Re: [Softwires] I-D Action: draft-ietf-softwire-lw4over6-06.txt

2014-03-05 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2014-03-05 14:29, Ian Farrer a écrit : If the longest prefix match returns more than one matching prefix, then an implementation specific tie-breaker MUST be performed to return a single prefix. Does this mean that the lwB4 and lwAFTR would need to be from the same vendor? Simon -- DTN

Re: [Softwires] I-D Action: draft-ietf-softwire-lw4over6-06.txt

2014-03-05 Thread Simon Perreault
, Ian On 5 Mar 2014, at 14:34, Simon Perreault simon.perrea...@viagenie.ca wrote: Le 2014-03-05 14:29, Ian Farrer a écrit : If the longest prefix match returns more than one matching prefix, then an implementation specific tie-breaker MUST be performed to return a single prefix. Does

Re: [Softwires] I-D Action: draft-ietf-softwire-lw4over6-06.txt

2014-03-03 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2014-03-03 14:52, Wojciech Dec a écrit : Lightweight 4over6 provides a solution for a hub-and-spoke softwire architecture only, where the AFTR maintains (softwire) state for each subscriber. A means for optmizing the amount of such state using IPv4-IPv6 address mapping rules, as well

Re: [Softwires] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-liu-softwire-ce-comm-shared-addr-00.txt

2014-02-17 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2014-02-16 14:39, Cong Liu a écrit : We submitted a new draft about an issue on IPv4 communication between two Softwire CEs with the same IPv4 addr and different port set. Any comments are appreciate. Here's the translation of this draft's recommendation into implementer-speak: - Do not

Re: [Softwires] I-D Action: draft-ietf-softwire-lw4over6-05.txt

2014-02-07 Thread Simon Perreault
This part is still not OK: 5.2.1. Changes to RFC2473 and RFC6333 Fragmentation Behaviour On receiving an encapsulated packet containing an IPv4 fragment, the lwB4 SHOULD wait until all other fragments have been received and de- capsulated. The original packet is then re-assembled

Re: [Softwires] I-D Action: draft-ietf-softwire-lw4over6-05.txt

2014-02-07 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2014-02-07 11:01, ian.far...@telekom.de a écrit : This part is still not OK: 5.2.1. Changes to RFC2473 and RFC6333 Fragmentation Behaviour On receiving an encapsulated packet containing an IPv4 fragment, the lwB4 SHOULD wait until all other fragments have been received and de-

Re: [Softwires] Working group last call for draft-ietf-softwire-lw4over6-03

2014-01-21 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2014-01-21 04:19, ian.far...@telekom.de a écrit : 1. Section 5.1: An IPv6 address from an assigned prefix is also required for the lwB4 to use as the encapsulation source address for the softwire. In order to enable end-to-end provisioning, the IPv6 address is constructed

Re: [Softwires] Working group last call for draft-ietf-softwire-lw4over6-03

2014-01-21 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2014-01-21 10:25, ian.far...@telekom.de a écrit : [ian] The current text describes how the CPE creates the /128 prefix to use as its tunnel endpoint (when its provisioned with DHCPv6). This prefix has been constructed using an existing /64 prefix and a suffix that has been learnt through the

Re: [Softwires] Working group last call for draft-ietf-softwire-lw4over6-03

2014-01-16 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2014-01-16 02:19, Mikael Abrahamsson a écrit : The fragmentation handling needs more guidance. 5.2.1. says: On receiving an encapsulated packet containing an IPv4 fragment, the lwB4 MUST wait until all other fragments have been received and de- capsulated. What happens if one of the

Re: [Softwires] WGLC review of draft-ietf-softwire-map

2014-01-06 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2014-01-02 12:11, Ole Troan a écrit : 1. The distinction between BMR and FMR is very confusing. And it's going to get even more confusing when the reader gets to draft-ietf-softwire-map-dhcp, where there is only a single unified rule parameter. Suggestion: remove the concept of FMR. The

