OSPFv3 Autoconfiguration
RFC 7503
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(April 2015; No errata)
Updates RFC 5340
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| Authors | Acee Lindem , Jari Arkko | ||
| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) A. Lindem
Request for Comments: 7503 Cisco Systems
Updates: 5340 J. Arkko
Category: Standards Track Ericsson
ISSN: 2070-1721 April 2015
OSPFv3 Autoconfiguration
Abstract
OSPFv3 is a candidate for deployments in environments where
autoconfiguration is a requirement. One such environment is the IPv6
home network where users expect to simply plug in a router and have
it automatically use OSPFv3 for intra-domain routing. This document
describes the necessary mechanisms for OSPFv3 to be self-configuring.
This document updates RFC 5340 by relaxing the HelloInterval/
RouterDeadInterval checking during OSPFv3 adjacency formation and
adding hysteresis to the update of self-originated Link State
Advertisements (LSAs).
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7503.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Requirements Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. OSPFv3 Default Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. OSPFv3 HelloInterval/RouterDeadInterval Flexibility . . . . . 5
3.1. Wait Timer Reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. OSPFv3 Minimal Authentication Configuration . . . . . . . . . 5
5. OSPFv3 Router ID Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6. OSPFv3 Adjacency Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7. OSPFv3 Duplicate Router ID Detection and Resolution . . . . . 6
7.1. Duplicate Router ID Detection for Neighbors . . . . . . . 6
7.2. Duplicate Router ID Detection for Non-neighbors . . . . . 7
7.2.1. OSPFv3 Router Autoconfiguration LSA . . . . . . . . . 7
7.2.2. Router-Hardware-Fingerprint TLV . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.3. Duplicate Router ID Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.4. Change to RFC 2328, Section 13.4 ("Receiving
Self-Originated LSAs") . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
9. Management Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
10. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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1. Introduction
OSPFv3 [OSPFV3] is a candidate for deployments in environments where
autoconfiguration is a requirement. This document describes
extensions to OSPFv3 to enable it to operate in these environments.
In this mode of operation, the protocol is largely unchanged from the
base OSPFv3 protocol specification [OSPFV3]. Since the goals of
autoconfiguration and security can be conflicting, operators and
network administrators should carefully consider their security
requirements before deploying the solution described in this
document. Refer to Section 8 for more information.
The following aspects of OSPFv3 autoconfiguration are described in
this document:
1. Default OSPFv3 Configuration
2. HelloInterval/RouterDeadInterval Flexibility
3. OSPFv3 Minimal Authentication Configuration
4. Unique OSPFv3 Router ID Generation
5. OSPFv3 Adjacency Formation
6. Duplicate OSPFv3 Router ID Resolution
7. Self-Originated LSA Processing
OSPFv3 [OSPFV3] is updated by allowing OSPFv3 adjacencies to be
formed between OSPFv3 routers with differing HelloIntervals or
RouterDeadIntervals (refer to Section 3). Additionally, hysteresis
has been added to the processing of stale self-originated LSAs to
mitigate the flooding overhead created by an OSPFv3 Router with a
duplicate OSPFv3 Router ID in the OSPFv3 routing domain (refer to
Section 7.4). Both updates are fully backward compatible.
1.1. Requirements Notation
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-KEYWORDS].
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2. OSPFv3 Default Configuration
For complete autoconfiguration, OSPFv3 will need to choose suitable
configuration defaults. These include:
1. Area 0 Only - All autoconfigured OSPFv3 interfaces MUST be in
area 0.
2. OSPFv3 SHOULD be autoconfigured on all IPv6-capable interfaces on
the router. An interface MAY be excluded if it is clear that
running OSPFv3 on the interface is not required. For example, if
manual configuration or another condition indicates that an
interface is connected to an Internet Service Provider (ISP),
there is typically no need to employ OSPFv3. In fact, [IPv6-CPE]
specifically requires that IPv6 Customer Premise Equipment (CPE)
routers not initiate any dynamic routing protocol by default on
the router's WAN, i.e., ISP-facing, interface. In home
networking environments, an interface where no OSPFv3 neighbors
are found, but a DHCP IPv6 prefix can be acquired, may be
considered an ISP-facing interface, and running OSPFv3 is
unnecessary.
