Port Control Protocol (PCP) Extension for Port-Set Allocation
RFC 7753
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Q. Sun
Request for Comments: 7753 China Telecom
Category: Standards Track M. Boucadair
ISSN: 2070-1721 France Telecom
S. Sivakumar
Cisco Systems
C. Zhou
Huawei Technologies
T. Tsou
Philips Lighting
S. Perreault
Jive Communications
February 2016
Port Control Protocol (PCP) Extension for Port-Set Allocation
Abstract
In some use cases, e.g., Lightweight 4over6, the client may require
not just one port, but a port set. This document defines an
extension to the Port Control Protocol (PCP) that allows clients to
manipulate a set of ports as a whole. This is accomplished using a
new MAP option: PORT_SET.
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,
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http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7753.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................4
1.1. Applications Using Port Sets ...............................4
1.2. Lightweight 4over6 .........................................4
1.3. Firewall Control ...........................................4
1.4. Discovering Stateless Port-Set Mappings ....................5
2. The Need for PORT_SET ...........................................5
3. Terminology .....................................................6
4. The PORT_SET Option .............................................6
4.1. Client Behavior ............................................8
4.2. Server Behavior ............................................8
4.3. Absence of Capability Discovery ............................9
4.4. Port-Set Renewal and Deletion .............................10
4.4.1. Overlap Conditions .................................10
5. Examples .......................................................10
5.1. Simple Request on Network Address Translator
IPv4/IPv4 (NAT44) .........................................10
5.2. Stateless Mapping Discovery ...............................12
5.3. Resolving Overlap .........................................13
6. Operational Considerations .....................................13
6.1. Limits and Quotas .........................................13
6.2. High Availability .........................................13
6.3. Idempotence ...............................................13
6.4. What should a PCP client do when it receives fewer
ports than requested? .....................................15
7. Security Considerations ........................................15
8. IANA Considerations ............................................16
9. References .....................................................16
9.1. Normative References ......................................16
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