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- Network Working Group M. Davison
- Request for Comments: 2602 Cisco Systems
- Category: Standards Track June 1999
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- ILMI-Based Server Discovery for MARS
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- Status of this Memo
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- This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
- Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
- improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
- Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
- and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
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- Copyright Notice
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- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
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- Abstract
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- This memo defines how ILMI-based Server Discovery, which provides a
- method for ATM-attached hosts and routers to dynamically determine
- the ATM addresses of servers, shall be used to locate MARS servers.
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- 1. Introduction
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- Presently, configuring a host or router to use MARS [1] is cumbersome
- and error-prone since it requires at least one ATM address to be
- statically configured on each host or router in the network.
- Further, it is impossible to implement a diskless host to use MARS
- since local configuration is required. ILMI-based Server Discovery,
- hereafter referred to as "server discovery," provides a solution to
- these problems.
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- A brief overview of the Integrated Local Management Interface (ILMI)
- and the Service Registry MIB, as defined by the ATM Forum, are
- provided in this memo. The reader should consult [2] for a complete
- description of ILMI and this MIB, but the information contained here
- is sufficient for an understanding of its use to support MARS server
- discovery.
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- 2. Integrated Local Management Interface
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- The Integrated Local Management Interface (ILMI) [2] provides a
- mechanism for ATM-attached devices, such as hosts, routers, and ATM
- switches, to transfer management information. It is based on the
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Version 1, and supports
- get, get-next, set and trap operations.
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- The ILMI specification designates the switch side of the ATM link as
- the 'network side' and the host/router side of the ATM link as the '
- user side.' The Service Registry MIB, which is outlined in Section 3,
- is implmented on the network side and is queried from the user side.
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- 3. ILMI 4.0 Service Registry MIB
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- Server discovery utilizes the Service Registry MIB defined by the ATM
- Forum in ILMI Specification Version 4.0 [2]. To support the existing
- framework for IP over ATM, as embodied by ATMARP and MARS, ATM
- switches must support the Service Registry MIB.
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- A row in the service registry table [2] is defined as:
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- AtmfSrvcRegEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
- atmfSrvcRegPort INTEGER,
- atmfSrvcRegServiceID OBJECT IDENTIFIER,
- atmfSrvcRegATMAddress AtmAddress,
- atmfSrvcRegAddressIndex INTEGER,
- atmfSrvcRegParm1 OCTET STRING
- }
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- The definition of each field in this structure is:
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- atmfSrvcRegPort - The ATM port number for which this entry
- contains management information. The value of zero may be used
- to indicate the ATM interface over which a management request
- was received.
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- atmfSrvcRegServiceID - This is the service identifier that
- uniquely identifies the type of service at the address
- provided in the table. (See Section 3.2 for MARS OID.)
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- atmfSrvcRegATMAddress - This is the full address of the service.
- The ATM client will use this address to establish a connection
- with the service.
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- atmfSrvcRegAddressIndex - An arbitrary integer to differentiate
- multiple rows containing different ATM addresses for the same
- service on the same port.
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- atmfSrvcRegParm1 - An octet string whose size and meaning is
- determined by the value of atmfSrvcRegServiceID.
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- The service registry table is indexed by atmfSrvcRegPort,
- atmfSrvcRegServiceID and atmfSrvcRegAddressIndex.
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- 3.1 Service Parameter String
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- A generic parameter string is defined in the service registry table,
- thus allowing protocol-specific parameters to be specified. To be
- consistent with [1], the parameter string for MARS shall be:
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- mar$pro.type 16 bits Protocol type
- mar$pro.snap 40 bits Optional extension to protocol type
- mar$plen 8 bits Length of protocol address
- mar$addr plen octets Network address
- mar$mask plen octets Network mask
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- Where
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- mar$pro.type - See [1]. (IPv4 is 0x0800, IPv6 is 0x86DD)
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- mar$pro.snap - See [1]. (IPv4 and IPv6 are 0)
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- mar$plen - Length of the protocol address.
