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Network Working Group Luca Martini
Internet Draft Cisco Systems, Inc.
Expiration Date: August 2005 Claude Kawa
Andrew Malis Oz Communications
Tellabs
February 2005
Encapsulation Methods for Transport of Frame Relay Over MPLS Networks
draft-ietf-pwe3-frame-relay-04.txt
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Abstract
A frame relay pseudo-wire is a mechanism that exists between a
provider's edge network nodes and support as faithfully as possible
frame relay services over MPLS packet switched network (PSN). Two
mapping modes are defined. The first, one-to-one mapping mode, is
characterized by a one to one relationship between a frame relay VC
and a pair of MPLS LSPs. The second mode is known as port mode or
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many-to-one mapping mode.
Table of Contents
1 Specification of Requirements .......................... 3
2 Co-authors ............................................. 3
3 Acronyms and Abbreviations ............................. 4
4 Introduction ........................................... 4
5 General encapsulation method ........................... 6
6 Frame Relay over MPLS PSN for the One-to-One Mode ...... 7
6.1 MPLS PSN Tunnel and PW ................................. 7
7 Details Specific to Particular Emulated Services ....... 7
7.1 Frame Relay ............................................ 7
7.2 Frame-Relay Specific Interface Parameters .............. 7
7.3 One-to-One Mapping and PW Packet Format over MPLS PSN .. 8
7.4 The Control Word ....................................... 9
7.5 The Martini Legacy Mode Control Word ................... 10
7.6 PW packet processing ................................... 11
7.6.1 Generation of PW packets ............................... 11
7.6.2 Setting the sequence number ............................ 11
7.7 Reception of PW packets ................................ 12
7.7.1 Processing the sequence number ......................... 13
7.7.2 Processing of the Length Field by the Receiver ......... 14
8 Frame Relay Port Mode .................................. 14
8.1 General Description .................................... 14
8.2 PW packet format for MPLS frame relay port mode ........ 15
8.3 PW packet processing for frame relay port mode ......... 17
8.4 MPLS Shim EXP Bit Values ............................... 17
8.5 MPLS Shim S Bit Value .................................. 17
9 IANA Considerations .................................... 17
10 Security Considerations ................................ 17
11 Full Copyright Statement ............................... 18
12 Intellectual Property Statement ........................ 18
13 Normative References ................................... 19
14 Informative References ................................. 19
15 Author Information ..................................... 20
16 Contributing Author Information ........................ 21
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1. Specification of Requirements
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 RFC 2119 Below are the
definitions for the terms used throughout the document. PWE3
definitions can be found in [PWE3REQ, RFC3985]. This section defines
terms specific to frame relay.
- Backward direction.
In frame relay it is the direction opposite to the direction
taken by a frame being forwarded (see also forward direction).
- Forward direction.
The forward direction is the direction taken by the frame being
forwarded.
2. Co-authors
The following are co-authors of this document:
Nasser El-Aawar Level 3 Communications, LLC
Eric C. Rosen Cisco Systems
Daniel Tappan Cisco Systems
Thomas K. Johnson Litchfield Communications
Kireeti Kompella Juniper Networks, Inc.
Steve Vogelsang Laurel Networks, Inc.
Vinai Sirkay Reliance Infocomm
Ravi Bhat Nokia
Nishit Vasavada Nokia
Giles Heron Tellabs
Dimitri Stratton Vlachos Mazu Networks,Inc.
Chris Liljenstolpe Cable & Wireless
Prayson Pate Overture Networks, Inc
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3. Acronyms and Abbreviations
Bc Committed burst size
Be Excess burst size
BECN Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
CE Customer Edge
CIR Committed Information Rate
C/R Command/Response
DE Discard Eligibility
DLCI Data Link Connection identifier
FCS Frame Check Sequence
FECN Forward Explicit Congestion Notification
FR Frame Relay
L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
FRS Frame Relay Service
LSP Label Switched Path
LSR Label Switching Router
MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching
MTU Maximum Transfer Unit
NNI Network-Network Interface
PE Provider Edge
PSN Packet Switched Network
PW Pseudo-Wire
PWE3 Pseudo-Wire Emulation Edge to Edge
POS Packet over SONET/SDH
PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit
QoS Quality of Service
SLA Service Level Agreement
SPVC Switched/Soft permanent virtual circuit
SVC Switched Virtual Circuit
UNI User-Network Interface
VC Virtual Circuit
4. Introduction
In an MPLS or IP network, it is possible to use control protocols
such as those specified in [CONTROL] to set up "Pseudo Wires" that
carry the the Protocol Data Units of layer 2 protocols across the
network. A number of these emulated Pseudo Wires (PW) may be carried
in a single tunnel. This requires that the layer 2 PDUs be
encapsulated. The main functions required to support frame relay PW
by a PE include:
- Encapsulation of frame relay specific information in a suitable
pseudo wire (PW) packet,
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- Transfer of a PW packet across a PSN for delivery to a peer PE.