3. OSPFv3 interfaces will be autoconfigured to an interface type
corresponding to their Layer 2 capability. For example, Ethernet
interfaces and Wi-Fi interfaces will be autoconfigured as OSPFv3
broadcast networks and Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) interfaces
will be autoconfigured as OSPFv3 Point-to-Point interfaces. Most
extant OSPFv3 implementations do this already. autoconfigured
operation over wireless networks requiring a point-to-multipoint
(P2MP) topology and dynamic metrics based on wireless feedback is
not within the scope of this document. However,
autoconfiguration is not precluded in these environments.
4. OSPFv3 interfaces MAY use an arbitrary HelloInterval and
RouterDeadInterval as specified in Section 3. Of course, an
identical HelloInterval and RouterDeadInterval will still be
required to form an adjacency with an OSPFv3 router not
supporting autoconfiguration [OSPFV3].
5. All OSPFv3 interfaces SHOULD be autoconfigured to use an
Interface Instance ID of 0 that corresponds to the base IPv6
unicast address family instance ID as defined in [OSPFV3-AF].
Similarly, if IPv4 unicast addresses are advertised in a separate
autoconfigured OSPFv3 instance, the base IPv4 unicast address
family instance ID value, i.e., 64, SHOULD be autoconfigured as
the Interface Instance ID for all interfaces corresponding to the
IPv4 unicast OSPFv3 instance [OSPFV3-AF].
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3. OSPFv3 HelloInterval/RouterDeadInterval Flexibility
autoconfigured OSPFv3 routers will not require an identical
HelloInterval and RouterDeadInterval to form adjacencies. Rather,
the received HelloInterval will be ignored and the received
RouterDeadInterval will be used to determine OSPFv3 liveliness with
the sending router. In other words, the Neighbor Inactivity Timer
(Section 10 of [OSPFV2]) for each neighbor will reflect that
neighbor's advertised RouterDeadInterval and MAY be different from
other OSPFv3 routers on the link without impacting adjacency
formation. A similar mechanism requiring additional signaling is
proposed for all OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 routers [ASYNC-HELLO].
3.1. Wait Timer Reduction
In many situations, autoconfigured OSPFv3 routers will be deployed in
environments where back-to-back ethernet connections are utilized.
When this is the case, an OSPFv3 broadcast interface will not come up
until the other OSPFv3 router is connected, and the routers will wait
RouterDeadInterval seconds before forming an adjacency [OSPFV2]. In
order to reduce this delay, an autoconfigured OSPFv3 router MAY
reduce the wait interval to a value no less than (HelloInterval + 1).
Reducing the setting will slightly increase the likelihood of the
Designated Router (DR) flapping but is preferable to the long
adjacency formation delay. Note that this value is not included in
OSPFv3 Hello packets and does not impact interoperability.
4. OSPFv3 Minimal Authentication Configuration
In many deployments, the requirement for OSPFv3 authentication
overrides the goal of complete OSPFv3 autoconfiguration. Therefore,
it is RECOMMENDED that OSPFv3 routers supporting this specification
minimally offer an option to explicitly configure a single password
for HMAC-SHA authentication as described in [OSPFV3-AUTH-TRAILER].
It is RECOMMENDED that the password be entered as ASCII hexadecimal
digits and that 32 or more digits be accepted to facilitate a
password with a high degree of entropy. When configured, the
password will be used on all autoconfigured interfaces with the
Security Association Identifier (SA ID) set to 1 and HMAC-SHA-256
used as the authentication algorithm.
