DNA Working Group                                        Brett Pentland
INTERNET-DRAFT                                               Greg Daley
Expires: January 10, 2005                        Monash University CTIE
                                                         JinHyeock Choi
                                                            Samsung AIT
                                                          July 12, 2004


                Router Advertisement Link Identification
                   for Mobile IPv6 Movement Detection
                 draft-pentland-mobileip-linkid-01.txt


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Abstract

   This document defines a mechanism by which Access Routers on a link
   may automatically assign a consistent identifier to this link to aid
   in Movement Detection.  This assists Movement Detection by allowing a
   Mobile Node to rapidly determine whether it has moved to a new link
   upon reception of a Router Advertisement containing this identifier.

Table of Contents

   Abstract......................................................  2
   Table of Contents.............................................  2
   1. Introduction...............................................  2
   2. Link Identifiers for Movement Detection....................  3
   3. Link ID Message Format.....................................  4
   4. MN Operations..............................................  4
      4.1. Interoperation with existing RAs......................  5
   5. Access Router Operations...................................  5
      5.1. Discovering the Link ID...............................  5
      5.2. Generating the Link ID................................  6
         5.2.1. Conflicting Link ID Management...................  7
      5.3. Advertising the Link ID...............................  8
   6. Applicability Statement....................................  8
   7. Protocol Constants.........................................  9
   8. IANA Considerations........................................  9
   9. Security Considerations....................................  9
      9.1. Mobile Nodes..........................................  9
      9.2. Access Routers........................................ 10
   Normative References.......................................... 11
   Informative References........................................ 11
   Acknowledgements.............................................. 12
   Authors' Addresses............................................ 12
   Appendix : State Diagram...................................... 13

1. Introduction

   Movement detection is the task of determining if an IPv6 node has
   moved to a new network.  This detection is important since in the
   case that the device has moved, addresses it has configured will be
   invalid and additional configuration must be undertaken to establish
   or maintain upper layer connectivity.

   Movement detection is accomplished by determining that the current
   router is unreachable, checking the validity of configured addresses
   and finding that a new router is available on the network.  Most
   previous efforts at movement detection have aimed at speeding up
   discovery of new routers with Router Advertisements(RAs)
   [FASTRA-04][FRD-00] and discounted the requirement for determining



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   current router reachability[RFC-3775][MDO-01].

   In IPv6 multiple routers are allowed on a link, and these routers do
   not have to advertise overlapping prefixes[RFC-2461].  Therefore,
   reception of an RA from a new router does not imply movement.  For
   reliable movement detection, nodes can check the reachability of the
   current router.  Determination that the current router is unreachable
   is typically a slow process[RFC-2461], but provides safeguards which
   allow nodes to be sure that movement has occurred.

   Link Identifiers (LinkIDs) are numeric values automatically
   configured on a link, which are extremely unlikely to conflict with
   an identifier on an adjacent link.  Earlier work by Erik Nordmark
   described a form of Link Identifier in [HINDSIGHT-00].  This document
   describes a technique for automatically establishing a consistent
   Link Identifier for the set of routers on a given link.  The Link
   Identifier is randomly generated by one of the routers on a link and
   all of the other Link Identifier supporting routers on that link
   agree to use that identifier.

   Mobile Nodes (MNs) receiving Router Advertisements (RAs) with LinkID
   options can use the LinkID value to identify the link that they are
   attached to.  This may aid movement detection by allowing MNs to
   determine when the link changes.  A change to the LinkID implies to
   the MN that currently configured router is unreachable.

Terminology

   Access       - A Router that has interfaces on a link which
   Router         Mobile Nodes may communicate with directly.

   LinkID       - An identifier, consistent across the routers on
                  a given link, that can be used by Mobile Nodes as
                  an indication of link changes.

2. Link Identifiers for Movement Detection

   All routers supporting the Link Identifier Option advertise it in
   each of their Router Advertisements.  Advertised Link Identifiers are
   consistent within any one link.

   Mobile Nodes store the Link Identifier internally, for comparison
   with subsequently received Router Advertisements.

   Upon receiving an RA with a LinkID that differs from the MN's
   currently recorded value of LinkID, the MN can assume that it has
   moved to a new network and that its current default router is
   unreachable.



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   This information may be used to initiate further stateful or
   stateless autoconfiguration procedures, or appropriate mobility
   signalling by the MN.

