Re: [v6ops] A broken promise - "You said PD Prefix Valid Lifetime is going to be X" (Re: SLAAC renum: Problem Statement & Operational workarounds)

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Fri, 01 November 2019 09:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] A broken promise - "You said PD Prefix Valid Lifetime is going to be X" (Re: SLAAC renum: Problem Statement & Operational workarounds)
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On 1/11/19 05:22, Sander Steffann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>>> I think Ole observed that this is contrary to what the PD prefix's
>>> Valid Lifetime said would be the case. The ISP supplied a PD Prefix
>>> with a Valid Lifetime of X seconds, and then broke that promise by
>>> abruptly changing addressing before X seconds. ISPs should be expected
>>> to live up to their Valid Lifetime promises.
>>
>> "Hope" doesn't make networks run properly.
> 
> This isn't "Hope", this is breaking promises, and that does break networks. If you can't at least trust that promises are intended to be kept then you have no network at all...

You might hope the ISPs do stable prefixes, that CPEs record the leased
prefixes on stable storage, and that CPE routers does not crash and reboot.

However, 37% of surveyed ISPs
(https://indico.uknof.org.uk/event/41/contributions/542/attachments/712/866/bcop-ipv6-prefix-v9.pdf)
indicate they do dynamic prefixes, and thus are likely to be facing this
problem (possibly being masqueraded by falling back to IPv4).

You may want to declare ISPs clueless, start a crusade to switch to
stable prefixes (unlikely success), claim that CPE vendors are cheap, etc.

But at the end of the day, user experience will still suck.

(I have had cases in which I have flash-renumbered my network by
changing and reloading a RA daemon)


> 
>> In any case, as previously noted, there are multiple scenarios that may
>> lead to this problem.
> 
> Sure, bad things can happen, and there are cases where despite the best intentions you can't keep your promise. But that doesn't mean everybody should go around making promises without even thinking about keeping them…

I certainly can't speak for the 37% above. But a number of folks have
already noted (some on-list, some off-list) that they are running
networks on which this flash-renumbering events do occur.

The home network/cpe case is a notable example, but others exists. And
particularly the host-side mitigations help all of them.
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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