Re: [Softwires] Mailing list question to gauge consensus on 4rd-U vs MAP

2012-04-06 Thread Francis Dupont
publish both as standard track. Answering NO to this question means you want to see both advance on the standard track. Francis Dupont, representing myself, YES

Re: [Softwires] Demo of draft-penno-softwire-sdnat-02 -- Sunday 25th from 15h30 to 17h00 room #201 at IETF in Paris

2012-03-27 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Here are some questions about the demo and SD-NAT. 1. As I see, the bindings of v6 and v4+ports are deterministic and pre-configured on the AFTR. Will it be of great cost if they are installed using NETCONF which is mentioned in one of

Re: [Softwires] Fragmentation in sdnat-02

2012-03-27 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: This is an issue common to all stateless solutions, including deterministic NAT with (anaycast) IPv4 address pool. = +1! In fact, it is an issue common to all solutions implying mandatory filtering on transport fields (aka layer 4) including ports. Regards

Re: [Softwires] Fragmentation in sdnat-02

2012-03-27 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: In this context, the important consideration is AFAIK that it is completely acceptable to lose fragmented packets that, with bad luck, happen to be routed via distinct BRs when there is a route change. Frequent route changes would have many more severe

Re: [Softwires] Demo of draft-penno-softwire-sdnat-02 -- Sunday 25th from 15h30 to 17h00 room #201 at IETF in Paris

2012-03-27 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: What was the use case for non-contigous port sets? = cf draft-tsou-softwire-port-set-algorithms-analysis-01.txt A good port set definition algorithm must be reversible, easy to implement, and should be able to define non-continuous or random port

Re: [Softwires] Demo of draft-penno-softwire-sdnat-02 -- Sunday 25th from 15h30 to 17h00 room #201 at IETF in Paris

2012-03-27 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: A quick question: why is there a SD-CGN? Do you mean the second NAT at AFTR used to reshape the out-of-range source port into the restricted port range? = there must be a SD-CGN which: - filter from SD-CPE to the Internet packets checking the SD-CPE

Re: [Softwires] Demo of draft-penno-softwire-sdnat-02 -- Sunday 25th from 15h30 to 17h00 room #201 at IETF in Paris

2012-03-26 Thread Francis Dupont
The principle is good, details are not: - only switched (giga) Ethernets were used (no wireless) - the PCP should get double arrow - all SD-B4s run a PCP/NAT-PMP/UPnP-GID-v1+v2 server (in fact they have the same kind of softwares, the laptop just offers more tools, 1 times larger

Re: [Softwires] draft-penno-softwire-sdnat vs. draft-cui-softwire-b4-translated-ds-lite

2012-03-26 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Today, if a user generates a packet using an illegal IPv4 source address, what would we do? We could drop the packet silently by doing source-verify. So, tomorrow if a user use illegal port, IMHO AFTR should drop the packet silently. = it is a bit

Re: [Softwires] Demo of draft-penno-softwire-sdnat-02 -- Sunday 25th from 15h30 to 17h00 room #201 at IETF in Paris

2012-03-25 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Great. So ISC already has DHCPv4 over IPv6 implementation now. = yes but it is experimental: we don't use the IANA assigned number for CRA6ADDR for instance (as IANA will be involved later in the IETF process) and there are some interesting technical problems

Re: [Softwires] Demo of draft-penno-softwire-sdnat-02 -- Sunday 25th from 15h30 to 17h00 room #201 at IETF in Paris

2012-03-24 Thread Francis Dupont
Durand with a 'd' (as sensible as Dupont with a 't' :-)! Francis Dupont fdup...@isc.org ___ Softwires mailing list Softwires@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/softwires

Re: [Softwires] draft-penno-softwire-sdnat vs. draft-cui-softwire-b4-translated-ds-lite

2012-03-15 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Med: Why you need an IPv4 address to run PCP? An implementation example would be as follows: * At bootstrap of the CPE, once an AFTR is discovered, use the Plain IPv6 PCP mode and the new opcode and options defined in

Re: [Softwires] draft-penno-softwire-sdnat vs. draft-cui-softwire-b4-translated-ds-lite

2012-03-15 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Med: The PCP case has been demoed. = My comment is about PCP without any extension. In the second demonstration scenario, the CPE requested several sets of noncontiguous ports (utilizing draft-tsou-pcp-natcoord-03 and

Re: [Softwires] draft-penno-softwire-sdnat vs. draft-cui-softwire-b4-translated-ds-lite

