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TRILL Working Group Donald Eastlake 3rd
INTERNET-DRAFT Stellar Switches
Intended status: Proposed Standard Caitlin Bestler
Consultant
Expires: October 20, 2009 April 21, 2009
RBridges: TRILL Header Options
<draft-eastlake-trill-rbridge-options-03.txt>
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Abstract
The TRILL base protocol specification, draft-ietf-trill-rbridge-
protocol-12.txt, specifies minimal hooks for options. This draft
fully describes the format for options and specifies an initial set
of options.
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Table of Contents
Status of This Document....................................1
Abstract...................................................1
1. Introduction............................................3
1.1 Conventions used in this document......................3
2. TRILL Header Options....................................4
2.1 RBridge Option Handling Requirements...................4
2.2 No Surprises...........................................5
2.3 Options Format.........................................5
2.3.1 Bit Options and Summary Bits.........................6
2.3.2 TLV Option Format....................................7
2.3.3 The Padding TLV Option...............................8
2.3.4 Marshalling of Options...............................8
3. Specific Bit Options...................................10
3.1 ECN Bit Option........................................10
4. Specific TLV Options...................................12
4.1 VLAN and DA Promotion TLV Option......................12
4.2 Additional Flags TLV Option...........................12
4.3 Flow ID TLV Option....................................13
4.4 Port ID TLV Option....................................14
4.5 Authentication TLV Option.............................15
4.5.1 Authentication Option Computations..................15
4.5.2 Authentication Option Fields and Flags..............16
5. Additions to IS-IS.....................................17
5.1 Additions to Link State...............................17
5.2 Additional to Port Capabilities.......................17
6. IANA Considerations....................................18
7. Security Considerations................................18
8. Acknowledgement........................................18
9. Normative References...................................19
10. Informative References................................19
Change History............................................20
Changes from -02 to -03...................................20
Changes from -03 to -04...................................20
Authors' Addresses........................................21
Copyright and IPR Provisions..............................22
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1. Introduction
The base TRILL protocol specification appears in [Protocol]. That
specification provides an options feature and describes minimal hooks
to safely support that feature. But it does not specify the structure
of options nor the details of any particular options.
Section 2 below describes the general principles of operation,
format, and ordering of TRILL Header Options. Section 3 describes
specific bit options while Section 4 describes specific TLV encoded
options.
1.1 Conventions used in this document
The terminology and acronyms for [Protocol] are used herein with the
same meaning.
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 [RFC2119].
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2. TRILL Header Options
The TRILL Protocol includes an option capability in the TRILL Header
(see [Protocol] Section 3.5). The Op-Length header field gives the
length of the options in units of 4 octets, which allows up to 124
octets of options area. If Op-Length is zero there are no options
present; else, the options follow immediately after the Ingress
Rbridge Nickname field in the TRILL Header.
As described below, provision is made for both hop-by-hop options,
which could affect any RBridge which received a TRILL frame, and
ingress-to-egress options, which would only necessarily affect the
RBridge(s) where a TRILL frame is decapsulated. Provision is also
made for both "critical" and "non-critical" options. An RBridge
potentially affected by a critical option that it does not understand
MUST discard the frame as it is unsafe to process the frame without
understanding the option. Non-critical options can be safely
ignored. Options also indicate whether the value associated with them
can change (mutable options) or not (immutable options).
Note: Most RBridges implementations are expected to be optimized
for the simplest and most common cases of frame forwarding and
processing. The inclusion of any options may and the inclusion of
complex or lengthy options will likely cause frame processing
using a "slow path" with markedly inferior performance to "fast
path" processing. Limited slow path throughput may cause such
frames to be lost.
2.1 RBridge Option Handling Requirements
The requirements given in this section are in additional to all
option handling requirements in [Protocol].
All Rbridge MUST be able to detect whether there are any critical
options present that are applicable to their processing of the frame
as detailed below. If they do not implement all critical options
present, they MUST discard the frame.
Transit RBridges MUST transparently forward any immutable ingress-to-
egress options in frames they forward. Any changes made by a transit
RBridge to a mutable ingress-to-egress option value MUST be a change
permitted by the specification of that option. Note: Even though a
transit RBridge might not examine or act on an ingress-to-egress
option, the presence of that option may cause the frame to suffer
from slow path processing.
