INTERNET-DRAFT T. Herbert
Intended Status: Proposed Standard Quantonium
Expires: November 19, 2017 L. Yong
Huawei
F. Templin
Boeing
May 18, 2017
Extensions for Generic UDP Encapsulation
draft-ietf-intarea-gue-extensions-01
Abstract
This specification defines a set of the fundamental optional
extensions for Generic UDP Encapsulation (GUE). The extensions
defined in this specification are the group identifier, security
option, payload transform option, checksum option, fragmentation
option, and the remote checksum offload option.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. GUE header format with optional extensions . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Group identifier option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1. Extension field format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.2. Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. Security option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1. Extension field format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.3. Cookies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.4. HMAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.4.1. Extension field format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.4.2. Selecting a hash algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.4.3. Pre-shared key management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.5. Interaction with other optional extensions . . . . . . . . 10
5. Fragmentation option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.1. Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.2. Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.3. Extension field format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.4. Fragmentation procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.5. Reassembly procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6. Payload transform option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.1. Extension field format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.2. Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6.3. Interaction with other optional extensions . . . . . . . . 19
6.4. DTLS transform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
7. Remote checksum offload option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
7.1. Extension field format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
7.2. Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7.2.1. Transmitter operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7.2.2. Receiver operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7.3. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
8. Checksum option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
8.1. Extension field format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
8.2. Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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8.3. GUE checksum pseudo header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
8.4. Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
8.4.1. Transmitter operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
8.4.2.Receiver operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
8.5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
9. Processing order of options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
11. IANA Consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
12. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
12.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
12.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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1. Introduction
Generic UDP Encapsulation (GUE) [I.D.ietf-gue] is a generic and
extensible encapsulation protocol. This specification defines a
fundamental set of optional extensions for version 0 of GUE. These
extensions are the group identifier, security option, payload
transform option, checksum option, fragmentation option, and the
remote checksum offload option.
2. GUE header format with optional extensions
The format of a version 0 GUE header with the optional extensions
defined in this specification is:
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+\
| Source port | Destination port | UDP
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+/
| Length | Checksum |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| 0 |C| Hlen | Proto/ctype |G| SEC |F|T|R|S| Rsvd Flags |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Group identifier (optional) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
~ Security (optional) ~
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
+ Fragmentation (optional) +
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Payload transform (optional |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Remote checksum offload (optional) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Checksum (optional) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
~ Private data (optional) ~
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
The contents of the UDP header are described in [I.D.ietf-gue].
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The GUE header consists of:
o Ver: Version. Set to 0 to indicate GUE encapsulation header.
Note that version 1 does not allow options.
o C: C-bit. Indicates the GUE payload is a control message when
set, a data message when not set. GUE optional extensions can be
used with either control or data messages unless otherwise
specified in the extension definition.
o Hlen: Length in 32-bit words of the GUE header, including
optional extension fields but not the first four bytes of the
header. Computed as (header_len - 4) / 4. The length of the
encapsulated packet is determined from the UDP length and the
Hlen: encapsulated_packet_length = UDP_Length - 12 - 4*Hlen.
o Proto/ctype: If the C-bit is not set this indicates IP protocol
number for the packet in the payload; if the C bit is set this
is the type of control message in the payload. The next header
begins at the offset provided by Hlen. When the payload
transform option or fragmentation option is used this field MAY
be set to protocol number 59 for a data message, or zero for a
control message, to indicate no next header for the payload.
o G: Indicates the the group identifier extension field is
present. The group identifier option is described in section 3.
o SEC: Indicates security extension field is present. The security
option is described in section 4.
o F: Indicates fragmentation extension field is present. The
fragmentation option is described in section 5.
o T: Indicates payload transform extension field is present. The
payload transform option is described in section 6.
o R: Indicates the remote checksum extension field is present. The
remote checksum offload option is described in section 7.
o K: Indicates checksum extension field is present. The checksum
option is described in section 8.
o Private data is described in [I.D.ietf-gue].
3. Group identifier option
The group identifier classifies packet that logically belong to the
same group. Groups are arbitrarily defined for different purposes and
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their definition is shared between the communicating end nodes.
3.1. Extension field format
The presence of the GUE group identifier option is indicated in the G
flag bit of the GUE header.
The format of the group identifier option is:
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Group identifier |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
The fields of the option are:
o Group identifier: Identifier value of a group.
3.2. Usage
The group identifier is set by an encapsulator to indicate to the
decapsulator that a packet belongs to a group. Groups may be
arbitrarily defined to classify packets. Specific use cases of the
group identifier may be defined in other documents ([I.D.hy-nvo3-gue-
4-nvo] defines a use of this field to contain a virtual networking
identifier for implementing network virtualization).
Intermediate nodes SHOULD NOT attempt to infer the meaning or
semantics of group identifiers.
4. Security option
The GUE security option provides origin authentication and integrity
protection of the GUE header at tunnel end points to guarantee
isolation between tunnels and mitigate Denial of Service attacks.
4.1. Extension field format
The presence of the GUE security option is indicated in the SEC flag
bits of the GUE header.
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The format of the security option is:
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
~ Security ~
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
The fields of the option are:
o Security (variable length). Contains the security information.
The specific semantics and format of this field are expected to
be negotiated between the two communicating nodes.
To provide security capability, the SEC flags MUST be set. Different
sizes are allowed to allow different methods and extensibility. The
use of the security field is expected to be negotiated out of band
between two tunnel end points.
