Opsec Working Group J. Gill Internet-Draft Verizon Business Intended status: Informational D. Lewis Expires: March 4, 2007 P. Quinn Cisco Systems Inc. P. Schoenmaker NTT America August 31, 2006 Service Provider Infrastructure Security draft-ietf-opsec-infrastructure-security-00 Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on March 4, 2007. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006). Abstract This RFC describes best current practices for implementing Service Provider network infrastructure protection for network elements. This RFC complements and extends RFC 2267 and RFC 3704. RFC 2267 provides guidelines for filtering traffic on the ingress to service Gill, et al. Expires March 4, 2007 [Page 1] Internet-Draft Infrastructure Security August 2006 provider networks. RFC 3704 expands the recommendations described in RFC 2267 to address operational filtering guidelines for single and multi-homed environments. The focus of those RFCs is on filtering packets on ingress to a network, regardless of destination, if those packets have a spoofed source address, or if the source address fall within "reserved" address space. Deployment of RFCs 2267 and 3704 has limited the effects of denial of service attacks by dropping ingress packets with spoofed source addresses, which in turn offers other benefits by ensuring that packets coming into a network originate from validly allocated and consistent sources. This document focuses solely on traffic destined to elements of the the network infrastructure itself. This document presents techniques that, together with network edge ingress filtering and RFC 2267 and RFC 3704, provides a defense in depth approach for infrastructure protection. This document does not present recommendations for protocol validation (i.e. "sanity checking") nor does it address guidelines for general security configuration. Requirements Language The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119]. Gill, et al. Expires March 4, 2007 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Infrastructure Security August 2006 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2. Overview of Infrastructure Protection Techniques . . . . . . . 5 2.1. Edge Remarking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2. Device and Element Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.3. Infrastructure Hiding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3. Edge Infrastructure Access Control Lists . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.1. Constructing the Access List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.2. Other Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.3. Edge Infrastructure Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4. Edge Rewrite/Remarking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.1. Edge Rewrite/Remarking Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.2. Edge Rewriting/Remarking Performance Considerations . . . 8 5. Device/Element Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5.1. Service Specific Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5.1.1. Common Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5.2. Aggregate Device Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5.2.1. IP Fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5.2.2. Performance Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5.2.3. Access Control Implementation Guide . . . . . . . . . 9 5.3. Device Access Authorization and Accounting . . . . . . . . 10 6. Infrastructure Hiding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 6.1. Use Less IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 6.2. MPLS Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 6.3. IGP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6.4. Route Advertisement Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6.4.1. Route Announcement Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6.4.2. Address Core Out of RFC 1918 Space . . . . . . . . . . 11 6.5. Further obfuscation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 7. IPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 7.1. Use LIPv6 Edge Infrastructure Access Control Lists . . . . 12 7.2. IPv6 Edge Remarking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 7.3. IPv6 Device and Element Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 7.4. IPv6 Infrastructure Hiding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 8. IP Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 8.1. Multicast Group Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 8.2. Performance Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 8.3. IPv6 and Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 9. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . . . 16 Gill, et al. Expires March 4, 2007 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Infrastructure Security August 2006 1. Introduction This RFC describes best current practices for implementing Service Provider network infrastructure protection for network elements. RFC 2267 and RFC 3704 focuses on limiting the effects of denial of service attacks by filtering ingress packets with spoofed source addresses. This offers additional benefits by ensuring that packets coming into a network originate from validly allocated and consistent sources. RFC 3704 extends the recommendations described in RFC 2267 to address operational filtering guidelines for single and multi- homed environments. In both cases (RFC 2267 and RFC 3704), the focus is on dropping packets on ingress, regardless of destination, if those packets are have a spoofed source address or if the source of the packet falls within "reserved" address space. This document both refines and extends the filtering best practices outlined in RFC 2267 and RFC 3704 and focuses only on traffic destined to the network infrastructure itself to protect the service provider network from denial of service and other attacks. This document presents techniques that, together with network edge ingress filtering and RFC 2267 and RFC 3704, provides a defense in depth approach for infrastructure protection. Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are common and the network infrastructure itself is a target. Attacks targeting the network infrastructure can take many forms, including bandwidth saturation to crafted packets destined to a router. These attacks might use spoofed source addresses or they might use the true source address of of the traffic. Regardless of the nature of the attack, the network infrastructure must be protected from both accidental floods and intentional attacks. Additionally, this protection will assist in preventing the network elements from being used as reflectors in attacks against others. The techniques outlined in this document and described in section 2 below, describe best practices for infrastructure protection: edge policy (filtering and precedence), per device traffic policy enforcement for packets destined to a device and, limiting of address and routing visibility to reduce exposure to limit core network -- that is provider (P) and provider edge (PE) infrastructure -- attacks. This document is targeted at network operators seeking to limit their exposure to risks associated with denial of service targeting the infrastructure. These techniques are designed to be used in addition to specific protocol or application security features implemented in network devices. Infrastructure protection is a complex topic. While the best practices outlines in this document do not provide perfect protection, they can significantly improve the protection of the network infrastructure. Gill, et al. Expires March 4, 2007 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Infrastructure Security August 2006 2. Overview of Infrastructure Protection Techniques This section provides an overview of recommended techniques that may be used to protect network infrastructure. The details of each area, along with some deployment consideration, are described in detail in subsequent sections. The four technique describes in this document are: - Edge Infrastructure Access Control List - Edge Remarking - Device and Element Protection - Infrastructure Hiding The above list is not exhaustive; other mechanisms can be used to provide additional protection. The techniques discussed in this document have been widely deployment and have proven operational security benefits in large networks. 