   When an MN receives an RA from a previously unseen router, which
   contains the same LinkID as its default, this means the MN is on the
   same link, but does not guarantee reachability for the current
   default router.  Other mechanisms can be used in order to check
   bidirectional reachability with the default router, as described in
   [RFC-3775].

3. Link ID Message Format


       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     |A|          Reserved           |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                            LinkID                             |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Fields:

     Type           TBA

     Length         1

     A              Ambiguity flag. When set, the A-flag indicates that
                    the LinkID field is ambiguous and may change.

     Reserved       This field is unused.  It MUST be initialized to
                    zero by the sender and MUST be ignored by the
                    receiver.

     LinkID         32-bit unsigned integer.  Link identifier.
                    Generated randomly.

4. MN Operations

   Link Identifiers assist in the determination of whether
   advertisements received from different routers are from the same
   link.  This is possible because multiple routers on a link will share
   the same LinkID.

   Mobile Nodes monitor the current link's identity using LinkID.  They
   maintain a system variable, CurrentLinkID, that is equal to the value
   of the most recently received LinkID option.  By comparing the value



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   of CurrentLinkID to a received LinkID option, a Mobile Node can tell
   if this RA represents movement to a new link.


4.1. Interoperation with existing RAs

   If an MN receives an RA with no LinkID and no prefixes that match its
   current CoA, it cannot use this technique to infer anything about
   point of network attachment.  The MN SHOULD proceed to confirm bi-
   directional reachability or otherwise with its current default
   router.

   If an MN starts receiving Link Identifiers and the LinkID is not
   currently set, it MUST set CurrentLinkID to the received value and
   SHOULD test its current router for reachability to detect movement.

5. Access Router Operations

   When undertaking LinkID advertisement, an Access Router needs to
   ensure that it is in agreement with other Routers sending the same
   option.  The following sections describe mechanisms to discover,
   generate and advertise a LinkID.

5.1. Discovering the Link ID

   Upon bringing up an interface, an AR will be unaware of any LinkID in
   use on the link.  In order to determine if a LinkID is in use on a
   link, it solicits RAs from the network to determine if one is
   available.

   While in this state it MUST send Router Solicitations in the way
   specified for a host in section 6.3.7 of RFC-2461.  Since multiple
   routers may be performing the same test, the AR MUST randomly delay
   sending its initial RS message using the mechanism described in
   [RFC-2461].

   Upon starting to solicit, the AR sets a timer, which is used to
   terminate Router Solicitation.  This solicitation timer is calculated
   in the following fashion:

   SolicitTimer = MAX_RTR_SOLICITATIONS * RTR_SOLICITATION_INTERVAL
                   + random_delay

   In this case random_delay is equal to the delay calculated in
   accordance with section 6.3.7 of [RFC-2461].  If this timer expires
   without a LinkID being received by the router, it should generate its
   own LinkID as described in section 5.2.




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   It is possible that the router will receive responses from routers
   without LinkID options.  When a router monitors RAs for the purpose
   of LinkID discovery, these messages MUST be silently discarded.

   If while it is soliciting, an AR receives an RA with a non-zero
   LinkID option, the solicitation process MAY be terminated early.

   If the router receives a LinkID option where the Ambiguity Flag is
   set, the LinkID is not guaranteed to be at its final value.  Routers
   consider that a LinkID is ambiguous for AmbigTimer seconds, where
   AmbigTimer is initially set to MAX_AMBIGUITY_TIME.  Routers MUST
   configure this LinkID, and advertise it to the All-Routers multicast
   group.  These advertisements are sent at the rate of one RA per
   second.  This informs the router which generated the LinkID that the
   current router accepts the LinkID.

   If while the LinkID is ambiguous, the router receives a non-zero
   LinkID which is numerically less than the currently configured
   LinkID, the new LinkID MUST be configured.  This new LinkID MUST be
   advertised in the same fashion as the previous LinkID, without
   resetting AmbigTimer.

   If a router receives an RA with a non-zero LinkID which has the
   Ambiguity Flag unset, it SHOULD not consider the LinkID ambiguous any
   more.

   Once the router determines that the LinkID is unambiguous, it enters
   steady state operation and advertises LinkID as defined in section
   5.3.