In addition, a transit RBridge
o MAY add a hop-by-hop option to a frame,
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o MAY add a padding option if there is room and none is present,
o MAY remove an unnecessary padding option,
o MAY adjust the length of an existing padding option,
o MAY remove a hop-by-hop option as specified for that option,
o MAY change the value and Length of a mutable option as permitted
by that option's specification, but
o MUST NOT add or remove an ingress-to-egress option.
For any of these changes which alter the overall length of the TRILL
Header options area, the transit RBridge also adjusts the Header Op-
Length field.
2.2 No Surprises
RBridges advertise the ingress-to-egress options that they support in
the core TRILL IS-IS instance and advertise the hop-by-hop options
they support in Hellos they send. An RBridge is not required to
support any options; however, an RBridge which supports any other
option MUST also support the padding option.
No RBridge will receive a frame with a critical TRILL Header option
it must apply unless it advertised support for that option, except
due to errors or transient conditions. Should an RBridge receive a
frame with an applicable critical option it does not implement, it
MUST discard the frame.
If an RBridge is about to send a TRILL frame and the next hop
destination RBridge (or any of the next hop destination RBridges if
the frame is multi-destination) would not understand a critical
option in the frame that the next hop RBridge(s) might be required to
apply, it is the responsibility of the transmitting RBridge to either
(1) remove the option and make any necessary other adjustments to the
frame before transmission or (2) to drop the frame. (The
transmitting RBridge should understand the option or else it would
not have received or generated that critical option.)
TRILL options are generally inappropriate for any "extension" to
TRILL that all RBridges in a campus would be required to understand
or for a critical hop-by-hop option that cannot be backed out as
described immediately above. The addition of such an "extension"
would likely be a major change to the protocol and should be handled
by a revision to the TRILL protocol version number.
2.3 Options Format
If any options are present in a TRILL header, as indicated by a non-
zero Op-Length field, the first four octets of the options area
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consist of two summary bits and 30 option bits as described in
Section 2.3.1. The remainder of the options area consists of TLV
(Type Length Value) encoded options. Section 2.3.2 specifies the
format of an individual TLV option. Further details on the padding
option are specified in Section 2.3.3. Section 2.3.4 describes the
marshalling of TLV options.
2.3.1 Bit Options and Summary Bits
| 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7| 8 - 15|16-23|24-31|
+------+------+--+--+--+--+--+--+-------+-----+-----+
| CHbH | CItE | | | | |
+------+------+--+--+--+--+--+--+-------+-----+-----+
Figure 1: Options Area Initial Bit Octets
Bits 0 and 1 above, the top two bits of the options are, are called
summary bits and summarize the presence of critical options. The
following summary bit description text is copied from [Protocol] for
convenience:
If the CHbH (Critical Hop by Hop) bit is one, one or more critical
hop-by-hop options are present so transit RBridges that support no
options MUST drop the frame. If the CHbH bit is zero, the frame is
safe, from the point of view of options processing, for a transit
RBridge to forward, even if the forwarding RBridge doesn't
understand any options. A transit RBridge that supports no options
and forwards a frame MUST transparently forward the options area.
If the CItE (Critical Ingress to Egress) bit is a one, one or more
critical ingress-to-egress options are present. If it is zero, no
such options are present. If either CHbH or CItE is non-zero,
egress RBridges that support no options MUST drop the frame. If
both CHbH and CItE are zero, the frame is safe, from the point of
view of options, for any egress RBridge to process, even if it
doesn't understand any options.
The remaining 30 bits in the options area initial four octets are
available for bit encoded options. Any RBridge adding a options area
to a TRILL Header must set these 30 bits to zero except when
permitted to set one or more by an option that RBridge understands.
The 30 bits are categorized as follows:
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Bits Category
---------------------
2- 7 Critical hop-by-hop
8-15 Non-critical hop-by-hop
16-23 Critical ingress-to-egress
24-31 Non-critical ingress-to-egress
Any transit RBridge must transparently copy any of the bits 2-31
except as permitted by an option implemented by that RBridge or to
back out an critical option because it is not implemented by a next-
hop RBridge. Even if a transit RBridge removes all TLV options from a
TRILL Header, it MUST NOT eliminate the options area if any of these
30 bits is non-zero.
2.3.2 TLV Option Format
All TRILL Header options, other than bit options described above, are
TLV encoded, with some flag bits in the Type and Length octets, in
the format show in Figure 2.
| 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7| 8| 9-15 |
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+---
|IE|NC| Type |MT| Length | value...
