Hi Brian.

I would like to use DHCP to discover the SP-BR. Problem is that the NAT is
the DHCP server for the hosts which won¹t understand the new DHCP option.
Another way to work around this is to define a new light-weight discovery
protocol. Do you have any better idea to share?

For server model, we can define a port-forwarding rule in the NAT. For host
model, things are more tricky. Unfortunately, hosts are behind a NAT and
will suffer from all the NAT limitations.

Thanks,
Yiu

On 11/5/09 9:18 PM, "Brian E Carpenter" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I like this idea in principle, but I am quite concerned by
> two issues that seem to make it unattractive in practice:
> 
> 1. No defined method for discovering the Subscriber IPv4 Address
> (section 3.3) and no universal method of discovering the SP-BR
> prefix (requires RADIUS or DIAMETER, section 5.2, but some ISPs
> don't use either of them).
> 
> 2. Does not support IPv6 server ports (section 7.1, no
> externally initiated sessions). That's just as bad as traditional
> NAT.
> 
> One detail in section 4.1:
> 
>> >    o  this specification does not introduce new requirement to the IPv4
>> >       UDP Length and Checksum.
> 
> Does that mean that the UDP checksum is optional?
> 
>     Brian
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