- Extraction of frame relay specific information from a PW packet
by the remote peer PE,
- Regeneration of native frame relay frames for forwarding across
an egress port of the remote peer PE,
- Execution of any other operations required to support frame relay
service.
This document specifies the encapsulation for the emulated frame
relay VC over an MPLS PSN. Although different layer 2 protocols
require different information to be carried in this encapsulation, an
attempt has been made to make the encapsulation as common as possible
for all layer 2 protocols. Other layer 2 protocols are described in
separate documents. [ATM] [ETH] [PPP]
This document also specifies the way in which the MPLS demultiplexer
field is added to the emulated frame relay VC encapsulation when an
MPLS label is used as the demultiplexer field.
QoS related issues are not discussed in this draft.
The following two figures describe the reference models which are
derived from [RFC3985] to support the frame relay PW emulated
services.
|<-------------- Emulated Service ---------------->|
| |
| |<------- Pseudo Wire ------>| |
| | | |
| | |<-- PSN Tunnel -->| | |
| PW End V V V V PW End |
V Service +----+ +----+ Service V
+-----+ | | PE1|==================| PE2| | +-----+
| |----------|............PW1.............|----------| |
| CE1 | | | | | | | | CE2 |
| |----------|............PW2.............|----------| |
+-----+ ^ | | |==================| | | ^ +-----+
^ | +----+ +----+ | | ^
| | Provider Edge 1 Provider Edge 2 | |
| | (PE1) (PE2) | |
Customer | | Customer
Edge 1 | | Edge 2
| |
| |
Attachment Circuit (AC) Attachment Circuit (AC)
native frame relay service native frame relay service
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Figure 1: PWE3 frame relay PVC Interface Reference Configuration
Two mapping modes are defined between FR VCs and pseudo-wires: The
first one is called "one-to-one" mapping, because there is a one-to-
one correspondence between a FR VC and one Pseudo Wire. The second
mapping is called "many-to-one" mapping or "port mode" Because
multiple FR VCs assigned to a port are mapped to one Pseudo Wire. As
specified later in this document, the encapsulation of frame relay
information is slightly different between the two mapping modes.
5. General encapsulation method
The general frame relay pseudo wire packet format for carrying frame
relay information (user's payload and frame relay control
information) between two PEs is shown in Figure 2.
+-------------------------------+
| |
| PSN Transport header |
| (As required) |
+-------------------------------+
| Pseudo Wire (PW) Header |
+-------------------------------+
| Control Word |
+-------------------------------+
| FR Service |
| Payload |
+-------------------------------+
Figure 2 - General format of FR encapsulation over PSN
The PW packet consists of the following fields: Control word, Payload
and Pad (if required) preceded by PSN Transport and pseudo-wire
header. The meaning of the different fields is as follows:
-i. PSN Transport header is specific to the PSN, in this case
the MPLS network. This header is used to switch the PW
packet through the MPLS core.
-ii. PW header contains an identifier for multiplexing PWs within
a PSN tunnel.
-iii. Control Word contains protocol control information for
providing a frame relay service. Its structure is provided
in the following sections addressing each mapping mode.
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-iv. The contents of the FR service payload field depends on the
mapping mode. The details are provided in the following
sections addressing each mapping mode.
6. Frame Relay over MPLS PSN for the One-to-One Mode
6.1. MPLS PSN Tunnel and PW
MPLS label switched paths (LSPs) called "PSN Tunnels" are used
between PEs and within the MPLS PSN core network for forwarding
purposes of PW packets. A MPLS tunnel corresponds to "PSN transport"
of Figure 1.
