopback0 and that it would have
|> |crashed.
|>
|> My routing protocols do not crash. I told you before.
|
|Sorry, I don't remember. So then they could work without loopback0
|interface, only over the Ethernet interface, right? (they wouldn't crash
|when the interface goes down and then up).
|
|> |But even then, I'm sure there may exist OSPFv3 implementation which
|> |would not crash when running over eth0 and ifconfig down eth0.
|> |
|> |In this sense, if the loopback0 interface is a solution to crashing
|> |OSPFv3-over-eth0, then it is an implementation solution. Some
|> |implementations do, others don't.
|>
|> You totally missed the point.
|
|Your point seemed to motivate the use of loopback0 interface.  And so,
|because presumably the physical interfaces are not enough.  Am I
|catching your point?

You are free using loopback interfaces or not.
I explain why I have an advantage. This is not crashing protocols, it is
eliminating unneeded terminated sessions.

I do not accept a comment that I have no advantage. I have also different
scenarios, some have benefits from a loopback interface, some have not. I am
waiting on an answer from you, on your standpoint to be interoperable with
me or not. I hope your routing protocol doesn't crash when receiving a host
prefix. If so, I do not want to be compatible with you.


Teco.


|Alex