Port Control Protocol (PCP)
RFC 6887
| Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(April 2013; Errata)
Was draft-ietf-pcp-base (pcp WG)
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| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
| Replaces | draft-wing-pcp-base | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
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| Stream | WG state | WG Document | |
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| IESG | IESG state | RFC 6887 (Proposed Standard) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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| Responsible AD | Ralph Droms | ||
| IESG note | Dave Thaler (dthaler@microsoft.com) is the document shepherd. | ||
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) D. Wing, Ed.
Request for Comments: 6887 Cisco
Category: Standards Track S. Cheshire
ISSN: 2070-1721 Apple
M. Boucadair
France Telecom
R. Penno
Cisco
P. Selkirk
ISC
April 2013
Port Control Protocol (PCP)
Abstract
The Port Control Protocol allows an IPv6 or IPv4 host to control how
incoming IPv6 or IPv4 packets are translated and forwarded by a
Network Address Translator (NAT) or simple firewall, and also allows
a host to optimize its outgoing NAT keepalive messages.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6887.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1. Deployment Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2. Supported Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3. Single-Homed Customer Premises Network . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. Relationship between PCP Server and Its PCP-Controlled
Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. Note on Fixed-Size Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6. Protocol Design Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7. Common Request and Response Header Format . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.1. Request Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7.2. Response Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
7.3. Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7.4. Result Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
8. General PCP Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
8.1. General PCP Client: Generating a Request . . . . . . . . . 21
8.1.1. PCP Client Retransmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
8.2. General PCP Server: Processing a Request . . . . . . . . . 24
8.3. General PCP Client: Processing a Response . . . . . . . . 25
8.4. Multi-Interface Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
8.5. Epoch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
9. Version Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
10. Introduction to MAP and PEER Opcodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
10.1. For Operating a Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
10.2. For Operating a Symmetric Client/Server . . . . . . . . . 35
10.3. For Reducing NAT or Firewall Keepalive Messages . . . . . 37
10.4. For Restoring Lost Implicit TCP Dynamic Mapping State . . 38
11. MAP Opcode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
11.1. MAP Operation Packet Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
11.2. Generating a MAP Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
11.2.1. Renewing a Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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