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| A. Malis | A. Malis | |||
| (Ascend) | (Ascend) | |||
| M. Mueller | M. Mueller | |||
| (Lucent) | (Lucent) | |||
| January 1999 | January 1999 | |||
| Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Frame Relay Networks | Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Frame Relay Networks | |||
| Specification | Specification | |||
| draft-ietf-ion-ipv6-fr-01.txt | draft-ietf-ion-ipv6-fr-02.txt | |||
| Status of this Memo | Status of this Memo | |||
| This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working | This document is an Internet-Draft. Internet-Drafts are working | |||
| documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, | documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, | |||
| and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute | and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute | |||
| working documents as Internet-Drafts. | working documents as Internet-Drafts. | |||
| Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months | Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months | |||
| and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any | and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any | |||
| skipping to change at page 11, line 17 ¶ | skipping to change at page 11, line 17 ¶ | |||
| document defines two distinct formats for the ND and IND messages | document defines two distinct formats for the ND and IND messages | |||
| Link-Layer Address field: | Link-Layer Address field: | |||
| (a) DLCI Format -- used in ND and/or IND messages on VCs that were | (a) DLCI Format -- used in ND and/or IND messages on VCs that were | |||
| established prior to the ND or IND message exchange -- mostly | established prior to the ND or IND message exchange -- mostly | |||
| PVCs. The use on SVCs makes sense with Inverse Neighbor | PVCs. The use on SVCs makes sense with Inverse Neighbor | |||
| Discovery [IND] messages if IND is employed after the successful | Discovery [IND] messages if IND is employed after the successful | |||
| establishing of an SVC to gather information about other IPv6 | establishing of an SVC to gather information about other IPv6 | |||
| addresses assigned to the remote node and that SVC. | addresses assigned to the remote node and that SVC. | |||
| The use of the override "O" bit [ND] SHOULD be consistent with | ||||
| the type of Link-Layer Address format: an implementation should | ||||
| override one address format in its cache with the same type of | ||||
| address format. The "O" bit SHOULD be clear in the Neighbor | ||||
| Discovery Advertisement message containing such a Link-Layer | ||||
| Address format in case the sender of the message does not wish | ||||
| the recipient to override existing information in its cache[ND]. | ||||
| (b) Frame Relay Address Format -- used mostly prior to establishing | (b) Frame Relay Address Format -- used mostly prior to establishing | |||
| a new SVC, to get the Frame Relay remote node identifier | a new SVC, to get the Frame Relay remote node identifier | |||
| (link-layer address) mapping to a certain IPv6 address. | (link-layer address) mapping to a certain IPv6 address. | |||
| The override "O" bit in the Neighbor Discovery Advertisement | Note: An implementation may hold both types of link layer | |||
| message MAY be set to 1, in order to allow refreshing a cache | identifiers in the Neighbor Discovery cache. Additionally, in case | |||
| entry which maps an IPv6 address to an E.164, X.121, or NSAP | of multiple VCs between two nodes, one node's Neighbor Discovery | |||
| address. | cache may hold a mapping of one of the remote node's IPv6 | |||
| addresses to each and every DLCI identifying the VCs. | ||||
| The mechanisms which in such an implementation would make the | ||||
| distinction between the Neighbor Discovery Cache mapping of an | ||||
| IPv6 address to a "Frame Relay Address Format" and a "DLCI Format" | ||||
| link-layer address, or among several mappings to a "DLCI Format" | ||||
| addresses are beyond the scope of this specification. | ||||
| The use of the override "O" bit in the advertisement messages that | ||||
| contain the above Link-Layer Address formats SHOULD be consistent | ||||
| with the [ND] specifications. Additionally, there should be | ||||
| consistency related to the type of Link-Layer Address format: an | ||||
| implementation should override one address format in its Neighbor | ||||
| Discovery cache with the same type of address format. | ||||
| The "DLCI Format" is defined as follows: | The "DLCI Format" is defined as follows: | |||
| 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 (bit order) | 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 (bit order) | |||
| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | |||
| 0 | Type | | 0 | Type | | |||
| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | |||
| 1 | Length | | 1 | Length | | |||
| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | |||
| with a DLCI (Q.922 address) encoded as option value: | with a DLCI (Q.922 address) encoded as option value: | |||
| 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 (bit order) | 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 (bit order) | |||
| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | |||
| 2 | | 1 | 1 | | 2 | | 1 | 1 | | |||
| + unused +-----+-----+ | + unused +-----+-----+ | |||
| 3 | | | 3 | | | |||
| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | |||
| 4 | DLCI(high order) | 0 | 0 | | 4 | DLCI(high order) | 0 | 0 | | |||
| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ | |||
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