Re: [v6ops] new draft: draft-yc-v6ops-solicited-ra-unicast

Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no> Tue, 07 July 2015 14:55 UTC

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* fred@cisco.com

> A new draft has been posted, at
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yc-v6ops-solicited-ra-unicast.
> Please take a look at it and comment.

Support WG adoption.

Comments:

1) Nit: Abstract: s/network/networks/ (Or so I think. I'm not a native
speaker.)

2) Section 2, second bullet: Would like to add that the lost
connectivity (due to default route expiring) persists after the device
has woken back up again. This is another big reason for a network
operator to send RAs frequently, to ensure that a device re-gains its
connectivity as soon as the user starts interacting with his device.
Furthermore, a reference to draft-ietf-6man-rs-refresh might be prudent
here.	

3) Section 3: Did you consider recommending making unicast the default
behaviour for solicited RAs on all networks, not just the ones with
sleepy devices? I was thinking about it for a while and I couldn't
immediately see any big issue with that, but I might be missing
something. If the recommended approach isn't also suitable for, say, an
enterprise wired LAN with desktop PCs, or a data centre server LAN,
maybe include some text describing why not?

4) Section 3: I think that for a complete solution you should also
recommend that hosts MUST not ignore multicast RAs when they're
sleeping. Otherwise, you're missing a big part of the solution - the
hosts I discussed in #2 still lost their connectivity while sleeping
and after waking back up, and the way to combat that would still be for
the network to send unsolicited (multicast) RAs frequently.

Tore