Remi,

>>>> I would be tempted to suggest that we write a "an implementation MUST NOT 
>>>> make this assumption" in the MAP draft.
>>>> and that we in IETF documents write this as if there is a prefix reserved 
>>>> for address mapping.
>>>> in the general case there is no way to guarantee that a host doesn't pick 
>>>> the same IID. and we'll have to specify how this would work with DAD and 
>>>> proxy ND. I'd rather not. left up to the implementor is my suggestion...
>>> Taking the EUI-64 into account, a careful design of the 4rd IID can make 
>>> the probability of conflicts quite low. Then as you mentioned, DAD would 
>>> further reduce it.
>>> Anyway, that's not to say I'm in favor of this design, the reason I see, of 
>>> doing this is just to accommodate the double translation while not affect 
>>> at all the IPv6 addressing (a reserved prefix? no ...).
>> 
>> the DAD/ND redirect solution would fail in the routed home case. i.e. the 
>> case where there is multiple levels of routers in the network.
> 
> Could you document more why you think that DAD/ND would fail if IPv6 
> addresses used to reach 4rd CEs would have a 4rd-distinguishable IID?

this is the translation case for a routed home. DAD/ND wouldn't be done on any 
of the links the dIVI CE was connected to.
for 4rd this isn't a problem since the packets are destined to the 4rd CE. the 
dIVI CE has to intercept packets not destined for itself.
in that case it would make sense to reserve a prefix for that purpose.
same as the 4rd CE address comes out of a /64 used for numbering internal 
interfaces on the CE.

>> that's why I think the recommendation should be to use one /64 of the 
>> delegated prefix to the translation "pool".
> 
> This would defeat one important objective: possible operation without ANY 
> impact of IPv4 on IPv6 prefixes delegated to CEs.
> 
> As such, this would be AFAIK a step backward.

I don't see that?

I thought this discussion started out with the case where IPv6 hosts were 
sharing the same prefix as is used for translated addresses.
I'm pointing out that this isn't a good idea. and I don't see why we need to 
describe that case in any of our documents.

cheers,
Ole

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