   Additionally, once the LinkID is detected to be unambiguous, the
   router SHOULD start listening to LinkID options with zero-value, in
   order to support conflict management defined in section 5.2.1.

   While soliciting for other routers and while a configured LinkID is
   considered ambiguous, a router may be required to transmit RAs,
   either in response to solicitation or unsolicited according to
   configuration.  These RAs MUST NOT include LinkID options.

5.2. Generating the Link ID

   If, at expiration of the solicitation timer, no RAs with non-zero
   LinkID options have been received, the router generates a random
   32-bit integer to use as the LinkID with due care to its randomness
   [RFC-1750].

   The router then transmits an RA to the All-Routers multicast group
   with a LinkID option and the Ambiguity Flag set.  At this point the



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   LinkID is considered ambiguous since another router may have
   generated an address simultaneously or not received this first LinkID
   packet.  The LinkID remains ambiguous for MAX_AMBIGUITY_TIME seconds
   and a timer, AmbigTimer, is started.  RAs with the LinkID option are
   transmitted one per second while the timer runs.

   A router generating a LinkID considers itself to be the master for
   LinkID purposes.  Other routers that send RAs with this LinkID are
   slaves.

   If, while AmbigTimer runs, an RA is received with a LinkID that is
   numerically less than the LinkID that was generated, this router
   becomes a slave and transmits RAs with this new LinkID for the rest
   of the ambiguity period.

   If, while AmbigTimer runs, an RA is received with a LinkID that is
   numerically greater than the LinkID that was generated, the router
   takes note of the source address of the received RA and adds it to a
   collision list.  If a later RA is received from the same router with
   the LinkID matching that generated by this router, the corresponding
   entry in the collision list is removed.

   If, at expiry of AmbigTimer, there are entries in the collision list,
   the conflict SHOULD be resolved according to section 5.2.1.  If there
   are no entries in the collision list, the router enters its normal
   operation state and uses its generated LinkID in all transmitted RAs.

   If, at any time during the period of ambiguity, an AR receives an RA
   with a Link option with the A-flag not set, it SHOULD set its LinkID
   to the received value and enter normal operating state.

5.2.1. Conflicting Link ID Management

   If at the expiry of AmbigTimer, the router that generated the LinkID
   has found routers which continue to advertise a less preferred
   LinkID, the following action may be applicable:

   For a period equal to the sum of the maximum values of SolicitTimer
   and AmbigTimer, the router MAY advertise a LinkID option with a
   LinkID field value set to zero.  This LinkID option MUST have the
   Ambiguity Flag unset.  After this period, the router returns to RA
   advertising without LinkID, until the interface is reset.

   Such interface resets may be undertaken upon Link-layer trigger
   reception, or administrative action.

   Other routers which are advertising LinkID SHOULD stop doing so upon
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   The routers return to RA advertising without LinkID until their
   interface is reset.

   In the case where LinkID advertisement is disabled because of
   conflicting LinkID, or upon the reception of zero-valued LinkIDs, a
   system log message SHOULD be raised on the router in order to inform
   administrators of the failure of LinkID advertisement.

   If the router which originally did not correct LinkID continues to be
   the sole router to advertise LinkID even after conflict notification,
   this is unlikely to affect nodes on the network, since other routers'
   reachability will still be checked after reception of the bogus
   LinkID in accordance with Section 4.2.

5.3. Advertising the Link ID

   Advertisement of Link Identifier Options in RAs MUST be configurable
   on a per-interface basis.

   When configured to send LinkID options in RAs for a given interface,
   an AR monitors RAs on the link associated with that interface as
   described in section 5.1.

   When sending an RA with self-generated LinkID, the value calculated
   in section 5.2 is used to fill the LinkID field.

   Until the Access Router determines that a LinkID is unambiguous, the
   Router MUST NOT send RAs containing LinkID, except to the All-Routers
   group.  This means that responses to Router Solicitations MUST NOT
   contain the LinkID until the router reaches steady state operation.

   Once the LinkID has been determined as unambiguous, the router MUST
   advertise the LinkID in every RA.  This encourages consistently fast
   movement detection for mobile nodes arriving on a network.