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+---
Figure 2. Option TLV Structure
The highest order bit of the first octet (IE) is zero for hop-by-hop
options and one for ingress-to-egress options and the padding option.
Hop-by-hop options are potentially applicable to every RBridge which
receives the frame. Ingress-to-egress options are only added at the
ingress RBridge and are potentially applicable only at egress
RBridges. Ingress-to-egress options MAY also be examined and acted
upon by transit RBridges.
The next to highest order bit of the first octet (NC) is zero for
critical options and one for non-critical options and the padding
option. Non-critical options are those that can be safely ignored.
Critical options are those which it is unsafe to ignore, for example
options that indicate a change in the format of the remainder of the
frame after the TRILL Header, such that attempts to parse this
remainder could fail unless the critical option is understood.
The bottom six bits of the first octet give the option Type code. The
option Type may constrain the values of the IE, NC, and MT bits.
The highest order bit of the second octet (MT) is zero for options
with immutable values, that is where the value and Length will not
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change. It is one for such options that have a mutable value. The IE,
NC, Type, and MT fields themselves are always immutable.
The Length field is the unsigned length of the option value in
octets. It gives the amount of option value data, if any, beyond the
initial two octets. The Length field MUST NOT be such that the
option value extends beyond the end of the total options area as
specified by the TRILL Header Op-Length. Thus, the value of Length
can vary from zero to 120. The meaning of "Length" values of 121
through 127 is reserved and, when such values are detected, they
cause the frame to be discarded.
2.3.3 The Padding TLV Option
The padding option is used for padding at the end of the options area
of a TRILL Header. A padding option is required if the total length
of other options falls short of the space indicated by Op-Length.
The padding option is Type 0x37 and MUST have the IE, NC, and MT bits
equal to one although it is not an ingress-to-egress option. An
option with Type 0x37 where any of the IE, NC, and MT bits are zero
is invalid and, if detected, causes the frame to be discarded.
A padding option MAY be included even if the length of the other
options present is an exact multiple of 4 octets. Where padding is
needed, it MAY be larger than strictly necessary; for example, an
ingress RBridge might choose to round Op-Length up to an even value
and pad any options it includes in a TRILL Header up to an exact
multiple of 8 octets to retain 64-bit alignment for the inner frame.
All value octets in a padding option may be any value and need not be
preserved by transit RBridges.
2.3.4 Marshalling of Options
In a TRILL Header with options, those options start immediately after
the Ingress RBridge Nickname and completely fill the options area
whose overall length is given in the Op-Length field.
TLV options start immediately after the initial four octets of option
and summary bits and MUST appear in ascending order by the value of
their first octet considered as an unsigned 8-bit integer. As a
result, all hop-by-hop options MUST be placed before all ingress-to-
egress options and, within each of those two categories, all critical
options MUST appear before all non-critical options. The padding
option, if present, MUST appear last. A particular option first
octet value MUST NOT appear more than once in a TRILL Header. Frames
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which violate this paragraph are erroneous, will produce unspecified
results, and MAY be discarded. ("MAY" is chosen to minimize the
format checking burden required of transit RBridges.)
Options are 32-bit aligned. Should an option not consist of a
multiple of four octets, the option is padded at the end up to the
nest multiple of four octets with octets that MUST be zero. Should
the total length of the options (other than the padding option) in a
frame not fill the area indicated by the TRILL Header Op-Length, a
padding option MUST be used to exactly fill the remaining space.
If any options are present, those options, both flag and TLV, MUST be
correctly summarized into the CHbH and CItE bits at the top of the
initial two octets of the options area.
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3. Specific Bit Options
The table below shows the state of TRILL Header bit option
assignments. See Section 7 for IANA Considerations.
Bit Purpose Section
-----------------------------------
0-1 Summary 2.3
2-7 available for hop-by-hop critical options
8-9 ECN 3.1
10-15 available for hop-by-hop non-critical options
16-23 available for ingress-to-egress critical options
24-31 available for ingress-to-egress non-critical options
Table 1. Flag Options
3.1 ECN Bit Option
There are two distinct aspects as to how an RBridge should deal with
congestion. The first deals with congestion the RBridge detects
itself, and the second deals with congestion reported to it via a
link-specific protocol.
