[PCN] PCN & tunnelling
<philip.eardley@bt.com> Wed, 24 October 2007 10:23 UTC
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Hi, I was chatting with Bob about section 5.8 tunnelling. We've realised there's the following nasty case which we hadn't thought about. The scenario is when a tunnel starts inside a PCN-domain and finishes outside it. First we follow what happens when the current text is followed. Imagine that the pkt is PCN-marked by some PCN-node before the tunnel start node. On encapsulation the PCN-mark is copied onto the outer header. Hence the PCN-egress-node 'sees' the PCN-mark as normal - this is ok. The PCN-egress-node clears the marking in the (outer) header and forwards the pkt into the next domain. The pkt is decapsulated at the tunnel end point. But the decapsulated pkt is already PCN-marked. Potential problems: [1] if it's decapsulated in a non-PCN-domain, then the pkt may confuse nodes in this domain [depending on what encoding is used for a PCN-mark] ; [2] if it's decapsulated in a PCN-domain, then the pkt is PCN-marked [which might lead this PCN-domain to terminate or block a flow unnecessarily]. The problem arises because the PCN-egress-node clears PCN-marking on the outer header but not on the inner header. (This is a new problem compared with ECN & tunnelling.) Possible solution: if the pkt is PCN-marked, then the tunnel start node checks whether the tunnel egress is inside or outside the PCN-domain - if it's outside, then it clears the PCN-marking on the inner header (effectively it does this on behalf of the PCN-egress-node). (Also, the PCN-mark is copied onto the outer header, as the current text says.) Thoughts? Thanks, Phil/
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