Re: [Softwires] I-D Action: draft-ietf-softwire-map-09.txt

2013-12-10 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-12-10 09:57, Simon Perreault a écrit : I'll resend my WGLC comments right away. Done: Dec 10 09:58:14 jazz postfix/smtpd[14691]: BD259400A8: client=unknown[2620:0:230:c000:54e0:da70:48b1:eece], sasl_method=PLAIN, sasl_username=simon Dec 10 09:58:14 jazz postfix/cleanup[14636

Re: [Softwires] MAP compatibility with DS-Lite

2013-11-22 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-11-22 05:30, Wojciech Dec a écrit : Consider the case where a MAP deployment has a need (for whatever reason) to direct some CPEs to an AFTR (stateful NAT). Instead of rolling out Ds-lite DHCP extensions all over ...or only to the CPEs in question... it is trivially simple to achieve

[Softwires] MAP compatibility with DS-Lite

2013-11-20 Thread Simon Perreault
WG, draft-ietf-softwire-map-08 contains this: 7.3. Backwards compatibility A MAP-E CE provisioned with only the IPv6 address of the BR, and with no IPv4 address and port range configured by other means, MUST disable its NAT44 functionality. This characteristic makes a MAP CE

Re: [Softwires] On the topic of OPTION_S46_IPV4ADDRESS

2013-11-15 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-11-15 04:24, Ole Troan a écrit : if optional, we have to think through the corner cases: - how does a CPE know when to initiate DHCPv4 (or PCP)? I would propose: when OPTION_S46_IPV4ADDRESS is absent. DHCPv4 or PCP? Whichever one the CPE wants to try, or even both. We don't need to

Re: [Softwires] On the topic of OPTION_S46_IPV4ADDRESS

2013-11-15 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-11-15 07:35, ian.far...@telekom.de a écrit : If you are implementing OPTION_S46_CONT_LW46, I say you have to implement all of the sub-options necessary to provision it, including OPTION_S46_IPV4ADDRESS. If you want to use DHCPV4oDHCPv6 or PCP, then you don’t have to implement

Re: [Softwires] On the topic of OPTION_S46_IPV4ADDRESS

2013-11-15 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-11-15 08:55, Ole Troan a écrit : Cong, DHCPv4/PCP enable options will be outside containers, because containers contains sub-options. I don't think that will work. DHCPv6 server sends two containers MAP_E and LW46. the client must be able to associate the enable options to one of

Re: [Softwires] On the topic of OPTION_S46_IPV4ADDRESS

2013-11-15 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-11-14 22:53, Ted Lemon a écrit : Removing unneeded cruft is probably good too. I mean, if nobody is going to use it... How sure are you that nobody is going to use it? Serious question. IMHO, if nobody comes to the WG with a need for it, then we should remove it. If anyone comes

Re: [Softwires] On the topic of OPTION_S46_IPV4ADDRESS

2013-11-15 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-11-15 09:01, Ole Troan a écrit : if optional, we have to think through the corner cases: - how does a CPE know when to initiate DHCPv4 (or PCP)? I would propose: when OPTION_S46_IPV4ADDRESS is absent. DHCPv4 or PCP? Whichever one the CPE wants to try, or even both. We don't need to

Re: [Softwires] On the topic of OPTION_S46_IPV4ADDRESS

2013-11-15 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-11-15 13:55, Ted Lemon a écrit : On Nov 15, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Simon Perreault simon.perrea...@viagenie.ca wrote: Right. I think that the utility of enable options still needs to be demonstrated. Bear in mind that DHCPv4overDHCPv6 is intended to be a broad solution, not a softwires

[Softwires] On the topic of OPTION_S46_IPV4ADDRESS

2013-11-14 Thread Simon Perreault
WG, Currently draft-ietf-softwire-map-dhcp-05 says that OPTION_S46_IPV4ADDRESS is mandatory. It has to be made at least optional so that DHCPv4oDHCPv6 or PCP can be used for IPv4 address provisioning. Can we go further? Can we just remove OPTION_S46_IPV4ADDRESS? The result would be that

Re: [Softwires] Thoughts on provisioning and universal CPE

2013-10-20 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-10-18 09:47, Tom Taylor a écrit : Nothing seems to be happening to the work on the universal CPE draft For everyone's information: there were *a lot* of private discussions between the various draft authors. draft-ietf-softwire-map-dhcp-05 is one immediate result. The other result is