The values in the SEC flags are:
o 000b - No security field
o 001b - 64 bit security field
o 010b - 128 bit security field
o 011b - 256 bit security field
o 100b - 388 bit security field (HMAC)
o 101b, 110b, 111b - Reserved values
4.2. Usage
The GUE security option is used to provide integrity and
authentication of the GUE header. Security parameters (interpretation
of security field, key management, etc.) are expected to be
negotiated out of band between two communicating hosts. Two security
algorithms are defined below.
4.3. Cookies
The security field may be used as a cookie. This would be similar to
the cookie mechanism described in L2TP [RFC3931], and the general
properties should be the same. A cookie MAY be used to validate the
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encapsulation. The cookie is a shared value between an encapsulator
and decapsulator which SHOULD be chosen randomly and may be changed
periodically. Different cookies MAY be used for logical flows between
the encapsulator and decapsulator, for instance packets sent with
different VNIs in network virtualization [I.D.hy-nvo3-gue-4-nvo]
might have different cookies. Cookies can b be 64, 128, or 256 bits
in size.
4.4. HMAC
Key-hashed message authentication code (HMAC) is a strong method of
checking integrity and authentication of data. This sections defines
a GUE security option for HMAC. Note that this is based on the HMAC
TLV description in "IPv6 Segment Routing Header (SRH)" [I.D.previdi-
6man-sr-header].
4.4.1. Extension field format
The HMAC option is a 320 bit field (40 octets). The security flags
are set to 100b to indicates the presence of a 320 bit security
field.
The format of the field is:
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| HMAC Key-id |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Payload offset | Payload length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
~ HMAC (256 bits) ~
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Fields are:
o HMAC Key-id: opaque field to allow multiple hash algorithms or
key selection
o Payload offset: offset in payload that indicates the first octet
of payload data included in the HMAC.
o Payload length: length of payload data starting from the payload
offset to be included in the HMAC calculation. Zero
indicates no payload data in used in the
calculation.
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o HMAC: Output of HMAC computation
The HMAC field is the output of the HMAC computation (per [RFC2104])
using a pre-shared key identified by HMAC Key-id and of the text
which consists of the concatenation of:
o The IP addresses
o The GUE header including all optional extensions except for the
security option
o Optionally some or all of GUE payload. The portion of payload
covered is indicated by an offset into the payload and a length
relative to the offset.
The purpose of the HMAC option is to verify the validity, the
integrity and the authentication of the GUE header itself and
optionally some or all of the GUE payload.
The HMAC Key-id field allows for the simultaneous existence of
several hash algorithms (SHA-256, SHA3-256 ... or future ones) as
well as pre-shared keys. The HMAC Key-id field is opaque, i.e., it
has neither syntax nor semantic. Having an HMAC Key-id field allows
for pre-shared key roll-over when two pre-shared keys are supported
for a while when GUE endpoints converge to a fresher pre-shared key.
A portion of the GUE payload MAY be included in the HMAC calculation.
The payload coverage is indicated in the option in the payload offset
and payload length fields. If no payload data is included in the HMAC
then the payload length field is set to zero. On reception, if the
sum of the payload offset and the payload length is greater than the
total length of the payload, then the packet MUST be dropped.
4.4.2. Selecting a hash algorithm
The HMAC field in the HMAC option is 256 bit wide. Therefore, the
HMAC MUST be based on a hash function whose output is at least 256
bits. If the output of the hash function is 256 bits, then this
output is simply inserted in the HMAC field. If the output of the
hash function is larger than 256 bits, then the output value is
truncated to 256 bits by taking the least-significant 256 bits and
inserting them in the HMAC field.
GUE implementations can support multiple hash functions but MUST
implement SHA-2 [FIPS180-4] in its SHA-256 variant.
4.4.3. Pre-shared key management
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The field HMAC Key-id allows for:
o Key roll-over: when there is a need to change the key (the hash
pre-shared secret), then multiple pre-shared keys can be used
simultaneously. A decapsulator can have a table of <HMAC Key-
id, pre-shared secret> for the currently active and future keys.
o Different algorithms: by extending the previous table to <HMAC
Key-id, hash function, pre-shared secret>, the decapsulator can
also support simultaneously several hash algorithms
The pre-shared secret distribution can be done:
o In the configuration of the endpoints
o Dynamically using a trusted key distribution such as [RFC6407]
4.5. Interaction with other optional extensions
If GUE fragmentation (section 5) is used in concert with the GUE
security option, the security option processing is performed after
fragmentation at the encapsulator and before reassembly at the
decapsulator.
The GUE payload transform option (section 6) may be used in concert
with the GUE security option. The payload transform option could be
used to encrypt the GUE payload to provide privacy for an
encapsulated packet during transit. The security option provides
authentication and integrity for the GUE header (including the
payload transform field in the header). The two functions are
processed separately at tunnel end points. A GUE tunnel can use both
functions or use one of them. Section 6.3 details handling for when
both are used in a packet.
5. Fragmentation option
The fragmentation option allows an encapsulator to perform
fragmentation of packets being ingress to a tunnel. Procedures for
fragmentation and reassembly are defined in this section. This
specification adapts the procedures for IP fragmentation and
reassembly described in [RFC0791] and [RFC2460]. Fragmentation can be
performed on both data and control messages in GUE.
5.1. Motivation
This section describes the motivation for having a fragmentation
option in GUE.
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MTU and fragmentation issues with In-the-Network Tunneling are
described in [RFC4459]. Considerations need to be made when a packet
is received at a tunnel ingress point which may be too large to
traverse the path between tunnel endpoints.
