Re: [pcp] Review of draft-ietf-pcp-upnp-igd-interworking

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Hi Xiaohong,

The current text says only "1" is allowed: i.e., the iwf is supposed to send back an error if not set to 0.

If you have a better wording, this is welcome.

Cheers,
Med

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De : Xiaohong Deng [mailto:[e-mail]]
Envoyé : vendredi 17 août 2012 15:50
À : [e-mail]; [e-mail]; BOUCADAIR Mohamed OLNC/NAD/TIP
Objet : Re: [pcp] Review of draft-ietf-pcp-upnp-igd-interworking

Hi Med,

Thanks for your efficient feedback.

Please see inline. Now focus only on unsolved ones.

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:24 AM, <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
   PortMappingEnabled:
      PCP does not support deactivating the dynamic NAT mapping since
      the initial goal of PCP is to ease the traversal of Carrier Grade
      NAT.  Supporting such per-subscriber function may overload the
      Carrier Grade NAT.
+ What if the customer wants to deactivate a static NAT mappings on CGN? it is not stated clearly that IWF should support it or not. My reading here is that for the same reason: not to overload the carrier Grade NAT, it should not support deactivate static mappings either. IMO,it's worth to state clearer that it applys to both static and dynamic mappings, if that is what text here means.
[Med] IGD spec says "PortMappingEnabled: This variable allows security conscious users to disable and enable dynamic NAT port mappings on the IGD.". PCP does not provide such feature.

Je sais. That's why I asked, and please see below .



      On reading the value is 1, writing a value different from 1 is not
      supported.
+ what if on reading the value is 0, which means deactivating the mapping?
[Med] see above. Only "1" is supported.
Here, I elaborate the question again.

Quotation from UPnP-gw-WANIPConnection-v2-Service spcification:

"Arguments for AddPortMapping() and AddAnyPortMapping() :

*Argument                       Direction           relatedStateVariable*
...
NewEnabled                   IN                      PortMappingEnabled
..."

My concern was and is: with the current text, it doesn't look clear to me, how IGD should react when recieve a PortMappingEnabled valule of '0' from these two actions, which means that users want to disable the mapping.


"Arguments for GetGenericPortMappingEntry() GetGenericPortMappingEntry()
*Argument                       Direction           relatedStateVariable*
...
 NewEnabled                   OUT                  PortMappingEnabled
..."

Don't see any problems for IGD with actions  (Get*) having this parameter for OUT direction.



[Med] Are you sure 718 error code is allowed for GetSpecificPortMappingEntry?
Good point. According to specification, no.
p.s. But I think anyway it would be interesting to do a test to see what will happen in that case. Come back to you soon later with the test results.

Cheers,
Xiaohong