Re: Poll: Indicating tunnel capability

Roland Bless <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:26:33 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.nsis
Organization Institute of Telematics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Jukka Manner wrote:
> 1. The current specification defines a generic NODE_CAPABILITY object
> and introduces one flag to indicate tunnel support, T-bit:
> 
>      0                   1                   2                   3
>      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
>     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>     |A|B|r|r|         Type          |r|r|r|r|        Length         |
>     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>     |T|                           Reserved                          |
>     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> 
> 
> 2. The other option is to define a 0-length, no flags, object entitled
> NODE_CAPABILITY_TUNNEL. The presence of this object implies support for
> tunnels (no T-bit is needed, the whole 32-bit field is reserved).
> 
> So, the question is: do we want to
> 
> 1. keep this generic node capability object and introduce the first flag
> for this object, the T-bit, or
> 
> 2. introduce an object only for the tunnel capability?

I vote for option 2.

Regards,
 Roland