Several "Pseudo-Wires" may be nested inside one PSN tunnel. Each PW
carries the traffic of a single frame relay VC.
7. Details Specific to Particular Emulated Services
7.1. Frame Relay
When emulating a frame relay service, the Frame Relay PDUs are
encapsulated according to the procedures defined herein. The PE MUST
provide Frame Relay PVC status signaling to the Frame Relay network.
If the PE detects a service-affecting condition for a particular
DLCI, as defined in [ITUQ] Q.933 Annex A.5 sited in IA FRF1.1, the PE
MUST communicate to the remote PE the status of the PW that
corresponds to the frame relay DLCI status. The Egress PE SHOULD
generate the corresponding errors and alarms as defined in [ITUQ] on
the egress Frame relay PVC. There are two frame relay flags to
control word bit mappings described below. The legacy bit ordering
scheme will be used for a PW of type 0x0001 "Frame Relay DLCI
(Martini Mode)", while the new bit ordering scheme will be used for a
PW of type 0x0019 "Frame Relay DLCI". The IANA allocation registry of
"Pseudowire Type" is defined in [IANA] along with initial allocated
values.
7.2. Frame-Relay Specific Interface Parameters
This field specifies interface specific parameters. When applicable,
it MUST be used to validate that the PEs, and the ingress and egress
ports at the edges of the circuit, have the necessary capabilities to
interoperate with each other. The Interface parameter TLV is defined
in [CONTROL], the IANA registry with initial values for interface
parameter types is defined in [IANA], but the frame relay specific
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interface parameters are specified as follows:
- 0x08 Frame-Relay DLCI Length.
An optional 16 bit value indicating the length of the frame relay
DLCI field. This OPTIONAL interface parameter can have value of 2
, or 4, with the default being equal to 2. If this interface
parameter is not present the default value of 2 is assumed.
7.3. One-to-One Mapping and PW Packet Format over MPLS PSN
For the one-to-one mapping mode for frame relay over MPLS PSN, the PW
packet format is shown in Figure 3.
+-------------------------------+
| MPLS Tunnel label(s) | n*4 octets (four octets per label)
+-------------------------------+
| PW label | 4 octets
+-------------------------------+
| Control Word |
| (See Figure 5) | 4 octets
+-------------------------------+
| Payload |
| (Frame relay frame |
| information field) | n octets
| |
+-------------------------------+
Figure 3 - FR Over MPLS PSN Packet for the One-to-One Mapping
The meaning of the different fields is as follows:
- MPLS Tunnel label(s)
The MPLS Tunnel label(s) corresponds to the PSN transport header
of Figure 3. The label(s) is/are used by MPLS LSRs to forward a
PW packet from one PE to the other.
- PW Label
The PW label identifies one PW (i.e. one LSP) assigned to a FR VC
in one direction. It corresponds to the PW header of Figure 3.
Together the MPLS Tunnel label(s) and PW label form an MPLS label
stack [RFC3032].
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- Control Word
The Control Word contains protocol control information. Its
structure is shown in Figure 4.
- Payload
The payload field corresponds to X.36/X.76 frame relay frame
information field with bit/byte stuffing, frame relay header
removed, and FCS removed . It is RECOMMENDED to support a frame
size of at least 1600 bytes. The maximum length of the payload
field MUST be agreed by the two PEs when the PW is established.
7.4. The Control Word
When carrying frame relay over an MPLS network, sequentiality may
need to be preserved. The REQUIRED control word defined here
addresses this requirement.
The Control Word contains protocol control information. Its structure
is as follows:
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|0 0 0 0|F|B|D|C|Res| Length | Sequence Number |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 4 - Control Word structure for the one-to-one mapping mode
The meaning of the Control Word fields (Figure 5) is as follows (see
also [X36 and X76] for frame relay bits):
- bits 0 to 3
In the above diagram the first 4 bits MUST be set to 0 to
indicate PW data.
- F (bit 4) FR FECN (Forward Explicit Congestion Notification) bit.
- B (bit 5) FR BECN (Backward Explicit Congestion Notification)
bit.
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- D (bit 6) FR DE bit (Discard Eligibility) bit.
- C (bit 7) FR frame C/R (Command/Response) bit.
- Res (bits 8 and 9): These bits are reserved and MUST be set to
0 upon transmission and ignored upon reception.
