$NetBSD: IMPLEMENTATION,v 1.12 2000/05/28 23:44:30 itojun Exp $ # NOTE: this is from original KAME distribution. # Some portion of this document is not applicable to the code merged into # NetBSD-current (for example, section 5). Check sys/netinet6/TODO as well. Implementation Note KAME Project http://www.kame.net/ KAME Date: 2000/05/28 23:36:16 1. IPv6 1.1 Conformance The KAME kit conforms, or tries to conform, to the latest set of IPv6 specifications. For future reference we list some of the relevant documents below (NOTE: this is not a complete list - this is too hard to maintain...). For details please refer to specific chapter in the document, RFCs, manpages come with KAME, or comments in the source code. Conformance tests have been performed on past and latest KAME STABLE kit, at TAHI project. Results can be viewed at http://www.tahi.org/report/KAME/. We also attended Univ. of New Hampshire IOL tests (http://www.iol.unh.edu/) in the past, with our past snapshots. RFC1639: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records (FOOBAR) * RFC2428 is preferred over RFC1639. ftp clients will first try RFC2428, then RFC1639 if failed. RFC1886: DNS Extensions to support IPv6 RFC1933: Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers * IPv4 compatible address is not supported. * automatic tunneling (4.3) is not supported. * "gif" interface implements IPv[46]-over-IPv[46] tunnel in a generic way, and it covers "configured tunnel" described in the spec. See 1.5 in this document for details. RFC1981: Path MTU Discovery for IPv6 RFC2080: RIPng for IPv6 * KAME-supplied route6d, bgpd and hroute6d support this. RFC2283: Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 * so-called "BGP4+". * KAME-supplied bgpd supports this. RFC2292: Advanced Sockets API for IPv6 * For supported library functions/kernel APIs, see sys/netinet6/ADVAPI. RFC2362: Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) * RFC2362 defines packet formats for PIM-SM. draft-ietf-pim-ipv6-01.txt is written based on this. RFC2373: IPv6 Addressing Architecture * KAME supports node required addresses, and conforms to the scope requirement. RFC2374: An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format * KAME supports 64-bit length of Interface ID. RFC2375: IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments * Userland applications use the well-known addresses assigned in the RFC. RFC2428: FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs * RFC2428 is preferred over RFC1639. ftp clients will first try RFC2428, then RFC1639 if failed. RFC2460: IPv6 specification RFC2461: Neighbor discovery for IPv6 * See 1.2 in this document for details. RFC2462: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration * See 1.4 in this document for details. RFC2463: ICMPv6 for IPv6 specification * See 1.8 in this document for details. RFC2464: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks RFC2465: MIB for IPv6: Textual Conventions and General Group * Necessary statistics are gathered by the kernel. Actual IPv6 MIB support is provided as patchkit for ucd-snmp. RFC2466: MIB for IPv6: ICMPv6 group * Necessary statistics are gathered by the kernel. Actual IPv6 MIB support is provided as patchkit for ucd-snmp. RFC2467: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over FDDI Networks RFC2472: IPv6 over PPP RFC2492: IPv6 over ATM Networks * only PVC is supported. RFC2497: Transmission of IPv6 packet over ARCnet Networks RFC2545: Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing RFC2553: Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 * IPv4 mapped address (3.7) and special behavior of IPv6 wildcard bind socket (3.8) are, - supported on KAME/FreeBSD3x, - supported on KAME/NetBSD, - supported on KAME/BSDI4, - not supported on KAME/FreeBSD228, KAME/OpenBSD and KAME/BSDI3. see 1.12 in this document for details. RFC2675: IPv6 Jumbograms * See 1.7 in this document for details. RFC2710: Multicast Listener Discovery for IPv6 RFC2711: IPv6 router alert option RFC2732: Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's * The spec is implemented in programs that handle URLs (like freebsd ftpio(3) and fetch(1), or netbsd ftp(1)) draft-ietf-ipngwg-router-renum-10: Router renumbering for IPv6 draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-name-lookups-05: IPv6 Name Lookups Through ICMP draft-ietf-pim-ipv6-03.txt: PIM for IPv6 * pim6dd implements dense mode. pim6sd implements sparse mode. draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-15.txt: DHCPv6 draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6exts-12.txt: Extensions for DHCPv6 * kame/dhcp6 has test implementation, which will not be compiled in default compilation. draft-itojun-ipv6-tcp-to-anycast-00.txt: Disconnecting TCP connection toward IPv6 anycast address draft-ietf-ipngwg-scopedaddr-format-01.txt: An Extension of Format for IPv6 Scoped Addresses draft-ietf-ngtrans-tcpudp-relay-01.txt: An IPv6-to-IPv4 transport relay translator * FAITH tcp relay translator (faithd) implements this. See 3.1 for more details. draft-ietf-ngtrans-6to4-05.txt: Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds without Explicit Tunnels * "stf" interface implements it. Be sure to read the next item before configuring it, there are security issues. http://playground.iijlab.net/i-d/draft-itojun-ipv6-transition-abuse-00.txt: Possible abuse against IPv6 transition technologies * KAME does not implement RFC1933 automatic tunnel. * "stf" interface implements some address filters. Refer to stf(4) for details. Since there's no way to make 6to4 interface 100% secure, we do not include "stf" interface into GENERIC.v6 compilation. * kame/openbsd completely disables IPv4 mapped address support. * kame/netbsd makes IPv4 mapped address support off by default. 1.2 Neighbor Discovery Neighbor Discovery is fairly stable. Currently Address Resolution, Duplicated Address Detection, and Neighbor Unreachability Detection are supported. In the near future we will be adding Unsolicited Neighbor Advertisement transmission command as admin tool. Duplicated Address Detection (DAD) will be performed when an IPv6 address is assigned to a network interface, or the network interface is enabled (ifconfig up). It is documented in RFC2462 5.4. If DAD fails, the address will be marked "duplicated" and message will be generated to syslog (and usually to console). The "duplicated" mark can be checked with ifconfig. It is administrators' responsibility to check for and recover from DAD failures. We may try to improve failure recovery in future KAME code. DAD procedure may not be effective on certain network interfaces/drivers. If a network driver needs long initialization time (with wireless network interfaces this situation is popular), and the driver mistakingly raises IFF_RUNNING before the driver becomes ready, DAD code will try to transmit DAD probes to not-really-ready network driver and the packet will not go out from the interface. In such cases, network drivers should be corrected. Some of network drivers loop multicast packets back to themselves, even if instructed not to do so (especially in promiscuous mode). In such cases DAD may fail, because DAD engine sees inbound NS packet (actually from the node itself) and considers it as a sign of duplicate. You may want to look at #if condition marked "heuristics" in sys/netinet6/nd6_nbr.c:nd6_dad_timer() as workaround (note that the code fragment in "heuristics" section is not spec conformant). Neighbor Discovery specification (RFC2461) does not talk about neighbor cache handling in the following cases: (1) when there was no neighbor cache entry, node received