[Softwires] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-perreault-softwire-lw4over6-pcp-00.txt

2013-06-04 Thread Simon Perreault
...@huawei.com, Simon Perreault simon.perrea...@viagenie.ca A new version of I-D, draft-perreault-softwire-lw4over6-pcp-00.txt has been successfully submitted by Chongfeng Xie and posted to the IETF repository. Filename:draft-perreault-softwire-lw4over6-pcp Revision:00 Title: Provisioning

Re: [Softwires] MAP based attribution and spoofing

2013-04-26 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-04-26 09:22, Ole Troan a écrit : Cameron, My concern is at the rogue MAP CE. Thus, the spoof protection filtering should be applied at the attachment PE so that the rogue MAP CE attempts at spoofing can squashed at the provider edge. Make sense? yes, that was what I meant too

Re: [Softwires] MAP based attribution and spoofing

2013-04-26 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-04-26 16:50, Rajiv Asati (rajiva) a écrit : Thankfully, in MAP, both CE and BR employ the so called port-range aware uRPF, as Ole well clarified. So, the possibility of any device causing any grief to any other device (in the network - CE or outside the network - via BR) just does NOT

Re: [Softwires] France Telecom's IPR Statement about 4rd

2013-04-10 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-04-10 09:23, Rémi Després a écrit : In my understanding, this justifies that an IPR statement that doesn't concern an RFC (with due understanding of initiators of the statement), should be deleted by its initiators, in good faith, rather than inappropriately listed in the RFC itself.

Re: [Softwires] France Telecom's IPR Statement about 4rd

2013-04-10 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-04-10 07:15, Suresh Krishnan a écrit : Any RFC listed in an ipr disclosure will have a notice added (described in Section 5 of RFC3979) that will contain a disclaimer of validity. According to that section, the notice will be added to any IETF RFC, whether there is any IPR declaration

Re: [Softwires] Call for adoption of draft-bfmk-softwire-unified-cpe-02

2013-02-05 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-02-05 09:55, olaf.bonn...@telekom.de a écrit : I see a useful work here that brings together the different Softwire approaches under a unified CPE and would that's why vote for an adoption as WG working item. +1 Simon ___ Softwires mailing

Re: [Softwires] Unified Softwire CPE: draft-bfmk-softwire-unified-cpe

2012-11-30 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2012-11-29 11:16, mohamed.boucad...@orange.com a écrit : As agreed in Atlanta, we prepared an I-D describing a proposed approach for the unified CPE. We hope this version is a good starting point to have fruitful discussion. Your comments, suggestions and contributions are more than

Re: [Softwires] Unified Softwire CPE: draft-bfmk-softwire-unified-cpe

2012-11-30 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2012-11-30 14:09, mohamed.boucad...@orange.com a écrit : - Didn't we also consider public 4o6 as one mode? Any reason why it was left out? - Is public 4o6 the minor change to lw4o6 that section 4.1 hints at? Med: The rationale we adopted in this draft is as follows: * there are three

Re: [Softwires] Unified Softwire CPE: draft-bfmk-softwire-unified-cpe

2012-11-30 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2012-11-30 14:22, ian.far...@telekom.de a écrit : Ian: I broadly agree with what you've said, but one use case that did cross my mind is if you only needed to provision mesh routes to a client with no need for a concentrator/default route. A closed machine-to-machine type service could be an

Re: [Softwires] Unified Softwire CPE: draft-bfmk-softwire-unified-cpe

2012-11-30 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2012-11-30 15:18, mohamed.boucad...@orange.com a écrit : MAP-E: - Lw4o6 set of provisioning information - Forwarding mapping rules Med: Because of the dependency between the IPv4 address/IPv6 prefix, additional parameters are needed for MAP. This is why the table included two entries for

Re: [Softwires] HubSpoke of MAP-E

2012-08-24 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2012-08-24 11:39, Wojciech Dec a écrit : Here's an idea: a restricted profile of MAP-E that would only allow hub-and-spoke, described in a separate RFC, would look exactly like LW4o6, right? And it could be implemented stand-alone, without all the mesh code. And it could be