- Length (bits 10 to 15)
If the Pseudo Wire traverses a network link that requires a
minimum frame size (a notable example is Ethernet), padding is
required to reach its minimum frame size. If the frame's length
(defined as the length of the layer 2 payload plus the length of
the control word) is less than 64 octets, the length field MUST
be set to the PW payload length. Otherwise the length field MUST
be set to zero. The value of the length field, if non-zero, is
used to remove the padding characters by the egress PE.
- Sequence number (Bit 16 to 31) Sequence numbers provide one
possible mechanism to ensure the ordered delivery of PW packets.
The processing of the sequence number field is OPTIONAL. The
sequence number space is a 16 bit, unsigned circular space. The
sequence number value 0 is used to indicate that the sequence
number check algorithm is not used.
7.5. The Martini Legacy Mode Control Word
For backward compatibility to existing implementations the following
version of the control word is defined as the "martini mode CW" for
frame relay.
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|0 0 0 0|B|F|D|C|Res| Length | Sequence Number |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Note that the "B" and "F" bits are reversed.
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7.6. PW packet processing
7.6.1. Generation of PW packets
The generation process of a PW packet is initiated when a PE receives
a frame relay frame from one of its frame relay UNI or NNI
interfaces. The PE generates the following fields of the Control word
from the corresponding fields of the frame relay frame as follows:
- Command/Response (C/R or C) bit: The C bit is copied unchanged in
the PW Control Word.
- The DE bit of the frame relay frame is copied into the D bit
field. However if the D bit is not already set, it MAY be set as
a result of ingress frame policing. If not already set by the
copy operation, setting of this bit by a PE is OPTIONAL. The PE
MUST NOT clear this bit (set it to 0 if it was received with the
value of 1).
- The FECN bit of the frame relay frame is copied into the F bit
field. However if the F bit is not already set, it MAY be set to
reflect a congestion situation detected by the PE. If not already
set by the copy operation, setting of this bit by a PE is
OPTIONAL. The PE MUST NOT clear this bit (set it to 0 if it was
received with the value of 1).
- The BECN bit of the frame relay frame is copied into the B bit
field. However if the B bit is not already set, it MAY be set to
reflect a congestion situation detected by the PE. If not already
set by the copy operation, setting of this bit by a PE is
OPTIONAL. The PE MUST NOT clear this bit (set it to 0 if it was
received with the value of 1).
- If the PW packet length (defined as the length of the payload
plus the length of the control word) is less than 64 octets, the
length field MUST be set to the packet's length. Otherwise the
length field MUST be set to zero.
- The sequence number field is processed if the FR PW uses sequence
numbers.
- The payload of the PW packet is the contents of ITU-T
Recommendations X.36/X.76 [X36, X76] frame relay frame
information field stripped from any bit or byte stuffing.
7.6.2. Setting the sequence number
For a given PW, and a pair of routers PE1 and PE2, if PE1 supports
frame sequencing then the following procedures should be used:
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- the initial frame transmitted on the PW MUST use sequence number
1
- subsequent frames MUST increment the sequence number by one for
each frame
- when the transmit sequence number reaches the maximum 16 bit
value (65535) the sequence number MUST wrap to 1
If the transmitting router PE1 does not support sequence number
processing, then the sequence number field in the control word MUST
be set to 0.
7.7. Reception of PW packets
When a PE receives a PW packet, it processes the different fields of
the control word in order to generate a new frame relay frame for
transmission to a CE on a FR UNI or NNI. The PE performs the
following actions (not necessarily in the order shown):
- It generates the following FR frame header fields from the
corresponding fields of the PW packet.
- The C/R bit is copied in the frame relay header.
- The D bit is copied into the frame relay header DE bit.
- The F bit is copied into the frame relay header FECN bit. If the
F bit is set to zero, the FECN bit may be set to one, depending
on the congestion state of the PE device in the forward
direction. Changing the state of this bit by a PE is OPTIONAL.
- The B bit is copied into the frame relay header BECN bit. If the
B bit is set to zero, the BECN bit may be set to one, depending
on the congestion state of the PE device in the backward
direction. Changing the state of this bit by a PE is OPTIONAL.
- It processes the length and sequence field, the details of which
are in the subsequent sub-sections.
