Reserved IPv6 Interface Identifier for Proxy Mobile IPv6
RFC 6543
Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(May 2012; No errata)
Updates RFC 5213
Was draft-gundavelli-v6ops-pmipv6-address-reservations (individual in int area)
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Author | Sri Gundavelli | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
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Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
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Responsible AD | Brian Haberman | ||
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) S. Gundavelli Request for Comments: 6543 Cisco Updates: 5213 May 2012 Category: Standards Track ISSN: 2070-1721 Reserved IPv6 Interface Identifier for Proxy Mobile IPv6 Abstract Proxy Mobile IPv6 (RFC 5213) requires that all mobile access gateways use a fixed link-local address and a fixed link-layer address on any of their access links that they share with mobile nodes. This requirement was intended to ensure that a mobile node does not detect any change with respect to its Layer 3 attachment, even after it roams from one mobile access gateway to another. In the absence of any reserved addresses for this use, coordination across vendors and manual configuration of these addresses on all of the mobility elements in a Proxy Mobile IPv6 domain are required. This document attempts to simplify this operational requirement by making a reservation for special addresses that can be used for this purpose. This document also updates RFC 5213. Status of This Memo This is an Internet Standards Track document. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6543. Gundavelli Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 6543 Reserved IPv6 IID for PMIPv6 May 2012 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2012 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................2 2. Conventions and Terminology .....................................3 2.1. Conventions ................................................3 2.2. Terminology ................................................3 3. IANA Considerations .............................................4 4. Security Considerations .........................................4 5. Acknowledgements ................................................4 6. References ......................................................5 6.1. Normative References .......................................5 6.2. Informative References .....................................5 1. Introduction Proxy Mobile IPv6 [RFC5213] is a network-based mobility management protocol that enables IP mobility support for a mobile node without requiring its participation in any mobility-related signaling. The mobility elements in the network ensure that the mobile node does not detect any change with respect to its Layer 3 attachment, even after it roams from one mobile access gateway to another and changes its point of attachment in the network. All mobile access gateways in a Proxy Mobile IPv6 domain use a fixed link-local address and a fixed link-layer address on any of their access links that they share with the mobile nodes. This essentially ensures that a mobile node, after performing a handoff, does not detect any change with respect to the IP network configuration. Gundavelli Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 6543 Reserved IPv6 IID for PMIPv6 May 2012 Although the base Proxy Mobile IPv6 specification [RFC5213] requires the use of a fixed link-local and a fixed link-layer address, it did not reserve any specific addresses for this purpose. This is proving to be an operational challenge in deployments involving multi-vendor equipment. To address this problem, this specification makes the following two reservations. 1. This specification reserves one Ethernet unicast address, 00-00-5E-00-52-13, for use with Proxy Mobile IPv6. This reserved link-layer address SHOULD be used by the mobile access gateway in a Proxy Mobile IPv6 domain, on all of the access links that itShow full document text