[Planetlab-devel] IPv6 support for MyPLC

[McGeer, Patrick C]

Jim,
One of the problems that PlanetLab has is that we only have one v4
address per machine (gee, think more address bits would solve this
problem?).  So the ugly choices are to share the port space (which we're
doing), or do some hideous on-box NAT thing.

The cool thing about v6 (well, one cool thing about v6) is that we can
give each sliver (aka, each virtual machine) its own v6 address.  So we
haven't faced this issue in v4 because v4 is too limited to give us the
possibility.

-- Rick 

-----Original Message-----
From: devel-bounces at planet-lab.org [mailto:devel-bounces at planet-lab.org]
On Behalf Of Bound, Jim
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:35 PM
To: Marc E. Fiuczynski; devel at lists.planet-lab.org
Subject: RE: [Planetlab-devel] IPv6 support for MyPLC

How does it work with IPv4 today?  

I don't how the vserver configures its IP address and if it uses an IPv6
implementation it must know node discovery thus stateless could work.

DHCPv6 assumes their is a DHCPv6 client on the vserver?

/jim 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel-bounces at planet-lab.org
> [mailto:devel-bounces at planet-lab.org] On Behalf Of Marc E. Fiuczynski
> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 5:59 PM
> To: devel at lists.planet-lab.org
> Subject: [Planetlab-devel] IPv6 support for MyPLC
> 
> [This thread was on started on a separate mailing list. I've shut down

> that mailing list and would like to continue on the devel mailing 
> list.]
> 
> We are still plugging along on the required kernel fixes to support a 
> unique
> IPv6 address per sliver (i.e., a vserver or virtual machine) on 
> PlanetLab.
> While this seems to be making happy progress, there are at least two 
> issues that we need to resolve for which it would be great to get 
> feedback /
> thoughts:
> 
> 1) What IPv6 address should be assigned to a sliver (static or 
> autoconf'd)?
> 
> and
> 
> 2) How to get the IPv6 addresses assigned to slivers into DNS?
> 
> Marc
> 
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