unsolicited RS/NS/NA/redirect packet without link-layer address (2) neighbor cache handling on medium without link-layer address (we need a neighbor cache entry for IsRouter bit) For (1), we implemented workaround based on discussions on IETF ipngwg mailing list. For more details, see the comments in the source code and email thread started from (IPng 7155), dated Feb 6 1999. IPv6 on-link determination rule (RFC2461) is quite different from assumptions in BSD IPv4 network code. To implement behavior in RFC2461 section 5.2 (when default router list is empty), the kernel needs to know the default outgoing interface. To configure the default outgoing interface, use commands like "ndp -I de0" as root. Note that the spec misuse the word "host" and "node" in several places in the section. To avoid possible DoS attacks and infinite loops, KAME stack will accept only 10 options on ND packet. Therefore, if you have 20 prefix options attached to RA, only the first 10 prefixes will be recognized. If this troubles you, please contact KAME team and/or modify nd6_maxndopt in sys/netinet6/nd6.c. If there are high demands we may provide sysctl knob for the variable. Proxy Neighbor Advertisement support is implemented in the kernel. You can configure it by using the following command: # ndp -s fe80:1::1234 0:1:2:3:4:5 proxy You need to fill in scope index into the address - see 1.3.3. There are certain limitations, though: - It does not send unsolicited multicast NA on configuration. This is MAY behavior in RFC2461. - It does not add random delay before transmission of solicited NA. This is SHOULD behavior in RFC2461. - We cannot configure proxy NDP for off-link address. The target address for proxying must be link-local address, or must be in prefixes configured to node which does proxy NDP. - RFC2461 is unclear about if it is legal for a host to perform proxy ND. We do not prohibit hosts from doing proxy ND, but there will be very limited use in it. Starting mid March 2000, we support Neighbor Unreachability Detection (NUD) on p2p interfaces, including tunnel interfaces (gif). NUD is turned on by default. Before March 2000 KAME stack did not perform NUD on p2p interfaces. If the change raises any interoperability issues, you can turn off/on NUD by per-interface basis. Use "ndp -i interface -nud" to turn it off. Consult ndp(8) for details. 1.3 Scope Index IPv6 uses scoped addresses. It is therefore very important to specify scope index (interface index for link-local address, or site index for site-local address) with an IPv6 address. Without scope index, a scoped IPv6 address is ambiguous to the kernel, and the kernel will not be able to determine the outbound interface for a packet. KAME code tries to address the issue in several ways. Site-local address is very vaguely defined in the specs, and both specification and KAME code need tons of improvements to enable its actual use. For example, it is still very unclear how we define a site, or how we resolve hostnames in a site. There are work underway to define behavior of routers at site border, however, we have almost no code for site boundary node support (both forwarding nor routing) and we bet almost noone has. We recommend, at this moment, you to use global addresses for experiments - there are way too many pitfalls if you use site-local addresses. 1.3.1 Kernel internal In the kernel, the interface index for a link-local scope address is embedded into the 2nd 16bit-word (the 3rd and 4th bytes) in the IPv6 address. For example, you may see something like: fe80:1::200:f8ff:fe01:6317 in the routing table and interface address structure (struct in6_ifaddr). The address above is a link-local unicast address which belongs to a network interface whose interface identifier is 1. The embedded index enables us to identify IPv6 link local addresses over multiple interfaces effectively and with only a little code change. 1.3.2 Interaction with API Ordinary userland applications should use the advanced API (RFC2292) to specify scope index, or interface index. For the similar purpose, the sin6_scope_id member in the sockaddr_in6 structure is defined in RFC2553. However, the semantics for sin6_scope_id is rather vague. If you care about portability of your application, we suggest you to use the advanced API rather than sin6_scope_id. Routing daemons and configuration programs, like route6d and ifconfig, will need to manipulate the "embedded" scope index. These programs use routing sockets and ioctls (like SIOCGIFADDR_IN6) and the kernel API will return IPv6 addresses with 2nd 16bit-word filled in. The APIs are for manipulating kernel internal structure. Programs that use these APIs have to be prepared about differences in kernels anyway. getaddrinfo(3) and getnameinfo(3) are modified to support extended numeric IPv6 syntax, as documented in draft-ietf-ipngwg-scopedaddr-format-01.txt. You can specify outgoing link, by using name of the outgoing interface like "fe80::1%ne0". This way you will be able to specify link-local scoped address without much trouble. To use this extension in your program, you'll need to use getaddrinfo(3), and getnameinfo(3) with NI_WITHSCOPEID. The implementation currently assumes 1-to-1 relationship between a link and an interface, which is stronger than what IPv6 specs say. Other APIs like inet_pton(3) or getipnodebyname(3) are inherently unfriendly with scoped addresses, since they are unable to annotate addresses with scope identifier. 1.3.3 Interaction with users (command line) Some of the userland tools support extended numeric IPv6 syntax, as documented in draft-ietf-ipngwg-scopedaddr-format-01.txt. In this case, you can specify outgoing link, by using name of the outgoing interface like "fe80::1%ne0". When you specify scoped address to the command line, NEVER write the embedded form (such as ff02:1::1 or fe80:2::fedc). This is not supposed to work. Always use standard form, like ff02::1 or fe80::fedc, with command line option for specifying interface (like "ping6 -I ne0 ff02::1). In general, if a command does not have command line option to specify outgoing interface, that command is not ready to accept scoped address. This may seem to be opposite from IPv6's premise to support "dentist office" situation. We believe that specifications need some improvements for this. The only exception to the above rule would be when you configure routing table manually by route(8), or ndp(8). Gateway portion of IPv6 routing entry must be an link-local address (otherwise ICMPv6 redirect will not work), and in this case you'll need to configure it by putting interface index into the address: # route add -inet6 default fe80:2::9876:5432:1234:5678 (when interface index for outgoing interface = 2) To avoid configuration mistakes, we suggest you to run dynamic routing instead (like route6d(8)). 1.4 Plug and Play The KAME kit implements most of the IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration in the kernel. Neighbor Discovery functions are implemented in the kernel as a whole. Router Advertisement (RA) input for hosts is implemented in the kernel. Router Solicitation (RS) output for endhosts, RS input for routers, and RA output for routers are implemented in the userland. 