There are four suggested alternatives in [RFC4459] to deal with this:
1) Fragmentation and Reassembly by the Tunnel Endpoints
2) Signaling the Lower MTU to the Sources
3) Encapsulate Only When There is Free MTU
4) Fragmentation of the Inner Packet
Many tunneling protocol implementations have assumed that
fragmentation should be avoided, and in particular alternative #3
seems preferred for deployment. In this case, it is assumed that an
operator can configure the MTUs of links in the paths of tunnels to
ensure that they are large enough to accommodate any packets and
required encapsulation overhead. This method, however, may not be
feasible in certain deployments and may be prone to misconfiguration
in others.
Similarly, the other alternatives have drawbacks that are described
in [RFC4459]. Alternative #2 implies use of something like Path MTU
Discovery which is not known to be sufficiently reliable. Alternative
#4 is not permissible with IPv6 or when the DF bit is set for IPv4,
and it also introduces other known issues with IP fragmentation.
For alternative #1, fragmentation and reassembly at the tunnel
endpoints, there are two possibilities: encapsulate the large packet
and then perform IP fragmentation, or segment the packet and then
encapsulate each segment (a non-IP fragmentation approach).
Performing IP fragmentation on an encapsulated packet has the same
issues as that of normal IP fragmentation. Most significant of these
is that the Identification field is only sixteen bits in IPv4 which
introduces problems with wraparound as described in [RFC4963].
The second possibility of alternative #1 follows the suggestion
expressed in [RFC2764] and the fragmentation feature described in the
AERO protocol [I.D.templin-aerolink]; that is for the tunneling
protocol itself to incorporate a segmentation and reassembly
capability that operates at the tunnel level. In this method
fragmentation is part of the encapsulation and an encapsulation
header contains the information for reassembly. This differs from IP
fragmentation in that the IP headers of the original packet are not
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replicated for each fragment.
Incorporating fragmentation into the encapsulation protocol has some
advantages:
o At least a 32 bit identifier can be defined to avoid issues of
the 16 bit Identification in IPv4.
o Encapsulation mechanisms for security and identification, such
as virtual network identifiers, can be applied to each segment.
o This allows the possibility of using alternate fragmentation and
reassembly algorithms (e.g. fragmentation with Forward Error
Correction).
o Fragmentation is transparent to the underlying network so it is
unlikely that fragmented packet will be unconditionally dropped
as might happen with IP fragmentation.
5.2. Scope
This specification describes the mechanics of fragmentation in
Generic UDP Encapsulation. The operational aspects and details for
higher layer implementation must be considered for deployment, but
are considered out of scope for this document. The AERO protocol
[I.D.templin-aerolink] defines one use case of fragmentation with
encapsulation.
5.3. Extension field format
The presence of the GUE fragmentation option is indicated by the F
bit in the GUE header.
The format of the fragmentation option is:
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Fragment offset |Res|M| Orig-proto | |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +
| Identification |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
The fields of the option are:
o Fragment offset: This field indicates where in the datagram this
fragment belongs. The fragment offset is measured in units of 8
octets (64 bits). The first fragment has offset zero.
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o Res: Two bit reserved field. MUST be set to zero for
transmission. If set to non-zero in a received packet then the
packet MUST be dropped.
o M: More fragments bit. Set to 1 when there are more fragments
following in the datagram, set to 0 for the last fragment.
o Orig-proto: The control type (when the C-bit in the GUE header
is set) or the IP protocol (when C-bit is not set) of the
fragmented packet.
o Identification: 40 bits. Identifies fragments of a fragmented
packet.
Pertinent GUE header fields to fragmentation are:
o C-bit: This is set for each fragment based on the whether the
original packet being fragmented is a control or data message.
o Proto/ctype - For the first fragment (fragment offset is zero)
this is set to that of the original packet being fragmented
(either will be a control type or IP protocol). For other
fragments, this is set to zero for a control message being
fragmented, or to "No next header" (protocol number 59) for a
data message being fragmented.
o F bit - Set to indicate presence of the fragmentation extension
field.
5.4. Fragmentation procedure
If an encapsulator determines that a packet must be fragmented (eg.
the packet's size exceeds the Path MTU of the tunnel) it should
divide the packet into fragments and send each fragment as a separate
GUE packet, to be reassembled at the decapsulator (tunnel egress).
For every packet that is to be fragmented, the source node generates
an Identification value. The Identification MUST be different than
that of any other fragmented packet sent within the past 60 seconds
(Maximum Segment Lifetime) with the same tunnel identification-- that
is the same outer source and destination addresses, same UDP ports,
same orig-proto, and same virtual network identifier if present.
The initial, unfragmented, and unencapsulated packet is referred to
as the "original packet". This will be a layer 2 packet, layer 3
packet, or the payload of a GUE control message:
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+-------------------------------//------------------------------+
| Original packet |
| (e.g. an IPv4, IPv6, Ethernet packet) |
+------------------------------//-------------------------------+
Fragmentation and encapsulation are performed on the original packet
in sequence. First the packet is divided up in to fragments, and then
each fragment is encapsulated. Each fragment, except possibly the
last ("rightmost") one, is an integer multiple of 8 octets long.
Fragments MUST be non-overlapping. The number of fragments should be
minimized, and all but the last fragment should be approximately
equal in length.
