Re: [BEHAVE] protocols without need for ALG ?

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   limitations for an implementation of an SNMP Application Level
   Gateway.  It also discusses other approaches to exchange SNMP packets
   across conflicting addressing realms.

David Harrington
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> From: Behave [mailto:behave-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Toerless
> Eckert
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 4:58 PM
> To: v6ops@ietf.org; behave@ietf.org
> Subject: [BEHAVE] protocols without need for ALG ?
> 
> For autonomic networking (ANIMA WG), we are planning to rely only on IPv6
> for initial
> autonomic connectivity, and the question of connecting this (at least
initially)
> to IPv4 only NOC equipment came up. Alas, IPv6 support in transport seems
> to be still
> weak on a range of commonly used NOC tools.
> 
> If i understand the NAT RFCs and behave output correctly, we primaerily
> want ALGs to go the way of the dodo, so i was wondering if there might be
> any crucial protocols between typical NOC equipment and network devices
> that
> would require ALGs. And better of course:knowing which protocols would be
> fine
> without ALG.
> 
> Are there any lists about this (eg: what requires ALG ?)
> 
> Wrt to what seems to be important between NOC and network devices:
> 
>    FTP     - NOK (requires ALG) - IMHO not a problem
>    traceroute - ??  (initiated from v4 NOC) ??
>    telnet  - OK
>    ping    - OK ?
>    SSH/SCP - OK
>    syslog  - OK
>    TFTP    - OK ?
>    radius  - OK ? (i ran some tests, seemed to be fine)
>    diameter/tacacs+ - OK ?
>    NTP     - OK ???
> 
>    For the following, that have extensible data-models (MIBs/OIDs, XML
> schema etc.),
>    i can see that some NOC tools relying on them might not support data-
> models
>    with IPv6, but that would be "fine" (aka: can't manage everything from
such
> tools,
>    but transport stack works):
> 
>    netconf - OK ?
>    SNMP    - OK ?
> 
> Whats the next most important NOC<->network management protocols... ?
> 
> Thanks!
>     Toerless
> 
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