Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) Extensions for TCP Allocations
RFC 6062
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) S. Perreault, Ed.
Request for Comments: 6062 Viagenie
Category: Standards Track J. Rosenberg
ISSN: 2070-1721 jdrosen.net
November 2010
Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) Extensions for TCP Allocations
Abstract
This specification defines an extension of Traversal Using Relays
around NAT (TURN), a relay protocol for Network Address Translator
(NAT) traversal. This extension allows a TURN client to request TCP
allocations, and defines new requests and indications for the TURN
server to open and accept TCP connections with the client's peers.
TURN and this extension both purposefully restrict the ways in which
the relayed address can be used. In particular, it prevents users
from running general-purpose servers from ports obtained from the
TURN server.
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Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Overview of Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Client Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1. Creating an Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. Refreshing an Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.3. Initiating a Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.4. Receiving a Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.5. Sending and Receiving Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.6. Data Connection Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5. TURN Server Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.1. Receiving a TCP Allocate Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.2. Receiving a Connect Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.3. Receiving a TCP Connection on a Relayed Transport
Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.4. Receiving a ConnectionBind Request . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.5. Data Connection Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.1. New STUN Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.2. New STUN Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.2.1. CONNECTION-ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.3. New STUN Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
8. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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1. Introduction
Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) [RFC5766] is an extension to
the Session Traversal Utilities for NAT [RFC5389] protocol. TURN
allows for clients to communicate with a TURN server and ask it to
allocate ports on one of its host interfaces, and then relay traffic
between that port and the client itself. TURN, when used in concert
with STUN and Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) [RFC5245],
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