- It generates the frame relay information field from the contents
of the PW packet payload after removing any padding.
Once the above fields of a FR frame have been generated, the FCS
has to be computed, HDLC flags have to be added and any bit or
byte stuffing has been performed (these final actions typically
take place in a hardware framer). The FR frame is queued for
transmission on the selected frame relay UNI or NNI interface.
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7.7.1. Processing the sequence number
If a router PE2 supports receive sequence number processing, then the
following procedures should be used:
When a PW is initially set up, the "expected sequence number"
associated with it MUST be initialized to 1.
When a frame is received on that PW, the sequence number should be
processed as follows:
- if the sequence number on the frame is 0, then the sequence
number check is skipped. ( sequence check disabled )
- otherwise if the frame sequence number >= the expected sequence
number and the frame sequence number - the expected sequence
number < 32768, then the frame is in order.
- otherwise if the frame sequence number < the expected sequence
number and the expected sequence number - the frame sequence
number >= 32768, then the frame is in order.
- otherwise the frame is out of order.
If a frame passes the sequence number check, or is in order then, it
can be delivered immediately. If the frame is in order, then the
expected sequence number should be set using the algorithm:
expected_sequence_number := frame_sequence_number + 1 mod 2**16
if (expected_sequence_number = 0) then expected_sequence_number := 1;
Packets which are received out of order MAY be dropped or reordered
at the discretion of the receiver.
If a PE router negotiated not to use receive sequence number
processing, and it received a non zero sequence number, then it
SHOULD send a PW status message indicating a receive fault, and
disable the PW.
If an egress PE receives an excessive number of out-of-sequence PW
packets, it SHOULD inform the management plane responsible for PW
setup/maintenance, and take the appropriate actions. The threshold
for declaring that out-of-sequence PW packets are excessive is not
defined in this document.
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7.7.2. Processing of the Length Field by the Receiver
Any padding octet, if present, in the payload field of a PW packet
received MUST be removed before forwarding the data.
- If the Length field is set to zero then there are no padding
Characters following the payload field.
- Else if the payload is longer then the length specified in the
control word padding characters are removed based on the length
field.
8. Frame Relay Port Mode
8.1. General Description
Editor's note: Frame relay port mode will be removed from this
document in the next revision.
Figure 5 illustrates the concept of frame relay port mode or many-
to-one mapping which is an OPTIONAL capability.
Figure 5 (a) shows two frame relay devices physically connected with
a frame relay UNI or NNI. Between their two ports P1 and P2, n frame
relay VCs are configured.
Figure 5 (b) shows the replacement of the physical frame relay
interface with a pair of PEs and a PW between them. The interface
between a FR device and a PE is either a FR UNI or NNI. The set of n
FR VCs between the two FR ports P1 and P2 which are controlled by the
same signaling channel using DLCI=0, are mapped into one PW. Hence
with port mode we have many-to-one mapping between FR VCs and a PW.
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+------+ +-------+
| FR | | FR |
|device| FR UNI/NNI | device|
| [P1]------------------------[P2] |
| | carrying n FR VCs | |
+------+ | +-------+
|
[Pn]: A port |
| (a) FR interface between two
| FR devices
|
V
|<---------------------------->|
| |
+----+ +----+
+------+ | | One PW | | +------+
| | | |==================| | | |
| FR | FR | PE1| carrying n FR VCs| PE2| FR | FR |
|device|----------| | | |---------|device|
| CE1 | UNI/NNI | | | | UNI/NNI | CE2 |
+------+ +----+ +----+ +------+
| |
|<----------------------------------------------->|
n FR VCs
(b) Pseudo-wires replacing the FR interface
Figure 5 - Concept of frame relay port-to-port mode
FR VCs are not visible individually to a PE; there is no
configuration of individual FR VC in a PE. A PE processes the set of
FR VCs assigned to a port as an aggregate.
FR port mode provides transport between two PEs of a complete FR
frame excluding the opening and closing flags and the Frame Check The
sequence (FCS) and with bit/byte stuffing are also removed. [X36,
X76].
8.2. PW packet format for MPLS frame relay port mode
When MPLS PW is used with port mode, the PW packet format is
shown in Figure 7.