1.4.1 Assignment of link-local, and special addresses IPv6 link-local address is generated from IEEE802 address (ethernet MAC address). Each of interface is assigned an IPv6 link-local address automatically, when the interface becomes up (IFF_UP). Also, direct route for the link-local address is added to routing table. Here is an output of netstat command: Internet6: Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire fe80::%ed0/64 link#1 UC ed0 fe80::%ep0/64 link#2 UC ep0 Interfaces that has no IEEE802 address (pseudo interfaces like tunnel interfaces, or ppp interfaces) will borrow IEEE802 address from other interfaces, such as ethernet interfaces, whenever possible. If there is no IEEE802 hardware attached, last-resort pseudorandom value, which is from MD5(hostname), will be used as source of link-local address. If it is not suitable for your usage, you will need to configure the link-local address manually. If an interface is not capable of handling IPv6 (such as lack of multicast support), link-local address will not be assigned to that interface. See section 2 for details. Each interface joins the solicited multicast address and the link-local all-nodes multicast addresses (e.g. fe80::1:ff01:6317 and ff02::1, respectively, on the link the interface is attached). In addition to a link-local address, the loopback address (::1) will be assigned to the loopback interface. Also, ::1/128 and ff01::/32 are automatically added to routing table, and loopback interface joins node-local multicast group ff01::1. 1.4.2 Stateless address autoconfiguration on hosts In IPv6 specification, nodes are separated into two categories: routers and hosts. Routers forward packets addressed to others, hosts does not forward the packets. net.inet6.ip6.forwarding defines whether this node is router or host (router if it is 1, host if it is 0). It is NOT recommended to change net.inet6.ip6.forwarding while the node is in operation. IPv6 specification defines behavior for "host" and "router" quite differently, and switching from one to another can cause serious troubles. It is recommended to configure the variable at bootstrap time only. The first step in stateless address configuration is Duplicated Address Detection (DAD). See 1.2 for more detail on DAD. When a host hears Router Advertisement from the router, a host may autoconfigure itself by stateless address autoconfiguration. This behavior can be controlled by net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv (host autoconfigures itself if it is set to 1). By autoconfiguration, network address prefix for the receiving interface (usually global address prefix) is added. Default route is also configured. Routers periodically generate Router Advertisement packets. To request an adjacent router to generate RA packet, a host can transmit Router Solicitation. To generate a RS packet at any time, use the "rtsol" command. "rtsold" daemon is also available. "rtsold" generates Router Solicitation whenever necessary, and it works great for nomadic usage (notebooks/laptops). If one wishes to ignore Router Advertisements, use sysctl to set net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv to 0. To generate Router Advertisement from a router, use the "rtadvd" daemon. Note that, IPv6 specification assumes the following items, and nonconforming cases are left unspecified: - Only hosts will listen to router advertisements - Hosts have single network interface (except loopback) Therefore, this is unwise to enable net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv on routers, or multi-interface host. A misconfigured node can behave strange (KAME code allows nonconforming configuration, for those who would like to do some experiments). To summarize the sysctl knob: accept_rtadv forwarding role of the node --- --- --- 0 0 host (to be manually configured) 0 1 router 1 0 autoconfigured host (spec assumes that host has single interface only, autoconfigred host with multiple interface is out-of-scope) 1 1 invalid, or experimental (out-of-scope of spec) RFC2462 has validation rule against incoming RA prefix information option, in 5.5.3 (e). This is to protect hosts from malicious (or misconfigured) routers that advertise very short prefix lifetime. There was an update from Jim Bound to ipngwg mailing list (look for "(ipng 6712)" in the archive) and KAME implements Jim's update. See 1.2 in the document for relationship between DAD and autoconfiguration. 1.4.3 DHCPv6 We supply a tiny DHCPv6 server/client in kame/dhcp6. However, the implementation is very premature (for example, this does NOT implement address lease/release), and it is not in default compilation tree. If you want to do some experiment, compile it on your own. DHCPv6 and autoconfiguration also needs more work. "Managed" and "Other" bits in RA have no special effect to stateful autoconfiguration procedure in DHCPv6 client program ("Managed" bit actually prevents stateless autoconfiguration, but no special action will be taken for DHCPv6 client). 1.5 Generic tunnel interface GIF (Generic InterFace) is a pseudo interface for configured tunnel. Details are described in gif(4) manpage. Currently v6 in v6 v6 in v4 v4 in v6 v4 in v4 are available. Use "gifconfig" to assign physical (outer) source and destination address to gif interfaces. Configuration that uses same address family for inner and outer IP header (v4 in v4, or v6 in v6) is dangerous. It is very easy to configure interfaces and routing tables to perform infinite level of tunneling. Please be warned. gif can be configured to be ECN-friendly. See 4.5 for ECN-friendliness of tunnels, and gif(4) manpage for how to configure. If you would like to configure an IPv4-in-IPv6 tunnel with gif interface, read gif(4) carefully. You may need to remove IPv6 link-local address automatically assigned to the gif interface. 1.6 Source Address Selection Source selection of KAME is scope oriented (there are some exceptions - see below). For a given destination, a source IPv6 address is selected by the following rule: 1. If the source address is explicitly specified by the user (e.g. via the advanced API), the specified address is used. 2. If there is an address assigned to the outgoing interface (which is usually determined by looking up the routing table) that has the same scope as the destination address, the address is used. This is the most typical case. 3. If there is no address that satisfies the above condition, choose a global address assigned to one of the interfaces on the sending node. 4. If there is no address that satisfies the above condition and there is no global address on the sending node, choose the address associated with the routing table entry for the destination. This is the last resort, which may cause scope violation. For instance, ::1 is selected for ff01::1, fe80:1::200:f8ff:fe01:6317 for fe80:1::2a0:24ff:feab:839b (note that embedded interface index - described in 1.3 - helps us choose the right source address. Those embedded indices will not be on the wire). If the outgoing interface has multiple address for the scope, a source is selected longest match basis (rule 3). Suppose 3ffe:501:808:1:200:f8ff:fe01:6317 and 3ffe:2001:9:124:200:f8ff:fe01:6317 are given to the outgoing interface. 3ffe:501:808:1:200:f8ff:fe01:6317 is chosen as the source for the destination 3ffe:501:800::1. Note that the above rule is not documented in the IPv6 spec. It is considered "up to implementation" item. There are some cases where we do not use the above rule. One example is connected TCP session, and we use the address kept in tcb as the source. Another example is source address for Neighbor Advertisement. Under the spec (RFC2461 7.2.2) NA's source should be the target address of the corresponding NS's target. In this case we follow the spec rather than the above longest-match rule. If you would like to prohibit the use of deprecated address for some reason, configure net.inet6.ip6.use_deprecated to 0. The issue related to deprecated address is described in RFC2462 5.5.4 (NOTE: there is some debate underway in IETF ipngwg on how to use "deprecated" address). 