Med,

On 2011/09/14, at 14:40, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Rémi, 
> 
> I didn't get my answer yet. I'm looking for the explanation about the 
> behaviour of an 6/4 interconnection node receiving IPv4 packets destined to 
> CPEs assigned with port sets of different sizes. What is the configuration of 
> that node?
> 

If I correctly understand his algorithm, the size of port sets depend on 
delegated IPv6 prefix length to each CE.
As the example in his mail, a CE gets /48, then it uses whole IPv4 address, 
another CE gets /52, then it uses an IPv4 address with restricted to 3840 ports.

cheers,
--satoru


> Cheers,
> Med
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Rémi Després [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Envoyé : mardi 13 septembre 2011 19:42
> À : BOUCADAIR Mohamed OLNC/NAD/TIP
> Cc : Softwires-wg
> Objet : Re: [Softwires] Analysis of Port Indexing Algorithms 
> (draft-bsd-softwire-stateless-port-index-analysis)
> 
> 
> Le 13 sept. 2011 à 18:08, <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
>> Hi Rémi,
>> 
>> Thank you or your answer but my question was not on the CPE side but the 
>> operations at the border router side.
> 
> The point is that, with the new 4rd, an AFTR that sends an IPv4 packet to a 
> CPE doesn't need to know the length of the CPE IPv6 prefix  of that BR.
> This is a major difference with the old 4rd where this length was a rule 
> parameter. (It is now a parameter only with the CPE-cascade option, to be 
> ignored for this discussion.)
> 
> As detailed in Figure 2, the BR includes in the subnet prefix of the IPv6 
> address L bits from the A+P port. 
> This length L is 14 bits unless it has to be limited for this prefix to fit 
> into 64 bits. 
> 
> The result can be a subnet prefix that typically differs from the CPE IPv6 
> prefix, with some extra port bits after the CPE IPv6 prefix. 
> However, because the subnet prefix does start with the CPE IPv6 prefix, the 
> packet reaches the CPE. 
> There, the 4rd IID is enough for the packet to be recognized as a 4rd packet.
> 
> Is this, now, the explanation you were looking for?
> 
> Cheers,
> RD
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Med
>> 
>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : Rémi Després [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> Envoyé : lundi 12 septembre 2011 17:05
>> À : BOUCADAIR Mohamed OLNC/NAD/TIP
>> Cc : Softwires-wg
>> Objet : Re: [Softwires] Analysis of Port Indexing Algorithms 
>> (draft-bsd-softwire-stateless-port-index-analysis)
>> 
>> 
>> Le 12 sept. 2011 à 16:18, <[email protected]> 
>> <[email protected]> a écrit :
>>> ... 
>>> To double check the ability of 4rd-addmapping algo to support 
>>> differentiated port sets without any state on the BR, could you please 
>>> provide some examples to show this behaviour? FWIW, below are listed some 
>>> configuration proposals:
>> 
>> With 4rd-addmapping, of port-set sizes are directly derived from lengths of 
>> delegated IPv6 prefixes.
>> Thus, if CPEs A and B have IPv6 prefixes of respective lengths L and L+k, 
>> the port set of B is 2^k times smaller than that of A.
>> 
>> Besides that, IPv6 prefixes are assigned without any constraint coming from 
>> IPv4. 
>> 
>>> (1) Differentiated port sets bound to distinct IPv4 address
>>> * Port sets of 4096 ports when the shared IPv4 belongs to POOL_IPv4@_1
>>> * Port sets of 1024 ports when the shared IPv4 belongs to POOL_IPv4@_2
>>> 
>>> (2) Differentiated port sets bound to the same IPv4 address (Because 0-4095 
>>> range is excluded, (n+1)*4096 + m*1024 = 2^16))
>>> * Port sets of 4096 ports assigned to n  CPEs
>>> * Port sets of 1024 ports assigned to m CPEs
>> 
>> First, note that, because of privileged-port exclusion for fairness, 
>> port-set sizes of 4rd are 15/16 * 2^k.
>> 
>> For (1):
>> - POOL_IPv4@_1 has IPv6 prefixes having 4-bit Port-set IDs (and have 
>> 15/16*4096=3840 ports per CPE).
>> - POOL_IPv4@_1 has IPv6 prefixes having 6-bit Port-set IDs (and have 
>> 15/16*1024=960 ports per CPE).
>> 
>> For (2): Assign IPv6 prefixes of length L to n CPEs, and IPv6 prefixes of 
>> length L+2 to m CPEs.
>> 
>> OK?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> RD
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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