Internet Draft RJ Atkinson
draft-irtf-rrg-ilnp-arp-04.txt Consultant
Expires: 29 NOV 2012 SN Bhatti
Category: Experimental U. St Andrews
29 May 2012
ARP Extension for ILNPv4
draft-irtf-rrg-ilnp-arp-04.txt
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Abstract
This document defines an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
extension to support ILNP for IPv4 (ILNPv4). ILNP is is an
experimental, evolutionary enhancement to IP. This document is a
product of the IRTF Routing RG.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction.............................
2. ARP Extension for ILNPv4.................
3. Security Considerations..................
4. IANA Considerations......................
5. References...............................
1. INTRODUCTION
The Identifier Locator Network Protocol (ILNP) is a proposal for
evolving the Internet Architecture. It differs from the current
Internet Architecture primarily by deprecating the concept of an
IP Address, and instead defining two new objects, each having
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crisp syntax and semantics. The first new object is the Locator, a
topology-dependent name for a subnetwork. The other new object is
the Identifier, which provides a topology-independent name for a
node.
1.1 ILNP Document Roadmap
The ILNP Architecture document [ILNP-ARCH] is the best place to
start reading about ILNP. ILNP has multiple instantiations.
[ILNP-ENG] discusses engineering and implementation aspects common
to all instances of ILNP. This document discusses engineering and
implementation details that are specific to ILNP for IPv4
(ILNPv4). [ILNP-DNS] describes new Domain Name System (DNS)
resource records used with ILNP. [ILNP-ICMPv4] defines the ICMP
Locator Update message used with ILNPv4. [ILNP-v4opts] defines new
IPv4 options for use with ILNPv4. Other documents describe ILNP
for IPv6 (ILNPv6) [ILNP-ICMPv6] [ILNP-NONCE6].
1.2 Terminology
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 2119 [RFC2119].
2. ARP Extensions for ILNPv4
ILNP for IPv4 (ILNPv4) is merely a different instantiation of the
ILNP architecture, so it retains the crisp distinction between the
Locator and the Identifier. As with ILNPv6, only the Locator
values are used for routing and forwarding ILNPv4 packets
[ILNP-ARCH]. As with ILNP for IPv6 (ILNPv6), when ILNPv4 is used
for a network-layer session, the upper-layer protocols (e.g.
TCP/UDP pseudo-header checksum, IPsec Security Association) bind
only to the Identifiers, never to the Locators [ILNP-ENG].
However, just as the packet format for IPv4 is different to IPv6,
so the engineering details for ILNPv4 are different also. While
ILNPv6 is carefully engineered to be fully backwards-compatible
with IPv6 Neighbor Discovery, ILNPv4 relies upon an extended
version of the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) [RFC826] which
is defined here. While ILNPv4 could have been engineered to avoid
changes in ARP, that would have required that the ILNPv4 Locator
(i.e. L32) have slightly different semantics, which was
architecturally undesirable.
The packet formats used are direct extensions of the existing
widely deployed ARP Request (OP code 1) and ARP Reply (OP code 2)
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packet formats. This design was chosen for practical engineering
reasons (i.e. to maximise code reuse), rather than for maximum
protocol design purity.
We anticipate that ILNPv6 is much more likely to be widely
implemented and deployed than ILNPv4. However, having a clear
definition of ILNPv4 helps demonstrate the difference between
architecture and engineering, and also demonstrates that the
common ILNP architecture can be instantiated in different ways
with different existing network-layer protocols.
2.1 ILNPv4 ARP Request Packet Format
The ILNPv4 ARP Request is an extended version of the widely
deployed ARP Request (OP code 1). For experimentation purposes,
the ILNPv4 ARP Request OP code uses decimal value 24. It is
important to note that decimal value 24 is a pre-defined,
shared-use experimental OP code for ARP [RFC5494], and is not
uniquely assigned to ILNPv4 ARP Requests. The ILNPv4 ARP Request
extension permits the Node's Identifier (NID) values to be carried
in the ARP message, in addition to the node's 32-bit Locator
(L32) values [ILNP-DNS].
0 7 15 23 31
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| HT | PT |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| HAL | PAL | OP |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| S_HA (bytes 0-3) |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| S_HA (bytes 4-5)|S_L32 (bytes 0-1)|
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
|S_L32 (bytes 2-3)|S_NID (bytes 0-1)|
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| S_NID (bytes 2-5) |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
|S_ID (bytes 6-7) | T_HA (bytes 0-1)|
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| T_HA (bytes 3-5) |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| T_L32 (bytes 0-3) |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| T_NID (bytes 0-3) |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| T_NID (bytes 4-7) |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
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Figure 2.1: ILNPv4 ARP Request packet format
In the diagram of Fig 2.1, the fields are as follows:
HT Hardware Type (*)
PT Protocol Type (*)
HAL Hardware Address Length (*)
PAL Protocol Address Length (uses new value 12)
OP Operation Code (uses new value XXX)
S_HA Sender Hardware Address (*)
S_L32 Sender L32 (* same as Sender IPv4 address for ARP)
S_NID Sender Node Identifier (8 bytes)
T_HA Target Hardware Address (*)
T_L32 Target L32 (* same as Target IPv4 address for ARP)
T_NID Target Node Identifier (8 bytes)
The changed OP code indicates that this is ILNPv4 and not IPv4.