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+-------------------------------+
| MPLS Tunnel label(s) | n*4 octets (four octets per label)
+-------------------------------+
| PW label | 4 octets
+-------------------------------+
| Optional Control Word | 4 octets
+-------------------------------+
| Payload |
| (FR Address plus |
| information field) | N octets
| and a Pad (if needed) |
+-------------------------------+
Figure 6- PW packet format for frame relay port mode.
The OPTIONAL Control Word for frame relay port mode is show below.
Control bits 4 to 7 (F, B, D and C) are not used and are set to zero.
The use of the fragmentation bits (I and L) is the same as for the
one-to-one mapping. The use of the length and sequence number fields
is the same as for the one-to-one mapping, with the following
exceptions: There is one sequence number counter for the set of FR
VCs and not one for each individual FR VC.
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Res |0|0|0|0|Res| Length | Sequence Number |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
The payload field of a frame relay port mode PW contains a FR frame
which consists of the address field (including the DLCI and the
control bits) and information field. The HDLC opening and closing
flags, bit/byte stuffing and FCS are removed.
The two peer PEs MUST agree on the length of the DLCI field (2 or 4
octets) and the maximum length of FR frame information field. The
DLCI can be negotiated by a signaling protocol as in [CONTROL].
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8.3. PW packet processing for frame relay port mode
When a PE receives a FR frame from a FR device (a CE), it shall
remove the flags, undo bit/byte stuffing and check the FCS field to
determine whether transmission errors occurred or not. If
transmission errors occurred, the frame is discarded. Otherwise, the
FR frame (excluding the flags and the FCS) is encapsulated in a PW
packet to be forwarded to the remote PE.
The processing of the length and sequence number fields is the same
as for the one-to-one mapping, with the following exceptions
mentioned earlier: There is one sequence number counter for the set
of FR VCs and not one for each individual FR VC.
Upon receiving a PW packet, the remote PE shall extract the PW
payload field, encapsulate the result in a HDLC frame for
transmission to the local FR (CE) device.
8.4. MPLS Shim EXP Bit Values
If it is desired to carry Quality of Service information, the Quality
of Service information SHOULD be represented in the EXP field of the
PW MPLS label. If more than one MPLS label is imposed by the ingress
LSR, the EXP field of any labels higher in the stack SHOULD also
carry the same value.
8.5. MPLS Shim S Bit Value
The ingress LSR, PE1, MUST set the S bit of the PW label to a value
of 1 to denote that the PW label is at the bottom of the stack.
9. IANA Considerations
This document has no IANA Actions.
10. Security Considerations
PWE3 provides no means of protecting the contents or delivery of the
PW packets on behalf of the native service. PWE3 may, however,
leverage security mechanisms provided by the PSN Tunnel Layer. A more
detailed discussion of PW security is give in [RFC3985, PWE3REQ].
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13. Normative References
[CONTROL] Luca Martini, et al., "Pseudowire Setup and Maintenance
using LDP", draft-ietf-pwe3-control-protocol-15.txt,
February 2005, work in progress.
[ITUG] ITU Recommendation G.707, "Network Node Interface For The
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy", 1996.
[RFC3032] E. Rosen, et al., RFC 3032, MPLS Label Stack encoding,
January 2001.
[RFC3031] E. Rosen, et al., RFC 3031, MPLS Architecture, January
2001.
[IANA] "IANA Allocations for pseudo Wire Edge to Edge Emulation
(PWE3)" Martini,Townsley, draft-ietf-pwe3-iana-allocation-08.txt
(work in progress), April 2004
14. Informative References
[RFC3985] Stewart Bryant, et al.,Internet draft, PWE3 Architecture,
RFC3985
[FRAG] Andrew G. Malis, et al., PWE3 Fragmentation and
Reassembly, draft-ietf-pwe3-fragmentation-04.txt,
October 2003, work in progress.
[ATM] "Encapsulation Methods for Transport of ATM Cells/Frame Over IP
and MPLS Networks", draft-ietf-pwe3-atm-encap-05.txt (work in
progress)
[PPP] "Encapsulation Methods for Transport of PPP/HDLC Frames
Over IP and MPLS Networks",
draft-ietf-pwe3-hdlc-ppp-encap-05.txt (work in progress)
[ETH] "Encapsulation Methods for Transport of Ethernet Frames Over
IP/MPLS Networks", draft-ietf-pwe3-ethernet-encap-06.txt.