1.7 Jumbo Payload KAME supports the Jumbo Payload hop-by-hop option used to send IPv6 packets with payloads longer than 65,535 octets. But since currently KAME does not support any physical interface whose MTU is more than 65,535, such payloads can be seen only on the loopback interface(i.e. lo0). If you want to try jumbo payloads, you first have to reconfigure the kernel so that the MTU of the loopback interface is more than 65,535 bytes; add the following to the kernel configuration file: options "LARGE_LOMTU" #To test jumbo payload and recompile the new kernel. Then you can test jumbo payloads by the ping6 command with -b and -s options. The -b option must be specified to enlarge the size of the socket buffer and the -s option specifies the length of the packet, which should be more than 65,535. For example, type as follows; % ping6 -b 70000 -s 68000 ::1 The IPv6 specification requires that the Jumbo Payload option must not be used in a packet that carries a fragment header. If this condition is broken, an ICMPv6 Parameter Problem message must be sent to the sender. KAME kernel follows the specification, but you cannot usually see an ICMPv6 error caused by this requirement. If KAME kernel receives an IPv6 packet, it checks the frame length of the packet and compares it to the length specified in the payload length field of the IPv6 header or in the value of the Jumbo Payload option, if any. If the former is shorter than the latter, KAME kernel discards the packet and increments the statistics. You can see the statistics as output of netstat command with `-s -p ip6' option: % netstat -s -p ip6 ip6: (snip) 1 with data size < data length So, KAME kernel does not send an ICMPv6 error unless the erroneous packet is an actual Jumbo Payload, that is, its packet size is more than 65,535 bytes. As described above, KAME kernel currently does not support physical interface with such a huge MTU, so it rarely returns an ICMPv6 error. TCP/UDP over jumbogram is not supported at this moment. This is because we have no medium (other than loopback) to test this. Contact us if you need this. IPsec does not work on jumbograms. This is due to some specification twists in supporting AH with jumbograms (AH header size influences payload length, and this makes it real hard to authenticate inbound packet with jumbo payload option as well as AH). There are fundamental issues in *BSD support for jumbograms. We would like to address those, but we need more time to finalize the task. To name a few: - mbuf pkthdr.len field is typed as "int" in 4.4BSD, so it cannot hold jumbogram with len > 2G on 32bit architecture CPUs. If we would like to support jumbogram properly, the field must be expanded to hold 4G + IPv6 header + link-layer header. Therefore, it must be expanded to at least int64_t (u_int32_t is NOT enough). - We mistakingly use "int" to hold packet length in many places. We need to convert them into larger numeric type. It needs a great care, as we may experience overflow during packet length computation. - We mistakingly check for ip6_plen field of IPv6 header for packet payload length in various places. We should be checking mbuf pkthdr.len instead. ip6_input() will perform sanity check on jumbo payload option on input, and we can safely use mbuf pkthdr.len afterwards. - TCP code needs careful updates in bunch of places, of course. 1.8 Loop prevention in header processing IPv6 specification allows arbitrary number of extension headers to be placed onto packets. If we implement IPv6 packet processing code in the way BSD IPv4 code is implemented, kernel stack may overflow due to long function call chain. KAME sys/netinet6 code is carefully designed to avoid kernel stack overflow. Because of this, KAME sys/netinet6 code defines its own protocol switch structure, as "struct ip6protosw" (see netinet6/ip6protosw.h). IPv4 part (sys/netinet) remains untouched for compatibility. Because of this, if you receive IPsec-over-IPv4 packet with massive number of IPsec headers, kernel stack may blow up. IPsec-over-IPv6 is okay. 1.9 ICMPv6 After RFC2463 was published, IETF ipngwg has decided to disallow ICMPv6 error packet against ICMPv6 redirect, to prevent ICMPv6 storm on a network medium. KAME already implements this into the kernel. 1.10 Applications For userland programming, we support IPv6 socket API as specified in RFC2553, RFC2292 and upcoming internet drafts. TCP/UDP over IPv6 is available and quite stable. You can enjoy "telnet", "ftp", "rlogin", "rsh", "ssh", etc. These applications are protocol independent. That is, they automatically chooses IPv4 or IPv6 according to DNS. 1.11 Kernel Internals (*) TCP/UDP part is handled differently between operating system platforms. See 1.12 for details. The current KAME has escaped from the IPv4 netinet logic. While ip_forward() calls ip_output(), ip6_forward() directly calls if_output() since routers must not divide IPv6 packets into fragments. ICMPv6 should contain the original packet as long as possible up to 1280. UDP6/IP6 port unreach, for instance, should contain all extension headers and the *unchanged* UDP6 and IP6 headers. So, all IP6 functions except TCP6 never convert network byte order into host byte order, to save the original packet. tcp6_input(), udp6_input() and icmp6_input() can't assume that IP6 header is preceding the transport headers due to extension headers. So, in6_cksum() was implemented to handle packets whose IP6 header and transport header is not continuous. TCP/IP6 nor UDP/IP6 header structure don't exist for checksum calculation. To process IP6 header, extension headers and transport headers easily, KAME requires network drivers to store packets in one internal mbuf or one or more external mbufs. A typical old driver prepares two internal mbufs for 100 - 208 bytes data, however, KAME's reference implementation stores it in one external mbuf. "netstat -s -p ip6" tells you whether or not your driver conforms KAME's requirement. In the following example, "cce0" violates the requirement. (For more information, refer to Section 2.) Mbuf statistics: 317 one mbuf two or more mbuf:: lo0 = 8 cce0 = 10 3282 one ext mbuf 0 two or more ext mbuf Each input function calls IP6_EXTHDR_CHECK in the beginning to check if the region between IP6 and its header is continuous. IP6_EXTHDR_CHECK calls m_pullup() only if the mbuf has M_LOOP flag, that is, the packet comes from the loopback interface. m_pullup() is never called for packets coming from physical network interfaces. TCP6 reassembly makes use of IP6 header to store reassemble information. IP6 is not supposed to be just before TCP6, so ip6tcpreass structure has a pointer to TCP6 header. Of course, it has also a pointer back to mbuf to avoid m_pullup(). Like TCP6, both IP and IP6 reassemble functions never call m_pullup(). xxx_ctlinput() calls in_mrejoin() on PRC_IFNEWADDR. We think this is one of 4.4BSD implementation flaws. Since 4.4BSD keeps ia_multiaddrs in in_ifaddr{}, it can't use multicast feature if the interface has no unicast address. So, if an application joins to an interface and then all unicast addresses are removed from the interface, the application can't send/receive any multicast packets. Moreover, if a new unicast address is assigned to the interface, in_mrejoin() must be called. KAME's interfaces, however, have ALWAYS one link-local unicast address. These extensions have thus not been implemented in KAME. 1.12 IPv4 mapped address and IPv6 wildcard socket RFC2553 describes IPv4 mapped address (3.7) and special behavior of IPv6 wildcard bind socket (3.8). The spec allows