RBridges may implement an ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification)
option [RFC3168]. If implemented, it SHOULD be enabled by default but
can be disable on a per RBridge basis by configuration.
RBridges that do not implement this option or on which it is disabled
simply (1) set bits 8 and 9 of the bit options area zero when they
add an options area to a TRILL Header and (2) transparently copy
those bits, if an options area is present, when they forward a frame
with a TRILL Header.
An RBridge that implements the ECN option MUST do the following when
that option is enabled:
o When ingressing an IP frame that is ECN enabled, it adds an
options area to TRILL Header and copies the two ECN bits from the
IP header into option bits 8 and 9.
o When forwarding a frame encountering congestion at an RBridge, if
an options area is present with option bits 8 and 9 indicate ECN-
capable transport, the RBridge modifies them to the congestion
experienced value.
o When egressing an IP frame, if the TRILL Header has an options
area with option bits 8 and 9 non-zero, it copies those bits into
the ECN bits in the IP header.
The following table is modified from [RFC3168] and shows the meaning
of bit values in TRILL Header option bits 8 and 9, bits 6 and 7 in
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the IPv4 TOS Byte, and bits 6 and 7 in the IPv6 Traffic Class Octet:
Binary Meaning
------ -------
00 Not-ECT (Not ECN-Capable Transport)
01 ECT(1) (ECN-Capable Transport(1))
10 ECT(0) (ECN-Capable Transport(0))
11 CE (Congestion Experienced)
An RBridge detects congestion either by monitoring its own queue
depths or from participation in a link-specific protocol. An RBridge
MAY be configured to add congestion experienced marking using ECN to
any frame with a TRILL Header that encounters congestion even if the
frame was not previously marked as ECN-capable.
On any of its links an RBridge implementing the ECN option MAY
participate in other link-specific congestion control and/or traffic
shaping protocols. Specific strategies for using the ECN bits in the
TRILL option header for such other protocols are to be considered
experimental until described in a later RFC.
RBridges that have ECN enabled and are participating in a link-
specific congestion protocol on more than one link SHOULD relay
congestion notifications between links unless to do so would violate
the link-specific protocol rules. For example, IEEE 802.1 congestion
management protocols currently under development contemplate a
connected cloud of nodes within which such protocols, which make use
of selected frame priority, are implemented. Implementing such
protocols would require that bridges or RBridges on the edge of such
a cloud not admit frames with those priorities. An RBridge SHOULD NOT
circumvent such link-specific rules.
When forwarding a frame from a link indicating congestion to another
RBridge via a link without the same congestion control protocol, an
RBridge MAY use the ECN field to signal the congestion as though the
RBridge had detected the congestion itself.
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4. Specific TLV Options
The table below shows the state of TRILL Header TLV option Type
assignment. See Section 6 for IANA Considerations.
Type Purpose Section
-----------------------------------------
0x00 reserved
0x01 VLAN and DA Promotion 4.1
0x02-0x04 available
0x05 Authentication 4.5
0x06-0x0F available
0x10 Additional Flags 4.2
0x11 Flow ID 4.3
0x12-0x2F available
0x30 Port ID 4.4
0x31-0x3E available
0x3F Padding 2.3.3
Table 2. TLV Option Types
The following subsections specify particular TRILL TLV options.
4.1 VLAN and DA Promotion TLV Option
This option moves the Inner.VLAN tag and Inner.MacDA, both of which
must be examined to prune multi-destination frame distribution trees,
to a logically earlier location in a frame with a TRILL header and to
a fixed offset from the beginning of such a frame. It will always
appear first among TLV options because, as a critical hop-by-hop
option with type 1, the value of its first octet is the lowest
available. In a frame with the VLAN and DA promotion option, the
Inner.VLAN and Inner.MacDA are not present in the encapsulated frame.
The option fields and flags are as follows:
o Type is 0x01.
o Length MUST be 10 and data consists of a VLAN tag followed by a
MAC address.
o IE, NC, and MT MUST be zero. This is a hop-by-hop, critical,
immutable option.
4.2 Additional Flags TLV Option
The option provides a means of adding a variety of additional flags
to the TRILL Header beyond the bit options available in the first
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four octets of the options area.