5. OSPFv3 Router ID Selection
An OSPFv3 router requires a unique Router ID within the OSPFv3
routing domain for correct protocol operation. Existing Router ID
selection algorithms (Appendix C.1 in [OSPFV2] and [OSPFV3]) are not
viable since they are dependent on a unique IPv4 interface address
that is not likely to be available in autoconfigured deployments. An
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OSPFv3 router implementing this specification will select a Router ID
that has a high probability of uniqueness. A pseudorandom number
SHOULD be used for the OSPFv3 Router ID. The generation SHOULD be
seeded with a variable that is likely to be unique in the applicable
OSPFv3 router deployment. A good choice of seed would be some
portion or hash of the Router-Hardware-Fingerprint as described in
Section 7.2.2.
Since there is a possibility of a Router ID collision, duplicate
Router ID detection and resolution are required as described in
Sections 7 and 7.3. OSPFv3 routers SHOULD maintain the last
successfully chosen Router ID in nonvolatile storage to avoid
collisions subsequent to when an autoconfigured OSPFv3 router is
first added to the OSPFv3 routing domain.
6. OSPFv3 Adjacency Formation
Since OSPFv3 uses IPv6 link-local addresses for all protocol messages
other than messages sent on virtual links (which are not applicable
to autoconfiguration), OSPFv3 adjacency formation can proceed as soon
as a Router ID has been selected and the IPv6 link-local address has
completed Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) as specified in IPv6
Stateless Address Autoconfiguration [SLAAC]. Otherwise, the only
changes to the OSPFv3 base specification are supporting
HelloInterval/RouterDeadInterval flexibility as described in
Section 3 and duplicate Router ID detection and resolution as
described in Sections 7 and 7.3.
7. OSPFv3 Duplicate Router ID Detection and Resolution
There are two cases of duplicate OSPFv3 Router ID detection. One
where the OSPFv3 router with the duplicate Router ID is directly
connected and one where it is not. In both cases, the duplicate
resolution is for one of the routers to select a new OSPFv3 Router
ID.
7.1. Duplicate Router ID Detection for Neighbors
In this case, a duplicate Router ID is detected if any valid OSPFv3
packet is received with the same OSPFv3 Router ID but a different
IPv6 link-local source address. Once this occurs, the OSPFv3 router
with the numerically smaller IPv6 link-local address will need to
select a new Router ID as described in Section 7.3. Note that the
fact that the OSPFv3 router is a neighbor on a non-virtual interface
implies that the router is directly connected. An OSPFv3 router
implementing this specification should ensure that the inadvertent
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connection of multiple router interfaces to the same physical link is
not misconstrued as detection of an OSPFv3 neighbor with a duplicate
Router ID.
7.2. Duplicate Router ID Detection for Non-neighbors
OSPFv3 routers implementing autoconfiguration, as specified herein,
MUST originate an Autoconfiguration (AC) Link State Advertisement
(LSA) including the Router-Hardware-Fingerprint Type-Length-Value
(TLV). The Router-Hardware-Fingerprint TLV contains a variable-
length value that has a very high probability of uniquely identifying
the advertising OSPFv3 router. An OSPFv3 router implementing this
specification MUST detect received Autoconfiguration LSAs with its
Router ID specified in the LSA header. LSAs received with the local
OSPFv3 Router's Router ID in the LSA header are perceived as self-
originated (see Section 4.6 of [OSPFV3]). In these received
Autoconfiguration LSAs, the Router-Hardware-Fingerprint TLV is
compared against the OSPFv3 Router's own router hardware fingerprint.
If the fingerprints are not equal, there is a duplicate Router ID
conflict and the OSPFv3 router with the numerically smaller router
hardware fingerprint MUST select a new Router ID as described in
Section 7.3.
This new LSA is designated for information related to OSPFv3
autoconfiguration and, in the future, could be used for other
autoconfiguration information, e.g., global IPv6 prefixes. However,
this is beyond the scope of this document.
7.2.1. OSPFv3 Router Autoconfiguration LSA
The OSPFv3 Autoconfiguration (AC) LSA has a function code of 15 and
the S2/S1 bits set to 01 indicating Area Flooding Scope. The U bit
will be set indicating that the OSPFv3 AC LSA should be flooded even
if it is not understood. The Link State ID (LSID) value will be an
integer index used to discriminate between multiple AC LSAs
originated by the same OSPFv3 router. This specification only
describes the contents of an AC LSA with an LSID of 0.