2012-03-15 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: [Qiong] We also have implemented and demoed in IETF 81th. Please refer to http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-cui-softwire-b4-translated-ds-lite-04.txt in Appendix section. = same: my comment is about the base PCP for port range discovery. Regards

Re: [Softwires] draft-penno-softwire-sdnat vs. draft-cui-softwire-b4-translated-ds-lite

2012-03-15 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: 1) - we would have to define the DHCP port option. Not difficult but same amount of work as defining a new ICMP type. = is it a joke? DHCP has an extension mechanism, not ICMP. 2) - with the ICMP message, the ISP can change the port range without having to

Re: [Softwires] draft-penno-softwire-sdnat vs. draft-cui-softwire-b4-translated-ds-lite

2012-03-15 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: I failed to see how Stateless DS-Lite is different from B4 translated DS-lite. We need to first understand what sd-NAT is trying to solve, then decide whether it is needed or not. = I agree and IMHO they have the same issue: the per-CPE port range is far

Re: [Softwires] draft-penno-softwire-sdnat vs. draft-cui-softwire-b4-translated-ds-lite

2012-03-15 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: +1 Re-, Please see inline. (I cut here: too long and unreable with not-ASCII characters, quoted-printable silly coding and long lines) Regards francis.dup...@fdupont.fr ___ Softwires mailing list

Re: [Softwires] draft-penno-softwire-sdnat vs. draft-cui-softwire-b4-translated-ds-lite

2012-03-14 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: In your previous mail you wrote: (*) Question 1: It is not clear in text if there is a second NAT in the AFTR or not. Could you please confirm/infirm a second NAT is present? = there is one but: - it translates

Re: [Softwires] draft-penno-softwire-sdnat vs. draft-cui-softwire-b4-translated-ds-lite

2012-03-14 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: However, the draft seems give people impression there is only one NAT at CPE(i.e. 2.3. Stateless DS-Lite CPE operation) and AFTR is responsible for decapsulation and IPv4 package validation. Did I miss something? = yes, the SD-CGN (the SD-AFTR with

Re: [Softwires] draft-penno-softwire-sdnat vs. draft-cui-softwire-b4-translated-ds-lite

2012-03-14 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: = I leave the draft-penno-* unclear items to Reinaldo... (note: 1- it should be not what we want as it makes CPEs trivial to track, 2- it doesn't remove the mandatory check on source ports in the from CPE to the Internet way) Med: I

Re: [Softwires] draft-penno-softwire-sdnat vs. draft-cui-softwire-b4-translated-ds-lite

2012-03-14 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: (*) Question 1: It is not clear in text if there is a second NAT in the AFTR or not. Could you please confirm/infirm a second NAT is present? in sd-nat, packets originated by an sd-CPE will be 'shaped' to use the correct IPv4

Re: [Softwires] draft-penno-softwire-sdnat vs. draft-cui-softwire-b4-translated-ds-lite

2012-03-13 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: (*) Question 1: It is not clear in text if there is a second NAT in the AFTR or not. Could you please confirm/infirm a second NAT is present? = there is one but: - it translates only port numbers following an algorithm - the NAT is

Re: [Softwires] Closing draft-ietf-softwire-stateless-4v6-motivation

2012-02-11 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: (1) Either issue a WG LC, or +1 francis.dup...@fdupont.fr ___ Softwires mailing list Softwires@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/softwires

Re: [Softwires] DS-Lite fragmentation RFC2473 reference

2011-10-20 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Thanks for the clarification. Too bad the vendor landscape (both AFTR and B4) grossly ignore that normative requirement of RFC6333 and either fragment the payload instead of the tunnel, = there is a feature (not a bug as it is not incorrect) in some

[Softwires] about NAT and ping

2011-03-30 Thread Francis Dupont
NATs (NAT-PTs) are defined to translate TCP and UDP but usually can translate the ICMP echo service as known as 'ping'. It is an (ab)use of the ID field of ICMP echo/echo reply packets which is handled the same way than the TCP/UDP source port. So in the real world 'ping' works at the same place

Re: [Softwires] DS-Lite AFTR ICMPv6 handling

2010-10-25 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: I don't know if the following question has already been discussed, but I haven't found information on the net. = there is a least one generic RFC about tunneling with a lot of good things for error handling. Consider the following topology:

Re: [Softwires] dual-stack-lite-06 - Too biased against static port sharing

2010-08-18 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: We have raised this point during the last call which has been issued on version 03 of the draft and suggested to remove this section from the draft since it is not normative and also because this depends on the taste of each SP and their deployment