Thanks Acee. Looks good to me. I have cleared.

Regards
Suresh

On 06/29/2016 03:24 PM, Acee Lindem (acee) wrote:
> Hi Suresh,
>
> We’ve updated the draft.
>
> Thanks,
> Acee
>
> On 6/29/16, 11:10 AM, "Suresh Krishnan" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Acee,
>>    Thanks for the quick turanround. All your proposed changes look good
>> to
>> me. I will clear as soon as a new version posts. We can probably discuss
>> the
>> "Updates:" issue on the telechat but I do not have strong feelings about
>> this
>> one way or another.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Suresh
>>
>> On 06/29/2016 09:49 AM, Acee Lindem (acee) wrote:
>>> Hi Suresh,
>>>
>>> On 6/28/16, 11:41 PM, "Suresh Krishnan" <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Suresh Krishnan has entered the following ballot position for
>>>> draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3-10: Discuss
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> DISCUSS:
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> I do think this is a good mechanism to transition from IPv4-only OSPFv2
>>>> to dual-stack capable OSPFv3 and I intend to switch to a Yes once my
>>>> discuss points are addressed.
>>>>
>>>> * The calculation for the checksum field in the OSPFv3 packet is not
>>>> specified in this document. The RFC5340 checksum calculation uses the
>>>> IPv6 pseudo-header mechanism for upper layer checksums as specified in
>>>> Section 8.1 of RFC2460. Since that obviously won't work here (as there
>>>> are no source and dest IPv6 addresses) some different mechanism needs
>>>> to
>>>> be specified here.
>>>
>>> Agreed. We will add this - not sure how we missed it. Many IPv4
>>> protocols
>>> (including OSPFv2 as described in RFC 2328) exclude the pseudo-header
>>> from
>>> the standard checksum calculation. Since we have it in OSPFv3 over IPv6
>>> with the RFC 2460 pseudo header, I feel we should retain it here lest we
>>> open up OSPFv3 to a documented OSPFv3 vulnerably when authentication is
>>> not used.
>>>
>>> I propose we just use a variant of the UDP pseudo header as described in
>>> RFC 768.
>>>
>>> For IPv4 transport, the pseudo-header used in the checksum calculation
>>> will
>>> contain the IPv4 source and destination addresses, the OSPFv3 protocol
>>> ID,
>>> and the OSPFv3 length from the OSPFv3 header (Appendix A.3.1 [RFC5340]).
>>> The format is similar to the UDP pseudo-header as described in [RFC768].
>>>
>>>
>>>    0                   1                   2                   3
>>>    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
>>> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>>> |                       Source Address                          |
>>> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>>> |                    Destination Address                        |
>>> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>>> |     0         | Protocol (89) |     OSPFv3 Packet Length      |
>>> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> * (based on the above) Why doesn't this document update RFC5340?
>>>
>>> It could. However, RFC 5340 solely describes OSPFv3 with IPv6 transport.
>>> Whether or not an enhancement that doesn’t change an existing
>>> specification but augments it has always been a debate. We usually err
>>> on
>>> the side of updating. What is the IESG take on this?
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> COMMENT:
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> I do have one question that I am curious about. Can this mechanism be
>>>> run
>>>> alongside OSPFv2 on the same router? If so, how does the demultiplexing
>>>> take place to dispatch the packet to either the OSPFv2 or the
>>>> OSPFv3-over-IPv4 implementation (as the endpoints are potentially the
>>>> same and the IP proto number 89 is usually dispatched to OSPFv2)? Does
>>>> it
>>>> require inserting some sort of shim in the OSPFv2 implementation to
>>>> further dispatch on the version number octet?
>>>
>>> No shim is necessary since both OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 will check the version
>>> number in the first octet of the OSPF(v3) packet header. Commercial
>>> implementations normally would normally drop the packet before this
>>> stage
>>> unless one has both OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 running on the same interface.
>>> However, I think this should be discussed in a “Management
>>> Considerations”
>>> section.
>>>
>>>    5.0 Management Considerations
>>>
>>>    5.1 Coexistence with OSPFv2
>>>
>>>    Since OSPFv2 [RFC2328] and OSPFv3 over IPv4 as described herein use
>>>    exactly the same protocol and IPv4 addresses, OSPFv2 packets may be
>>>    delivered to the OSPFv3 process and vice versa. When this occurs, the
>>>    mismatched protocol packets will be dropped due to validation of the
>>>    version in the first octet of the OSPFv2/OSPFv3 protocol header. Note
>>>    that this will not prevent the packets from being delivered to the
>>>    correct protocol process as standard socket implementations will
>>>    deliver a copy to each socket matching the selectors.
>>>
>>>    Implementations of OSPFv3 over IPv4 transport SHOULD implement
>>>    separate counters for a protocol mismatch and SHOULD provide
>>>    means to suppress the ospfIfRxBadPacket and ospfVirtIfRxBadPacket
>>>    SNMP notifications as described in [RFC4750] and the
>>>    ospfv3IfRxBadPacket and ospv3VirtIfRxBadPacket SNMP notifications
>>>    as described in [RFC5643] when an OSPFv2 packet is received by
>>>    the OSPFv3 process or vice versa.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Acee
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>


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