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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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| LS age |1|0|1| 15 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Link State ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Advertising Router |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| LS sequence number |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| LS checksum | Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
+- TLVs -+
| ... |
OSPFv3 Autoconfiguration (AC) LSA
The format of the TLVs within the body of an AC LSA is the same as
the format used by the Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPFv2 [TE].
The LSA payload consists of one or more nested TLV triplets. The
format of each TLV 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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Value... |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
TLV Format
The Length field defines the length of the value portion in octets
(thus a TLV with no value portion would have a length of 0). The TLV
is padded to 4-octet alignment; padding is not included in the length
field (so a 3-octet value would have a length of 3, but the total
size of the TLV would be 8 octets). Nested TLVs are also 32-bit
aligned. For example, a 1-byte value would have the length field set
to 1, and 3 octets of padding would be added to the end of the value
portion of the TLV. Unrecognized types are ignored.
The new LSA is designated for information related to OSPFv3
autoconfiguration and, in the future, can be used other
autoconfiguration information.
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7.2.2. Router-Hardware-Fingerprint TLV
The Router-Hardware-Fingerprint TLV is the first TLV defined for the
OSPFv3 Autoconfiguration (AC) LSA. It will have type 1 and MUST be
advertised in the LSID OSPFv3 AC LSA with an LSID of 0. It SHOULD
occur, at most, once and the first instance of the TLV will take
precedence over subsequent TLV instances. The length of the Router-
Hardware-Fingerprint is variable but must be 32 octets or greater.
If the Router-Hardware-Fingerprint TLV is not present as the first
TLV, the AC LSA is considered malformed and is ignored for the
purposes of duplicate Router ID detection. Additionally, the event
SHOULD be logged.
The contents of the hardware fingerprint MUST have an extremely high
probability of uniqueness. It SHOULD be constructed from the
concatenation of a number of local values that themselves have a high
likelihood of uniqueness, such as Media Access Control (MAC)
addresses, CPU ID, or serial numbers. It is RECOMMENDED that one or
more available universal tokens (e.g., IEEE 802 48-bit MAC addresses
or IEEE EUI-64 Identifiers [EUI64]) associated with the OSPFv3 router
be included in the hardware fingerprint. It MUST be based on
hardware attributes that will not change across hard and soft
restarts.
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| 1 | >32 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Router Hardware Fingerprint |
o
o
o
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Router-Hardware-Fingerprint TLV Format
7.3. Duplicate Router ID Resolution
The OSPFv3 router selected to resolve the duplicate OSPFv3 Router ID
condition must select a new OSPFv3 Router ID. The OSPFv3 router
SHOULD reduce the possibility of a subsequent Router ID collision by
checking the Link State Database (LSDB) for an OSPFv3
Autoconfiguration LSA with the newly selected Router ID and a
different Router-Hardware-Fingerprint. If one is detected, a new
Router ID should be selected without going through the resolution
process (Section 7). After selecting a new Router ID, all self-
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originated LSAs MUST be reoriginated, and any OSPFv3 neighbor
adjacencies MUST be reestablished. The OSPFv3 router retaining the
Router ID causing the conflict will reoriginate or flush any stale
self-originated LSAs as described in Section 13.4 of [OSPFV2].
7.4. Change to RFC 2328, Section 13.4 ("Receiving Self-Originated
LSAs")
RFC 2328 [OSPFV2], Section 13.4, describes the processing of received
self-originated LSAs. If the received LSA doesn't exist, the
receiving router will flush it from the OSPF routing domain. If the
LSA is newer than the version in the LSDB, the receiving router will
originate a newer version by advancing the LSA sequence number and
reoriginating. Since it is possible for an autoconfigured OSPFv3
router to choose a duplicate OSPFv3 Router ID, OSPFv3 routers
implementing this specification should detect when multiple instances
of the same self-originated LSA are flushed or reoriginated since
this is indicative of an OSPFv3 router with a duplicate Router ID in
the OSPFv3 routing domain. When this condition is detected, the
OSPFv3 router SHOULD delay self-originated LSA processing for LSAs
that have recently been flushed or reoriginated. This specification
recommends 10 seconds as the interval defining recent self-originated
LSA processing and an exponential back-off of 1 to 8 seconds for the
processing delay. This additional delay should allow for the
mechanisms described in Section 7 to resolve the duplicate OSPFv3
Router ID conflict.
