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- M.I.T. Lab. for Computer Science Network Implementation Note No. 5
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- February 15, 1979
- IEN-82
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- LCS Net Address Format
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- Noel Chiappa
- David Clark
- David Reed
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- This note defines the current format of addresses in the LCS
- Local Net and their translation into LCS hardware headers as well
- as InterNet addresses and CHAOS Net addresses.
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- This note is an informal working paper of the M.I.T. Laboratory
- for Computer Science. It should not be reproduced without the
- author's permission, and it should not be cited in other
- publications.
- February 15, 1979
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- This note defines the current format of addresses in the LCS
- Local Net and their translation into LCSNet hardware headers as
- well as CHAOS addresses and InterNet addresses. Address and
- protocol numbers specific to the LCSNet are also temporaily
- defined in this note.
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- Note that the proposal stated in this is not final, but is
- motivated by other considerations. The LNI as currently designed
- contains sophisticated name matching facilities of unknown worth.
- It is not yet clear whether this hardware is useful or not, but
- we felt that we should at least explore the possibilities, and
- have thus designed the protocol to take maximum advantage of the
- hardware's features. Depending on the results of our preliminary
- work with the name matching hardware, we may or may not keep< it
- in future versions of the LNI.
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- The basic hardware format of a LCS-LN packet is as follows:
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- DPNM 31 0
- |________________________________|
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- DPN 31 0
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- OPN 31 0
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- LEN 15 0
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- DATA 8n-1 0
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- (Unless others stated, all bit numbers are in decimal and
- all others are in octal.)
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- The DPNM, DPN, OPN and LEN fields are all defined by the
- hardware. The DATA field contains LEN bytes of data. The DPNM
- (Destination Process Name Mask) together with the DPN
- (Destination Process Name) specify the destination address, and
- the OPN (Originating Process Name) is the sender's address. This
- field is actually unused by the hardware, but is reserved for
- future use. The workings of the DPNM and DPN are as follows: in
- every LNI there is an array of sofware loadable names (the Name
- Table, NT), each with a DPNM and a DPN. The name matching
- algorithm is a follows: for each bit in the name, if the two bits
- in the DPN's are equivalent or if either DPNM bit is on, then
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- that bit matched. If all the bits matched, then the name matched.
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- The basic format of the headers (imposed by the sotware) is
- as follows:
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- DPNM 31 Type 23 0
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- DPN 31 Rsd 23 0
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- OPN 31 Reserved 0
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- LEN 15 0
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- DATA 8n-1 0
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- "Rsd" stands for "Reserved" and "Type" is the Local Type. As a
- general rule the value of 0 for any field is reserved for fixing
- catastrophes not yet visible to the eye. The following
- conventions are to be used in assigning type numbers: types 1
- through 077 have a common address format, specified below, types
- 100 through 277 are reserved, and types 301 through 377 are
- available for (experimental) protocols which may use the next 24
- bits of address as they see fit.
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- The intention of the above is that bridges be able to easily
- recognize, via the top bit(s) whether or not the address field
- fits a common format. Clearly there are enormous advantages, in
- the building of bridges and other areas, where it is desirable to
- have a common address format, but it is obviously also desirable
- not to hamstring the development of other very different
- protocols (such as a distributed process system or a distributed
- file system) which would fit poorly into the classical addressing
- system.
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- For types that use the common address format, the address
- format is:
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- 00 Type SNet Rsd Host
- 31 29 23 15 7 0
- |__|______|________|________|________|
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- The field marked "Rsd" is reserved for future use. It is intended
- that it be used for address expansion should it become necessary,
- but it may be used for whatever appears appropiate, such as a
- "Flag" field.
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- SubNet numbers and Host Numbers (per SubNet) are currently
- being assigned in common with the AI Lab's CHAOS Net in an
- attempt to maintain an MIT wide addressing unity. The main
- repository for these numbers is in the online file
- AI:SYSENG;HOSTS > on MIT-AI. numbers specific to our net are:
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- Number SubNet
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- 0 Reserved
- 1-7 Unassigned
- 10 LCS LN
- 11-377 Unassigned
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- Subnet 10
- Number Host
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- 0 Reserved
- 1 - 7 Unassigned
- 10 CSR 11/40
- 11 DSSR 11/70
- 12 - 17 Unassigned
- 20 VAX
- 21 - 377 Unassigned
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- It is not intended that this note be the official source for host
- and subnet numbers; rather, there will be an online database
- which at the moment is the specified ITS file.
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- The assigned protocol types are:
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- Type Use
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- 0 Reserved
- 1 InterNet Datagram (Internal)
- 2 CHAOS Packet
- 3-77 Unassigned
- 100-277 Reserved
- 300 Reserved
- 301 InterNet Datagram (Outbound)
- 302-377 Unassigned
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- In all cases the specified header is followed immediately by
- a packet of the specified type as defined in the appropriate
- reference. [1,2] At the moment, the format of outbound InterNet
- packets is as follows:
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- 11 000 Rsd Ext Net
- 31 29 23 7 0
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- where "Ext Net" is the major net number of the destination. In
- internal InterNet packets, the mapping from InterNet Headers to
- MIT addresses is simple; the 24 bits of "Address" after "Net
- Number" in the InterNet header have the same format as the
- adddress of a common address format packet, and are copied
- directly into the header. In the future, some attempt may be made
- to support variable address format addresses on inbound packets.
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- References
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- [1] Postel, Jonathan B., "InterNetwork Protocol Specification,
- Version IV," Information Sciences Institute, University of
- Southern California, IEN 54, September 1978.
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- [2] Greenblatt, Richard G., and Moon, David, "CHAOS Protocol
- Specification," Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, M.I.T., 1978.
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