you to: - Accept IPv4 connections by AF_INET6 wildcard bind socket. - Transmit IPv4 packet over AF_INET6 socket by using special form of the address like ::ffff:10.1.1.1. but the spec itself is very complicated and does not specify how the socket layer should behave. Here we call the former one "listening side" and the latter one "initiating side", for reference purposes. Almost all KAME implementations treat tcp/udp port number space separately between IPv4 and IPv6. You can perform wildcard bind on both of the address families, on the same port. There are some OS-platform differences in KAME code, as we use tcp/udp code from different origin. The following table summarizes the behavior. listening side initiating side (AF_INET6 wildcard (connection to ::ffff:10.1.1.1) socket gets IPv4 conn.) --- --- KAME/BSDI3 not supported not supported KAME/FreeBSD228 not supported not supported KAME/FreeBSD3x configurable supported default: enabled KAME/NetBSD configurable supported default: disabled KAME/BSDI4 enabled supported KAME/OpenBSD not supported not supported The following sections will give you more details, and how you can configure the behavior. Comments on listening side: It looks that RFC2553 talks too little on wildcard bind issue, specifically on (1) port space issue, (2) failure mode, (3) relationship between AF_INET/INET6 wildcard bind like ordering constraint, and (4) behavior when conflicting socket is opened/closed. There can be several separate interpretation for this RFC which conform to it but behaves differently. So, to implement portable application you should assume nothing about the behavior in the kernel. Using getaddrinfo() is the safest way. Port number space and wildcard bind issues were discussed in detail on ipv6imp mailing list, in mid March 1999 and it looks that there's no concrete consensus (means, up to implementers). You may want to check the mailing list archives. We supply a tool called "bindtest" that explores the behavior of kernel bind(2). The tool will not be compiled by default. If a server application would like to accept IPv4 and IPv6 connections, it should use AF_INET and AF_INET6 socket (you'll need two sockets). Use getaddrinfo() with AI_PASSIVE into ai_flags, and socket(2) and bind(2) to all the addresses returned. By opening multiple sockets, you can accept connections onto the socket with proper address family. IPv4 connections will be accepted by AF_INET socket, and IPv6 connections will be accepted by AF_INET6 socket (NOTE: KAME/BSDI4 kernel sometimes violate this - we will fix it). If you try to support IPv6 traffic only and would like to reject IPv4 traffic, always check the peer address when a connection is made toward AF_INET6 listening socket. If the address is IPv4 mapped address, you may want to reject the connection. You can check the condition by using IN6_IS_ADDR_V4MAPPED() macro. This is one of the reasons the author of the section (itojun) dislikes special behavior of AF_INET6 wildcard bind. Comments on initiating side: Advise to application implementers: to implement a portable IPv6 application (which works on multiple IPv6 kernels), we believe that the following is the key to the success: - NEVER hardcode AF_INET nor AF_INET6. - Use getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() throughout the system. Never use gethostby*(), getaddrby*(), inet_*() or getipnodeby*(). - If you would like to connect to destination, use getaddrinfo() and try all the destination returned, like telnet does. - Some of the IPv6 stack is shipped with buggy getaddrinfo(). Ship a minimal working version with your application and use that as last resort. If you would like to use AF_INET6 socket for both IPv4 and IPv6 outgoing connection, you will need tweaked implementation in DNS support libraries, as documented in RFC2553 6.1. KAME libinet6 includes the tweak in getipnodebyname(). Note that getipnodebyname() itself is not recommended as it does not handle scoped IPv6 addresses at all. For IPv6 name resolution getaddrinfo() is the preferred API. getaddrinfo() does not implement the tweak. When writing applications that make outgoing connections, story goes much simpler if you treat AF_INET and AF_INET6 as totally separate address family. {set,get}sockopt issue goes simpler, DNS issue will be made simpler. We do not recommend you to rely upon IPv4 mapped address. 1.12.1 KAME/BSDI3 and KAME/FreeBSD228 The platforms do not support IPv4 mapped address at all (both listening side and initiating side). AF_INET6 and AF_INET sockets are totally separated. Port number space is totally separate between AF_INET and AF_INET6 sockets. 1.12.2 KAME/FreeBSD3x KAME/FreeBSD3x uses shared tcp4/6 code (from sys/netinet/tcp*) and shared udp4/6 code (from sys/netinet/udp*). It uses unified inpcb/in6pcb structure. 1.12.2.1 KAME/FreeBSD3x, listening side The platform can be configured to support IPv4 mapped address/special AF_INET6 wildcard bind (enabled by default). There is no kernel compilation option to disable it. You can enable/disable the behavior with sysctl (per-node), or setsockopt (per-socket). Wildcard AF_INET6 socket grabs IPv4 connection if and only if the following conditions are satisfied: - there's no AF_INET socket that matches the IPv4 connection - the AF_INET6 socket is configured to accept IPv4 traffic, i.e. getsockopt(IPV6_BINDV6ONLY) returns 0. (XXX need checking) 1.12.2.2 KAME/FreeBSD3x, initiating side KAME/FreeBSD3x supports outgoing connection to IPv4 mapped address (::ffff:10.1.1.1), if the node is configured to accept IPv4 connections by AF_INET6 socket. (XXX need checking) 1.12.3 KAME/NetBSD KAME/NetBSD uses shared tcp4/6 code (from sys/netinet/tcp*) and shared udp4/6 code (from sys/netinet/udp*). The implementation is made differently from KAME/FreeBSD3x. KAME/NetBSD uses separate inpcb/in6pcb structures, while KAME/FreeBSD3x uses merged inpcb structure. 1.12.3.1 KAME/NetBSD, listening side The platform can be configured to support IPv4 mapped address/special AF_INET6 wildcard bind (disabled by default). Kernel behavior can be summarized as follows: - default: special support code will be compiled in, but is disabled by default. It can be controlled by sysctl (net.inet6.ip6.bindv6only), or setsockopt(IPV6_BINDV6ONLY). - add "INET6_BINDV6ONLY": No special support code for AF_INET6 wildcard socket will be compiled in. AF_INET6 sockets and AF_INET sockets are totally separate. The behavior is similar to what described in 1.12.1. sysctl setting will affect per-socket configuration at in6pcb creation time only. In other words, per-socket configuration will be copied from sysctl configuration at in6pcb creation time. To change per-socket behavior, you must perform setsockopt or reopen the socket. Change in sysctl configuration will not change the behavior or sockets that are already opened. Wildcard AF_INET6 socket grabs IPv4 connection if and only if the following conditions are satisfied: - there's no AF_INET socket that matches the IPv4 connection - the AF_INET6 socket is configured to accept IPv4 traffic, i.e. getsockopt(IPV6_BINDV6ONLY) returns 0. You cannot bind(2) with IPv4 mapped address. This is a workaround for port number duplicate and other twists. 1.12.3.2 KAME/NetBSD, initiating side When you initiate a connection, you can always connect to IPv4 destination over AF_INET6 socket, usin IPv4 mapped address destination (::ffff:10.1.1.1). This is enabled independently from the configuration for listening side, and always enabled. 