Since this mechanism is useful in mitigating the flooding overhead
associated with the inadvertent or malicious introduction of an
OSPFv3 router with a duplicate Router ID into an OSPFv3 routing
domain, it MAY be deployed outside of autoconfigured deployments.
The detection of a self-originated LSA that is being repeatedly
reoriginated or flushed SHOULD be logged.
8. Security Considerations
The goals of security and complete OSPFv3 autoconfiguration are
somewhat contradictory. When no explicit security configuration
takes place, autoconfiguration implies that additional devices placed
in the network are automatically adopted as a part of the network.
However, autoconfiguration can also be combined with password
configuration (see Section 4) or future extensions for automatic
pairing between devices. These mechanisms can help provide an
automatically configured, securely routed network.
In deployments where a different authentication algorithm or
encryption is required (or different per-interface keys are
required), OSPFv3 IPsec [OSPFV3-IPSEC] or alternate OSPFv3
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Authentication Trailer [OSPFV3-AUTH-TRAILER] algorithms MAY be used
at the expense of additional configuration. The configuration and
operational description of such deployments are beyond the scope of
this document. However, a deployment could always revert to explicit
configuration as described in Section 9 for features such as IPsec,
per-interface keys, or alternate authentication algorithms.
The introduction, either malicious or accidental, of an OSPFv3 router
with a duplicate Router ID is an attack point for OSPFv3 routing
domains. This is due to the fact that OSPFv3 routers will interpret
LSAs advertised by the router with the same Router ID as self-
originated LSAs and attempt to flush them from the routing domain.
The mechanisms in Section 7.4 will mitigate the effects of
duplication.
9. Management Considerations
It is RECOMMENDED that OSPFv3 routers supporting this specification
also support explicit configuration of OSPFv3 parameters as specified
in Appendix C of [OSPFV3]. This would allow explicit override of
autoconfigured parameters in situations where it is required (e.g.,
if the deployment requires multiple OSPFv3 areas). This is in
addition to the authentication key configuration recommended in
Section 4. Additionally, it is RECOMMENDED that OSPFv3 routers
supporting this specification allow autoconfiguration to be
completely disabled.
Since there is a small possibility of OSPFv3 Router ID collisions,
manual configuration of OSPFv3 Router IDs is RECOMMENDED in OSPFv3
routing domains where route convergence due to a Router ID change is
intolerable.
OSPFv3 routers supporting this specification MUST augment mechanisms
for displaying or otherwise conveying OSPFv3 operational state to
indicate whether or not the OSPFv3 router was autoconfigured and
whether or not its OSPFv3 interfaces have been autoconfigured.
10. IANA Considerations
This specification defines an OSPFv3 LSA Type for the OSPFv3
Autoconfiguration (AC) LSA, as described in Section 7.2.1. The value
15 has been allocated from the existing "OSPFv3 LSA Function Codes"
registry for the OSPFv3 Autoconfiguration (AC) LSA.
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This specification also creates a registry for OSPFv3
Autoconfiguration (AC) LSA TLVs. This registry has been placed in
the existing OSPFv3 IANA registry, and new values will be allocated
via IETF Review or, under exceptional circumstances, IESG Approval.
[IANA-GUIDELINES]
Three initial values are allocated:
o 0 is marked as Reserved.
o 1 is Router-Hardware-Fingerprint TLV (Section 7.2.2).
o 65535 is an Autoconfiguration-Experiment-TLV, a common value that
can be used for experimental purposes.