(work in progress)
[I233] ITU-T Recommendation I.233.1, ISDN frame relay bearer
service, Geneva, October 1991.
[FRF1] FRF.1.2, Frame relay PVC UNI Implementation Agreement,
Frame Relay Forum, April 2000.
[FRF2] FRF.2.2, Frame relay PVC UNI Implementation Agreement,
Frame Relay Forum, April 2002
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[FRF4] FRF.4.1, Frame relay SVC UNI Implementation Agreement,
Frame Relay Forum, January 2000.
[FRF10] FRF.10.1, Frame relay SVC NNI Implementation Agreement,
Frame Relay Forum, January 2000.
[FRF13] FRF.13, Service Level Definition Implementation
Agreement, Frame Relay Forum, August 1998.
[FRF14] FRF.14, Physical layer Implementation Agreement, Frame
Relay Forum, December 1998.
[FRAG] Andrew G. Malis, et al., PWE3 Fragmentation and
Reassembly, draft-ietf-pwe3-fragmentation-04.txt,
October 2003, (work in progress)
[IANA] Luca Martini, et al., IANA Allocations for pseudo
Wire Edge to Edge Emulation (PWE3),
draft-ietf-pwe3-iana-allocation-02.txt, October 2003,
work in progress.
[PWE3REQ] XiPeng Xiao, et al., Internet draft, draft-ietf-pwe3-
requirements-08.txt, work in progress.
[X36] ITU-T Recommendation X.36, Interface between a DTE and
DCE for public data networks providing frame relay,
Geneva, 2000.
[X76] ITU-T Recommendation X.76, Network-to-network interface
between public data networks providing frame relay
services, Geneva,2000.
[ITUQ] ITU-T Recommendation Q.933, and Q.922 Specification for Frame
Mode Basic call control, ITU Geneva 1995
15. Author Information
Luca Martini
Level 3 Communications, LLC.
1025 Eldorado Blvd.
Broomfield, CO, 80021
e-mail: luca@level3.net
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Claude Kawa
OZ Communications
Windsor Station
1100, de la Gauchetie`re St West
Montreal QC Canada
H3B 2S2
e-mail: claude.kawa@oz.com
Andrew G. Malis
Tellabs
90 Rio Robles Dr.
San Jose, CA 95134
e-mail: Andy.Malis@tellabs.com
16. Contributing Author Information
Kireeti Kompella
Juniper Networks
1194 N. Mathilda Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
e-mail: kireeti@juniper.net
Giles Heron
Tellabs
Abbey Place
24-28 Easton Street
High Wycombe
Bucks
HP11 1NT
UK
e-mail: giles.heron@tellabs.com
Rao Cherukuri
Juniper Networks
1194 N. Mathilda Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
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Dimitri Stratton Vlachos
Mazu Networks, Inc.
125 Cambridgepark Drive
Cambridge, MA 02140
e-mail: d@mazunetworks.com
Chris Liljenstolpe
Cable & Wireless
11700 Plaza America Drive
Reston, VA 20190
e-mail: chris@cw.net
Nasser El-Aawar
Level 3 Communications, LLC.
1025 Eldorado Blvd.
Broomfield, CO, 80021
e-mail: nna@level3.net
Eric C. Rosen
Cisco Systems, Inc.
1414 Massachusetts Avenue
Boxborough, MA 01719
e-mail: erosen@cisco.com
Dan Tappan
Cisco Systems, Inc.
1414 Massachusetts Avenue
Boxborough, MA 01719
e-mail: tappan@cisco.com
Prayson Pate
Overture Networks, Inc.
507 Airport Boulevard
Morrisville, NC, USA 27560
e-mail: prayson.pate@overturenetworks.com
David Sinicrope
Ericsson IPI
e-mail: david.sinicrope@ericsson.com
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Ravi Bhat
Nokia
e-mail: ravi.bhat@nokia.com
Nishit Vasavada
Nokia
e-mail: nishit.vasavada@nokia.com
Steve Vogelsang
Laurel Networks, Inc.
Omega Corporate Center
1300 Omega Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15205
e-mail: sjv@laurelnetworks.com
Vinai Sirkay
Redback Networks
300 Holger Way,
San Jose, CA 95134
e-mail: sirkay@technologist.com
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