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diff --git a/internet-draft-anytun.txt b/internet-draft-anytun.txt index 588d4d6..2c96b37 100644 --- a/internet-draft-anytun.txt +++ b/internet-draft-anytun.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Internet-Draft March 2007 Expires: September 2, 2007 - Anycast stream relaying + anycast tunneling and relay protocol draft-gsenger-anycast-relay-00 Status of this Memo @@ -54,23 +54,23 @@ Copyright Notice Gsenger Expires September 2, 2007 [Page 1] -Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 +Internet-Draft anycast tunneling and relay protocol March 2007 Abstract - The anycast tunneling (anytun) protocol defines a protocol used for - communication between unicast clients and anycast servers. It can be - used for tunneling information between 2 clients over the servers or - in relay mode to transmit data form the client over the servers to a - third party not using the protocol and vice versa. - - - - - - - + The anycast tunneling and relay protocol (anytun) defines a protocol + used for communication between unicast clients and anycast servers. + It can be used for tunneling information between 2 clients over the + anycast servers or in relay mode to transmit data form the client + over the anycast servers to a third party not using the protocol and + vice versa. Unlike other tunneling protocols like GRE or IPIP + tunnels which indeed will work with anycast as well, anytun directly + includes cryptography and authentication. In relay mode it also + supports source NAT with integrated NAT transversal. It is intended + to deliver a high performance and reliability solution for tunneling + and relaying of data over servers, where direct client to client + connections are not possible or not wanted. @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Abstract Gsenger Expires September 2, 2007 [Page 2] -Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 +Internet-Draft anycast tunneling and relay protocol March 2007 1. Introduction @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 Gsenger Expires September 2, 2007 [Page 3] -Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 +Internet-Draft anycast tunneling and relay protocol March 2007 2. Operation modes @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 Gsenger Expires September 2, 2007 [Page 4] -Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 +Internet-Draft anycast tunneling and relay protocol March 2007 2.1.2. Open tunnel mode @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 Gsenger Expires September 2, 2007 [Page 5] -Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 +Internet-Draft anycast tunneling and relay protocol March 2007 2.1.3. relay mode @@ -315,12 +315,12 @@ Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 2.2. Transport modes +2.2.1. anycast udp mode - - - - - + Anytun does not define wich lower layer protocols HAVE TO be used, + but it's most likely used on top of udp. This section should only + discuss some issues on udp in combination with anycasting and + tunnels. @@ -334,12 +334,12 @@ Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 Gsenger Expires September 2, 2007 [Page 6] -Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 +Internet-Draft anycast tunneling and relay protocol March 2007 -2.2.1. anycast udp mode +2.2.2. Using UDP - An example of anytun used with udp transport + An example of anytun used with udp as transport ----------- ----------- | RTP | ---------- | RTP | @@ -358,12 +358,13 @@ Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 Figure 4 - In anycast udp mode the data between clients and anycast serveres is - carried by udp packets. Packets are routed by the serveres from one - client to another. Because udp is stateless no inforamtion has to be - syncronised + When using UDP no flow controll or retransmission is done, neigther + by UDP nor anytun. The encapsulated protocol HAS TO take care of + this tasks if needed. UDP however has a checksum of the complete udp + datagram, so a packet gets discarded if there is a biterror in the + payload -2.2.2. anycast light udp mode +2.2.3. Using lightUDP An example of anytun used with udp transport @@ -384,27 +385,39 @@ Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 Figure 5 - The light UDP mode is neerly the same as the normal UDP mode, the Gsenger Expires September 2, 2007 [Page 7] -Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 +Internet-Draft anycast tunneling and relay protocol March 2007 - only difference is, that the udp size is set to the udp header lenght - and not to the length of the full packet and therefor the checksum is - only calculated for the udp header itself. So there is no error - correction or detection done on the payload. This can be usefull if - realtime data is beeing transimittet or the tunneled protocol does - error correction/detection by itself. + The difference between normal UDP and lightUDP is, that the udp size + is not set to the length of the full packet, but to the lenght of the + data used for the checksum and therefor the checksum is only + calculated for that part. When using lightUDP, the lenght HAS tO be + set to the udp header length + the anytun header