Re: [Softwires] IETF84 - MAP Interop event

2012-07-31 Thread Simon Perreault
We're in Plaza C waiting for implementers. Are we in the right place? Simon Le 2012-07-30 12:35, Wojciech Dec a écrit : Hi All, small update: After an on0site visit it's been determined that we'll relocate the MAP interop to room Plaza-C Regards, Woj. On 29 July 2012 11:38, Wojciech Dec

Re: [Softwires] Call for adoption of draft-mdt-softwire-map-deployment-02 as wg draft

2012-07-10 Thread Simon Perreault
On 07/10/2012 05:46 AM, Rémi Després wrote: This draft contains valuable advices which can apply to 4rd as well as to MAP-T+E, but is exclusively MAP oriented. As such, I find it premature to move it to WG-draft status. If 4rd is chosen for standardization, adapting this deployment draft to it

[Softwires] MAP design team [Was: Re: [Softwire] draft-ietf-softwire-map-00 does NOT reflect the consensus from the WG]

2012-06-26 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2012-06-26 04:50, Wojciech Dec wrote: - A parameter PER DOMAIN was an obvious result of a merger. - But a parameter PER RULE is a significant novelty. OK? That was not intended, and appears to be a genuine mistake in draft-00. Thanks for spotting. It is a parameter per domain, as

Re: [Softwires] WG last call on draft-ietf-softwire-dslite-multicast-02

2012-06-07 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2012-06-07 08:51, mohamed.boucad...@orange.com wrote: Among the use cases of high priority identified in http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mboned-v4v6-mcast-ps-00#section-3.6, the IGMP/MLD IWF is only required for the use case described in draft-ietf-softwire-dslite-multicast. The

Re: [Softwires] WG last call on draft-ietf-softwire-dslite-multicast-02

2012-06-05 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2012-06-04 22:13, Jacni Qin wrote: Section 6.1 introduces IGMP/MLD translation, but I fear it is very underspecified. Our own effort at specifying IGMP/MLD translation is in draft-perreault-mboned-igmp-mld-translation. I feel that DS-Lite multicast would be better served by referencing our

Re: [Softwires] WG last call on draft-ietf-softwire-dslite-multicast-02

2012-05-28 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2012-05-27 10:34, Yong Cui wrote: This is a wg last call on draft-ietf-softwire-dslite-multicast-02. Section 6.1 introduces IGMP/MLD translation, but I fear it is very underspecified. Our own effort at specifying IGMP/MLD translation is in draft-perreault-mboned-igmp-mld-translation. I

Re: [Softwires] I-D Action: draft-ietf-softwire-4rd-00.txt

2012-05-22 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2012-05-22 12:29, Maoke wrote: 1. it is not the time to compare 4rd with MAP-T or with MAP-E separately, but with the MAP-suite. i never think MAP-T is intended to be the *unique* standard in the scope of residual deployment. (maybe it was but we'd better discuss things based on current

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

2012-04-05 Thread Simon Perreault
. Answering NO to this question means you want to see both advance on the standard track. Simon Perreault, Viagénie, YES (*) (*) That's assuming we can reach a consensus. Otherwise both as experimental sounds like the obvious way out. Questions 2: Which one do you want to see placed

Re: [Softwires] 4rd-U informal meeting - Tuesday 15:15 Room 204

2012-03-28 Thread Simon Perreault
On 03/28/12 00:42, Tetsuya Murakami wrote: Also, as I mentioned during the meeting, I double-checked the current implementation of IPv6 stack (Linux/BSD). If implementing 4rd-u, IPv6 stack gives received IPv6 packet to 4rd-u module after processing it. But, according to the current

Re: [Softwires] 4rd-U informal meeting - Tuesday 15:15 Room 204

2012-03-28 Thread Simon Perreault
On 03/28/12 09:22, Tetsuya Murakami wrote: In terms of CNP, CNP needs to be calculated every time if the packet is toward to outside of domain because the embedded IPv4 address could be different. So, I think there is no difference between CNP and recalculation of L4 checksum from the

