>From: "Soliman, Hesham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 2006/10/27 Fri PM 01:54:49 CDT >To: Basavaraj Patil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] >Cc: Thomas Narten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Last Call: 'Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)' to >Draft Standard (draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis)
>Folks, > >This issue was discussed some time ago and we didn't officially resolve >it on the list. >Basavaraj is suggesting that the hard limit of 1800 seconds is >restrictive to some deployments (cellular) and suggests that we increase >it. > >Here is how it is currently defined: > >MaxRtrAdvInterval > The maximum time allowed between sending > unsolicited multicast Router Advertisements from > the interface, in seconds. MUST be no less than 4 > seconds and no greater than 1800 seconds. > > Default: 600 seconds > >Realistically there are two possible options to handle this: > >1. Accept the issue: Increase the value of the MaxRtrAdvInterval. It >seems that in order to do this in a backward compatible way, we can't >increase it beyond 2999 seconds. That's because the default value for >the AdvDefaultLifetime is 3 * MaxRtrAdvInterval and it must be < 9000 >seconds. > >2. Reject the issue. > >Please let me know if the suggestions above are flawed or if you have >another option to include. Otherwise, please express your opinions as to >whether we should choose 1) or 2) above. > >Personally I have no problem with 1). I don't necessarily see any flaws in 1) and believe we should adopt it if we are not also going to increase the upper bound for AdvDefaultLifetime. > >Hesham > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Basavaraj Patil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 4:24 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: Syam Madanapalli; Soliman, Hesham; Thomas Narten > > Subject: Re: Last Call: 'Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 > > (IPv6)' to Draft Standard (draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis) > > > > > > Comment about the MaxRtrAdvInterval value specified in this I-D: > > > > The I-D specifies 1800 seconds as the maximum interval > > between sending > > unsolicited periodic RAs. This value can be an impediment in > > some network > > deployments (eg. Cellular networks). The maximum interval should be a > > configurable value which can be set to the order of several > > hours (6~12 > > hours) as needed. > > Periodic RAs every 30 minutes can be disruptive in certain > > networks and > > hence the value should be modified. > > > > An I-D proposing the revision of this value and the > > reasoning behind it is: > > draft-madanapalli-ipv6-periodic-rtr-advts-00.txt > > > > -Basavaraj > > > > On 10/27/06 1:06 PM, "ext The IESG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The IESG has received a request from the IP Version 6 Working Group > > > to consider the following document: > > > > > > - 'Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6) ' > > > <draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-09.txt> as a Draft Standard > > > > > > The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, > > and solicits > > > final comments on this action. Please send any comments to the > > > [email protected] or [email protected] mailing lists by 2006-11-10. > > > > > > The file can be obtained via > > > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-09.txt > > > > > > Implementation Report can be accessed at > > > http://www.ietf.org/IESG/implementation.html > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > Administrative Requests: > > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >IETF IPv6 working group mailing list >[email protected] >Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 >-------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