The fragments are transmitted in separate "fragment packets" as:
+--------------+--------------+---------------+--//--+----------+
| first | second | third | | last |
| fragment | fragment | fragment | .... | fragment |
+--------------+--------------+---------------+--//--+----------+
Each fragment is encapsulated as the payload of a GUE packet. This is
illustrated as:
+------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
| IP/UDP header | GUE header | first |
| | w/ frag option | fragment |
+------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
+------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
| IP/UDP header | GUE header | second |
| | w/ frag option | fragment |
+------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
o
o
+------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
| IP/UDP header | GUE header | last |
| | w/ frag option | fragment |
+------------------+----------------+-----------------------+
Each fragment packet is composed of:
(1) Outer IP and UDP headers as defined for GUE encapsulation.
o The IP addresses and UDP ports MUST be the same for all
fragments of a fragmented packet.
(2) A GUE header that contains:
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o The C-bit which is set to the same value for all the
fragments of a fragmented packet based on whether a control
message or data message was fragmented.
o A proto/ctype. In the first fragment this is set to the
value corresponding to the next header of the original
packet and will be either an IP protocol or a control type.
For subsequent fragments, this field is set to 0 for a
fragmented control message or 59 (no next header) for a
fragmented data message.
o The F bit is set and fragment extension field is present.
o Other GUE options. Note that options apply to the individual
GUE packet. For instance, the security option would be
validated before reassembly. The group identifier option
MUST be set to the same value for all fragments.
(3) The GUE fragmentation option. The contents of the extension
field include:
o Orig-proto specifies the protocol of the original packet.
o A Fragment Offset containing the offset of the fragment, in
8-octet units, relative to the start of the of the original
packet. The Fragment Offset of the first ("leftmost")
fragment is 0.
o An M flag value of 0 if the fragment is the last
("rightmost") one, else an M flag value of 1.
o The Identification value generated for the original packet.
(4) The fragment itself.
5.5. Reassembly procedure
At the destination, fragment packets are decapsulated and reassembled
into their original, unfragmented form, as illustrated:
+-------------------------------//------------------------------+
| Original packet |
| (e.g. an IPv4, IPv6, Ethernet packet) |
+------------------------------//-------------------------------+
The following rules govern reassembly:
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The IP/UDP/GUE headers of each packet are retained until all
fragments have arrived. The reassembled packet is then composed
of the decapsulated payloads in the GUE packets, and the
IP/UDP/GUE headers are discarded.
When a GUE packet is received with the fragment extension, the
proto/ctype field in the GUE header MUST be validated. In the
case that the packet is a first fragment (fragment offset is
zero), the proto/ctype in the GUE header MUST equal the orig-
proto value in the fragmentation option. For subsequent
fragments (fragment offset is non-zero) the proto/ctype in the
GUE header must be 0 for a control message or 59 (no-next-hdr)
for a data message. If the proto/ctype value is invalid for a
received packet it MUST be dropped.
An original packet is reassembled only from GUE fragment packets
that have the same outer source address, destination address,
UDP source port, UDP destination port, GUE header C-bit, group
identifier if present, orig-proto value in the fragmentation
option, and Fragment Identification. The protocol type or
control message type (depending on the C-bit) for the
reassembled packet is the value of the GUE header proto/ctype
field in the first fragment.
The following error conditions can arise when reassembling fragmented
packets with GUE encapsulation:
If insufficient fragments are received to complete reassembly of
a packet within 60 seconds (or a configurable period) of the
reception of the first-arriving fragment of that packet,
reassembly of that packet MUST be abandoned and all the
fragments that have been received for that packet MUST be
discarded.
If the payload length of a fragment is not a multiple of 8
octets and the M flag of that fragment is 1, then that fragment
MUST be discarded.
If the length and offset of a fragment are such that the payload
length of the packet reassembled from that fragment would exceed
65,535 octets, then that fragment MUST be discarded.
If a fragment overlaps another fragment already saved for
reassembly then the new fragment that overlaps the existing
fragment MUST be discarded.
If the first fragment is too small then it is possible that it
does not contain the necessary headers for a stateful firewall.
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Sending small fragments like this has been used as an attack on
IP fragmentation. To mitigate this problem, an implementation
SHOULD ensure that the first fragment contains the headers of
the encapsulated packet at least through the transport header.
A GUE node MUST be able to accept a fragmented packet that,
after reassembly and decapsulation, is as large as 1500 octets.
This means that the node must configure a reassembly buffer that
is at least as large as 1500 octets plus the maximum-sized
encapsulation headers that may be inserted during encapsulation.
Implementations may find it more convenient and efficient to
configure a reassembly buffer size of 2KB which is large enough
to accommodate even the largest set of encapsulation headers and
provides a natural memory page size boundary.
5.6. Security Considerations
Exploits that have been identified with IP fragmentation are
conceptually applicable to GUE fragmentation.
Attacks on GUE fragmentation can be mitigated by:
o Hardened implementation that applies applicable techniques from
implementation of IP fragmentation.
o Application of GUE security (section 4) or IPsec [RFC4301].
Security mechanisms can prevent spoofing of fragments from
unauthorized sources.
o Implement fragment filter techniques for GUE encapsulation as
described in [RFC1858] and [RFC3128].
o Do not accepted data in overlapping segments.
o Enforce a minimum size for the first fragment.
6. Payload transform option
The payload transform option indicates that the GUE payload has been
transformed. Transforming a payload is done by running a function
over the data and possibly modifying it (encrypting it for instance).
The payload transform option indicates the method used to transform
the data so that a decapsulator is able to validate and reverse the
transformation to recover the original data. Payload transformations
could include encryption, authentication, CRC coverage, and
compression. This specification defines a transformation for DTLS.