   One side benefit of requiring LinkID options in RAs on supporting
   Routers, is that LinkIDs may remove the necessity to advertise Prefix
   Information Options in all unsolicited RAs. Upon receiving a LinkID
   that indicates a change of link, an MN is then able to solicit the
   router for new addressing information.  This may be an important
   overhead saving in the case that the router is advertising RAs at the
   highest rates allowed in [RFC-3775].

6. Applicability Statement

   Advertisement of Link Identifiers is only really applicable to
   networks where all of the routers on a link can see each other.
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   connections that may come and go SHOULD NOT be using this approach.

   Using LinkIDs to infer unreachability may also be inappropriate for
   MNs using technologies where it is possible to receive packets at
   layer three on a single interface from two separate links
   simultaneously.  In such a case the MN may incorrectly assume that
   its previous AR is unreachable each time it receives an RA, resulting
   in "ping-ponging" behaviour.

7. Protocol Constants

   This document defines the following constants:

        MAX_AMBIGUITY_TIME                 5 seconds

8. IANA Considerations


   Allocation by the IANA of an ICMPv6 Option Type for the Link
   Identifier Option is requested.

9. Security Considerations

9.1. Mobile Nodes

   This document describes a mechanism by which reception of an RA is
   used by nodes to de-configure the current default router (and
   associated on-link addresses associated with this router).
   Additionally, in many environments, movement detection is used as an
   instigator for configuration signaling.

   This allows trivial denial-of-service or elicitation of configuration
   packets by an unauthorized LinkID advertiser, if hosts listen to
   unverified RAs.  Therefore, it is imperative that Router
   Advertisements are verified using a robust authentication scheme,
   before nodes take action based on received LinkID
   information[RFC-3756].  A candidate scheme which may provide such
   authentication (under development at the time of writing) is SEND
   (Secure Neighbour Discovery)[SEND-05].

   Current proposals which would allow a host to verify a router by
   validation of a chain of trust.  This trust chain describes the
   relationship of the router with an authority on the Internet, with
   whom the host has some relationship (presumably through its own trust
   chain).  In [SEND-05], this information is elicited through sending
   the potential router a Delegation Chain Solicitation.

   The response Delegation Chain Advertisement (DCA) has similar



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   properties to solicited Router Advertisement in [RFC-2461].  In
   particular, there may be some delay before the advertisement arrives
   (around 0-500ms, or longer for multicast DCA).  Until this
   advertisement arrives and is processed, it is unsafe to believe that
   the router is valid, or that the LinkID provided by the RA implies
   that movement has occurred (and existing addresses or routers are
   invalid).

   Therefore, all statements regarding reachability of a router assume
   that a DCA has been received and verified before a host uses the
   LinkID for movement confirmation.  This may cause significant
   overhead to movement detection times, even in the case that the
   initial router advertisement is received quickly.

   It is worth noting that hosts can be made to consume computation
   resources in verification of delegation chains, as well as on-link
   bandwidth through solicitation and acceptance of delegation
   chains(DCS/DCA).  Particularly, if a bogus router advertises a LinkID
   in a multicast RA, any node which is using LinkIDs for movement
   detection may solicit for DCA.  This may lead to multicast bombing
   similar to that described in [MDO-01], unless random delays are
   undertaken before solicitation.  Alternatively, such random delays
   may be unnecessary if additional information, such as a link-layer
   trigger, is available.

   Finally, hosts are unaware of the significance of the Ambiguity Flag.
   If the MN listens to packets with the Ambiguity Flag set, it may
   become confused if this LinkID subsequently changes.  Given that
   packets with this flag set are only sent to the All-Routers multicast
   group address, we consider that an MN which listens to these
   advertisements gets what it deserves.

9.2. Access Routers

   The process of establishing a common LinkID is also vulnerable to
   attack if unverified RA messages are processed.  Upon reception of a
   LinkID in an RA, the configuring router needs to establish the
   authority of the router which advertised the identifier.

   Since the number of routers on a link may be small, it is possible
   that routers be preconfigured with SAs or shared keys (from which
   negotiations for SAs may be started) with their peer routers.  The
   aim of this specification was to provide a mechanism which allows
   LinkID configuration without any such shared state.  If there is no
   a-priori knowledge of peer routers, any router which wishes to verify
   an RA may do so using the same procedure described for hosts
   (DCS/DCA).




