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Network Working Group                                         F.J. Baker
Internet-Draft                                             Cisco Systems
Intended status: Standards Track                       February 17, 2013
Expires: August 21, 2013

              IPv6 Source/Destination Routing using OSPFv3
                draft-baker-ipv6-ospf-dst-src-routing-00

Abstract

   This note describes the changes necessary for OSPFv3 to route classes
   of IPv6 traffic that are defined by a source prefix and a destination
   prefix.  This implies not routing "to a destination", but "traffic
   matching a classification tuple".  The obvious application is egress
   routing - routing traffic using a given prefix to an upstream network
   that will not drop traffic using that prefix using BCP 38 filters.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     1.1.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Theory of Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.1.  Dealing with ambiguity  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Extensions necessary for IPv6 Source/Destination Routing in
       OSPFv3  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.1.  IPv6 Source Prefix TLV  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   4.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   5.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   6.  Privacy Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   7.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   8.  Change Log  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   9.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     9.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     9.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   Appendix A.  Use case: Egress Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   Appendix B.  FIB Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     B.1.  Linux Source-Address Forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
       B.1.1.  One FIB per source prefix . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
       B.1.2.  One FIB per source prefix plus a general FIB  . . . .   7
     B.2.  PATRICIA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       B.2.1.  Virtual Bit String  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       B.2.2.  Tree Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
       B.2.3.  Tree Lookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10

1.  Introduction

   This specification builds on the extensible LSAs defined in
   [I-D.baker-ipv6-ospf-extensible.txt].  It adds the option for an IPv6
   Source Prefix, to define routes defined by a source and a destination
   prefix.

1.1.  Requirements Language

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   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 [RFC2119].

2.  Theory of Routing

   Both IS-IS and OSPF perform their calculations by building a lattice
   of routers and routes from the router performing the calculation to
   each router, and then use those routes to get to destinations that
   those routes advertise connectivity to.  Following the SPF algorithm,
   calculation starts by selecting a starting point (typically the
   router doing the calculation), and successively adding {link, router)
   pairs until one has calculated a route to every router in the
   network.  As each router is added, including the original router,
   destinations that it is directly connected to are turned into routes
   in the route table: "to get to 2001:db8::/32, route traffic to
   {interface, list of next hop routers}".  For immediate neighbors to
   the originating router, of course, there is no next hop router;
   traffic is handled locally.

2.1.  Dealing with ambiguity

   In any routing protocol, there is the possibility of ambiguity.  An
   area border router might, for example, summarize the routes to other
   areas into a small set of relatively short prefixes, which have more
   specific routes within the area.  Traditionally, we have dealt with
   that using a "longest match first" rule.  If the same datagram
   matches more than one destination prefix advertised within the area,
   we follow the route to the longest matching prefix.

   When routing a class of traffic, we follow an analogous "most
   specific match" rule; we follow the route for the most specific
   matching tuple.  In cases of simple overlap, such as routing to
   2001:db8::/32 or 2001:db8:1::/48, that is exactly analogous; we
   choose one of the two routes.

   It is possible, however, to construct an ambiguous case in which
   neither class subsumes the other.  For example, presume that

   o  A is a prefix,

   o  B is a more-specific prefix within A,

   o  C is a different prefix, and

   o  D is a more-specific prefix of C.

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   The two classes {A, D, *, *} and {B, C, *, *} are ambiguous: a
   datagram within {B, D, *, *} matches both classes, and it is not
   clear in the data plane what decision to make.  Solving this requires
   the addition of a third route in the FIB corresponding to the class
   {B, D, *, *}, which is more-specific than either of the first two,
   and can be given routing guidance based on metrics or other policy in
   the usual way.

3.  Extensions necessary for IPv6 Source/Destination Routing in OSPFv3

   The several extensible LSAs defined in
   [I-D.baker-ipv6-ospf-extensible.txt] require one additional option to
   accomplish source/destination routing: the source prefix.  This is
   defined here.

   In addition, should (as one might expect is normal) destination-only
   intra-area-prefix, inter-area-prefix, and AS-external-prefix LSAs be
   encountered, we need a rule for interpretation.  The rule is that
   they are treated exactly as the extensible version if the source
   prefix option is not specified or is specified to be ::/0 (any IPv6
   address).

3.1.  IPv6 Source Prefix TLV

   The IPv6 Source Prefix TLV MAY be used with the IPv6 Destination
   Prefix TLV, but MUST NOT be used with the IPv4 Source Prefix TLV or
   the IPv4 Destination Prefix TLV.

   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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |      Type     |    Length     |Prefix Length  |    Prefix
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                             Source Prefix TLV

   Source Prefix Type:  assigned by IANA

   TLV Length:  Length of the TLV in octets

   Prefix Length:  Length of the prefix in bits, in the range 0..128

   Prefix:  (source prefix length +7)/8 octets of prefix

4.  IANA Considerations

   This section will request an identifying value for the TLV defined.
   This is deferred to the -01 version of the draft.

