Internet DRAFT - draft-shrivastava-ospf-flow-spec
draft-shrivastava-ospf-flow-spec
Network Working Group R. Shrivastava
Internet-Draft M. Dubrovsky
Intended status: Standards Track K. Patel
Expires: October 19, 2013 B. Pithawala
Cisco Systems
April 17, 2013
Flow Specification Extensions to OSPF Protocol
draft-shrivastava-ospf-flow-spec-01
Abstract
This document describes the extensions to the OSPF protocol to
distribute the traffic flow specification rules and associated
actions. The notion and principles of operation of the mechanism
were initially introduced into the BGP protocol. The IPv4 part of
specification was published in RFC5575 and later the specification
was enhanced for IPv6 via draft-raszuk-idr-flow-spec-v6. The
mechanism allows the routing protocol to distribute information about
the traffic flows and associated actions such as packet filtering
with it.
Requirements Language
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. The Flow Specification Operation Description . . . . . . . . 4
2.1. The Flow Specification Origins . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. Flow-specification-LSA scope and re-origination . . . . . 4
2.3. IPv4 and IPv6 rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. OSPFv2 Flow-specification-LSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1. Link-State ID format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. OSPFv3 Flow-specification-LSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. Flow-specification-LSA payload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. IPv4 Flow Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6.1. Destination Prefix TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.2. Source Prefix TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.3. IP Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.4. Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.5. Destination port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.6. Source port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.7. ICMP Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.8. ICMP code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.9. TCP flags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.10. Packet length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.11. DSCP (Diffserv Code Point) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.12. Fragment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7. IPv6 Flow Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.1. Destination IPv6 Prefix TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.2. Source IPv6 Prefix TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.3. Traffic Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.4. Flow Label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8. IPv4 Traffic Filtering Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8.1. Traffic-rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
8.2. Traffic-action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
8.3. Redirect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
8.4. Traffic-marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
9. IPv6 Traffic Filtering Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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9.1. Traffic-marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10. Order of Traffic Filtering Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
11. Validation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
12. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
13. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
14. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
15. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1. Introduction
This document describes a method of adding capability to distribute
traffic flow specification rules into OSPF.
The semantic content of the extensions is identical to the
corresponding extensions to BGP ([BGP-FLOWSPEC] and
[draft-raszuk-idr-flow-spec-v6]). In order to avoid repetition, this
document only concentrates on those parts of specification where OSPF
is different from BGP.
Each flow specification rules is encapsulated into the flow-
specification-LSA and then flooded along with the prefix reachability
information across an area or the entire OSPF routing domain. When a
router receives the LSA from its neighbor, it decodes the data,
validates the information and applies the filtering rules as defined.
Some OSPF routers can be configured to originate flow specification
rules with associated actions. Other routers can be configured to
apply these rules from specific sets of OSPF Router IDs.
The use cases for the traffic policy mechanism are different from the
BGP. Let's look at some examples.
Example : Installation of a new voice gateway in the enterprise
network.
The router, which is directly connected to the new voice gateway,
originates flow specification rules that describe voice traffic and
set QoS marking action. Routers on the other side of the WAN links
are configured to act on this information.
Another example: temporarily contractors.
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The contractor company, which is connected to the enterprise network
via the WAN link, should have limited access to certain servers. The
routers directly connected to the corporate data center can originate
rules describing services accessibility for contractors. The edge
routers with WAN links to the contractor's equipment install those
rules to block the undesirable traffic.
Last example: Service provider MPLS VPN hub-and-spoke solution for
the enterprise customer.
The spokes are connected to the MPLS VPN backbone with T1 lines and
the hub with OC3. OSPF CE spoke router generates flow spec with
rate-limit restrictions for spoke aggregated ip prefix. The flow
specification is then transmitted over the MPLS VPN core. OSPF CE
hub router uses the rule to limit the traffic towards the spoke.
This document does not address optimizations in storage of flow-
specification-LSAs in the intermediate routers or auto-discovery of
flow specification capable routers.
2. The Flow Specification Operation Description
2.1. The Flow Specification Origins
Flow specification rules can be either originated by the same router
that originates the corresponding destination prefix. For example,
in case of an OSPFv2 network-LSA, the Designated Router will also
advertise the corresponding flow specification rules that apply to
the prefix advertised in the network-LSA.
