interface identifier (was: [Sis-csi] No call today)

Marc Blanchet marc.blanchet at viagenie.ca
Sun Dec 24 08:53:46 EST 2006


Le 06-12-23 à 11:09, Lloyd Wood a écrit :

> At Friday 22/12/2006 23:36 -0500, Marc Blanchet wrote:
>
>> Le 06-12-22 à 20:40, Ivancic, William D. (GRC-RCN0) a écrit :
>>
>>> Marc,
>>>
>>> If one is speaking global addressing you are correct.  However, we
>>> are speaking link-local addressing
>>
>> of course, that was the thread. So I guess I did not understand what
>> Lloyd was referring to for "an allocated IPv6 space". link-local is a
>> defined allocated IPv6 space: fe80::
>
> and that's a big space. So do the GSCIDs exist in a part of that,  
> or what?

it could. nothing prevents it.

Marc.


>
> L.
>
>
>
>> Marc.
>>
>>> where anything goes so long as you are not using someone else's
>>> link-local address (oh yeah - don't forget security - that always
>>> messes up what looked like a good solution!)
>>>
>>>
>>> Will
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Marc Blanchet [mailto:marc.blanchet at viagenie.ca]
>>>> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 1:59 PM
>>>> To: Lloyd Wood
>>>> Cc: Ivancic, William D. (GRC-RCN0); Keith Hogie; Mezu,
>>>> Okechukwu A. (GRC-RCN0); sis-csi at mailman.ccsds.org
>>>> Subject: Re: interface identifier (was: [Sis-csi] No call today)
>>>>
>>>> 'f
>>>> Le 06-12-22 à 13:41, Lloyd Wood a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> At Thursday 21/12/2006 14:18 -0600, Ivancic, William D. \(GRC-RCN0
>>>>> \) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> If one wanted to go throught the trouble, I guess one
>>>> could specify a
>>>>>> standardized mechanism for CCSDS for configuring unique link  
>>>>>> local
>>>>>> IPv6 addressed based on Spacecraft ID of some other space-unique
>>>>>> identifier.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What would it take to produce a unique address from GSCID,
>>>> interface
>>>>> identification
>>>>
>>>> a document that describes that.
>>>>
>>>>> and (presumably) an allocated IPv6 space?
>>>>
>>>> you meant address space for the network part? currently, you
>>>> get it from your upstream provider or directly from the
>>>> registries. Of course, in the process of planning a
>>>> deployment, address space would have to be looked up, but I'm
>>>> not sure that needs to be taken care in the ccsds "protocol"  
>>>> profile.
>>>>
>>>> Marc.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> L.
>>
>> -----
>> IPv6 book: Migrating to IPv6, Wiley, 2006, http://www.ipv6book.ca
>>
>>

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IPv6 book: Migrating to IPv6, Wiley, 2006, http://www.ipv6book.ca





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