1.12.4 KAME/BSDI4 KAME/BSDI4 uses NRL-based TCP/UDP stack and inpcb source code, which was derived from NRL IPv6/IPsec stack. I guess it supports IPv4 mapped address and speical AF_INET6 wildcard bind. The implementation is, again, different from other KAME/*BSDs. 1.12.4.1 KAME/BSDI4, listening side NRL inpcb layer supports special behavior of AF_INET6 wildcard socket. There is no way to disable the behavior. Wildcard AF_INET6 socket grabs IPv4 connection if and only if the following condition is satisfied: - there's no AF_INET socket that matches the IPv4 connection 1.12.4.2 KAME/BSDI4, initiating side KAME/BSDi4 supports connection initiation to IPv4 mapped address (like ::ffff:10.1.1.1). 1.12.5 KAME/OpenBSD KAME/OpenBSD uses NRL-based TCP/UDP stack and inpcb source code, which was derived from NRL IPv6/IPsec stack. 1.12.5.1 KAME/OpenBSD, listening side KAME/OpenBSD disables special behavior on AF_INET6 wildcard bind for security reasons (if IPv4 traffic toward AF_INET6 wildcard bind is allowed, access control will become much harder). KAME/BSDI4 uses NRL-based TCP/UDP stack as well, however, the behavior is different due to OpenBSD's security policy. As a result the behavior of KAME/OpenBSD is similar to KAME/BSDI3 and KAME/FreeBSD228 (see 1.12.1 for more detail). 1.12.5.2 KAME/OpenBSD, initiating side KAME/OpenBSD does not support connection initiation to IPv4 mapped address (like ::ffff:10.1.1.1). 1.13 sockaddr_storage When RFC2553 was about to be finalized, there was discussion on how struct sockaddr_storage members are named. One proposal is to prepend "__" to the members (like "__ss_len") as they should not be touched. The other proposal was that don't prepend it (like "ss_len") as we need to touch those members directly. There was no clear consensus on it. As a result, RFC2553 defines struct sockaddr_storage as follows: struct sockaddr_storage { u_char __ss_len; /* address length */ u_char __ss_family; /* address family */ /* and bunch of padding */ }; On the contrary, XNET draft defines as follows: struct sockaddr_storage { u_char ss_len; /* address length */ u_char ss_family; /* address family */ /* and bunch of padding */ }; In December 1999, it was agreed that RFC2553bis should pick the latter (XNET) definition. KAME kit prior to December 1999 used RFC2553 definition. KAME kit after December 1999 (including December) will conform to XNET definition, based on RFC2553bis discussion. If you look at multiple IPv6 implementations, you will be able to see both definitions. As an userland programmer, the most portable way of dealing with it is to: (1) ensure ss_family and/or ss_len are available on the platform, by using GNU autoconf, (2) have -Dss_family=__ss_family to unify all occurences (including header file) into __ss_family, or (3) never touch __ss_family. cast to sockaddr * and use sa_family like: struct sockaddr_storage ss; family = ((struct sockaddr *)&ss)->sa_family 1.14 Invalid addresses on the wire IPv6 specifications reserve IPv6 address range that are used internally in IPv6 nodes (not on the wire). They are: - IPv4 mapped address (like ::ffff:10.1.1.1) - IPv4 compatible address (like ::10.1.1.1) They are defined and used to ease IPv4-to-IPv6 transition. However, if they mistakingly appear on the wire, they can confuse IPv6 implementations. It is also possible to use the above addresses as tools to attack IPv6 hosts, to bypass certain security checks (like using source address of ::ffff:127.0.0.1 to bypass "reject packet from remote" filter). KAME code is carefully written to avoid such incidents. More specifically, KAME kernel will reject packets if the above addresses are used in IPv6 source/dstination address, or IPv6 routing header. 1.15 Node's required addresses RFC2373 section 2.8 talks about required addresses for an IPv6 node. The section talks about how KAME stack manages those required addresses. 1.15.1 Host case The following items are automatically assigned to the node (or the node will automatically joins the group), at bootstrap time: - Loopback address - All-nodes multicast addresses (ff01::1) The following items will be automatically handled when the interface becomes IFF_UP: - Its link-local address for each interface - Solicited-node multicast address for link-local addresses - Link-local allnodes multicast address (ff02::1) The following items need to be configured manually by ifconfig(8) or prefix(8). Alternatively, these can be autoconfigured by using stateless address autoconfiguration. - Assigned unicast/anycast addresses - Solicited-Node multicast address for assigned unicast address Users can join groups by using appropriate system calls like setsockopt(2). 1.15.2 Router case In addition to the above, routers needs to handle the following items. The following items need to be configured manually by using ifconfig(8). o The subnet-router anycast addresses for the interfaces it is configured to act as a router on (prefix::/64) o All other anycast addresses with which the router has been configured The router will join the following multicast group when rtadvd(8) is available for the interface. o All-Routers Multicast Addresses (ff02::2) Routing daemons will join appropriate multicast groups, as necessary, like ff02::9 for RIPng. Users can join groups by using appropriate system calls like setsockopt(2). 2. Network Drivers KAME requires three items to be added into the standard drivers: (1) mbuf clustering requirement. In this stable release, we changed MINCLSIZE into MHLEN+1 for all the operating systems in order to make all the drivers behave as we expect. (2) multicast. If "ifmcstat" yields no multicast group for a interface, that interface has to be patched. To avoid troubles, we suggest you to comment out the device drivers for unsupported/unnecessary cards, from the kernel configuration file. If you accidentally enable unsupported drivers, some of the userland tools may not work correctly (routing daemons are typical example). In the following sections, "official support" means that KAME developers are using that ethernet card/driver frequently. (NOTE: In the past we required all pcmcia drivers to have a call to in6_ifattach(). We have no such requirement any more) 2.1 FreeBSD 2.2.x-RELEASE Here is a list of FreeBSD 2.2.x-RELEASE drivers and its conditions: driver mbuf(1) multicast(2) official support? --- --- --- --- (Ethernet) ar looks ok - - cnw ok ok yes (*) ed ok ok yes ep ok ok yes fe ok ok yes sn looks ok - - (*) vx looks ok - - wlp ok ok - (*) xl ok ok yes zp ok ok - (FDDI) fpa looks ok ? - (ATM) en ok ok yes (Serial) lp ? - not work sl ? - not work sr looks ok ok - (**) You may want to add an invocation of "rtsol" in "/etc/pccard_ether", if you are using notebook computers and PCMCIA ethernet card. (*) These drivers are distributed with PAO (http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO/). (**) There was some report says that, if you make sr driver up and down and then up, the kernel may hang up. We have disabled frame-relay support from sr driver and after that this looks to be working fine. If you need frame-relay support to come back, please contact KAME developers. 2.2 BSD/OS 3.x The following lists BSD/OS 3.x device drivers and its conditions: driver mbuf(1) multicast(2) official support? --- --- --- --- (Ethernet) cnw ok ok yes de ok ok - df ok ok - eb ok ok - ef ok ok yes exp ok ok - mz ok ok yes ne ok ok yes we ok ok - (FDDI) fpa ok ok - (ATM) en maybe ok - (Serial) ntwo ok ok yes sl ? - not work appp ? - not work You may want to use "@insert" directive in /etc/pccard.conf to invoke "rtsol" command right after dynamic insertion of PCMCIA ethernet cards. 