Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard

Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> Fri, 24 February 2017 14:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard
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Le 23/02/2017 à 19:45, 神明達哉 a écrit :
> At Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:16:46 +0900, Lorenzo Colitti
> <lorenzo@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Help he understand, then. There is widely-deployed code that
>> assumes that the interface ID is 64 and does not work on anything
>> other than 64 bit prefix lengths.
>
> Out of curiosity: which code is it, and exactly what does its
> assumption mean?  Does it mean, for example, it allows manual
> configuration of an address but requires its IID length be 64 bits?

For example - is it normal that when manually adding an address to an
interface w/o specifying the plen, a /64 'connected' route pops there?
Why 64?  I dont mind the route, but I mind the 64.

Alex

> (If it means something like this, I'd also wonder how its "IID"
> matters in the first place - does that implementation use the lower
> 64 bits for some specific purpose?)
>
> I thought general-purpose OSes are actually quite flexible about the
> length of "IIDs" (in many cases it's actually derived from the
> length of on-link prefix corresponding to the address).  I know BSD
> variants are intentionally flexible on this.  I also know at least
> some (if not all) kernel versions of Linux are flexible.
>
> The only example of "widely-deployed code" with such an assumption
> that I know of is ISC DHCPv6 client (though I'm not sure if its
> latest version still has that assumption) as described in Section 4.4
> of RFC7421.  But I guess you're referring to something else.
>
> If you can be more specific it might help provide some clarity for
> the discussion, although I'm not so optimistic that it will
> automagically resolve the conflicting views we are seeing.
>
> -- JINMEI, Tatuya
>
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