6.1. Extension field format
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The presence of the GUE payload transform option is indicated by the
T bit in the GUE header.
The format of Payload Transform Field is:
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | P_C_type | Data |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
The fields of the option are:
Type: Payload Transform Type or Code point. Each payload transform
mechanism must have one code point registered in IANA. This
document specifies:
0x01: for DTLS [RFC6347]
0x80~0xFF: for private payload transform types
A private payload transform type can be used for
experimental purpose or vendor proprietary mechanisms.
P_C_type: Indicates the protocol or control type of the
untransformed payload. When payload transform option is
present, proto/ctype in the GUE header is set to 59 ("No
next header") for a data message and zero for a control
message. The IP protocol or control message type of the
untransformed payload MUST be encoded in this field.
The benefit of this rule is to prevent a middle box from
inspecting the encrypted payload according to GUE next
protocol. The assumption here is that a middle box may
understand GUE base header but does not understand GUE
option flag definitions.
Data: A field that can be set according to the requirements of
each payload transform type. If the specification for a
payload transform type does not specify how this field is to
be set, then the field MUST be set to zero.
6.2. Usage
The payload transform option provides a mechanism to transform or
interpret the payload of a GUE packet. The Type field provides the
method used to transform the payload, and the P_C_type field provides
the protocol or control message type of the of payload before being
transformed. The payload transformation option is generic so that it
can have both security related uses (such as DTLS) as well as non
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security related uses (such as compression, CRC, etc.).
An encapsulator performs payload transformation before transmission,
and a decapsulator performs the reverse transformation before
accepting a packet. For example, if an encapsulator transforms a
payload by encrypting it, the peer decaspsulator MUST decrypt the
payload before accepting the packet. If a decapsulator fails to
perform the reverse transformation or cannot validate the
transformation it MUST discard the packet and MAY generate an alert
to the management system.
6.3. Interaction with other optional extensions
If GUE fragmentation (section 5) is used in concert with the GUE
transform option, the transform option processing is performed after
fragmentation at the encapsulator and before reassembly at the
decapsulator. If the payload transform changes the size of the data
being fragmented this must be taken into account during
fragmentation.
If both the security option and the payload transform are used in a
GUE packet, an encapsulator MUST perform the payload transformation
first, set the payload transform option in the GUE header, and then
create the security option. A decapsulator does processing in
reverse-- the security option is processed (GUE header is validated)
and then the reverse payload transform is performed.
In order to get flow entropy from the payload, an encapsulator should
derive the flow entropy before performing a payload transform.
6.4. DTLS transform
The payload of a GUE packet can be secured using Datagram Transport
Layer Security [RFC6347]. An encapsulator would apply DTLS to the GUE
payload so that the payload packets are encrypted and the GUE header
remains in plaintext. The payload transform option is set to indicate
that the payload is interpreted as a DTLS record.
The payload transform option for DLTS is:
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| 1 | P_C_type | 0 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
DTLS [RFC6347] provides packet fragmentation capability. To avoid
packet fragmentation performed multiple times, a GUE encapsulator
SHOULD only perform the packet fragmentation at packet encapsulation
process, i.e., not in the payload encryption process.
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DTLS usage [RFC6347] is limited to a single DTLS session for any
specific tunnel encapsulator/decapsulator pair (identified by source
and destination IP addresses). Both IP addresses MUST be unicast
addresses - multicast traffic is not supported when DTLS is used. A
GUE tunnel decapsulator implementation that supports DTLS can
establish DTLS session(s) with one or multiple tunnel encapsulators,
and likewise a GUE tunnel encapsulator implementation can establish
DTLS session(s) with one or multiple decapsulators.
7. Remote checksum offload option
Remote checksum offload is mechanism that provides checksum offload
of encapsulated packets using rudimentary offload capabilities found
in most Network Interface Card (NIC) devices. Many NIC
implementations can only offload the outer UDP checksum in UDP
encapsulation. Remote checksum offload is described in [UDPENCAP].
In remote checksum offload the outer header checksum, that in the
outer UDP header, is enabled in packets and, with some additional
meta information, a receiver is able to deduce the checksum to be set
for an inner encapsulated packet. Effectively this offloads the
computation of the inner checksum. Enabling the outer checksum in
encapsulation has the additional advantage that it covers more of the
packet, including the encapsulation headers, than an inner checksum.
7.1. Extension field format
The presence of the GUE remote checksum offload option is indicated
by the R bit in the GUE header.
The format of remote checksum offload field is:
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Checksum start | Checksum offset |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
The fields of the option are:
o Checksum start: starting offset for checksum computation
relative to the start of the encapsulated payload. This is
typically the offset of a transport header (e.g. UDP or TCP).
o Checksum offset: Offset relative to the start of the
encapsulated packet where the derived checksum value is to be
written. This typically is the offset of the checksum field in
the transport header (e.g. UDP or TCP).
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7.2. Usage
7.2.1. Transmitter operation
The typical actions to set remote checksum offload on transmit are:
1) Transport layer creates a packet and indicates in internal
packet meta data that checksum is to be offloaded to the NIC
(normal transport layer processing for checksum offload). The
checksum field is populated with the bitwise not of the
checksum of the pseudo header or zero as appropriate.
2) Encapsulation layer adds its headers to the packet including
the remote checksum offload option. The start offset and
checksum offset are set accordingly.
3) Encapsulation layer arranges for checksum offload of the outer
header checksum (e.g. UDP).
4) Packet is sent to the NIC. The NIC will perform transmit
checksum offload and set the checksum field in the outer
header. The inner header and rest of the packet are transmitted
without modification.