Each flow specification rule is encapsulated into a separate flow-
specification-LSA that is described below in Section 3 and Section 4.
The receiving routers first validate and then install flow
specification rules into the flow routing table.
2.2. Flow-specification-LSA scope and re-origination
Because of the validation restrictions described in Section 11 the
flow-specification-LSA MUST have the same scope as the scope of the
corresponding LSA that caries the destination prefix information of
the flow. When the LSA describing the destination prefix is
translated by the ABR router, this router SHOULD also re-originate
the corresponding flow-specification-LSAs with the same scope as the
LSA carrying the translated prefix.
2.3. IPv4 and IPv6 rules
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Currently the OSPFv2 specification [OSPFV2] supports only IPv4
addresses and can therefore only carry IPv4 flow specification rules.
OSPFv3 [OSPFV3-AF] supports both IPv4 and IPv6 address families but
in separate instances. Therefore a particular OSPFv3 instance can
carry either IPv6 or IPv4 flow specification rules.
3. OSPFv2 Flow-specification-LSA
This extension makes use of the Opaque LSA [OPAQUE] to carry the flow
specification rules. This proposal uses type 10 for area scope and
type 11 for AS scope.
3.1. Link-State ID format
The link-state ID of the Opaque LSA is divided into an Opaque Type
field (the first 8 bits) and an Opaque ID (the remaining 24 bits).
The Flow-specification-LSA uses type TBD. The Opaque ID is an
arbitrary value used to maintain multiple flow specification rules,
which originate from a single router.
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| TBD | Opaque ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Flow-specification-LSA LSA ID format
4. OSPFv3 Flow-specification-LSA
The OSPFv3 Flow specification information will be carried in the LSA
with function code TBD. The U bit will be set indicating that the
OSPFv3 flow-specification-LSA should be flooded even if it is not
understood. For the area scope flow-specification-LSA S1 bit should
be set and S2 should be 0. For the AS scope, the S1 bit should be
cleared and S2 bit should be set. Like the OSPFv2 Opaque ID field,
the Link State ID is an arbitrary value used to maintain multiple
flow specification rules originating from a single router.
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| LS age |1|S12| TDB |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Link State ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Advertising Router |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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| LS sequence number |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| LS checksum | Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
+- TLVs -+
| ... |
OSPFv3 Flow-specification-LSA
5. Flow-specification-LSA payload
The LSA payload consists of one or more nested Type/Length/Value
(TLV) triplets as described in Section 2.3.2 of [MPLS-TE].
Each rule consists of one or more specification component types that
identify the flow followed by optional flow specification filtering
action types.
6. IPv4 Flow Specification
[BGP-FLOWSPEC] defines 12 flow specification component types:
Type Description
---- ------------------
1 Destination Prefix
2 Source Prefix
3 IP Protocol
4 Port
5 Destination Port
6 Source Port
7 ICMP type
8 ICMP code
9 TCP flags
10 Packet length
11 DSCP
12 Fragment
Each of the flow specification component types is defined in a
separate TLV.
The flow specification component type is stored in the lower 8 bits
of the 16-bit type field.
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The format of each flow specification component type TLV is outlined
below.
6.1. Destination Prefix TLV
Defines the destination prefix to match.
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| 0 | 1 | 5 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| IPv4 Prefix |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Prefix Length | Must Be Zero |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
6.2. Source Prefix TLV
The encoding is similar to the destination prefix TLV. The ype field
is set to 2.
6.3. IP Protocol
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| | 3 | Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Operator | Value |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ... |
The Value field has a variable length and the length is determined by
the two bits len field in the operator byte.
6.4. Port
The same encoding as for component type IP Protocol. The TLV Type
field is set to 4.
6.5. Destination port
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The same encoding as for component type IP Protocol. The TLV type
field is set to 5.
6.6. Source port
The same encoding as for component type IP Protocol. The TLV type
field is set to 6.
6.7. ICMP Type
The same encoding as for component type IP Protocol. The TLV Type
field is set to 7.
6.8. ICMP code
The same encoding as for component type IP Protocol. The TLV Type
field is set to 8.
6.9. TCP flags
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| | 9 | Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Operator | Bitmask |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ... |
The Bitmask field is of varying length and determined by the two bits
len field in the operator byte.
