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CPE router acting as host on its WAN interface (RE: draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-cpe-router-03.txt WGLC)
Fred,
A concern I raised on the list a while back centers around
the behavior of the CPE router acting as a host on its WAN
interface per section 4.1:
"When the router is attached to the WAN interface link it must act as
an IPv6 host for the purposes of stateless or stateful interface
address assignment ([RFC4862]/[RFC3315])."
and per WPD-3:
"WPD-3: Absent of other routing information the IPv6 CE router MUST
use Router Discovery as specified in [RFC4861] to discover a
default router and install a default route in its routing
table with the discovered router's address as the next-hop."
To my understanding, this behavior would involve the CPE
router sending Router Solicitation (RS) messages on its
WAN interface in order to receive Router Advertisement (RA)
messages. According to Section 6.2.6 of RFC4861, however:
"Whether or not a Source Link-Layer
Address option is provided, if a Neighbor Cache entry for the
(RS)'s sender exists (or is created) the entry's IsRouter flag
MUST be set to FALSE."
RFC4861 goes to some level of detail to specify the setting
of the IsRouter flag under various circumstances (including
the RS case), but it only says what actions should be taken
based on the flag as result of receiving Neighbor Advertisement
messages. Other actions based on the IsRouter flag setting do
not seem to be specified.
In the linux kernel, it appears that the kernel will in some
circumstances garbage-collect FIB entries that have a nexthop
with the IsRouter flag set to FALSE. It is not clear what other
router implementations would do based on the IsRouter setting,
but it seems odd that the IsRouter flag in neighbor cache
entries corresponding to CPE routers would be set to FALSE
which in the linux case at least may lead to interoperability
issues.
As a result, it might be worth reconsidering whether it is
appropriate for the CPE router to send an RS which might
confuse other routers into thinking it is a host.
Fred
fred.l.templin@boeing.com
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> Subject: draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-cpe-router-03.txt WGLC
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> On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:45 AM, internet-drafts@ietf.org wrote:
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> Title : Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers
> Author(s) : H. Singh, et al.
> Filename : draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-cpe-router-03.txt
> Pages : 14
> Date : 2009-12-18
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> This document specifies requirements for an IPv6 Customer Edge (CE)
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