On 25-Mar-21 03:41, Joseph Touch wrote: >> On Wed, 24 Mar 2021, 07:53 Vasilenko Eduard, <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> wrote: > ... >> On Mar 23, 2021, at 8:47 PM, Brian E Carpenter <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >>> Tunnel packets *are* explicitly addressed to a node, so tunnel endpoints >>> are performing host functions on packets. If those host functions being >>> performed on tunnel packets at the tunnel endpoints require buffers, then >>> buffers need to be available. >> >> Yes, and tunnel entry points are hosts when they send an encapsulated packet. > > Viewed from inside a tunnel, the tunnel endpoints are both hosts. > >> There's a subtlety though, which is that the device that contains the tunnel >> entry point on the downstream side of the packet flow is indeed a router on >> the upstream side. Conversely, >> the device that contains the tunnel exit point is a host on the upstream >> side and a router on the downstream side. > > I disagree; a tunnel is a link. That link can easily be host-host.
Agreed. In that case, the prefixes reachable by the tunnel will show up in the host's route table, and the tunnel offers whatever MTU it can. In the general case the devices containing the TEPs will be routers and they will usually participate in a routing protocol for the prefixes reachable via the tunnel. > A host that is router-capable (many OSes have a flag to ‘forward IP’ or not) > can have forwarding disabled (host-only mode) and use tunnels just fine. > >> Which is why the MTU for packets inside the tunnel is no business of anyone >> upstream or downstream of the tunnel. > > Agreed… > > Though I would appreciate your thoughts on how to handle the errors in > RFC2473 as noted in draft-tunnels. As they say in the British Parliament, I require notice of that question. I need to re-read the draft. Brian > > Joe > >> >> Brian > _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