6.10. Packet length
The same encoding as for component type IP Protocol. The TLV Type
field is set to 10.
6.11. DSCP (Diffserv Code Point)
The same encoding as for component type P Protocol. The TLV Type
field is set to 11.
6.12. Fragment
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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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| | 12 | Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Operator | Bitmask | ... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ... |
7. IPv6 Flow Specification
[draft-raszuk-idr-flow-spec-v6] defines the 12 flow specification
component types for IPv6.
Type Description
---- ------------------
1 Destination IPv6 Prefix
2 Source IPv6 Prefix
3 Next Header
4 Port
5 Destination port
6 Source port
7 ICMP type
8 ICMP code
9 TCP flags
10 Packet length
11 Traffic Class
12 Reserved
13 Flow Label
Component Types
Each of the flow specification component types is defined in a
separate TLV.
The flow specification component type is stored in the lower 8 bits
of the 16-bit type field.
The format of IPv6 flow specification component type TLV that are
different from the IPv4 outlined below.
7.1. Destination IPv6 Prefix TLV
Defines the destination prefix to match.
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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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| 0 | 1 | Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Prefix Length | Prefix Offset | |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +
| IPv6 Prefix |
+ +
The IPv6 Prefix field has variable length. The length of the field
is calculated from the TLV Length field.
7.2. Source IPv6 Prefix TLV
The encoding is similar to the component type Destination IPv6 Prefix
TLV. The Type field is set to 2.
7.3. Traffic Class
The same encoding as for component type IP Protocol. The TLV Type
field is set to 11.
7.4. Flow Label
The same encoding as for component type IP Protocol. The TLV Type
field is set to 13.
8. IPv4 Traffic Filtering Actions
In the [BGP-FLOWSPEC], the IPv4 filtering action types are
standardized as BGP extended community attributes. In the OSPF, the
filtering actions are carried in the TLVs of the flow-specification-
LSA. The TLV type values are the same as the BGP extended community
types for the filtering actions:
Type Description
---- ------------------
8006 Traffic-rate
8007 Traffic-action
8009 Traffic-marking
A filtering action TLV should precede the flow specification
component TLV. A filtering action TLV may or may not be present in a
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flow-specification-LSA. If not present, the default action is to
accept the traffic that matches that particular rule.
The most significant bit of the 16-byte type field is set to 1,
distinguishing this TLV from the flow specification component TLV.
Below are the formats of encodeding for different IPv4 action types.
8.1. Traffic-rate
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| 0x80 | 6 | 4 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Traffic-rate |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
8.2. Traffic-action
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| 0x80 | 7 | 1 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |S|T| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
The traffic-action is encoded in the 2 least significant bits of the
octet.
8.3. Redirect
The Redirect as defined in [BGP-FLOWSPEC] is not applicable to the
OSPF.
8.4. Traffic-marking
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| 0x80 | 9 | 1 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |DSCP Value | |
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+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
The DSCP value encoded in the 6 least significant bits of the octet.
9. IPv6 Traffic Filtering Actions
[draft-raszuk-idr-flow-spec-v6] defines 3 flow specification action
types. Those types are standardized as BGP extended community
attributes. In OSPF, the IPv6 filtering actions are defined in TLVs.
The type values are the same as the BGP extended community types for
the filtering actions.
Type Description
---- ------------------
8006 Traffic-rate
8007 Traffic-action
8009 Traffic-marking
The flow specification filtering action type uses the full 16 bits
with the highest bit set to 1.
The format of IPv6 filtering action types TLV that are different from
the IPv4 outlined below.
9.1. Traffic-marking
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| 0x80 | 9 | 1 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Traffic Class | |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
10. Order of Traffic Filtering Rules
With traffic filtering rules, more than one rule may match a
particular traffic flow. The order of applying the rules is the same
as described in Section 5.1 of [BGP-FLOWSPEC].
11. Validation Procedure
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When a router receives the flow-specification-LSA from its
neighboring router, it validates the information before accepting the
filtering rule. A flow specification rule is considered valid if and
only if:
a) The originator of the flow specification rule matches the
originator of the best-match unicast route for the destination prefix
embedded in the flow specification.
The flow specification originator is identified by the Router ID of
the flow-specification-LSA.