7.2.2. Receiver operation
The typical actions a host receiver does to support remote checksum
offload are:
1) Receive packet and validate outer checksum following normal
processing (e.g. validate non-zero UDP checksum).
2) Validate the remote checksum option. If checksum start is
greater than the length of the packet, then the packet MUST be
dropped. If checksum offset is greater then the length of the
packet minus two, then the packet MUST be dropped.
3) Deduce full checksum for the IP packet. If a NIC is capable of
receive checksum offload it will return either the full
checksum of the received packet or an indication that the UDP
checksum is correct. Either of these methods can be used to
deduce the checksum over the IP packet [UDPENCAP].
4) From the packet checksum, subtract the checksum computed from
the start of the packet (outer IP header) to the offset in the
packet indicted by checksum start in the meta data. The result
is the deduced checksum to set in the checksum field of the
encapsulated transport packet.
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In pseudo code:
csum: initialized to checksum computed from start (outer IP
header) to the end of the packet
start_of_packet: address of start of packet
encap_payload_offset: relative to start_of_packet
csum_start: value from the checksum start field
checksum(start, len): function to compute checksum from start
address for len bytes
csum -= checksum(start_of_packet, encap_payload_offset +
csum_start)
5) Write the resultant checksum value into the packet at the
offset provided by checksum offset in the meta data.
In pseudo code:
csum_offset: value from the checksum offset field
*(start_of_packet + encap_payload_offset +
csum_offset) = csum
6) Checksum is verified at the transport layer using normal
processing. This should not require any checksum computation
over the packet since the complete checksum has already been
provided.
7.3. Security Considerations
Remote checksum offload allows a means to change the GUE payload
before being received at a decapsulator. In order to prevent misuse
of this mechanism, a decapsulator MUST apply security checks on the
GUE payload only after checksum remote offload has been processed.
8. Checksum option
The GUE checksum option provides a checksum that covers the GUE
header, a GUE pseudo header, and optionally part or all of the GUE
payload. The GUE pseudo header includes the corresponding IP
addresses as well as the UDP ports of the encapsulating headers. This
checksum should provide adequate protection against address
corruption in IPv6 when the UDP checksum is zero. Additionally, the
GUE checksum provides protection of the GUE header when the UDP
checksum is set to zero with either IPv4 or IPv6. In particular, the
GUE checksum can provide protection for some sensitive data, such as
the virtual network identifier ([I.D.hy-nvo3-gue-4-nvo]), which when
corrupted could lead to mis-delivery of a packet to the wrong virtual
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network.
8.1. Extension field format
The presence of the GUE checksum option is indicated by the K bit in
the GUE header.
The format of the checksum extension is:
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Checksum | Payload coverage |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
The fields of the option are:
o Checksum: Computed checksum value. This checksum covers the GUE
header (including fields and private data covered by Hlen), the
GUE pseudo header, and optionally all or part of the payload
(encapsulated packet).
o Payload coverage: Number of bytes of payload to cover in the
checksum. Zero indicates that the checksum only covers the GUE
header and GUE pseudo header. If the value is greater than the
encapsulated payload length, the packet MUST be dropped.
8.2. Requirements
The GUE header checksum SHOULD be set on transmit when using a zero
UDP checksum with IPv6.
The GUE header checksum SHOULD be used when the UDP checksum is zero
for IPv4 if the GUE header includes data that when corrupted can lead
to misdelivery or other serious consequences, and there is no other
mechanism that provides protection (no security field that checks
integrity for instance).
The GUE header checksum SHOULD NOT be set when the UDP checksum is
non-zero. In this case the UDP checksum provides adequate protection
and this avoids convolutions when a packet traverses NAT that does
address translation (in that case the UDP checksum is required).
8.3. GUE checksum pseudo header
The GUE pseudo header checksum is included in the GUE checksum to
provide protection for the IP and UDP header elements which when
corrupted could lead to misdelivery of the GUE packet. The GUE pseudo
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header checksum is similar to the standard IP pseudo header defined
in [RFC0768] and [RFC0793] for IPv4, and in [RFC2460] for IPv6.
The GUE pseudo header for IPv4 is:
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Source Address |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Destination Address |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Source port | Destination port |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
The GUE pseudo header for IPv6 is:
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
+ +
| |
+ Source Address +
| |
+ +
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
+ +
| |
+ Destination Address +
| |
+ +
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Source port | Destination port |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Note that the GUE pseudo header does not include payload length or
protocol as in the standard IP pseudo headers. The length field is
deemed unnecessary because:
o If the length is corrupted this will usually be detected by a
checksum validation failure on the inner packet.
o Fragmentation of packets in a tunnel should occur on the inner
packet before being encapsulated or GUE fragmentation (section
4) MAY be performed at tunnel ingress. GUE packets are not
expected to be fragmented when using IPv6. See [RFC6936] for
considerations of payload length and IPv6 checksum.
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o A corrupted length field in itself should not lead to
misdelivery of a packet.
o Without the length field, the GUE pseudo header checksum is the
same for all packets of flow. This is a useful property for
optimizations such as TCP Segment Offload (TSO).
8.4. Usage
The GUE checksum is computed and verified following the standard
process for computing the Internet checksum [RFC1071]. Checksum
computation may be optimized per the mathematical properties
including parallel computation and incremental updates.
8.4.1. Transmitter operation
The procedure for setting the GUE checksum on transmit is:
1) Create the GUE header including the checksum and payload
coverage fields. The checksum field is initially set to zero.