The value of the flags option consists of additional flags, eight per
octet, numbered from the high-order to the low-order bit. Thus flag 1
is the 0x80 bit of the first octet, flag 8 is the 0x01 bit of that
octet, flag 9 is the 0x80 bit of the second octet, etc. The number of
additional flags that can be defined is bounded only by the options
space that can be available. All flags not present, because the would
be in value octets beyond those specified by the option Length, are
considered zero.
This option can appear up to four times in a frame to provide
independent sets of all combinations of ingress-to-egress, hop-by-
hop, non-critical, and critical flags. To simplify canonicalization
for security, this option MUST NOT be included if all of the flag
bits would be zero and the value MUST NOT have any trailing zero
octets. Thus its Length MUST be at least 1 and at least the last
octet of the value present MUST be non-zero.
The option fields and flags are as follows:
o Type is 0x10.
o Length is variable with a minimum value of 1.
o IE and NC are variable producing, in effect, four versions of
this option.
o MT MUST be zero. This is an immutable option.
4.3 Flow ID TLV Option
In connection with multi-pathing of frames, it is desirable that
frames that are part of the same flow follow the same path. Methods
to determine flows are beyond the scope of the TRILL standard;
however, it may be useful, once the flow of a frame has been
determined, to preserve and transmit that information for use by
subsequent RBridges.
This is a non-critical option. It is considered hop-by-hop because it
can be added by a transit RBridge. It can also affect transit RBridge
behavior. Because the ingress RBridge or even the originating end
station (which may have some way of signaling the ingress RBridge
beyond the scope of TRILL), may know the most about a frame, it is
expected that this option would most commonly be added at the ingress
RBridge. Once in a frame, the option SHOULD NOT be removed or changed
unless, for example, a campus is divided into regions such that
different flow IDs would make the most sense in different regions.
The option fields and flags are as follows:
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o Type is 0x11.
o Length is variable with a minimum value of 1. The data is an
unsigned integer that is the flow ID. [Should length be fixed
or have only a few allowed values, such as 2 or 4?]
o IE MUST be zero. This is a hop-by-hop option.
o NC and MT MUST be one. This is a non-critical mutable option.
4.4 Port ID TLV Option
The purpose of the Port ID option is to avoid the destination MAC
address to physical port mapping lookup at the egress RBridge. This
might be beneficial for extremely high-speed applications.
This option provides a 2-octet logical destination port and a 2-octet
logical source port that, in some ways, could be considered
extensions to the 6 octet inner destination and source MAC addresses
in a frame. These logical port designators are local to the
destination and source RBridges and may be any values those RBridges
find convenient to efficiently map to their physical ports; however,
the value 0x0000 is used to indicate that a logical port designator
is unknown and the value 0xFFFF is reserved and MUST NOT appear in a
port ID option.
RBridges that implement this option learn the Port ID for a remote
MAC address from the source Port ID field in the Port ID option, if
present, in frames they decapsulate in the same way they can learn
the egress RBridge and VLAN. This information is timed out in the
same manner as remote MAC address information. Such RBridges include
their local Port ID in the source field of a Port ID option when
encapsulating a frame if inclusion of this option is indicated by
their local policy.
For known unicast TRILL data frames, one would expect ingress
RBridges implementing this option to include it if sending to egress
RBridges that also implement the option. For multi-destination TRILL
data frames, inclusion of a Port ID option with a source port ID may
make sense but the destination port ID is meaningless and ignored by
egress RBridges.
The option fields and flags are as follows:
o Type is 0x30.
o Length MUST be 4. The data is the 2-octet destination port ID
followed by the 2-octet source port IS.
o IE and NC MUST be one This is an ingress-to-egress non-
critical option.
o MT MUST be zero. This is an immutable option.
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4.5 Authentication TLV Option
TRILL provides a security option that builds on the IS-IS security
keying [RFC5304] and can be applied to frames with a TRILL Header.
The first octet of the option value is the same algorithm selection
code as for IS-IS. The value length for the option is variable and
depends on the algorithm in the same way as the value in the IS-IS
security TLV. Algorithm zero indicates a plain text password which
must be configured in code which generates and checks this TLV and is
NOT RECOMMENDED. Thus far, other algorithms have indicated HMAC
signing of a canonical form of the message using a shared secret
which must likewise be configured.
This option can appear up to twice in a frame, once for ingress-to-
egress security and once for hop-by-hop security.