Re: [Softwires] 4rd-U informal meeting - Tuesday 15:15 Room 204

2012-03-28 Thread Simon Perreault
On 03/28/12 12:28, Ole Trøan wrote: There's a reason NPTv6 and NAT64 chose checksum neutrality... NAT64?? Yup. RFC 6052 section 4. Simon -- DTN made easy, lean, and smart -- http://postellation.viagenie.ca NAT64/DNS64 open-source-- http://ecdysis.viagenie.ca STUN/TURN server

Re: [Softwires] 4rd-U informal meeting - Tuesday 15:15 Room 204

2012-03-28 Thread Simon Perreault
On 03/28/12 12:43, Ole Trøan wrote: There's a reason NPTv6 and NAT64 chose checksum neutrality... NAT64?? Yup. RFC 6052 section 4. as in We considered reserving 16 bits in the suffix to guarantee checksum neutrality, but declined No, as in: - The well-known prefix is intentionally

Re: [Softwires] 4rd-U informal meeting - Tuesday 15:15 Room 204

2012-03-28 Thread Simon Perreault
On 03/28/12 12:50, Maoke wrote: Yup. RFC 6052 section 4. do you mean the following paragraph: No. See my response to Ole. 1. as a stateless address mapping, RFC6052 doesn't assumes any stateful NAT64 is also required to use checksum-neutral address -- liberal to others Not sure what

Re: [Softwires] 4rd-U informal meeting - Tuesday 15:15 Room 204

2012-03-28 Thread Simon Perreault
On 03/28/12 13:21, Tetsuya Murakami wrote: Depends how you implement it. I can think of at least one way to do it on Linux without touching the IPv6 stack. (with NF hooks) Yes. It could be possible. But NAT44 requires a network device. If NAT44 is also utilized, a 4rd-u module attached to IPv6

Re: [Softwires] Port Set Definition Algorithms Analysis (4rd-u not GMA)

2012-03-06 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2012-03-06 13:03, Rémi Després wrote: In this analysis, the 4rd-u port-set algorithm is presented as an instance of GMA algorithm (i.e. Generalized Modulus Algorithm). I think it would be more appropriate to have it in its own category, e.g. that of parameter-less algorithms (it has no

Re: [Softwires] Analysis of Port Indexing Algorithms (draft-bsd-softwire-stateless-port-index-analysis)

2011-09-07 Thread Simon Perreault
mohamed.boucad...@orange-ftgroup.com wrote, on 09/07/2011 03:28 AM: What I have done is I clarified the text as follows: o Complexity: Reflects the complexity level of understanding the algorithm and the expected complexity to configure an implementation. A subjective

Re: [Softwires] Double stateless NAT64 and checksum recalculation

2011-08-24 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2011-08-24 05:29, Nejc Škoberne wrote: Agree. I think transmitting packets with invalid TCP checksum field is dangerous. Stateful NAT is ubiquitous nowadays. Simon? How was the conclusion, that the transport checksum does not need to be modified, reached? Look, this is a deployment

Re: [Softwires] Double stateless NAT64 and checksum recalculation

2011-08-24 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2011-08-24 06:21, Nejc Škoberne wrote: Dear Simon, A consequence is that the 4rd address scheme does not need to care about checksum neutrality (contrary to e.g. NAT64 and NAT66). Sorry, but I don't understand this. Can you please paraphrase? Please refer to:

Re: [Softwires] Double stateless NAT64 and checksum recalculation

2011-08-23 Thread Simon Perreault
Nejc Škoberne wrote, on 08/23/2011 07:00 PM: Yes, we've been discussing this internally among co-authors of draft-despres-softwire-4rd-addmapping. The conclusion was that the transport checksum does not need to be modified. OK. But this then means, that if there are any stateful devices

Re: [Softwires] 4rd mapping rule separation

2011-08-22 Thread Simon Perreault
Mark Townsley wrote, on 08/21/2011 10:19 AM: It takes me about 30 seconds to describe at a high-level what 4rd is to someone who already understands ds-lite by referring to it as a stateless version of ds-lite. That's a good thing. To someone who already understands 6rd: 4rd is to IPv4

Re: [Softwires] draft-murakami-softwire-4v6-translation

2011-08-19 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2011-08-18 22:03, GangChen wrote: 2011/8/18, Simon Perreault simon.perrea...@viagenie.ca: On 2011-08-18 09:59, GangChen wrote: NAT44 is one of three fundamental functions in A+P architecture. Otherwise, it can’t connect to legacy end-hosts. What if in my deployment scenario