2.3 NetBSD The following table lists the network drivers we have tried so far. driver mbuf(1) multicast(2) official support? --- --- --- --- (Ethernet) awi pcmcia/i386 ok ok - bah zbus/amiga NG(*) cnw pcmcia/i386 ok ok yes ep pcmcia/i386 ok ok - le sbus/sparc ok ok yes ne pci/i386 ok ok yes ne pcmcia/i386 ok ok yes wi pcmcia/i386 ok ok yes (ATM) en pci/i386 ok ok - (*) This may need some fix, but I'm not sure what arcnet interfaces assume... 2.4 FreeBSD 3.x-RELEASE Here is a list of FreeBSD 3.x-RELEASE drivers and its conditions: driver mbuf(1) multicast(2) official support? --- --- --- --- (Ethernet) cnw ok ok -(*) ed ? ok - ep ok ok - fe ok ok yes fxp ?(**) lnc ? ok - sn ? ? -(*) wi ok ok yes xl ? ok - (*) These drivers are distributed with PAO as PAO3 (http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO/). (**) there are trouble reports with multicast filter initialization. More drivers will just simply work on KAME FreeBSD 3.x-RELEASE but have not been checked yet. 2.5 OpenBSD 2.x Here is a list of OpenBSD 2.x drivers and its conditions: driver mbuf(1) multicast(2) official support? --- --- --- --- (Ethernet) de pci/i386 ok ok yes fxp pci/i386 ?(*) le sbus/sparc ok ok yes ne pci/i386 ok ok yes ne pcmcia/i386 ok ok yes (*) There seem to be some problem in driver, with multicast filter configuration. This happens with certain revision of chipset on the card. Should be fixed by now by workaround in sys/net/if.c, but still not sure. 2.6 BSD/OS 4.x The following lists BSD/OS 4.x device drivers and its conditions: driver mbuf(1) multicast(2) official support? --- --- --- --- (Ethernet) de ok ok yes exp (*) You may want to use "@insert" directive in /etc/pccard.conf to invoke "rtsol" command right after dynamic insertion of PCMCIA ethernet cards. (*) exp driver has serious conflict with KAME initialization sequence. A workaround is committed into sys/i386/pci/if_exp.c, and should be okay by now. 3. Translator We categorize IPv4/IPv6 translator into 4 types. Translator A --- It is used in the early stage of transition to make it possible to establish a connection from an IPv6 host in an IPv6 island to an IPv4 host in the IPv4 ocean. Translator B --- It is used in the early stage of transition to make it possible to establish a connection from an IPv4 host in the IPv4 ocean to an IPv6 host in an IPv6 island. Translator C --- It is used in the late stage of transition to make it possible to establish a connection from an IPv4 host in an IPv4 island to an IPv6 host in the IPv6 ocean. Translator D --- It is used in the late stage of transition to make it possible to establish a connection from an IPv6 host in the IPv6 ocean to an IPv4 host in an IPv4 island. KAME provides an TCP relay translator for category A. This is called "FAITH". We also provide IP header translator for category A. 3.1 FAITH TCP relay translator FAITH system uses TCP relay daemon called "faithd" helped by the KAME kernel. FAITH will reserve an IPv6 address prefix, and relay TCP connection toward that prefix to IPv4 destination. For example, if the reserved IPv6 prefix is 3ffe:0501:0200:ffff::, and the IPv6 destination for TCP connection is 3ffe:0501:0200:ffff::163.221.202.12, the connection will be relayed toward IPv4 destination 163.221.202.12. destination IPv4 node (163.221.202.12) ^ | IPv4 tcp toward 163.221.202.12 FAITH-relay dual stack node ^ | IPv6 TCP toward 3ffe:0501:0200:ffff::163.221.202.12 source IPv6 node faithd must be invoked on FAITH-relay dual stack node. For more details, consult kame/kame/faithd/README and draft-ietf-ngtrans-tcpudp-relay-01.txt. 3.2 IPv6-to-IPv4 header translator # removed since it is not imported to NetBSD-current 4. IPsec IPsec is implemented as the following three components. (1) Policy Management (2) Key Management (3) AH, ESP and IPComp handling in kernel Note that KAME/OpenBSD does NOT include support for KAME IPsec code, as OpenBSD team has their home-brew IPsec stack and they have no plan to replace it. IPv6 support for IPsec is, therefore, lacking on KAME/OpenBSD. 4.1 Policy Management The kernel implements experimental policy management code. There are two way to manage security policy. One is to configure per-socket policy using setsockopt(3). In this cases, policy configuration is described in ipsec_set_policy(3). The other is to configure kernel packet filter-based policy using PF_KEY interface, via setkey(8). The policy entry will be matched in order. The order of entries makes difference in behavior. 4.2 Key Management The key management code implemented in this kit (sys/netkey) is a home-brew PFKEY v2 implementation. This conforms to RFC2367. The home-brew IKE daemon, "racoon" is included in the kit (kame/kame/racoon, or usr.sbin/racoon). Basically you'll need to run racoon as daemon, then setup a policy to require keys (like ping -P 'out ipsec esp/transport//use'). The kernel will contact racoon daemon as necessary to exchange keys. In IKE spec, there's ambiguity about interpretation of "tunnel" proposal. For example, if we would like to propose the use of following packet: IP AH ESP IP payload some implementation proposes it as "AH transport and ESP tunnel", since this is more logical from packet construction point of view. Some implementation proposes it as "AH tunnel and ESP tunnel". Racoon follows the former route. This raises real interoperability issue. We hope this to be resolved quickly. 4.3 AH and ESP handling IPsec module is implemented as "hooks" to the standard IPv4/IPv6 processing. When sending a packet, ip{,6}_output() checks if ESP/AH processing is required by checking if a matching SPD (Security Policy Database) is found. If ESP/AH is needed, {esp,ah}{4,6}_output() will be called and mbuf will be updated accordingly. When a packet is received, {esp,ah}4_input() will be called based on protocol number, i.e. (*inetsw[proto])(). {esp,ah}4_input() will decrypt/check authenticity of the packet, and strips off daisy-chained header and padding for ESP/AH. It is safe to strip off the ESP/AH header on packet reception, since we will never use the received packet in "as is" form. By using ESP/AH, TCP4/6 effective data segment size will be affected by extra daisy-chained headers inserted by ESP/AH. Our code takes care of the case. Basic crypto functions can be found in directory "sys/crypto". ESP/AH transform are listed in {esp,ah}_core.c with wrapper functions. If you wish to add some algorithm, add wrapper function in {esp,ah}_core.c, and add your crypto algorithm code into sys/crypto. Tunnel mode works basically fine, but comes with the following restrictions: - You cannot run routing daemon across IPsec tunnel, since we do not model IPsec tunnel as pseudo interfaces. - Authentication model for AH tunnel must be revisited. We'll need to improve the policy management engine, eventually. - Tunnelling for IPv6 IPsec is still incomplete. This is disabled by default. If you need to perform experiments, add "options IPSEC_IPV6FWD" into the kernel configuration file. Note that path MTU discovery does not work across IPv6 IPsec tunnel gateway due to insufficient code. AH specificaton does not talk much about "multiple AH on a packet" case. We incrementally compute AH checksum, from inside to outside. Also, we treat inner AH to be immutable. For example, if we are to create the following packet: IP AH1 AH2 AH3 payload we do it incrementally. As a result, we get crypto checksums like below: AH3 has checksum against "IP AH3' payload". where AH3' = AH3 with checksum field filled with 0. AH2 has checksum against "IP AH2' AH3 payload". AH1 has checksum against "IP AH1' AH2 AH3 payload", Also note that AH3 has the smallest sequence number, and AH1 has the largest sequence number. 