Ok so if I understand correctly, you replace the IPv4 --> IPv4 address
mapping with the IPv6 --> IPv4 address mapping in the case of DS-Lite.

If that's right, then I don't see how it could work. There is not
necessarily such an IPv6 --> IPv4 address mapping. The internal 192.0.0.0/29
addresses could be mapped to different external IPv4 addresses. Or maybe I
misunderstood your proposal...

Simon

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Tom Taylor <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I have thought this through a bit more. One of the results is a resolution
> between the need to define an IPv6 realm covering some group of
> DS-Lite-served subscribers and your intuition that there should be a realm
> per subscriber. In fact, both are true simultaneously, but the scope of the
> IPv4 realm is limited to the tunnel in which it operates, so it isn't very
> interesting.
>
> What I propose at this point is as follows:
>
> natv2AddressMapInternalRealm OBJECT-TYPE
>     SYNTAX SnmpAdminString (SIZE(0..32))
>     MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
>     STATUS current
>     DESCRIPTION
>         "Realm to which the internal address belongs. In most cases
>          this is the realm defining the address space of the packet
>          being translated. However, in the case of DS-Lite [RFC
>          6333], this realm defines the IPv6 outer header address
>          space, while it is the inner IPv4 packet header that is
>          remapped to the external address and realm. The
>          corresponding IPv4 realm is restricted in scope to the
>          tunnel, so there is no point in identifying it. Similarly,
>          the mapped IPv4 address will normally be the well-known
>          value 192.0.0.2, or at least lie in the reserved
>          192.0.0.0/29 range, and hence is not particularly
>          interesting.
>
>          If natv2AddressMapSubscriberIndex in this table is a valid
>          subscriber index (i.e., greater than zero), then the value
>          of natv2AddressMapInternalRealm MUST be identical to the
>          value of natv2SubscriberRealm associated with that index."
>     REFERENCE
>         "DS-Lite: RFC 6333, Section 5.7 for well-known addresses
>          and Section 6.6 on the need to have the IPv6 tunnel address
>          in the NAT mapping tables."
>     ::= { natv2AddressMapEntry 2 }
>
> natv2AddressMapInternalAddressType OBJECT-TYPE
>     SYNTAX InetAddressType
>     MAX-ACCESS read-only
>     STATUS current
>     DESCRIPTION
>         "Address type in the header of packets on the
>          interior side of this mapping. Any value other than ipv4(1)
>          or ipv6(2) would be unexpected.
>
>          In the DS-Lite case, the address type is ipv6(2). The
>          mapping in that case is considered to be from the
>          combination of the IPv6 tunnel source address and the
>          well-known IPv4 inner source address (which is not presented
>          in this table) to the external address."
>     REFERENCE
>         "DS-Lite: RFC 6333, Section 5.7 for well-known addresses
>          and Section 6.6 on the need to have the IPv6 tunnel address
>          in the NAT mapping tables."
>     ::= { natv2AddressMapEntry 3 }
>
> natv2AddressMapInternalAddress OBJECT-TYPE
>     SYNTAX InetAddress
>     MAX-ACCESS read-only
>     STATUS current
>     DESCRIPTION
>         "Source address of packets originating from the interior
>          of the association provided by this mapping.
>
>          In the case of DS-Lite [RFC 6333], this is the IPv6 tunnel
>          source address. In this case, the mapping is considered to
>          be from the combination of the tunnel source address and the
>          well-known IPv4 inner source address (which is not presented
>          in this table) to the external address."
>     REFERENCE
>         "DS-Lite: RFC 6333, Section 5.7 for well-known addresses
>          and Section 6.6 on the need to have the IPv6 tunnel address
>          in the NAT mapping tables."
>     ::= { natv2AddressMapEntry 4 }
>
> Tom Taylor
>
> On 24/11/2014 1:13 PM, Simon Perreault wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Tom Taylor <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>     The published version -11 of the NAT MIB module indexes address maps
>>     by NAT instance, internal realm, and internal address. This works
>>     fine, I think, except in the CGN case where packets originated by
>>     the subscriber come in by way of tunnels. Take DS-Lite as an example.
>>
>>     In the case of DS-Lite, the realm actually defines an IPv6 numbering
>>     space -- the reserved IPv4 address 192.0.0.2 appearing as the source
>>     of packets originated by the subscriber certainly won't be unique
>>     over the realm, making nonsense of the definition of realm as
>>     defining a numbering space.
>>
>>
>> The definition of realm should be changed so that the tuple (internal
>> address, subscriber index) is unique.
>>
>> Actually I argued in the beginning that each DS-Lite subscriber should
>> have its own realm. That would make for a simpler model, but it turns
>> out that that maps poorly to current implementations. That's why we have
>> subscriber indexes now.
>>
>>     I see two possible ways to present the address map in the MIB
>>     module. One is to keep things as they are, but add a note that the
>>     operator may want to filter on subscriber index (which is part of
>>     the mapping information) to select the information they really want.
>>     If they are starting with the IPv6 tunnel source address, they have
>>     to go to the subscriber table to get the corresponding subscriber
>>     index, then use that to filter the map data.
>>
>>
>> Not sure what you mean. Are you suggesting a different *usage*, or
>> actual changes to the MIB?
>>
>>     The other possible solution is to index the map data by the
>>     "internal realm address" (which would be the IPv6 tunnel source
>>     address) and present the internal packet source address (which would
>>     be the reserved 192.0.0.2) separately in the mapping table. Except
>>     in the case of tunneling, the two addresses will be the same, so
>>     there is redundancy in most cases. However, the workflow for tracing
>>     back from a tunnel source address would be simplified.
>>
>>
>> Why not just add the subscriber index to the index?
>>
>> Simon
>>
>
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