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5.  Security Considerations

   To be considered.

6.  Privacy Considerations

   To be considered.

7.  Acknowledgements

8.  Change Log

   Initial Version:  February 2013

9.  References

9.1.  Normative References

   [ISO.10589.1992]
              International Organization for Standardization,
              "Intermediate system to intermediate system intra-domain-
              routing routine information exchange protocol for use in
              conjunction with the protocol for providing the
              connectionless-mode Network Service (ISO 8473)", ISO
              Standard 10589, 1992.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

9.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.baker-ipv6-ospf-extensible.txt]
              Baker, F., "Extensible OSPF LSAs", February 2013.

   [PATRICIA]
              Morrison, D.R., "Practical Algorithm to Retrieve
              Information Coded in Alphanumeric", Journal of the ACM
              15(4) pp514-534, October 1968.

   [RFC2827]  Ferguson, P. and D. Senie, "Network Ingress Filtering:
              Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source
              Address Spoofing", BCP 38, RFC 2827, May 2000.

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Appendix A.  Use case: Egress Routing

   Using this technology for egress routing is straightforward.  Presume
   a multihomed edge (residential or enterprise) network with multiple
   egress points to the various ISPs.  These ISPs allocate PA prefixes
   to the network.  Due to BCP 38 [RFC2827], the network must presume
   that its upstream ISPs will filter out any traffic presented to them
   that does not use their PA prefix.

   Within the network, presume that a /64 prefix from each of those PA
   prefixes is allocated on each LAN, and that hosts generate and use
   multiple addresses on each interface.

   Within the network, we permit any host to communicate with any other.
   Hence, routing advertisements within the network use traditional
   destination routing, which is understood to be advertising the
   traffic class

      {destination, ::/0}.

   From the egresses, the firewall or its neighboring router injects a
   default route for traffic "from" its PA prefix:

      {::/0, PA prefix}.

   Routing is calculated as normal, with the exception that traffic
   following a default route will select that route based on the source
   address.  Traffic will never be lost to BCP 38 filters, because by
   definition the only traffic sent to the ISP is using the PA prefix
   assigned by the ISP.  In addition, while hosts can use spoofed
   addresses outside of their PA prefixes to attack each other, they
   cannot send traffic using spoofed addresses to their upstream
   networks; such traffic has no route.

Appendix B.  FIB Design

   While the design of the Forwarding Information Base is not a matter
   for standardization, as it only has to work correctly, not
   interoperate with something else, the design of a FIB for this type
   of lookup may differ from approaches used in destination routing.  We
   describe one possible approach that is known to work, from the
   perspective of a proof of concept.

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B.1.  Linux Source-Address Forwarding

   The University of Waikato has added to the Linux Advanced Routing &
   Traffic Control facility the ability to maintain multiple FIBS, one
   for each of a set of prefixes.  Implementing source/destination
   routing using this mechanism is not difficult.

   The router must know what source prefixes might be used in its
   domain.  This may be by configuration or, at least in concept,
   learned from the routing protocols themselves.  In whichever way that
   is done, one can imagine two fundamental FIB structures to serve N
   source prefixes; N FIBs, one per prefix, or N+1 FIBs, one per prefix
   plus one for destinations for which the source prefix is unspecified.

B.1.1.  One FIB per source prefix

   In an implementation with one FIB per source prefix, the routing
   algorithm has two possibilities.

   o  If it calculates a route to a prefix (such as a default route)
      associated with a given source prefix, it stores the route in the
      FIB for the relevant source prefix.

   o  If it calculates a route for which the source prefix is
      unspecified, it stores that route in all N FIBs.

   When forwarding a datagram, the IP forwarder looks at the source
   address of the datagram to determine which FIB it should use.  If it
   is from an address for which there is no FIB, the forwarder discards
   the datagram as containing a forged source address.  If it is from an
   address within one of the relevant prefixes, it looks up the
   destination in the indicated FIB and forwards it in the usual way.

   The argument for this approach is simplicity: there is one place to
   look in making a forwarding decision for any given datagram.  The
   argument against it is memory space; it is likely that the FIBs will
   be similar, but every destination route not associated with a source
   prefix is duplicated in each FIB.  In addition, since it
   automatically removes traffic whose source address is not among the
   configured list, it limits the possibility of user software using
   improper addresses.

B.1.2.  One FIB per source prefix plus a general FIB

   In an implementation with N+1 FIBs, the algorithm is slightly more
   complex.

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   o  If it calculates a route to a prefix (such as a default route)
      associated with a given source prefix, it stores the route in the
      FIB for the relevant source prefix.

   o  If it calculates a route for which the source prefix is
      unspecified, it stores that route in the FIB that is not
      associated with a source prefix.

   When forwarding a datagram, the IP forwarder looks at the source
   address of the datagram to determine which FIB it should use.  If it
   is from one of the configured prefixes, it looks the destination up
   in the indicated FIB.  In any event it also looks the destination up
   in the "unspecified source address" FIB.  If the destination is found
   in only one of the two, the indicated route is followed.  If the
   destination is found in both, the more specific route is followed.

