An IPv4 Flowlabel Option
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Network Working Group T. Dreibholz
Internet-Draft SimulaMet
Intended status: Standards Track September 09, 2020
Expires: March 13, 2021
An IPv4 Flowlabel Option
draft-dreibholz-ipv4-flowlabel-32
Abstract
This draft defines an IPv4 option containing a flowlabel that is
compatible to IPv6. It is required for simplified usage of IntServ
and interoperability with IPv6.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2. Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.3. Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. A Flow Label Option for IPv4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1.1. The Flow Label Field of IPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1.2. The Limitations of IntServ via IPv4 . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. Definition of the Flow Label Option . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Translation between IPv6 and IPv4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1. Introduction
1.1. Terminology
This document uses the following terms:
o IntServ (Integrated Services): Reservation of network resources
(bandwidth) on a per-flow basis. See [RFC1633], [RFC2205],
[RFC2208], [RFC2209], [RFC2210], [RFC2211] and [RFC2212] for
details.
o Flow: An IntServ reservation between two endpoints.
o Flow Label: The Flow Label field of the IPv6 header and the IPv4
option header defined in this draft. It is used for marking a
packet to use a specific IntServ reservation. See [RFC6437],
[RFC6436] for detailed descriptions.
1.2. Abbreviations
o RSVP: ReSource Reservation Protocol
o SCTP: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
o TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
o QoS: Quality of Service
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o UDP: User Datagram Protocol
1.3. Conventions
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
capitals, as shown here.
2. A Flow Label Option for IPv4
2.1. Motivation
This section describes the motivation to add a flow label option to
the IPv4 protocol.
2.1.1. The Flow Label Field of IPv6
The Flow Label field (see [RFC6436] and [RFC6437]) of the IPv6 header
(see [RFC2460]) is a 20-bit number. All packets from the same source
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