Hi Mattias and Alexandru, as Mattias states it is important that GGSN does not have to do DAD. Thus, the same method is used as with PPPv6. In addition, there is nothing in the mobile that could reliably be used as the interface identifier. Especially, as the mobile can actually have many PDP Contexts open with different IP Addresses.
Cheers, Jonne. -----Original Message----- From: ext Mattias Pettersson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 7:39 AM To: alexandru.petrescu Cc: Delecki Andrew-Y10658; 'Jari Arkko'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cellular host requirements, 01 & next steps Alexandru Petrescu wrote: > > > Appendix A of the draft, uses text from 3GPP TS 23.060, Clause 9.2.1.1 > > without any criticism. > > The funniest thing of the 3GPP "stateless autoconf" is that GGSN > provides the "unique interface identifier" (an equivalent of an EUI-64) > to the mobile as if the mobile would not know its own unique ID. The reason for this, AFAIK, is to get rid of DAD on the GGSN side. If the GGSN hands out IDs from a pool it can easily keep control of what IDs are unused and DAD becomes a simple task. On the other hand, if the GGSN was to do real DAD, it would have to scan a probably *huge* address space to detect collisions, as the GGSN is the only node that knows all the addresses used since the terminals never talk directly to each other. /Mattias > > OTOH, I can understand this if 3GPP considers there'll be a sort > of "tunnel" between mobile and GGSN, like in PPP. But in that > case they just can't state this is stateless autoconf. > > Alex > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List > IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng > FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng > Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
