Huawei's GRE Tunnel Bonding Protocol
RFC 8157
| Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(May 2017; No errata)
Was draft-zhang-gre-tunnel-bonding (individual)
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| Authors | Nicolai Leymann , Cornelius Heidemann , Mingui Zhang , Behcet Sarikaya , Margaret Cullen | ||
| Last updated | 2018-12-20 | ||
| Stream | ISE | ||
| Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
| IETF conflict review | conflict-review-zhang-gre-tunnel-bonding | ||
| Stream | ISE state | Published RFC | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
| Document shepherd | Adrian Farrel | ||
| Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2017-01-11) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 8157 (Informational) | |
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| Send notices to | "Nevil Brownlee" <rfc-ise@rfc-editor.org> | ||
| IANA | IANA review state | IANA OK - Actions Needed | |
| IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack | ||
Independent Submission N. Leymann
Request for Comments: 8157 C. Heidemann
Category: Informational Deutsche Telekom AG
ISSN: 2070-1721 M. Zhang
B. Sarikaya
Huawei
M. Cullen
Painless Security
May 2017
Huawei's GRE Tunnel Bonding Protocol
Abstract
There is an emerging demand for solutions that provide redundancy and
load-sharing across wired and cellular links from a single Service
Provider, so that a single subscriber is provided with bonded access
to heterogeneous connections at the same time.
In this document, GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) Tunnel Bonding
is specified as an enabling approach for bonded access to a wired and
a wireless network in customer premises, e.g., homes. In GRE Tunnel
Bonding, two GRE tunnels, one per network connection, are set up and
bonded together to form a single GRE tunnel for a subscriber.
Compared with each subconnection, the bonded connections promise
increased access capacity and improved reliability. The solution
described in this document is currently implemented by Huawei and
deployed by Deutsche Telekom AG. This document will enable other
developers to build interoperable implementations.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
This is a contribution to the RFC Series, independently of any other
RFC stream. The RFC Editor has chosen to publish this document at
its discretion and makes no statement about its value for
implementation or deployment. Documents approved for publication by
the RFC Editor are not a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 7841.
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/rfc8157.
Leymann, et al. Informational [Page 1]
RFC 8157 GRE Tunnel Bonding May 2017
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................3
2. Acronyms and Terminology ........................................4
3. Use Case ........................................................6
4. Overview ........................................................7
4.1. Control Plane ..............................................7
4.2. Data Plane .................................................7
4.3. Traffic Classification and Distribution ....................8
4.4. Traffic Recombination ......................................8
4.5. Bypass .....................................................9
4.6. Measurement ................................................9
4.7. Policy Control Considerations ..............................9
5. Control Protocol Specification (Control Plane) .................10
5.1. GRE Tunnel Setup Request ..................................12
5.1.1. Client Identification Name .........................12
5.1.2. Session ID .........................................13
5.1.3. DSL Synchronization Rate ...........................14
5.2. GRE Tunnel Setup Accept ...................................14
5.2.1. H IPv4 Address .....................................15
5.2.2. H IPv6 Address .....................................15
5.2.3. Session ID .........................................16
5.2.4. RTT Difference Threshold ...........................16
5.2.5. Bypass Bandwidth Check Interval ....................17
5.2.6. Active Hello Interval ..............................17
5.2.7. Hello Retry Times ..................................18
5.2.8. Idle Timeout .......................................18
5.2.9. Bonding Key Value ..................................19
5.2.10. Configured DSL Upstream Bandwidth .................20
5.2.11. Configured DSL Downstream Bandwidth ...............21
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