lenght. So there is + no error correction or detection done on the payload. This can be + usefull if realtime data is beeing transimittet or the tunneled + protocol does error correction/detection by itself. -2.2.3. Protocol specification +2.2.4. Fragmentation -2.2.3.1. Header format + The only way of fully supporting fragmentation would be to syncronise + fragments between all anycast servers. This is considered to be to + much overhead, so there are two non perfect solutions for this + problems. Either fragmentation HAS TO be disabled or if not all + fragments arrive at the same server the ip datagramm HAS TO be + discarded. As routing changes are not expected to occure very + frequently, the encapsulated protocol can do a retransmission and all + fragments will arrive at the new server. -2.2.3.2. Protocol field +2.3. Protocol specification + +2.3.1. Header format + +2.3.2. Protocol field The protocol field defines the payload protocol. ETHER TYPE protocol numerbers are used. http://www.iana.org/assignments/ethernet-numbers @@ -431,22 +444,9 @@ Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gsenger Expires September 2, 2007 [Page 8] -Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 +Internet-Draft anycast tunneling and relay protocol March 2007 Appendix A. The appan @@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ Appendix A. The appan Gsenger Expires September 2, 2007 [Page 9] -Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 +Internet-Draft anycast tunneling and relay protocol March 2007 3. References @@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 Gsenger Expires September 2, 2007 [Page 10] -Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 +Internet-Draft anycast tunneling and relay protocol March 2007 Author's Address @@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ Author's Address Gsenger Expires September 2, 2007 [Page 11] -Internet-Draft Anycast stream relaying March 2007 +Internet-Draft anycast tunneling and relay protocol March 2007 Full Copyright Statement diff --git a/internet-draft-anytun.xml b/internet-draft-anytun.xml index 2f8ed17..bb6bc8c 100644 --- a/internet-draft-anytun.xml +++ b/internet-draft-anytun.xml @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ ]> <rfc ipr='full3978' docName='draft-gsenger-anycast-relay-00'> <front> - <title>Anycast stream relaying</title> + <title>anycast tunneling and relay protocol</title> <author initials='O.G.' surname='Gsenger' fullname='Othmar Gsenger'> @@ -32,17 +32,20 @@ <workgroup></workgroup> <keyword>anytun</keyword> <keyword>Internet-Draft</keyword> - <keyword>Anycast tunneling / relaying</keyword> + <keyword>anycast tunneling / relaying</keyword> + <keyword>tunnel</keyword> + <keyword>relay</keyword> + <keyword>protocol</keyword> <abstract> - <t>The anycast tunneling (anytun) protocol defines a protocol used for communication between unicast clients and anycast servers. It can be used for tunneling information between 2 clients over the servers or in relay mode to transmit data form the client over the servers to a third party not using the protocol and vice versa. + <t>The anycast tunneling and relay protocol (anytun) defines a protocol used for communication between unicast clients and anycast servers. It can be used for tunneling information between 2 clients over the anycast servers or in relay mode to transmit data form the client over the anycast servers to a third party not using the protocol and vice versa. Unlike other tunneling protocols like GRE or IPIP tunnels which indeed will work with anycast as well, anytun directly includes cryptography and authentication. In relay mode it also supports source NAT with integrated NAT transversal. It is intended to deliver a high performance and reliability solution for tunneling and relaying of data over servers, where direct client to client connections are not possible or not wanted. </t> </abstract> - </front> - <middle> <section title='Introduction'> <t>anytun defines a Host Anycast Service as defined in rfc1546. It can be used to build high scalable and redundant tunnel services. It supports both UDP and TCP connections. Additionally to the possibility of establashing an unicast TCP connection over an anycast address as suggested in rfc1546, it supports real anycast TCP connections with state syncronisation and heuristic state forecast. It also has a relay mode, that makes it possible, that only one of the connection endpoints has to use the anytun protocol. This can be used to make connections through Firewalls or behind a NAT Router</t> <t><xref target="RFC3068">RFC3068</xref> DTD.</t> </section> + </front> + <middle> <section title="Operation modes"> <t>This section gives an overview of possible operation modes und usage scenarios. Please note, that the protocols used in the figures are only examples and that anytun itself does not care about either transport protocols or encapsulated protocols. Routing and network address translation is not done by anytun. Each implemetation MAY choose it's own way of doing this task (e.g. using functions provided by the operating system). Anytun is used to establish and controll tunnnels, to encapsulate and encrypt data.</t> <section title="Tunnel modes"> |