Op 25 sep. 2012, om 18:47 heeft Don Sturek het volgende geschreven:

Sorry to jump in.

> Hi Robert,
> 
> One more point touched on in your note below:
> 1)  Ideally, it would be great if a single authorizatative device existed
> in the home providing DHCPv6 server services (if supported) and prefix
> delegation.
I don't agree. When adding another gateway, to another ISP, I would like 
such to be independent form the existing gear.
(3.2.2.2.  B: Two ISPs, Two CERs, Shared subnet)


> One challenge in the description below is having multiple routers on
> multiple subnets, each possibly acting as a DHCPv6 server within their own
> subnet and also providing their own ULA prefix.
When hosts get their addresses for each RA prefix, by using SLAAC and/or 
DHCPv6, what is the challenge? (protocol-wise, not current host behavior)

When hosts get only one GUA, they will use only one link to one ISP (no 
translation). For multi-path, this needs an update.

> 
> We certainly don't want to further confuse address assignment in a setting
> where IT support does not exist.
Agreed, we need to improve address assignment. And routing based on 
destination & source addresses.

Teco

> 
> Don
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/25/12 1:57 AM, "Robert Cragie" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> So let's tweak Curtis' sequence slightly:
>> 
>> What every host does is:
>> 
>> if it has no MAC:
>>   pick a random link local address
>> else
>>   use the MAC to create a link local address
>> run DAD to make sure no one else has same address
>> 
>> send a RS
>> 
>> if it gets RA
>>   use the RA prefix for SLAAC
>> else
>>   time out and don't bother with SLAAC; can only use link local address
>> 
>> then hopefully the host also does the following:
>> 
>> send DHCPv6 client request
>> 
>> if response
>>   it has yet another address to pick from if it got one using SLAAC
>> else
>>   time out and get nothing from DHCPv6
>> 
>> This should work fine for legacy APs where everything is bridged
>> underneath it. Where it gets interesting is in the case of cascaded
>> subnets behind a router connected to an ISP, where one or more of those
>> subnets may be a mesh network comprised of mesh routers and hosts. I am
>> not quite sure how ULAs and DHCPv6 would work in this case as there are
>> limitations as far as I can see (although I accept I probably have a bit
>> more reading to do on the subject).
>> 
>> Robert
>> 
>> On 25/09/2012 5:45 AM, Curtis Villamizar wrote:
>>> In message <cc866762.1a28f%[email protected]>
>>> Don Sturek writes:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Curtis,
>>>> 
>>>> I think the difficulty is each device cannot "use the MAC to create a
>>>> ULA
>>>> address".  Some authoritative device in the network (eg, the AP) must
>>>> create the ULA prefix.  If a ULA prefix is not present because the AP
>>>> is a
>>>> legacy device not capable of providing a ULA prefix, the STA devices
>>>> must
>>>> use link locals only.
>>>> 
>>>> Don
>>> 
>>> Don,
>>> 
>>> You are right about there being nothing to generate the ULA prefix in
>>> your example.  My mistake.
>>> 
>>> But it doesn't change anything.  If the AP is a dumb bridge and there
>>> is no router of any kind, then link local addresses are perfectly
>>> fine.  There is only one subnet in that example, and ULA is not
>>> needed.  That was the example you gave.
>>> 
>>> Your example had no router just an old AP that acted as a bridge,
>>> therefore nothing to generate any sort of RA.  If there is a router
>>> and no GUA prefix (which is not your example, but a useful example),
>>> then ULA can be used.  The only RA that is seen is the RA providing a
>>> ULA prefix which the router can generate.
>>> 
>>> I did say that the possibility of having to subdivide a /64 only
>>> exists for GUA.  If a router exists which gets a GUA from a provider,
>>> and there are more subnets than the prefix length can support the two
>>> options are the ones listed below.  (Search for --or--).
>>> 
>>> Curtis
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 9/24/12 6:52 PM, "Curtis Villamizar" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> In message <cc864fc3.1a27f%[email protected]>
>>>>> Don Sturek writes:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Curtis,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I would expect most Wi-Fi AP manufacturers to support the same
>>>>>> address
>>>>>> assignment they do today (ie, manual assignment and DHCP).  I would
>>>>>> also expect as more IPv6 deployments happen that SLAAC will also be
