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

[Julien Laganier <[e-mail]>]

We have discussed this extensively during meetings and on list and
this was the proposal on the table:

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/netext/current/msg01944.html

--julien

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Sri Gundavelli <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 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.
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> Regards
> Sri
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> On 9/8/11 9:04 AM, "Julien Laganier" <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> 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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