Re: [Softwires] 4rd mapping rule separation

2011-08-19 Thread Simon Perreault
, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Simon Perreault simon.perrea...@viagenie.ca wrote: On 2011-08-19 05:19, Tetsuya Murakami wrote: draft-murakami-softwire-4rd draft-murakami-softiwire-4v6-translation I think it might be good to combine these 2 drafts to create one unified document for 4rd specification

Re: [Softwires] Softwire Interim meeting

2011-08-17 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2011-08-17 04:08, Ole Troan wrote: it would be good to have at least 4 weeks notice for travel arrangements to be made. Not only would it be good, it is required. http://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/interim-meetings.html If we are to meet on September 15-16, the meeting must be announced

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

2011-08-16 Thread Simon Perreault
mohamed.boucad...@orange-ftgroup.com wrote, on 08/16/2011 11:03 AM: As for the content of the next iteration of the document, we have two options so far: (1) Put back some sections which have been removed in -02, add a new section to discuss dynamic vs. static, handle the comments received

Re: [Softwires] Clarification of the stateles/stateful discussion

2011-08-11 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2011-08-11 07:01, xiaohong.d...@orange-ftgroup.com wrote: But I don't understand will the figure be different with 'scattered' port-set NAT? To my knowledge, it's something todo with app's behaviours and NAT type(EIM in our test). Would you explain if I miss something? Thanks As it was

Re: [Softwires] Clarification of the stateles/stateful discussion

2011-08-04 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2011-08-03 16:44, Tetsuya Murakami wrote: So the 900G figure is valid *in theory*, but *in practice* we're stuck with a number of sessions roughly equal to the number of external ports available on the NAT. As I mentioned above, the number of NAT session can be greater than the available

Re: [Softwires] Clarification of the stateles/stateful discussion

2011-08-04 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2011-08-04 11:01, Cameron Byrne wrote: Yes, because these NATs are endpoint-dependent, which is forbidden by the BEHAVE RFCs. It is still very usefull and will be deployed regardless. Right. But the IETF needs consistency in the advice it provides. I understand you need to keep your

Re: [Softwires] Clarification of the stateles/stateful discussion

2011-08-03 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2011-08-03 09:32, Rémi Després wrote: I think there is an important point missing from this discussion. It is tricky but it has important practical consequences. As I said, The 900G figure is valid, *as long as internal hosts reuse the same source address+port for different destinations*.

Re: [Softwires] Clarification of the stateles/stateful discussion

2011-08-02 Thread Simon Perreault
Satoru Matsushima wrote, on 08/01/2011 10:41 PM: Thanks, a clarification has made to clear a confusion of restricted port set/ranges and NAT session table limitation. Even if a CPE is allocated 256 ports, NAT session can be made over 900G sessions in theory. ('2^32'Full 32bits v4 address -

Re: [Softwires] Clarification of the stateles/stateful discussion

2011-08-02 Thread Simon Perreault
Simon Perreault wrote, on 08/02/2011 09:24 AM: Satoru Matsushima wrote, on 08/01/2011 10:41 PM: Thanks, a clarification has made to clear a confusion of restricted port set/ranges and NAT session table limitation. Even if a CPE is allocated 256 ports, NAT session can be made over 900G sessions

Re: [Softwires] Clarification of the stateles/stateful discussion

2011-08-01 Thread Simon Perreault
Jan Zorz @ go6.si wrote, on 08/01/2011 10:36 AM: Well, is short words, whatever number of ports you assign in port-set/range, end user can exhaust them. The fact that most ISPs have been successfully operating with 65536 ports per subscriber demonstrates that it is possible to statically

Re: [Softwires] Widening the Port-Control-Protocol scope

2010-04-16 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2010-04-16 05:04, Rémi Després wrote: (The current scope is: - DS-lite only - Only port-control servers that assign ports one by one.) 1. With the IPv4 address shortage, ISP NATs will be more and more necessary not only in point-to-point configurations, DS-lite in particular, but also in