2) Calculate the 1's complement checksum of the GUE header from
the start of the GUE header through the its length as indicated
in GUE Hlen.
3) Calculate the checksum of the GUE pseudo header for IPv4 or
IPv6.
4) Calculate checksum of payload portion if payload coverage is
enabled (payload coverage field is non-zero). If the length of
the payload coverage is odd, logically append a single zero
byte for the purposes of checksum calculation.
5) Add and fold the computed checksums for the GUE header, GUE
pseudo header and payload coverage. Set the bitwise not of the
result in the GUE checksum field.
8.4.2.Receiver operation
If the GUE checksum option is present, the receiver MUST validate the
checksum before processing any other fields or accepting the packet.
The procedure for verifying the checksum is:
1) If the payload coverage length is greater than the length of
the encapsulated payload then drop the packet.
2) Calculate the checksum of the GUE header from the start of the
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header to the end as indicated by Hlen.
3) Calculate the checksum of the appropriate GUE pseudo header.
4) Calculate the checksum of payload if payload coverage is
enabled (payload coverage is non-zero). If the length of the
payload coverage is odd logically append a single zero byte for
the purposes of checksum calculation.
5) Sum the computed checksums for the GUE header, GUE pseudo
header, and payload coverage. If the result is all 1 bits (-0
in 1's complement arithmetic), the checksum is valid and the
packet is accepted; otherwise the checksum is considered
invalid and the packet MUST be dropped.
8.5. Security Considerations
The checksum option is only a mechanism for corruption detection, it
is not a security mechanism. To provide integrity checks or
authentication of the GUE header, the GUE security option SHOULD be
used.
9. Processing order of options
Options MUST be processed in a specific order for both sending and
receive. Note that some options, such as the checksum option, depend
on other fields in the GUE header to be set.
The order of processing options to send a GUE packet are:
1) Set group identifier option.
2) Fragment if necessary and set fragmentation option. If the
group identifier is present it is copied into each fragment.
Note that if payload transformation will increase the size of
the payload that MUST be accounted for when deciding how to
fragment
3) Perform payload transform (potentially on a fragment) and set
payload transform option.
4) Set Remote checksum offload.
5) Set security option. If the checksum option field is also
present, the checksum value and the payload coverage MUST be
set to zero if computing an HMAC over the GUE header.
6) Calculate GUE checksum and set checksum option.
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On reception the order of actions is reversed.
1) Verify GUE checksum.
2) Verify security option. If the GUE checksum is also present and
HMAC computation is being done over the GUE header, set the
checksum and payload fields in the checksum option to zero
before computing the HMAC.
3) Adjust packet for remote checksum offload.
4) Perform payload transformation (i.e. decrypt payload).
5) Perform reassembly.
6) Process packet (take group identifier into account if present).
Note that the relative processing order of private fields is
unspecified.
10. Security Considerations
Encapsulation of network protocol in GUE should not increase security
risk, nor provide additional security in itself. GUE requires that
the source port for UDP packets SHOULD be randomly seeded to mitigate
some possible denial service attacks.
If the integrity and privacy of data packets being transported
through GUE is a concern, GUE security option and payload encryption
using the the transform option SHOULD be used to remove the concern.
If the integrity is the only concern, the tunnel may consider use of
GUE security only for optimization. Likewise, if privacy is the only
concern, the tunnel may use GUE encryption function only.
If GUE payload already provides secure mechanism, e.g., the payload
is IPsec packets, it is still valuable to consider use of GUE
security.
GUE may rely on other secure tunnel mechanisms such as DTLS [RFC6347]
over the whole UDP payload for securing the whole GUE packet or IPsec
[RFC4301] to achieve the secure transport over an IP network or
Internet.
IPsec [RFC4301] was designed as a network security mechanism, and
therefore it resides at the network layer. As such, if the tunnel is
secured with IPsec, the UDP header would not be visible to
intermediate routers in either IPsec tunnel or transport mode. The
big drawback here prohibits intermediate routers to perform load
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balancing based on the flow entropy in UDP header. In addition, this
method prohibits any middle box function on the path.
By comparison, DTLS [RFC6347] was designed with application security
and can better preserve network and transport layer protocol
information than IPsec [RFC4301]. Using DTLS over UDP to secure the
GUE tunnel, both GUE header and payload will be encrypted. In order
to differentiate plaintext GUE header from encrypted GUE header, the
destination port of the UDP header between two must be different,
which essentially requires another standard UDP port for GUE with
DTLS. The drawback on this method is to prevent a middle box
operation to GUE tunnel on the path.
Use of two independent tunnel mechanisms such as GUE and DTLS over
UDP to carry a network protocol over an IP network adds some overlap
and complexity. For example, fragmentation will be done twice.
As the result, a GUE tunnel SHOULD use the security mechanisms
specified in this document to provide secure transport over an IP
network or Internet when it is needed. GUE encapsulation can be used
as a secure transport mechanism over an IP network and Internet.
11. IANA Consideration
IANA is requested to assign flags for the extensions defined in this
specification. Specifically, an assignment is requested for the Group
Identfier, Security, Fragmentation, Payload Transform, Remote
Checksum Offload, and Checksum extensions in the "GUE flag-fields"
registry.