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Normative References

   [RFC-2119] S. Bradner.  Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
        Requirement Levels. Request for Comments (Best Current Practice)
        2119 (BCP 14), Internet Engineering Task Force, March 1997

   [RFC-2461]  T. Narten, E.Nordmark, W. Simpson. Neighbor Discovery for
        IP Version 6 (IPv6). Request for Comments (Draft Standard) 2461,
        Internet Engineering Task Force, December 1998.

   [RFC-2462] S. Thomson, T. Narten. IPv6 Stateless Address
        Autoconfiguration.  Request for Comments (Draft Standard) 2462,
        Internet Engineering Task Force, December 1998.

   [FASTRA-04] M. Khalil, J. Kempf, B. Pentland. IPv6 Fast Router
        Advertisement (FastRA), Internet Draft (work in progress),
        September 2003.

   [FRD-00] JinHyeock Choi, DongYun Shin. Fast Router Discovery with RA
        Caching in AP. Internet Draft (work in progress), Feb 2003.

   [RFC-3775] D. Johnson, C. Perkins, J. Arkko.  Mobility Support in
        IPv6.  Request for Comments (Proposed Standard) 3775, June 2004.

   [SEND-05] J. Arkko et al. "SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND)",
        Internet draft (work in progress), April 2004.

Informative References


   [RFC-3756] P. Nikander (ed), J. Kempf, E. Nordmark. "IPv6 Neighbor
        Discovery Trust Models and Threats", Request for Comments
        (Informational) 3775,  May 2004.

   [MDO-01] G. Daley, JinHyeock Choi. "Movement Detection Optimization
        in Mobile IPv6", Internet Draft (work in progress), May 2003.

   [RFC-1750]  D. Eastlake 3rd, S. Crocker, J. Schiller. "Randomness
        Recommendations for Security", RFC1750 (Informational), Dec 1994

   [HINDSIGHT-00] E. Nordmark. "MIPv6: from hindsight to foresight?",
        Expired Internet Draft, Nov 2001, Available at:
        http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-nordmark-mobileip-
        mipv6-hindsight-00.txt







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Acknowledgements

   Much of this work is based upon an idea which Erik Nordmark had
   regarding being able to unambiguously identify a link for MIPv6
   movement detection [HINDSIGHT-00].

   This work has been supported by the Australian Telecommunications CRC
   and Samsung.


Authors' Addresses:

   Brett Pentland
   E-mail: brett.pentland@eng.monash.edu.au
   Phone: +61-3-9905-5245

   Greg Daley
   E-mail: greg.daley@eng.monash.edu.au
   Phone: +61-3-9905-4655

   Address:
   Centre for Telecommunications and Information Engineering
   Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
   Monash University
   Clayton 3800 Victoria
   Australia


   JinHyeock Choi
   E-mail: athene@sait.samsung.co.kr
   Phone: +82-31-280-9233

   Address:
   i-Networking Lab, Samsung AIT (SAIT)

















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Appendix : State Diagram

   -----------            -----------------
   |Start    | Link Down  |Steady         |       AmbigTimer
   |State:   |<-----------|State:         |<----\ Expiry,
   |NO LINKID|       /--->|LINKID, A=Unset|<--\  \No Conflicts
   -----------      /     -----------------    \  \
    Link|          /        ^ ^         Better |  |       Same
    Up  |         /Recv     | |         LinkID |  |  /--\ LinkID:
        |        /LinkID    | |         A=Unset|  |  |  | Remove
        |       /A=Unset    | |                |  |  V  | Conflict
        |      /            | |             ---------------
        |     /      Recv   | |             |Ambiguous    |<--\ Worse
        |    /       LinkID | |AmbigTimer   |Master State:|   | LinkID:
        V   /        A=Unset| |Expiry       |LINKID, A=Set|---/ Add
   --------------         ----------------- ---------------     Conflict
   |Solicitation|         |Ambiguous Slave|    /     ^  |
   |State:      |-------->|State:         |<---      |  | AmbigTimer
   |NO LINKID   | Recv    |LINKID, A=Set  |Better    |  | Expiry,
   -------------- LinkID  -----------------LinkID    |  \ Conflicts
        |         A=Set    Better |  ^     A=Set     |   \--> Sec 5.2.1
        \                  LinkID |  |               |
         \                 A=Set  \--/               /
          \                                         /
           \---------------------------------------/
                        Solicit Timer Expiry



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