11. References
11.1. Normative References
[OSPFV2] Moy, J., "OSPF Version 2", STD 54, RFC 2328, April 1998,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2328>.
[OSPFV3] Coltun, R., Ferguson, D., Moy, J., and A. Lindem, "OSPF
for IPv6", RFC 5340, July 2008,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5340>.
[OSPFV3-AF]
Lindem, A., Ed., Mirtorabi, S., Roy, A., Barnes, M., and
R. Aggarwal, "Support of Address Families in OSPFv3", RFC
5838, April 2010,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5838>.
[OSPFV3-AUTH-TRAILER]
Bhatia, M., Manral, V., and A. Lindem, "Supporting
Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3", RFC 7166, March 2014,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7166>.
[RFC-KEYWORDS]
Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
[SLAAC] Thomson, S., Narten, T., and T. Jinmei, "IPv6 Stateless
Address Autoconfiguration", RFC 4862, September 2007,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4862>.
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[TE] Katz, D., Kompella, K., and D. Yeung, "Traffic Engineering
(TE) Extensions to OSPF Version 2", RFC 3630, September
2003, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3630>.
11.2. Informative References
[ASYNC-HELLO]
Anand, M., Grover, H., and A. Roy, "Asymmetric OSPF Hold
Timer", Work in Progress, draft-madhukar-ospf-agr-
asymmetric-01, June 2013.
[EUI64] IEEE, "Guidelines for 64-bit Global Identifier (EUI-64)",
Registration Authority Tutorial, March 1997,
<http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/tutorials/
EUI64.html>.
[IANA-GUIDELINES]
Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
May 2008, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5226>.
[IPv6-CPE]
Singh, H., Beebee, W., Donley, C., and B. Stark, "Basic
Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers", RFC 7084,
November 2013, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7084>.
[OSPFV3-IPSEC]
Gupta, M. and N. Melam, "Authentication/Confidentiality
for OSPFv3", RFC 4552, June 2006,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4552>.
Acknowledgments
This specification was inspired by the work presented in the HOMENET
working group meeting in October 2011 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In particular, we would like to thank Fred Baker, Lorenzo Colitti,
Ole Troan, Mark Townsley, and Michael Richardson.
Arthur Dimitrelis and Aidan Williams did prior work in OSPFv3
autoconfiguration in the expired Internet-Draft titled
"Autoconfiguration of routers using a link state routing protocol".
There are many similarities between the concepts and techniques in
this document.
Thanks for Abhay Roy and Manav Bhatia for comments regarding
duplicate Router ID processing.
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Thanks for Alvaro Retana and Michael Barnes for comments regarding
OSPFv3 Instance ID autoconfiguration.
Thanks to Faraz Shamim for review and comments.
Thanks to Mark Smith for the requirement to reduce the adjacency
formation delay in the back-to-back ethernet topologies that are
prevalent in home networks.
Thanks to Les Ginsberg for document review and recommendations on
OSPFv3 hardware fingerprint content.
Thanks to Curtis Villamizar for document review and analysis of
duplicate Router ID resolution nuances.
Thanks to Uma Chunduri for comments during OSPF WG last call.
Thanks to Martin Vigoureux for Routing Area Directorate review and
comments.
Thanks to Adam Montville for Security Area Directorate review and
comments.
Thanks to Qin Wu for Operations & Management Area Directorate review
and comments.
Thanks to Robert Sparks for General Area (GEN-ART) review and
comments.
Thanks to Rama Darbha for review and comments.
Special thanks to Adrian Farrel for his in-depth review, copious
comments, and suggested text.
Special thanks go to Markus Stenberg for his implementation of this
specification in Bird.
Special thanks also go to David Lamparter for his implementation of
this specification in Quagga.
This document was initially produced using the xml2rfc tool.
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Authors' Addresses
Acee Lindem
Cisco Systems
301 Midenhall Way
Cary, NC 27513
United States
EMail: acee@cisco.com
Jari Arkko
Ericsson
Jorvas, 02420
Finland
EMail: jari.arkko@piuha.net
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