Re: [Roll] updating DAO caches (was Re: Something to ADD)

JP Vasseur <jvasseur@cisco.com> Thu, 19 November 2009 10:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Roll] updating DAO caches (was Re: Something to ADD)
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On Nov 17, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Jonathan Hui wrote:

>
> On Nov 17, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote:
>
>> When you run the MANEMO trilogy (tree discovery, nina (DAO) and RRH
>> (source route)), you see the source route RH2/4 grow upon movement  
>> and
>> quickly shrink again as the NINA (DAO) states are reestablished.
>> When things are stable you only see as many entries as non DAO  
>> capable
>> nodes along the path. In my case, the source route is done on a MIP/ 
>> NEMO
>> tunnel, so the RH states are stored in eth binding cache on the home
>> agent. But we could store that at the root with exactly the same
>> process.
>> I can demo that next time we meet if you wish.
>>
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thubert-nemo-reverse-routing-header
>> details the RRH, since there is not LSRR in IPv6.
>>
>> Note that in our case, the information in the header should be  
>> locally
>> significant, like a label.
>
> Here lies the disconnect.  The real benefit of storing state among  
> nodes within the network is to reduce the size of the source route  
> header not some attempt to support point-to-point traffic.  If you  
> buy that, then the mechanism to establish such state could be much  
> better than what's currently defined in the draft.  In particular,  
> there are some interesting things we could achieve if we start  
> treating next-hop information using locally significant labels  
> rather than globally significant IP addresses, as you suggested.   
> But if done properly, I think we can specify such a mechanism as an  
> optimization to basic source-route/record-route.

I'm with you, well as someone used to work on MPLS, no surprise.
But still that does not solve the traffic matrix issue: not storing  
DAO leads to all traffic transiting via the root, which is not  
acceptable in many networks.

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