4.5.1 Authentication Option Computations
For algorithms which depend on the value of the frame (i.e., all
confidentiality algorithms and all strong authentication algorithms),
the frame must be canonicalized before the authentication code is
computed or verified. This is canonicalization is logically done by
copying the frame starting with the TRILL Header and modifying the
copy as follows:
1. Set the TRILL Header Hop Count to zero.
2. Clear the octets of the Authentication Option after the algorithm
selection code.
3. For all mutable options, setting the option Length to zero and
remove any value octets.
4. If an ingress-to-egress authentication code is being computed,
since hop-by-hop options can be added or deleted in transit, all
hop-by-hop options must be removed from the frame copy. When a
critical hop-by-hop option is removed, appropriate adjustments
must be made in the remainder of the frame, as if it was about to
be forwarded to an RBridge which did not support that hop-by-hop
critical option.
5. Eliminate the padding option if it is present.
6. Adjust the TRILL Header Op-Length downward as necessary to make it
correct for the other adjustment smade in the frame copy.
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The authentication code is then calculated using this copy and either
inserted into the real frame for transmission or compared against the
authentication code in the real frame for verification.
4.5.2 Authentication Option Fields and Flags
The security option fields and flags are as follows:
o Type is 0x04.
o Length MUST be at least 1.
o IE is variable. There may be an ingress-to-egress or hop-by-hop
security option in a frame or both.
o NC and MT MUST be zero. This is a critical, immutable option.
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5. Additions to IS-IS
RBridges use IS-IS PDUs to inform other RBridges which options they
support. The specific IS-IS TLVs or sub-TLVs used to encode this
information is specified in a separate document.
5.1 Additions to Link State
Rbridges indicate in their link state which ingress-to-egress TLV
option Types they support. In addition, if they support the ingress-
to-egress Additional Flags TLV option, they indicate which critical
ingress-to-egress Additional Flags TLV option flags they support.
5.2 Additional to Port Capabilities
Rbridges indicate in their Hellos which hop-by-hop TLV option Types
they support. In addition, if they support the Hop-by-Hop Additional
Flags TLV option, they indicate which critical hop-by-hop Additional
Flags TLV option flags they support.
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6. IANA Considerations
IANA will create two subregistry within the TRILL registry. One for
TRILL Header bit options that is initially populated as specified in
Table 1 in Section 3. And a second for TRILL TLV Option Types which
is initially populated as specified in Table 2 in Section 4. New
TRILL option bits and TLV type codes are allocated by IETF Review.
IANA will create a third subregistry within the TRILL registry for
flags in each of the four variations of the Flags option (the four
combinations of critical and non-critical, ingress-to-egress and hop-
by-hop) which is initially empty. Such flags are allocated by TRILL
Expert Approval.
7. Security Considerations
TBD
8. Acknowledgement
The Port ID option was suggested as part of the TRILL Header by
Silvano Gai.
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9. Normative References
[Protocol] - Perlman, R., D. Eastlake, D. Dutt, S. Gai, and A.
Ghanwani, "RBridges: Base Protocol Specification", draft-ietf-trill-
rbridge-protocol-12.txt, work in progress.
[RFC2119] - Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC3168] - Ramakrishnan, K., Floyd, S., and D. Black, "The Addition
of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP", RFC 3168, September
2001.
10. Informative References
[RFC5304] - Li, T. and R. Atkinson, "Intermediate System to
Intermediate System (IS-IS) Cryptographic Authentication", RFC 5304,
October 2008.
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Change History
RFC Editor: This section to be deleted on RFC publication.
Changes from -02 to -03
1. Renamed "flag options" to "bit options", expanded description of
them, and added ECN bit option text.
2. Add VLAN Promotion option.
3. Update IS-IS security RFC reference.
4. Minor editorial changes.
Changes from -03 to -04
1. Change options to be 32-bit aligned instead of 16-bit aligned.
2. Change bit options from all hop-by-hop non-critical so that some
are ingress-to-egress and some are critical.
3. Re-name the Security option to be the Authentication option and
improve its specification.
4. Change "VLAN Promotion" option to "VLAN and DA Promotion" option.
5. Minor editorial changes.
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Authors' Addresses
Donald E. Eastlake 3rd
Stellar Switches, Inc.
155 Beaver Street
Milford, MA 01757
tel: +1-508-634-2066
email: d3e3e3@gmail.com
Caitlin Bestler
Consultant
555 E. El Camino Real #104
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
tel: +1-949-528-3085
email: cait@asomi.com
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