+-------------+---------------+-------------+--------------------+
| Flags bits | Field size | Description | Reference |
+-------------+---------------+-------------+--------------------+
| Bit 0 | 4 bytes | Group | This document |
| | | identifier | |
| | | | |
| Bit 1..3 | 001->8 bytes | Security | This document |
| | 010->16 bytes | | |
| | 011->32 bytes | | |
| | 100->40 bytes | | |
| | | | |
| Bit 4 | 8 bytes | Fragmen- | This document |
| | | tation | |
| | | | |
| Bit 5 | 4 bytes | Payload | This document |
| | | transform | |
| | | | |
| Bit 6 | 4 bytes | Remote | This document |
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| | | checksum | |
| | | offload | |
| | | | |
| Bit 7 | 4 bytes | Checksum | This document |
| | | | |
| Bit 8..15 | | Unassigned | |
+-------------+---------------+-------------+--------------------+
IANA is requested to set up a registry for the GUE payload transform
types. Payload transform types are 8 bit values. New values for
control types 1-127 are assigned via Standards Action [RFC5226].
+----------------+------------------+---------------+
| Transform type | Description | Reference |
+----------------+------------------+---------------+
| 0 | Reserved | This document |
| | | |
| 1 | DTLS | This document |
| | | |
| 2..127 | Unassigned | |
| | | |
| 128..255 | User defined | This document |
+----------------+------------------+---------------+
12. References
12.1. Normative References
[RFC0791] Postel, J., "Internet Protocol", STD 5, RFC 791, September
1981.
[RFC2460] Deering, S. and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version 6
(IPv6) Specification", RFC 2460, December 1998.
[RFC1122] Braden, R., Ed., "Requirements for Internet Hosts -
Communication Layers", STD 3, RFC 1122, October 1989.
[RFC0768] Postel, J., "User Datagram Protocol", STD 6, RFC 768,
August 1980.
[RFC5226] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226, DOI
10.17487/RFC5226, May 2008, <http://www.rfc-
editor.org/info/rfc5226>.
[I.D.ietf-gue] T. Herbert, L. Yong, and O. Zia, "Generic UDP
Encapsulation" draft-ietf-intarea-gue-01
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12.2. Informative References
[RFC3931] Lau, J., Townsley, W., et al, "Layer Two Tunneling Protocol
- Version 3 (L2TPv3)", RFC3931, 1999
[RFC2104] Kent, S. and R. Atkinson, "Security Architecture for the
Internet Protocol" , RFC 2401, DOI 10.17487/RFC2401,
November 1998, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2401>.
[RFC6407] Weis, B., Rowles, S., and T. Hardjono, "The Group Domain of
Interpretation" , RFC 6407, DOI 10.17487/RFC6407, October
2011, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6407>.
[RFC4459] Savola, P., "MTU and Fragmentation Issues with In-the-
Network Tunneling", RFC 4459, DOI 10.17487/RFC4459, April
2006, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4459>.
[RFC4963] Heffner, J., Mathis, M., and B. Chandler, "IPv4 Reassembly
Errors at High Data Rates", RFC 4963, DOI 10.17487/RFC4963,
July 2007, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4963>.
[RFC2764] B. Gleeson, A. Lin, J. Heinanen, G. Armitage, A. Malis, "A
Framework for IP Based Virtual Private Networks", RFC2764,
February 2000.
[RFC4301] Kent, S. and K. Seo, "Security Architecture for the
Internet Protocol", RFC 4301, December 2005.
[RFC1858] Ziemba, G., Reed, D., and P. Traina, "Security
Considerations for IP Fragment Filtering", RFC 1858,
October 1995.
[RFC3128] Miller, I., "Protection Against a Variant of the Tiny
Fragment Attack (RFC 1858)", RFC 3128, June 2001.
[RFC6347] Rescoria, E., Modadugu, N., "Datagram Transport Layer
Security Version 1.2", RFC6347, 2012.
[RFC0793] Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol", STD 7, RFC
793, DOI 10.17487/RFC0793, September 1981, <http://www.rfc-
editor.org/info/rfc793>.
[RFC6936] Fairhurst, G. and M. Westerlund, "Applicability Statement
for the Use of IPv6 UDP Datagrams with Zero Checksums", RFC
6936, DOI 10.17487/RFC6936, April 2013, <http://www.rfc-
editor.org/info/rfc6936>.
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INTERNET DRAFT draft-ietf-intarea-gue-extensions-01 May 18, 2017
[RFC1071] Braden, R., Borman, D., and C. Partridge, "Computing the
Internet checksum", RFC1071, September 1988.
[I.D.hy-nvo3-gue-4-nvo] Yong, L., Herbert, T., "Generic UDP
Encapsulation (GUE) for Network Virtualization Overlay"
draft-hy-nvo3-gue-4-nvo-03
[] Previdi S. et al, "IPv6 Segment Routing
Header (SRH) draft-ietf-6man-segment-routing-header-02
[I.D.templin-aerolink] F. Templin, "Transmission of IP Packets over
AERO Links" draft-templin-aerolink-62
[UDPENCAP] T. Herbert, "UDP Encapsulation in Linux",
http://people.netfilter.org/pablo/netdev0.1/papers/UDP-
Encapsulation-in-Linux.pdf
[FIPS180-4] Secure Hash Standard (SHS), Nation Institute of Standards
and Technology, 8/2015
Authors' Addresses
Tom Herbert
Quantonium
4701 Patrick Henry Dr.
Santa Clara, CA
USA
EMail: tom@herbertland.com
Lucy Yong
Huawei USA
5340 Legacy Dr.
Plano, TX 75024
USA
Email: lucy.yong@huawei.com
Fred L. Templin
Boeing Research & Technology
P.O. Box 3707
Seattle, WA 98124
USA
Email: fltemplin@acm.org
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