>>>>>> supported (and, yes, even for GUA).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> For the types of devices which will be added to Wi-Fi networks in the
>>>>>> future (eg, headless devices like appliances, thermostats, etc.) that
>>>>>> the preferred address assignment will be SLAAC and DHCPv6 (and, yes,
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> purposely did not remove SLAAC.....)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Don
>>>>> 
>>>>> Don,
>>>>> 
>>>>> We seem to be talking past each other so let me again try to be clear.
>>>>> 
>>>>> What every host does is:
>>>>> 
>>>>>  if it has no MAC:
>>>>>    pick a random link local (not ULA) address
>>>>>  else
>>>>>    use the MAC to create a ULA address
>>>>>  run DAD to make sure no one else has same address
>>>>> 
>>>>>  send a RS
>>>>> 
>>>>>  if it gets RA
>>>>>    use the RA prefix for SLAAC
>>>>>  else
>>>>>    time out and don't bother with SLAAC
>>>>> 
>>>>> then hopefully the host also does the following:
>>>>> 
>>>>>  send DHCPv6 client request
>>>>> 
>>>>>  if response
>>>>>    it has yet another address to pick from if it got one using SLAAC
>>>>>  else
>>>>>    time out and get nothing from DHCPv6
>>>>> 
>>>>> Note: new extensions to DHCPv6 allow the host to tell DHCPv6 server
>>>>> the address that it already has (from SLAAC).
>>>>> 
>>>>> If as in the case of your Wi-Fi with a bridging AP example, there is
>>>>> no router to give it an DHCPv6 the link local or ULA addresses are
>>>>> still there and still usable.  There is also no router to give it an
>>>>> RA response so it has no SLAAC assigned address and no DHCPv6 assigned
>>>>> address.
>>>>> 
>>>>> That is the end of your example.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If there is a router then there is something that can hand out a RA or
>>>>> DHCPv6 response.
>>>>> 
>>>>> In the case were there exists multiple subnets and the CER has been
>>>>> granted a /64 (or too few /64s to handle the number of subnets), then:
>>>>> 
>>>>>  it can use RA with /64 on some subnets and give them GUA addresses
>>>>>  and some subnets have no access outside the homenet
>>>>> 
>>>>>  --or--
>>>>> 
>>>>>  it can not use RA (and therefore prevent SLAAC from being used) and
>>>>>  hand out DHCPv6 addresses and make use of prefixes longer than /64.
>>>>>  This prevents the use of CGA but get connectivity to the entire
>>>>>  homenet.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If every consumer oriented provider is willing to allocate prefixes
>>>>> shorter than /64 on request to home users, then the above situation
>>>>> never occurs.  If it does, my argument is that the second option above
>>>>> is better than the first.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Curtis
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 9/24/12 5:11 PM, "Curtis Villamizar" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> In message <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> Jim Gettys writes:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 09/24/2012 03:17 PM, Don Sturek wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi Curtis,
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Here is the use case:
>>>>>>>>> 1)  Customer has a legacy AP in their house
>>>>>>>>> 2)  Customer brings home new devices supporting IPv6 (which are
>>>>>>>> designed
>>>>>>>>> to communicate only with other IPv6 based devices in the home)
>>>>>>>>> 3)  The only way these new devices can communicate is through
>>>>>> address
>>>>>>>>> assignment using SLAAC and then some discovery method the two new
>>>>>>>> devices
>>>>>>>>> support (without support from the AP).  Here these devices are
>>>>>>>> assuming
>>>>>>>>> bridging through the AP......
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> And since current legacy AP's all bridge, we win (even though we
>>>>>> need to
>>>>>>>> route in the future).
>>>>>>> Jim,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The point was how do you get local IPv6 within the home with the
>>>>>>> legacy AP that does only IPv4 and just does bridging of IPv6.  First
>>>>>>> of all you have no subnets.  There is no CER to do DHCPv6.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> In this case you use link local or if everything has a MAC you can
>>>>>>> use
>>>>>>> ULA based on the MAC addressses.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Placing a requirement that every customer who buys a new IPv6
>>>>>> device,
>>>>>>>>> intended to communicate only with other IPv6 devices in the home,
>>>>>> will