- (IPv4 is 4, IPv6 is 16)
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- mar$addr - Network address represented in network byte
- order
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- mar$mask - Network mask represented in network byte order
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- 3.2 Service Object Identifier
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- This OID, assigned in the ATM Forum Service Registry MIB, names MARS
- within the context of server discovery.
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- atmfSrvcRegMARS OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { 1.3.6.1.4.1.353.1.5.4 }
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- It does not name any managed objects, rather is used to locate
- appropriate rows in the service registery table.
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- 4. MARS Client Behavior
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- A MARS client will access the service registry table via ILMI using
- the SNMP GetNext operator to "sweep" (SNMP parlance for a linear
- search) beginning with {Port = 0, ServiceID = <see Section 3.2>,
- Index = 0} while holding the port number and the serviceID constant.
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- (Port number 0 is used within ILMI to indicate "this port.")
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- An MARS client with no local configuration, such as a diskless
- workstation, must use the row with the lowest index value if multiple
- MARS servers, possibly for multiple networks, are listed.
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- MARS clients that have local IP configuration must use a row that has
- the appropriate IP address. For example, consider the case where an
- IP router has 3 logical interfaces defined on a single physical
- interface with IP addresses 1.0.0.1/8, 128.10.0.1/16 and
- 171.69.150.226/24. The router will sweep the service registry table
- looking for rows that have atmfSrvcRegParm1 values as shown below:
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- Net number/mask atmfSrvcRegParm1
- ---------------- --------------------------------------------------
- 1.0.0.0/8 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 01 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00
- 128.10.0.0/16 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 80 0a 00 00 ff ff 00 00
- 171.69.150.0/24 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 ab 45 96 00 ff ff ff 00
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- When the correct atmfSrvcRegParm1 values are located, the router may
- then establish an SVC to the selected server and perform the
- appropriate protocol operations.
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- Redundant MARS servers are supported with multiple rows in the
- service registry table. This list of MARS servers is ordered with the
- primary MARS server having the lowest index value. The MARS client
- must attempt to utilize the primary MARS server before utilizing a
- secondary MARS server. Administrators must ensure that the listed
- MARS servers are synchronized.
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- 5. MARS Server Behavior
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- An MARS server shall be locally configured. The MARS server may
- retrieve the MARS service registry data to validate the results. If
- an incorrect row is retrieved the error may be flagged in a locally
- significant way.
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- 6. Relationship with PNNI Augmented Routing
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- An augmented version PNNI ("PNNI Augmented Routing," or PAR) [3] has
- been developed by the ATM Forum. PAR can distribute data such as MARS
- server addresses. Further, the ATM Forum is developing a proxy
- mechanism for PAR (Proxy PAR) that would allow a UNI-attached host or
- router to access PAR data without a full PAR implementation.
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- These mechanisms offer a promising way to manage the service registry
- tables maintained on each switch in an ATM network, yet would not
- require changes to the mechanism defined in this memo. Hosts and
- routers can continue to utilize ILMI-based or Proxy PAR-based server
- discovery and network administrators could manage the service
- registry data with local configuration or via PAR and Proxy PAR.
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- 7. Security Considerations
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- The server discovery mechanism is built on the ILMI managment
- framework and the security embodied in that framework. Access, to
- user- or network-side information is controlled by MIB design rather
- than protocol security mechanisms.
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- The service registery MIB, the table containing information for
- server discovery, is defined in [2] with read-only access. This means
- that any user-side device may query the service registry, but may not
- modify the service registry via ILMI. Instead, the sevice registry
- table must be modified via local configuration on the ATM switch.
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- References
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- [1] Armitage, G., "Support for Multicast over UNI 3.0/3.1 based ATM
- Networks", RFC 2022, November 1996.
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- [2] ATM Forum, "Integrated Local Management Interface (ILMI)
- Specification Version 4.0," af-ilmi-0065.000, September 1996.
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- [3] ATM Forum, "PNNI Augmented Routing (PAR) Version 1.0," af-ra-
- 0104, January 1999.
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- Author's Address
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- Mike Davison
- Cisco Systems
- 170 West Tasman Drive
- San Jose, California 95134
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- Phone: (408) 526-4000
- EMail: mike.davison@cisco.com
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