Re: draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-auth-04.txt

Suresh Melam <nagavenkata.melam@NOKIA.COM> Fri, 09 July 2004 18:05 UTC

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From: Suresh Melam <nagavenkata.melam@NOKIA.COM>
Subject: Re: draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-auth-04.txt
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Hi Abhay/Vishwas,

comments inline,

thanks,
-suresh (Nagavenkata Suresh Melam)


>> Hi Vishwas,
>>
>> Thanks for the comments.  Please see my comments inline..
>>
>> > 1. I am not sure we should have a statement which says OSPFv3
>> > is only for IPv6.
>> > "As OSPFv2 is only for IPv4 and OSPFv3 is only for IPv6,
>> > the distinction between the packets can be easily made by
>> > IP version. "
>>
>> Do you have a replacement statement that you would prefer ?
>> As the IP protocol type value for OSPF and OSPFv3 is same,
>> we have to depend upon the IP version to separate OSPF and
>> OSPFv3 packets.
>
>Just FYI, we can run OSPFv3 using IPv4 transport (see section 9 of
>draft-mirtorabi-ospfv3-af-alt-01.txt). In which case the demux
>will be based on OSPF protocol version.
>

IPsec selectors are not usually any deeper than protocol field of
IP header and port numbers of UDP/TCP transport protocol. Thus, OSPF
protocol version cannot be one of the selector.

If OSPFv3 runs on IPv4 transport, there wouldn't be any way
to distinguish OSPFv3 packets from OSPFv2 packets, as both of them
use same protocol value. Thus IPsec security, as mentioned in
"Security considerations" section of RFC2740 and ospfv3-auth draft,
cannot be provided to these packets. Perhaps this should be mentioned
in the "Security Considerations" section of ospfv3-af-alt draft.

>Regards,
>-Roy-