Consensus? (was Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt - /63 and /65 RAs on linux)

Wilco Baan Hofman <wilco@baanhofman.nl> Thu, 02 March 2017 11:38 UTC

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Subject: Consensus? (was Re: Objection to draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt - /63 and /65 RAs on linux)
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On 02/03/17 12:06, Alexandre Petrescu wrote:
> Le 02/03/2017 à 10:31, Mikael Abrahamsson a écrit :
>> On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, Alexandre Petrescu wrote:
>>
>>> perfectly fine to use that plen==65 to have an entry in the rt
>>> table, and use a manually configured address in that plen.
>>
>> Linux does the right thing in not autoconfiguring itself address(es)
>> when plen isn't 64.
>
> Whereas it is the right thing if on Ethernet (RFC2464) it is wrong on
> cellular links for which we have no RFC IPv6-over-foo.  Same with USB
> and to a certain extent on WiFi.
>
It is undefined on non-IEEE802 networks and /64 is the one thing that
works for SLAAC, operationally.
>> However, what does it do when it receives an PIO with plen of 65 and
>> M=1 and then it gets an IA_NA and configures that on the interface?
>
> I dont know.  But I guess it still calls that 65 plen "illegal".
Which would be correct in the IEEE802 case, undefined in other cases,
still not incorrect behaviour from Linux in this case.
>
>> Doesn't it install the /65 in the routing table?
>
> Dont know, but there is a need to check.
>
> How about the /63 case?  Do you think it is normal that linux kernel
> does not configure an IP address on Ethernet when receiving a plen==63?
>
I would actually consider that normal, because the standard basically
mandates /64 and configuring on /63 is undefined at this time. As
implementer I would also reject such prefixes, because the code for
generating the EUI-64 and the privacy extension address all (correctly)
assume 64-bits of space, not 63, not 65.

==
Summarizing:

I think we can get consensus on:
- Making a recommendation of /64 for end-user networks
- Keep it required for things that depend on /64 (SLAAC, DHCPv6, ILNP,
NPT66, etc)
- Allow things like v4mapped address to use different subnet sizes, they
don't configure via SLAAC or similar methods. This makes sure SIIT keeps
working.
- Make prefixes of /65-/126 allowed on fully statically configured
interfaces, such as on routers

==

I don't think we're going to get consensus on dropping /64 boundary
entirely or on requiring the /64 boundary for everything.

We can't drop it entirely, because it would break deployments at end
user devices. And it is still a good recommendation to use /64 subnets
on those networks.

Conversely, we can't completely keep it, because it does not match the
operational reality in point-to-point links between routers. Configuring
/127 does not always work yet and does not cover the PTMP case (VRRP,
multiple BGP sessions). Configuring /64 on those links would make the
routers vulnerable to ND exhaustion.

Kind regards,

Wilco Baan Hofman