Understanding BGP misconfiguration
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
No Administration Protocol (NAP) for IPv6 router auto-configuration
International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology
Preparing network configurations for IPv6 renumbering
International Journal of Network Management
The basic procedures of hierarchical automatic locator number allocation protocol HANA
AINTEC '11 Proceedings of the 7th Asian Internet Engineering Conference
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All equipments attached to the Internet are configured with one or several IP addresses. Most hosts are able to automatically request (e.g., from a DHCP server) or discover (e.g., by using stateless autoconfiguration) the IP address that they should use. This simplifies the configuration and the management of hosts. Unfortunately, these techniques do not apply on routers whose IP addresses and subnet prefixes for their directly attached LANs still need to be manually configured. This utilization of manual configuration is error-prone and a frequent source of errors. It is also one of the reasons why IP address renumbering is so difficult with both IPv4 and IPv6. In this paper, we propose a new address block allocation and distribution protocol that has been designed to be both secure and efficient. We first summarize the main requirements of an address block allocation mechanism. We then describe the operation of our proposed mechanism. Finally, we demonstrate the efficiency of our protocol by simulations.