The semantics and usage of the ILNPv4 ARP Request are identical
to the existing ARP Request (OP code 2), except that the ILNPv4
ARP Request is sent only by nodes that support ILNPv4.
The field descriptions marked with "*" should have the same
values as for ARP as used for IPv4.
2.2 ILNPv4 ARP Reply Packet Format
The ILNPv4 ARP Reply is an extended version of the widely
deployed ARP Reply (OP code 2). For experimentation purposes,
the ILNPv4 ARP Request OP code uses decimal value 25. It is
important to note that decimal value 25 is a pre-defined,
shared-use experimental OP code for ARP [RFC5494], and is not
uniquely assigned to ILNPv4 ARP Requests. Th ILNPv4 ARP Reply
extension permits the Node's Identifier (NID) values to be carried
in the ARP message, in addition to the node's 32-bit Locator
(L32) values [ILNP-DNS].
0 7 15 23 31
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| HT | PT |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| HAL | PAL | OP |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| S_HA (bytes 0-3) |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| S_HA (bytes 4-5)|S_L32 (bytes 0-1)|
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
|S_L32 (bytes 2-3)|S_NID (bytes 0-1)|
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+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| S_NID (bytes 2-5) |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
|S_ID (bytes 6-7) | T_HA (bytes 0-1)|
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| T_HA (bytes 3-5) |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| T_L32 (bytes 0-3) |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| T_NID (bytes 0-3) |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| T_NID (bytes 4-7) |
+--------+--------+--------+--------+
Figure 2.2: ILNPv4 ARP Reply packet format
In the diagram of Fig 2.2, the fields are as follows:
HT Hardware Type (*)
PT Protocol Type (*)
HAL Hardware Address Length (*)
PAL Protocol Address Length (uses new value 12)
OP Operation Code (uses new value YYY)
S_HA Sender Hardware Address (*)
S_L32 Sender L32 (* same as Sender IPv4 address for ARP)
S_NID Sender Node Identifier (8 bytes)
T_HA Target Hardware Address (*)
T_L32 Target L32 (* same as Target IPv4 address for ARP)
T_NID Target Node Identifier (8 bytes)
The changed OP code indicates that this is ILNPv4 and not IPv4.
The semantics and usage of the ILNPv4 ARP Reply are identical to
the existing ARP Reply (OP code 2), except that the ILNPv4 ARP
Reply is sent only by nodes that support ILNPv4.
The field descriptions marked with "*" should have the same
values as for ARP as used for IPv4.
2.3 Operation and Implementation of ARP for ILNPv4
The operation of ARP for ILNPv4 is almost identical to that for
IPv4. Essentially, the key difference is:
a) where an IPv4 ARP Request would use IPv4 addresses, an
ILNPv4 ARP Request MUST use:
1. a 32-bit L32 value (_L32 suffixes in Figs 2.1 & 2.2)
2. a 64-bit NID value (_NID suffixes in Figs 2.1 & Fig 2.2)
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b) where an IPv4 ARP Reply would use IPv4 addresses, an
ILNPv4 ARP Reply MUST use:
1. a 32-bit L32 value (_L32 suffixes in Figs 2.1 & 2.2)
2. a 64-bit NID value (_NID suffixes in Figs 2.1 & Fig 2.2)
As the OP codes 24 and 25 are distinct from ARP for IPv4, but
the packet formats are Figs 2.1 and 2.2 are, effectively, extended
versions of the corresponding ARP packets, it should be possible
to implement this extension of ARP by extending existing ARP
implementations rather than having to write an entirely new
implementation for ILNPv4. It should be emphasised, however, that
OP codes 24 and 25 are for experimental use as defined in [RFC5494],
and so it is possible that other experimental protocols could be
using these OP codes concurrently.
3. SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
Security considerations for the overall ILNP Architecture are
described in [ILNP-ARCH]. Additional common security
considerations applicable to ILNP are described in [ILNP-ENG].
This section describes security considerations specific to the
specific ILNPv4 topics discussed in this document.
The existing widely deployed Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
for IP version 4 (IPv4) is a link-layer protocol, so it is not
vulnerable to off-link attackers. In this way, it is a bit
different than IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND); IPv6 ND is a subset
of the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), which runs over
the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).