4.4 IPComp handling IPComp stands for IP payload compression protocol. This is aimed for payload compression, not the header compression like PPP VJ compression. This may be useful when you are using slow serial link (say, cell phone) with powerful CPU (well, recent notebook PCs are really powerful...). The protocol design of IPComp is very similar to IPsec, though it was defined separately from IPsec itself. Here are some points to be noted: - IPComp is treated as part of IPsec protocol suite, and SPI and CPI space is unified. Spec says that there's no relationship between two so they are assumed to be separate in specs. - IPComp association (IPCA) is kept in SAD. - It is possible to use well-known CPI (CPI=2 for DEFLATE for example), for outbound/inbound packet, but for indexing purposes one element from SPI/CPI space will be occupied anyway. - pfkey is modified to support IPComp. However, there's no official SA type number assignment yet. Portability with other IPComp stack is questionable (anyway, who else implement IPComp on UN*X?). - Spec says that IPComp output processing must be performed before AH/ESP output processing, to achieve better compression ratio and "stir" data stream before encryption. The most meaningful processing order is: (1) compress payload by IPComp, (2) encrypt payload by ESP, then (3) attach authentication data by AH. However, with manual SPD setting, you are able to violate the ordering (KAME code is too generic, maybe). Also, it is just okay to use IPComp alone, without AH/ESP. - Though the packet size can be significantly decreased by using IPComp, no special consideration is made about path MTU (spec talks nothing about MTU consideration). IPComp is designed for serial links, not ethernet-like medium, it seems. - You can change compression ratio on outbound packet, by changing deflate_policy in sys/netinet6/ipcomp_core.c. You can also change outbound history buffer size by changing deflate_window_out in the same source code. (should it be sysctl accessible, or per-SAD configurable?) - Tunnel mode IPComp is not working right. KAME box can generate tunnelled IPComp packet, however, cannot accept tunneled IPComp packet. - You can negotiate IPComp association with racoon IKE daemon. - KAME code does not attach Adler32 checksum to compressed data. see ipsec wg mailing list discussion in Jan 2000 for details. 4.5 Conformance to RFCs and IDs The IPsec code in the kernel conforms (or, tries to conform) to the following standards: "old IPsec" specification documented in rfc182[5-9].txt "new IPsec" specification documented in rfc240[1-6].txt, rfc241[01].txt, rfc2451.txt and draft-mcdonald-simple-ipsec-api-01.txt (draft expired, but you can take from ftp://ftp.kame.net/pub/internet-drafts/). (NOTE: IKE specifications, rfc240[7-9].txt are implemented in userland, as "racoon" IKE daemon) IPComp: RFC2393: IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) Currently supported algorithms are: old IPsec AH null crypto checksum (no document, just for debugging) keyed MD5 with 128bit crypto checksum (rfc1828.txt) keyed SHA1 with 128bit crypto checksum (no document) HMAC MD5 with 128bit crypto checksum (rfc2085.txt) HMAC SHA1 with 128bit crypto checksum (no document) old IPsec ESP null encryption (no document, similar to rfc2410.txt) DES-CBC mode (rfc1829.txt) new IPsec AH null crypto checksum (no document, just for debugging) keyed MD5 with 96bit crypto checksum (no document) keyed SHA1 with 96bit crypto checksum (no document) HMAC MD5 with 96bit crypto checksum (rfc2403.txt HMAC SHA1 with 96bit crypto checksum (rfc2404.txt) new IPsec ESP null encryption (rfc2410.txt) DES-CBC with derived IV (draft-ietf-ipsec-ciph-des-derived-01.txt, draft expired) DES-CBC with explicit IV (rfc2405.txt) 3DES-CBC with explicit IV (rfc2451.txt) BLOWFISH CBC (rfc2451.txt) CAST128 CBC (rfc2451.txt) RC5 CBC (rfc2451.txt) each of the above can be combined with: ESP authentication with HMAC-MD5(96bit) ESP authentication with HMAC-SHA1(96bit) IPComp RFC2394: IP Payload Compression Using DEFLATE The following algorithms are NOT supported: old IPsec AH HMAC MD5 with 128bit crypto checksum + 64bit replay prevention (rfc2085.txt) keyed SHA1 with 160bit crypto checksum + 32bit padding (rfc1852.txt) The key/policy management API is based on the following document, with fair amount of extensions: RFC2367: PF_KEY key management API 4.6 ECN consideration on IPsec tunnels KAME IPsec implements ECN-friendly IPsec tunnel, described in draft-ietf-ipsec-ecn-02.txt. Normal IPsec tunnel is described in RFC2401. On encapsulation, IPv4 TOS field (or, IPv6 traffic class field) will be copied from inner IP header to outer IP header. On decapsulation outer IP header will be simply dropped. The decapsulation rule is not compatible with ECN, since ECN bit on the outer IP TOS/traffic class field will be lost. To make IPsec tunnel ECN-friendly, we should modify encapsulation and decapsulation procedure. This is described in draft-ietf-ipsec-ecn-02.txt, chapter 3.3. KAME IPsec tunnel implementation can give you three behaviors, by setting net.inet.ipsec.ecn (or net.inet6.ipsec6.ecn) to some value: - RFC2401: no consideration for ECN (sysctl value -1) - ECN forbidden (sysctl value 0) - ECN allowed (sysctl value 1) Note that the behavior is configurable in per-node manner, not per-SA manner (draft-ietf-ipsec-ecn-02 wants per-SA configuration, but it looks too much for me). The behavior is summarized as follows (see source code for more detail): encapsulate decapsulate --- --- RFC2401 copy all TOS bits drop TOS bits on outer from inner to outer. (use inner TOS bits as is) ECN forbidden copy TOS bits except for ECN drop TOS bits on outer (masked with 0xfc) from inner (use inner TOS bits as is) to outer. set ECN bits to 0. ECN allowed copy TOS bits except for ECN use inner TOS bits with some CE (masked with 0xfe) from change. if outer ECN CE bit inner to outer. is 1, enable ECN CE bit on set ECN CE bit to 0. the inner. General strategy for configuration is as follows: - if both IPsec tunnel endpoint are capable of ECN-friendly behavior, you'd better configure both end to "ECN allowed" (sysctl value 1). - if the other end is very strict about TOS bit, use "RFC2401" (sysctl value -1). - in other cases, use "ECN forbidden" (sysctl value 0). The default behavior is "ECN forbidden" (sysctl value 0). For more information, please refer to: draft-ietf-ipsec-ecn-02.txt RFC2481 (Explicit Congestion Notification) KAME sys/netinet6/{ah,esp}_input.c (Thanks goes to Kenjiro Cho for detailed analysis) 4.7 Interoperability IPsec, IPComp (in kernel) and IKE (in userland as "racoon") has been tested at several interoperability test events, and it is known to interoperate with many other implementations well. Also, KAME IPsec has quite wide coverage for IPsec crypto algorithms documented in RFC (we do not cover algorithms with intellectual property issues, though). Here are (some of) platforms we have tested IPsec/IKE interoperability in the past, in no particular order. Note that both ends (KAME and others) may have modified their implementation, so use the following list just for reference purposes. Altiga, Ashley-laurent (vpcom.com), Data Fellows (F-Secure), BlueSteel, CISCO, Ericsson, ACC, Fitel, FreeS/WAN, HITACHI, IBM AIX, IIJ, Intel, Microsoft WinNT, NAI PGPnet, NIST (linux IPsec + plutoplus), Netscreen, OpenBSD isakmpd, Radguard, RedCreek, Routerware, SSH, Secure Computing, Soliton, Toshiba, TIS/NAI Gauntret, VPNet, Yamaha RT100i Here are (some of) platforms we have tested IPComp/IKE interoperability in the past, in no particular order. IRE 5. ALTQ # removed since it is not imported to NetBSD-current 6. mobile-ip6 # removed since it is not imported to NetBSD-current