Re: [dhcwg] I-D Action: draft-shen-dhc-client-port-01.txt

["Bernie Volz (volz)" <[e-mail]>]

Agreed Ted. v4 relay chaining is not a concern (hence why I was less concerned about having the option specify the port; though for consistency with v6 it might be nice and zero-length options have caused some issues with DHCPv4). My example was for DHCPv6.

Note that the Relay-Forw’s DHCPv6 Relay Agent Source Port Option is where the server (or relay) should send the packet. This is a bit different than how the peer-address field is used (since the server just uses the packet’s source address, not the Relay-Forw’s peer-address for where it sends the packet).

For the server, if the received outer-most Relay-Forw that it is responding too (I.e., constructing a Relay-Reply) has a DHCPv6 Relay Agent Source Port Option, the server sends to that port instead of the default port.

For a relay-agent, if Relay Message Option’s packet is a Relay-Reply, if it contains a DHCPv6 Relay Agent Source Port Option, the relay would send to that port instead of the default port (and use the peer-address out of the Relay-Reply it received).

- Bernie

From: Ted Lemon <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>
Date: Friday, July 8, 2016 at 3:30 PM
To: Bernie Volz <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>
Cc: "Naiming Shen (naiming)" <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>, "[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>" <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>, "Enke Chen (enkechen)" <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>
Subject: Re: [dhcwg] I-D Action: draft-shen-dhc-client-port-01.txt

We went a fair distance down the relay agent chaining rathole a few years ago:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lemon-dhcpv4-relay-encapsulation-01
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kurapati-dhc-relay-chaining-dhcpv4-02

The effort was abandoned because IPv4...

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Bernie Volz (volz) <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
I don’t understand this at all. Unless you explicitly configured a Relay 2 to always use port X when sending to Relay 1, where in the Packet from the Server (which comes from Relay 3) would Relay 2 know where to send the packet. You don’t want to have to have relay 2 remember this.

- Bernie

From: "Naiming Shen (naiming)" <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>
Date: Friday, July 8, 2016 at 3:23 PM
To: Bernie Volz <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>
Cc: "[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>" <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>, "Enke Chen (enkechen)" <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>
Subject: Re: I-D Action: draft-shen-dhc-client-port-01.txt


Hi,

Thanks for the initial comment.

We intend for this option to be hop-by-hop behavior instead of
end-to-end. For example, in below DHCP devices topology:

Client <—> Relay-1(x) <——> Relay-2(y) <—> Relay-3(z) <—> Server

where (x, y, z) are the non-standard UDP source ports used by the
relay agents of 1, 2 and 3.

This DHCPv6 option is meant only between the two neighbors. When
the Relay-2 receives from Relay-1, or the Relay-3 receives from Relay-2,
or the Server receives from Relay-3, the implementation can easily
setup the previous relay agent IPv6 address to the UDP port binding
locally. When the reply message comes back in the other direction,
the binding can be retrieved hop-by-hop, and optionally the binding
can be discarded after.

This restricts the issue between the two DHCPv6 neighbors and there
is no state needs to be carried end-to-end for the DHCPv6 messages.
This will also scale better if the relay cascading extend to N stages.

thanks.
- Naiming

On Jul 8, 2016, at 12:04 PM, Bernie Volz (volz) <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:

Hi:

Some initial comments:

1.       For DHCPv4, the zero length option can work since there is no provision for relay chaining.
2.       For DHCPv6, the zero length option does NOT work since this provides no means for a case where Relay 1 uses port X which is sent to Relay 2 which uses port Y to send to the Server. The server can response to Relay 2 on port Y (since that is the incoming port), but there is no place for Relay 2 to have stored the port. You should go back and make this option a 2 octet option with the port number. The server would then see:
Relay-Forw from Relay 2
                Relay Port Source Port option Y
                Relay-Message option
                                Relay-Forw from Relay 1
                                                Relay Port source Port option X
                                                Relay- Message Option
                                                                <client’s request>
                And all would work correctly as the Server would use the port Y from the outermost relay option, relay 2 would use the port X from the Relay 1 Relay-Forw.


-          Bernie

From: dhcwg [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Naiming Shen (naiming)
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 12:29 AM
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Subject: [dhcwg] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-shen-dhc-client-port-01.txt


Hi,

We have updated the draft of “Generalized Source UDP Port of DHCP Relay”.
Please review and comment.

Thanks.
- Naiming


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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.


       Title           : Generalized Source UDP Port of DHCP Relay
       Authors         : Naiming Shen
                         Enke Chen
Filename        : draft-shen-dhc-client-port-01.txt
Pages           : 7
Date            : 2016-07-07

Abstract:
  This document extends the DHCP and DHCPv6 protocols for the UDP
  transport from relay agent to server and allows the port to be any
  valid number on the DHCP relay system.


The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
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