Port Control Protocol (PCP) Proxy Function
draft-ietf-pcp-proxy-06
Network Working Group S. Perreault, Ed.
Internet-Draft Viagenie
Intended status: Standards Track M. Boucadair
Expires: June 20, 2015 France Telecom
R. Penno
D. Wing
Cisco
S. Cheshire
Apple
December 17, 2014
Port Control Protocol (PCP) Proxy Function
draft-ietf-pcp-proxy-06
Abstract
This document specifies a new PCP functional element denoted as a PCP
Proxy. The PCP Proxy relays PCP requests received from PCP clients
to upstream PCP server(s). A typical deployment usage of this
function is to help establish successful PCP communications for PCP
clients that can not be configured with the address of a PCP server
located more than one hop away.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Use Case: the NAT Cascade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. Use Case: the PCP Relay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Operation of the PCP Proxy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1. Optimized Hairpin Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2. Termination of Recursion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.3. Source Address for PCP Requests Sent Upstream . . . . . . 8
3.4. Unknown OpCodes and Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.4.1. No NAT is Co-located with the PCP Proxy . . . . . . . 9
3.4.2. PCP Proxy Co-located with a NAT Function . . . . . . 9
3.5. Mapping Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.6. Multiple PCP Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1. Introduction
This document defines a new PCP [RFC6887] functional element: the PCP
Proxy. As shown in Figure 1, the PCP proxy is logically equivalent
to a PCP client back-to-back with a PCP server. The "glue" between
the two is what is specified in this document. Other than that
"glue", the server and the client behave exactly like their regular
counterparts.
.................
+------+ : +------+------+ : +------+
|Client|-------:-|Server|Client|-:----|Server|
+------+ : +------+------+ : +------+
: Proxy :
.................
Figure 1: Reference Architecture
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