   The argument for this approach is memory space; if a large percentage
   of routes are only in the general FIB, such as when egress routing is
   used for the default route and all other routes are internal, the
   other FIBs are likely to be very small - perhaps only a single
   default route.  The argument against this approach is complexity:
   most lookups if not all will be done in a prefix-specific FIB and in
   the general FIB.

B.2.  PATRICIA

   One approach is a [PATRICIA] Tree.  This is a relative of a Trie, but
   unlike a Trie, need not use every bit in classification, and does not
   need the bits used to be contiguous.  It depends on treating the bit
   string as a set of slices of some size, potentially of different
   sizes.  Slice width is an implementation detail; since the algorithm
   is most easily described using a slice of a single bit, that will be
   presumed in this description.

B.2.1.  Virtual Bit String

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   It is quite possible to view the fields in a datagram header
   incorporated into the classification tuple as a virtual bit string
   such as is shown in Figure 1.  This bit string has various regions
   within it.  Some vary and are therefore useful in a radix tree
   lookup.  Some may be essentially constant - all global IPv6 addresses
   at this writing are within 2000::/3, for example, so while it must be
   tested to assure a match, incorporating it into the radix tree may
   not be very helpful in classification.  Others are ignored; if the
   destination is a remote /64, we really don't care what the EID is.
   In addition, due to variation in prefix length and other details, the
   widths of those fields vary among themselves.  The algorithm the FIB
   implements, therefore, must efficiently deal with the fact of a
   discontiguous lookup key.

   +---------------------+----------------------+-----+-----------+
   |Destination Prefix   |Source Prefix         |DSCP | Flow Label|
   +------+------+-------+------+-------+-------+-----+-----------+
    Common|Varying|Ignored|Common|Varying|Ignored|Varying or ignored

        Figure 1: Treating a traffic class as a virtual bit string

B.2.2.  Tree Construction

   The tree is constructed by recursive slice-wise decomposition.  At
   each stage, the input is a set of classes to be classified.  At each
   stage, the result is the addition of a lookup node in the tree that
   identifies the location of its slice in the virtual bit string (which
   might be a bit number), the width of the slice to be inspected, and
   an enumerated set of results.  Each result is a similar set of
   classes, and is analyzed in a similar manner.

   The analysis is performed by enumerating which bits that have not
   already been considered are best suited to classification.  For a
   slice of N bits, one wants to select a slide that most evenly divides
   the set of classes into 2^N subsets.  If one or more bits in the
   slice is ignored in some of the classes, those classes must be
   included in every subset, as the actual classification of them will
   depend on other bits.

   Input:{2001:db8::/32, ::/0, *, *}
         {2001:db8:1::/48, ::/0, AF41, *}
         {2001:db8:1::/48, ::/0, AF42, *}
         {2001:db8:1::/48, ::/0, AF43, *}
   Common parts: Destination prefix 2001:dba, source prefix, and label
   Varying parts: DSCP and the third set of sixteen bits in the
                  destination prefix
   One possible decomposition:
   (1) slice = DSCP

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       enumerated cases:
   (a) { {2001:db8::/32, ::/0, *, *}, {2001:db8:1::/48, ::/0, AF41, *} }
   (b) { {2001:db8::/32, ::/0, *, *}, {2001:db8:1::/48, ::/0, AF42, *} }
   (c) { {2001:db8::/32, ::/0, *, *}, {2001:db8:1::/48, ::/0, AF43, *} }
   (2) slice = third sixteen bit field in destination
       This divides each enumerated case into those containing 0001 and
       "everything else", which would imply 2001:db8::/32
                              (1) DSCP
                    --------------------------
                   (1a)       (1b)         (1c)
                  /    \     /    \       /    \
                /32   /48  /32   /48    /32   /48

                      Figure 2: Example PATRICIA Tree

B.2.3.  Tree Lookup

   To look something up in a PATRICIA Tree, one starts at the root of
   the tree and performs the indicated comparisons recursively walking
   down the tree until one reaches a terminal node.  When the enumerated
   subset is empty or contains only a single class, classification
   stops.  Either classification has failed (there was no matching
   class, or one has presumably found the indicated class.  At that
   point, every bit in the virtual bit string must be compared to the
   classifier; classification is accepted on a perfect match.

   In the example in Figure 2, if a packet {2001:db8:1:2:3:4:5:6,
   2001:db8:2:3:4:5:6:7, AF41, 0} arrives, we start at the root.  Since
   it is an AF41 packet, we deduce that case (1a) applies, and since the
   destination has 0001 in the third sixteen bit field of the
   destination address, we are comparing to {2001:db8:1::/48, ::/0,
   AF41, *}. Since the destination address is within 2001:db8:1::/48,
   classification as that succeeds.

Author's Address

   Fred Baker
   Cisco Systems
   Santa Barbara, California  93117
   USA

   Email: fred@cisco.com

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