>>>>>>>>> require a forklift upgrade of a deployed network in order to work
>>>>>>>> will not
>>>>>>>>> be popular.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Good point.
>>>>>>> But invalid.  The use case Don gave would still work fine.  Only GUA
>>>>>>> addresses are affected.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I loathe DHCP (of any sort) *for basic address assignment, anyway*
>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>> the home environment.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> The loathing comes from the exquisite pain of suffering with a
>>>>>>>> flaky
>>>>>>>> home network  for several months, before realising I had a rogue
>>>>>>>> DHCP
>>>>>>>> server somewhere on my network (from wireshark).  I then had to
>>>>>>>> take
>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> mac address, figure out who may have manufactured some device from
>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>> information, and finally figured out the little VOIP ATA adaptor I
>>>>>> had
>>>>>>>> been given liked to do DHCP.
>>>>>>> It did DHCP on the *WAN side*?  You didn't put the rest of your
>>>>>>> network behind the VOIP box on the LAN side I hope.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> This was by far the hardest debugging I've had to do in my home
>>>>>> network
>>>>>>>> in normal operation.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> This is well beyond normal home debugging capability of consumers.
>>>>>>>>             - Jim
>>>>>>> We all have plenty of crappy IPv4 product horror stories.  My VOIP
>>>>>>> phone locked up now and then and I figured out that if the call
>>>>>>> lasted
>>>>>>> longer than the DHCPv4 lease, then it lost the least because it
>>>>>>> didn't
>>>>>>> try to renew it.  Not only did the call drop, but the device locked
>>>>>>> up.  The first solution was to reboot it now and then.  The answer
>>>>>>> was
>>>>>>> to configure a fixed address.  I was lucky to figure it out before
>>>>>>> my
>>>>>>> wife threw the phone through a window.  For all I know a later
>>>>>>> firmware upgrade might have fixed it.  VOIP might be more popular if
>>>>>>> VOIP phones under $600 worked reasonably well.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Both nice stories, but both are DHCPv4 related and have nothing at
>>>>>>> all
>>>>>>> to do with SLAAC.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Curtis
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Don
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On 9/24/12 11:49 AM, "Curtis Villamizar" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> In message <cc84f8f1.1a1c4%[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>> Don Sturek writes:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Curtis,
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> SLAAC not working is a major problem.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Don
>>>>>>>>>> Don,
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Why?  This is an assertion without basis as far as I am
>>>>>>>>>> concerned.
>>>>>>>>>> Except CGA there is nothing that breaks without SLAAC.  Joel
>>>>>> brought
>>>>>>>>>> up ILNP in private email, but I beleive ILNP can also work as the
>>>>>>>>>> constraints in ILNP are in the ILNP identifier which is not the
>>>>>> same
>>>>>>>>>> as the interface address in ILNP for which there is no
>>>>>>>>>> constraint.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> I have subnets running fine using a few /112 allocated from
>>>>>> within a
>>>>>>>>>> /64 with fixed addresses on rack mount hosts and desktops and
>>>>>> DHCPv6
>>>>>>>>>> for dynamic allocations for laptops.  It works fine.  Link local
>>>>>>>>>> addresses are all that is needed to get DHCPv6 to work.  No host
>>>>>> ever
>>>>>>>>>> receives a RA since my routers won't give them one, so no host
>>>>>> ever
>>>>>>>>>> tries to generate an address using SLAAC.  The only constraint is
>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>>>> any host connecting to my Ethernet or wireless must run a DHCP
>>>>>> client
>>>>>>>>>> and if they want an IPv6 GUA must run a DHCPv6 client.  DHCPv4
>>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>>> DHCPv6 servers are available in every subnet except one GbE
>>>>>> subnet in
>>>>>>>>>> the rack and to a few hosts in my home office.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> So as far as I am concerned we have an assertion that no SLAAC is
>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>>>> problem and existance proof that it is not.  Beside CGA and
>>>>>> requiring
