Re: [netext] I-D Action: draft-ietf-netext-logical-interface-support-03.txt

[Sri Gundavelli <[e-mail]>]

Hi Julien,

I know we discussed about this during the meeting, on wow the logical
interface should appear to the applications. You preferred to not to state
any thing. I was ok with that, I just wanted to check the socket API, and if
there is any API which provides the type (p2p or non-p2p), based on that we
can resolve this. Let me work on this.



Regards
Sri



 



On 9/8/11 9:04 AM, "Julien Laganier" <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I thought that we already discussed this and concluded it wasn't appropriate?
> 
> 6.3.  Supported Link models for a logical interface
> 
>    The sub-interfaces of a logical interface can be bound to a point-to-
>    point or a shared link (Example: LTE and WLAN).  The logical
>    interface appears as a shared-link to the applications, and adapts to
>    the link model of the sub-interface for packet communication.  For
>    example, when transmitting a packet on a sub-interface which is
>    attached to a p2p link, the transmission conforms to the p2p link
>    model and when transmitting on a sub-interface attached to a shared
>    link, the transmission conforms to the shared link model.
> 
>    Based on the link to which the sub-interface is attached to, the
>    layer-2 resolutions may or may not be needed.  If the interface is
>    bound to a P2P link with PPP running, there will not be any link-
>    layer resolutions in the form of ARP/ND messages.  However, if the
>    interface is bound to a shared link such as Ethernet, there will be
>    ND resolutions.  The logical interface implementation has to maintain
>    the required link model and the associated state for each sub-
>    interface.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:15 AM,  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
>> directories. This draft is a work item of the Network-Based Mobility
>> Extensions Working Group of the IETF.
>> 
>>        Title           : Logical Interface Support for multi-mode IP Hosts
>>        Author(s)       : Telemaco Melia
>>                          Sri Gundavelli
>>        Filename        : draft-ietf-netext-logical-interface-support-03.txt
>>        Pages           : 26
>>        Date            : 2011-09-05
>> 
>>   A Logical Interface is a software semantic internal to the host
>>   operating system.  This semantic is available in all popular
>>   operating systems and is used in various protocol implementations.
>>   The Logical Interface support is required on the mobile node
>>   operating in a Proxy Mobile IPv6 domain, for leveraging various
>>   network-based mobility management features such as inter-technology
>>   handoffs, multihoming and flow mobility support.  This document
>>   explains the operational details of Logical Interface construct and
>>   the specifics on how the link-layer implementations hide the physical
>>   interfaces from the IP stack and from the network nodes on the
>>   attached access networks.  Furthermore, this document identifies the
>>   applicability of this approach to various link-layer technologies and
>>   analyzes the issues around it when used in context with various
>>   mobility management features.
>> 
>> 
>> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-netext-logical-interface-suppo
>> rt-03.txt
>> 
>> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
>> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
>> 
>> This Internet-Draft can be retrieved at:
>> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-netext-logical-interface-suppor
>> t-03.txt
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