However, ARP does not include any form of authentication, so
current ARP deployments are vulnerable to a range of attacks from
on-link nodes. For example, it is possible for one node on a link
to forge an ARP packet claiming to be from another node, thereby
"stealing" the other node's IPv4 address. [RFC5227] both
describes several of these risks and also describes some measures
that an ARP implementation can use to reduce the chance of
accidental IPv4 address misconfiguration and also to detect such
misconfiguration if it should occur.
This extension does not change the security risks that are
inherent in using ARP.
In situations where additional protection against on-link
attackers is needed, for example within high-risk operational
environments, the IEEE standards for link-layer security
[IEEE-802.1-AE] SHOULD be implemented and deployed.
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Implementers of this specification need to understand that the 2
OP code values used for these 2 extensions are not uniquely
assigned to ILNPv4. Other experimenters might be using the same
2 OP code values at the same time for different ARP-related
experiments. Absent prior coordination among all users of a
particular IP subnetwork, different experiments might be
occurring on the same IP subnetwork. So implementations of these
2 ARP extensions ought to be especially defensively coded.
4. IANA CONSIDERATIONS
This document makes no request of IANA.
If in future the IETF decided to standardise ILNPv4, then
allocation of unique ARP OP codes for the two extensions above
as part of the IETF standardisation process would be sensible.
5. REFERENCES
This document has both Normative and Informational References.
5.1 Normative References
[ILNP-ARCH] R.J. Atkinson and S. Bhatti, "ILNP Architecture",
draft-irtf-rrg-ilnp-arch, May 2012.
[ILNP-ENG] R.J. Atkinson and S. Bhatti, "ILNP Engineering
Considerations", draft-irtf-rrg-ilnp-eng, May 2012.
[ILNP-DNS] R.J. Atkinson and S. Bhatti, "DNS Resource Records
for ILNP", draft-irtf-rrg-ilnp-dns, May 2012.
[ILNP-ICMPv4] R.J. Atkinson and S. Bhatti, "ICMP Locator Update
message for ILNPv4", draft-irtf-rrg-ilnp-icmpv4,
May 2012.
[ILNP-v4opts] R.J. Atkinson and S. Bhatti, "IPv4 Options for
ILNPv4", draft-irtf-rrg-ilnp-v4opts, May 2012.
[RFC826] D. Plummer, "An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol",
RFC-826, Nov 1982.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to
Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC-2119,
March 1997.
[RFC5227] S. Cheshire, "IPv4 Address Conflict Detection",
RFC-5227, July 2008.
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[RFC5494] J. Arkko & C. Pignataro, "IANA Allocation Guidelines
for the Address Resolution Protocol", RFC-5494,
April 2009.
[IEEE-802.1-AE] IEEE, "Media Access Control (MAC) Security",
IEEE Standard 802.1 AE, 18 August 2006, IEEE,
New York, NY, 10016, USA.
5.2 Informative References
[ILNP-NONCE6] R.J. Atkinson and S.N. Bhatti, "ILNPv6 Nonce
Destination Option", draft-irtf-rrg-ilnp-noncev6,
May 2012.
[ILNP-ICMPv6] R.J. Atkinson and S.N. Bhatti, "ICMPv6 Locator
Update Message for ILNPv6",
draft-irtf-rrg-ilnp-icmpv6, May 2012.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Steve Blake, Stephane Bortzmeyer, Mohamed Boucadair, Noel
Chiappa, Wes George, Steve Hailes, Joel Halpern, Mark Handley,
Volker Hilt, Paul Jakma, Dae-Young Kim, Tony Li, Yakov Rehkter,
Bruce Simpson, Robin Whittle and John Wroclawski (in alphabetical
order) provided review and feedback on earlier versions of this
document. Steve Blake provided an especially thorough review of
an early version of the entire ILNP document set, which was
extremely helpful. We also wish to thank the anonymous reviewers
of the various ILNP papers for their feedback.
Roy Arends provided expert guidance on technical and procedural
aspects of DNS issues.
RFC EDITOR NOTE
This section is to be removed prior to publication.
Please note that this document is written in British English, so
British English spelling is used throughout. This is consistent
with existing practice in several other RFCs, for example
RFC-5887.
This document tries to be very careful with history, in the
interest of correctly crediting ideas to their earliest
identifiable author(s). So in several places the first published
RFC about a topic is cited rather than the most recent published
RFC about that topic.
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AUTHOR'S ADDRESS
RJ Atkinson
Consultant
San Jose, CA,
95125 USA
Email: rja.lists@gmail.com
SN Bhatti
School of Computer Science
University of St Andrews
North Haugh, St Andrews
Fife, Scotland
KY16 9SX, UK
Email: saleem@cs.st-andrews.ac.uk
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