>>>>>>>>>> that hosts run DHCPv6 if they want an IPv6 GUA, what can I not
>>>>>>>> support
>>>>>>>>>> on these /112 subnets?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Curtis
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On 9/23/12 4:09 PM, "Curtis Villamizar" <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> In message <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>>>> "Joel M. Halpern" writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Since you invited flames...
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> The argument on /64 as the longest prefix is not that it is
>>>>>>>> magically
>>>>>>>>>>>>> unnatural.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Rather, it is that there are a number of current and evolving
>>>>>>>>>>> protocols
>>>>>>>>>>>>> that depend upon that /64.  The obvious example is that SLAAC
>>>>>> does
>>>>>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>>>>>>>> work if subnets are longer than /64.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> The rules in this regard are written into approved RFCs.  If
>>>>>>>> homenet
>>>>>>>>>>>>> wants to change that, it really needs to go to 6man with a
>>>>>> strong
>>>>>>>>>>> case.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>   (for point-to-point inter-router links this was recently
>>>>>>>> relaxed.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> At the same time, andy operator who insists on giving homes a
>>>>>> /64
>>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>>>>>>> being inappropriately restrictive.  Homenet should say that,
>>>>>>>> rather
>>>>>>>>>>>>> than
>>>>>>>>>>>>> trying to change the IPv6 architecture.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yours,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Joel
>>>>>>>>>>>> Joel,
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> I don't consider your email a flame at all.  Thanks for
>>>>>> responding.
>>>>>>>>>>>> SLAAC (which I am not at a fan of) won't work but DHCPv6 will
>>>>>>>>>>>> so
>>>>>>>> IMHO
>>>>>>>>>>>> no loss.  CGA also won't work but then again I've also never
>>>>>> been a
>>>>>>>>>>>> fan of security half measures.  Yes anti-spoofing without prior
>>>>>>>>>>>> exchange of a key is nice, but no reasonable authorization
>>>>>> could be
>>>>>>>>>>>> based on CGA without also exchanging some sort of key or cert
>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>>> that point the CGA as a public key is redundant.
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> If SLAAC and CGA are the only things that break *and* providers
>>>>>> do
>>>>>>>>>>>> hand out prefixes that are too small, then /64 prefixes will
>>>>>> have
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>>>> be subdivided.
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> So a question for you is what else if anything will break?
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> I also understand that you are suggesting that this be taken to
>>>>>>>> 6man.
>>>>>>>>>>>> That is a good suggestion.
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Curtis
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 9/22/2012 11:30 PM, Curtis Villamizar wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>   12.  This is sure to be controversial.  I pointed out that
>>>>>>>> using
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>        subnets longer than /64 is OK as long as they are not
>>>>>>>> leaked
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>        into global routing.  Please read the text and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> changes
>>>>>>>>>>> before
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>        exploding on this topic.  It may be necessary to
>>>>>> subnet a
>>>>>>>>>>> /64
>>>>>>>>>>>>> if
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>        that is all a provider will give you and you need
>>>>>> subnets.
>>>>>>>>>>> It
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>        does work and it is no more unnatural than
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> subnetting a
>>>>>>>>>>> class-A
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>        network would be in 1990.  It means using DHCPv6 and
>>>>>> not
>>>>>>>>>>> using
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>        RA prefixes for GUA (otherwise SLAAC implementations
>>>>>> would
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>        likely try to use the whole bottom 64).
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