Re: [multipathtcp] Consensus call on potential MPTCP proxy work

<mohamed.boucadair@orange.com> Fri, 21 April 2017 12:27 UTC

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From: mohamed.boucadair@orange.com
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Subject: Re: [multipathtcp] Consensus call on potential MPTCP proxy work
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Re-,

Please see inline.

Cheers,
Med

De : Joe Touch [mailto:touch@isi.edu]
Envoyé : jeudi 20 avril 2017 19:25
À : BOUCADAIR Mohamed IMT/OLN; Yoshifumi Nishida
Cc : multipathtcp
Objet : Re: [multipathtcp] Consensus call on potential MPTCP proxy work


Med,

On 4/19/2017 10:50 PM, mohamed.boucadair@orange.com<mailto:mohamed.boucadair@orange.com> wrote:
Hi Joe,

I don’t understand your comments here:

·         The use of a 32-bit magic number is meant to distinguish application-supplied data from the one inserted by the proxy. There are other fields in the MP_CONVERT information element that help in that aim too (validation of the TLV, M-bit, for example).

·         Both entities that supply and process the data are under the control of the same operator.

·         The network-located proxy is explicitly configured on the CPE. The destination IP address of the packet is an address of that proxy, not the address of a legacy node.

·         The proxy must echo supplied data in a SYN/ACK. If a mismatch is detected by the CPE, that proxy WON’t be used for subsequent connections till a new proxy is configured, TTL expires, etc.

To sum:

·         We are acting on one single SYN of an MPTCP connection.

·         If a mismatch is detected for one single SYN of a given connection, all subsequent connections (with any remote server) won’t be relayed to that proxy.

How is this “hazardous”?

TCPM archives are full of discussions on why TFO only works for subsequent connections to the same endpoint, due to cached cookies that allow the SYN data to be safely interpreted *before* the end of the 3WHS.
[Med] if having a “cookie” is the guarantee to “allow the SYN data to be safely interpreted *before* the end of the 3WHS”, I’d like to confirm that are conforming to that rationale:

·         TFO cookie is “used by the server side to authenticate a client initiating a TFO connection”. In our case, all MPTCP connections that include MP_CONVERT are always between the same nodes. The proxy relies upon other means to authenticate/authorize a CPE. Please refer to slide 29 of https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/98/slides/slides-98-mptcp-sessa-network-assisted-mptcp-03.pdf.

·         TFO server-supplied cookies are used to prevent SYNs with spoofed IP addresses attacks: Spoofed IP addresses is not a problem in a provider network because anti-spoofing filters are in place (at access nodes, typically).

·         TFO specification acknowledges the following: “cookies are not necessary if the server has application-level protection or is immune to these attacks” (cookie-less Fast Open) and “the server may choose to generate a trivial or    even a zero-length cookie to improve performance by avoiding the cookie generation and verification”. Cached cookies are not required to supply data in 3WHS if the server if protection is in place. This is the case for the MPTCP proxy target case.

·         Last, the use of TFO cookies is not 100% safe. SYN flooding with valid cookies is still a valid threat.

MPTCP archives are full of discussions on why the data plane is not a good place to put option information.
[Med] Hmm, EDO does already that. But…more important:

·         we are not putting option information in the payload.

·         I guess you are referring to the reliable delivery of the extended option space in a SYN. This would be a valid point if we are sending data to ANY host on the Internet but we are not doing that. We are supplying data to ONE single node that is configured explicitly to a host/CPE. The provider, who configures that proxy to a host/CPE by means of DHCP, ensures that proxy complies with the specification. As a guard, the solution supports a mechanism to detect misbehaving proxies.

It's not practical to repeat those arguments in one email. The point is that you're reinventing the wheel in ways that this group and other groups already know are hazardous.
[Med] I don’t think there is a precedent of the 0-RTT proxying work. I don’t see what we are reinventing here.  I still don’t see what is “hazardous” here.


Joe



Thank you.

Cheers,
Med

De : Joe Touch [mailto:touch@isi.edu]
Envoyé : mercredi 19 avril 2017 20:12
À : BOUCADAIR Mohamed IMT/OLN; Yoshifumi Nishida
Cc : multipathtcp
Objet : Re: [multipathtcp] Consensus call on potential MPTCP proxy work




On 4/18/2017 10:46 PM, mohamed.boucadair@orange.com<mailto:mohamed.boucadair@orange.com> wrote:
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Using the SYN data as control information is the hazardous part.
[Med] It isn’t for the for the simple reason that legacy Internet nodes will never receive a SYN with CPE-supplied data and that the TCP peer is known to process the supplied data. A Guard against misconfigurations is supported: echo in a SYN/ACK.

The idea of using a magic number to protect against miscommunication virtually ensures that there will be reliable connections with errors. That changes TCPs semantics.

Putting data in the SYN of TFO is permitted only because of previous state.

MPTCP doesn't have that state and so it is hazardous to put data in the SYN.

I.e., if you want TFO-like performance, figure out how to use TFO. Period.

Joe