Re: [netmod] ipv6 config parameters

[Ladislav Lhotka <[e-mail]>]

On Nov 14, 2011, at 7:17 PM, Martin Bjorklund wrote:

> Juergen Schoenwaelder <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 06:45:20PM +0800, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
>>> Firstly, it should define analogical things as the
>>> ipv4-unicast-routing module now provides, such as IPv6 route content
>>> - in most cases this part would only require to replace
>>> inet:ipv4-{address,prefix} with the IPv6 counterpart. 
>>> 
>>> But beyond that, a whole bunch of other IPv6-specific parameters
>>> would be needed, as you wrote above. 
>>> 
>> 
>> OK. I think our disconnect is that I do not consider things like ND
>> parameters or RA config a subject of the routing module while you seem
>> to do.
> 
> Section 12 of draft-ietf-6man-node-req-bis-11 says:
> 
>   This section defines general host considerations for IPv6 nodes that
>   act as routers.  Currently, this section does not discuss routing-
>   specific requirements.
> 
> and then it talks about ND and RA etc.  So I believe we should not
> blur this distinction.

I don't mind if we agree on another organization, but I think it should be done in the same way for IPv4 and IPv6. So probably you should also define the contents of IPv4 & IPv6 unicast routes in the ip-cfg module. For IPv4, it is currently done in the ipv4-unicast-routing module.

Lada

> 
> 
> /martin

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