To identify the originator of an OSPF route, look into the
corresponded OSPF routing table entry:
- for intra-area paths, the Link State Origin field of the path
structure is compared
- for inter-area and external paths, the Advertising router field of
the path structure is compared.
When multiple equal-cost paths exist in the routing table entry, each
path could end up having a separate set of flow specification rules.
b) The routing table does not have more specific unicast routes, when
compared with the flow destination prefix, that have been received
from a different router than the best-match unicast route, which has
been determined in step a).
Under certain scenarios the validation step can be bypassed. This is
outside of the scope of this document.
12. Security Considerations
As long as traffic filtering rules are restricted to match the
corresponding unicast routing paths for the relevant prefixes, the
security characteristics of this proposal are equivalent to the
existing security properties of OSPF routing.
Where it is not the case, this would open the door to further denial-
of-service attacks.
13. IANA Considerations
The following IANA assignment was made from an existing registry:
The OSPFv2 opaque LSA type TBD has been reserved for the OSPFv2 flow-
specification-LSA.
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The OSPFv3 LSA function code TDB has been reserved for the OSPFv3
flow-specification-LSA.
For the purpose of this work, IANA has created a new registry
entitled: "OSPF IPv4 Flow Spec Component Types". The following
component types have been registered:
Type 1 - Destination Prefix
Type 2 - Source Prefix
Type 3 - IP Protocol
Type 4 - Port
Type 5 - Destination port
Type 6 - Source port
Type 7 - ICMP type
Type 8 - ICMP code
Type 9 - TCP flags
Type 10 - Packet length
Type 11 - DSCP
Type 12 - Fragment
For the purpose of this work, IANA has created a new registry
entitled: "OSPF IPv6 Flow Spec Component Types". The following
component types have been registered:
Type 1 - Destination IPv6 Prefix
Type 2 - Source IPv6 Prefix
Type 3 - Next Header
Type 4 - Port
Type 5 - Destination port
Type 6 - Source port
Type 7 - ICMP type
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Type 8 - ICMP code
Type 9 - TCP flags
Type 10 - Packet length
Type 11 - Traffic Class
Type 12 - Reserved
Type 13 - Flow Label
For the purpose of this work, IANA has created a new registry
entitled: "OSPF IPv4 Flow Specification Action Types". The following
component types have been registered:
Type 0x8006 - Flow spec traffic-rate
Type 0x8007 - Flow spec traffic-action
Type 0x8009 - Flow spec traffic-remarking
For the purpose of this work, IANA has created a new registry
entitled: "OSPF IPv6 Flow Specification Action Types". The following
component types have been registered:
Type 0x8006 - Flow spec traffic-rate
Type 0x8007 - Flow spec traffic-action
Type 0x8009 - Flow spec traffic-remarking
14. Acknowledgements
15. Normative References
[BGP-FLOWSPEC]
Marques, P., Sheth, N., Raszuk, R., Greene, B., Mauch, J.,
and D. McPherson, "Dissemination of Flow Specification
Rules", RFC 5575, August 2009.
[MPLS-TE] Katz, D., Kompella, K., and D. Yeung, "Traffic Engineering
(TE) Extensions to OSPF Version 2", RFC 3630, September
2003.
[OPAQUE] Berger, L., Bryskin, I., Zinin, A., and R. Coltun, "The
OSPF Opaque LSA Option", RFC 5250, July 2008.
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[OSPFV2] Moy, J., "OSPF Version 2", STD 54, RFC 2328, April 1998.
[OSPFV3-AF]
Lindem, A., Mirtorabi, S., Roy, A., Barnes, M., and R.
Aggarwal, "Support of Address Families in OSPFv3", RFC
5838, April 2010.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[draft-raszuk-idr-flow-spec-v6]
Raszuk, R., "Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules for
IPv6", March 2012.
Authors' Addresses
Rashmi Shrivastava
Cisco Systems
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
US
Email: rashi@cisco.com
Mike Dubrovsky
Cisco Systems
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
US
Email: mdubrovs@cisco.com
Keyur Patel
Cisco Systems
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
US
Email: keyupate@cisco.com
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Burjiz Pithawala
Cisco Systems
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
US
Email: bpithaw@cisco.com
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