IETF 63 agreements
Carlos Garcia Braschi <cgbraschi@gmail.com> Tue, 30 August 2005 08:47 UTC
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Hi, Rereading the IETF 63 minutes, I have some doubts about what was agreed there: Dave said that applications would be inlined in the text of the generic applications draft, but I am not sure if the applications would be the ones that are now there (static routes), or others like BGP or RIP would be added. Are the slides from Suping archived somewhere? In the minutes Pekka refers to the first bullet point of the presentation but it is not clear from the context what is it about. On the generic draft, something that worries me is the problem of having multiple peers in a client application (broadcast subnets with many peers, it happens in Nework PoPs and Ethernet Access networks or BGP peering points), some that support BFD and some that don't. Figuring out which ones do and which ones don't is something not trivial: it either requires configuration (work for the network operators, and may not even be feasible if there are many peers), or protocol work to signal it. So the current recommended approach (if I get it right) is to just let the BFD session never reach the Up state, and as in the Down state it only has to transmit at the sedate rate, it may not be that great of a problem. Should a mention about this be added to the generic application draft or is it too obvious? I don't know if even the sedate rate can cause problems for some systems (1p/s can cause some load, depending on the implementation and number of peers). Given that a router should respond with an ICMP port unreachable to BFD packets if it does not implement BFD (although it may not due to security purposes, it would be required per the host requirements standard), could this be taken as a sign of non-implementation that causes packets not to be sent? (for example, on receipt take a passive role and enter the AdminDown state). Regards, Carlos. -- Telefonica Empresas.
- IETF 63 agreements Carlos Garcia Braschi