2.1. Edge Remarking Edge Remarking, detailed in section 4, ensures that ingress IP precedence or DSCP values match expected values within the context of security. This provides another layer of defense, particularly for traffic permitted through any of the Edge Infrastructure Access Control Lists. This document focuses only on using Edge Remarking best practices to enforce security policies. 2.2. Device and Element Protection Each network infrastructure device should enforce local rules for traffic destined to the device itself. These rules can take the form of filters (permit/deny) or rate limiting rules that allow ingress traffic at specified rates. These should complement any existing Edge Infrastructure Access Control Lists and are described in more detail in section 5. The deployment of these local device protection rules complements the edge techniques by protecting the device from traffic that: i) was permitted but violates device policy, ii) could not be filtered at the edge, iii) entered the network on an interface that did not have ingress filtering enabled. 2.3. Infrastructure Hiding Hiding the infrastructure of the network provides an elegant mechanism for protecting the network infrastructure. If the destination of an attack is to an infrastructure address that is unreachable, attacks become far more difficult. Infrastructure hiding can be achieved in several ways: - MPLS techniques - IGP configuration - Route advertisement control Section 6 covers infrastructure hiding techniques. Gill, et al. Expires March 4, 2007 [Page 5] Internet-Draft Infrastructure Security August 2006 3. Edge Infrastructure Access Control Lists Edge Infrastructure Access Control Lists (EIACLs) are a specific implementation of the more general Ingress Access List. As opposed to generic ingress filtering which denies data (sometimes referred to as user) plane traffic, edge infrastructure access control lists do not attempt to deny transit traffic; rather, this form of access control limits traffic destined to infrastructureequipment while permitting -- if needed, explicitly -- traffic through the network. 3.1. Constructing the Access List Edge Infrastructure Access Control Lists permit only required traffic destined to the network infrastructure, while allowing data plane traffic to flow through unfiltered. The basic premise of EIACLs is that only a relatively limited subset of traffic, sourced from outside an AS, needs to be destined towards a core router and that by explicitly permitting only that known and understood traffic, the core devices are not subjected to unnecessary traffic that might result in a denial of service. Since edge infrastructure access control lists protect only the infrastructure, the development of the list differs somewhat from "traditional" access filter lists: 1. Review addressing scheme, and identify address block(s) that represent core devices. 2. Determine what traffic must be destined to the core devices from outside the AS. 3. Create a filter that allow the required traffic, denies all traffic destined to the core address block and then finally, permits all other traffic. As with other ingress filtering techniques, EIACLs are applied on ingress interfaces, as close to the edge as possible. Comprehensive coverage (i.e. on as many interface as possible) yields the most protection. 3.2. Other Traffic In addition to the explicitly permitted traffic, EIACLs can be combined with other common edge filters such as: 1. Source spoof prevention (as per RFC 3704) by denying internal AS addresses as external sources. 2. Filtering of reserved addresses (e.g. rfc1918 addresses) as traffic should not be sourced from reserved address. 3. Other unneeded or unnecessary traffic Filtering this traffic can be part of the list explicitly or implicitly; explicit filters often provide log-able information that can be of use during a security Gill, et al. Expires March 4, 2007 [Page 6] Internet-Draft Infrastructure Security August 2006 event. 3.3. Edge Infrastructure Conclusion Edge Infrastructure Access Control Lists provide a very effective first line of defense. EIACLs are not perfect and cannot protect the network against every attack. Furthermore, to be manageable, EIACLs must be able to clearly and simply identify infrastructure address space. To be effective, the EIACLs should be deployed as widely as possible at the edge of the network on devices that support the required filtering performance characteristics. 4. Edge Rewrite/Remarking RFC 1812 section 5.3 defines the use of IP Preference in IPv4 packets for routing, management and control traffic. In addition, the RFC recommends that devices use a mechanism for providing preferential forwarding for packets marked as routing, management or control traffic using IP Preference bits 6 or 7 (110 or 111 in binary.) RFC2474 defines DSCP and the compatibility of IP Preference bits when using DSCP. All packets received by customer- and peer-facing Provider Edge (PE) router interfaces with IP Preference values of 6 or 7 or DSCP bits of 11xxxx, as specified in RFC2474 Differentiated Services Field Definition, should have the IP Preference bits rewritten. Routing traffic received from customer- and peer-facing interfaces can safely have the IP Preference bits rewritten because only a limited number of protocols are transmitted beyond the first PE router. The bits may be rewritten to any value other than IP Preference values 6 or 7, or any DSCP value other than 11xxxx. The new value can be based on the network operators IP Preference or DSCP policy. If no policy exists the bits should be rewritten to 0. In cases where control, management, and routing traffic enters the provider network via the customer- and peer-facing interfaces policy should be employed to ensure proper prioritization of critical traffic. EIACLs maybe be used facilitate the proper classification of traffic. To offer fully transparent service, a provider may not wish to modify the IP precedence on transit traffic through the network. If a provider has alternate means of applying different prioritization to router management and control traffic and transit traffic then rewriting IP precedence bits is not required. 4.1. Edge Rewrite/Remarking Discussion By default router vendors do not differentiate an interface on a PE router connected to a P router from an interface connected to a CE router. As a result any packet with the proper IP Preference or DSCP Gill, et al. Expires March 4, 2007 [Page 7] Internet-Draft Infrastructure Security August 2006 bits set may receive the same preferential forwarding behavior as legitimate routing, management, and control traffic. A malicious attack may be able to take advantage of the vulnerability to increase the effectiveness of the attack or to attack the routing, management, and/or control traffic directly. This document is aimed at protecting network infrastructure from traffic to the device rather than traffic through the device. Even though the edge rewrite/ remarking deals primarily with traffic through a device it is included because the traffic has a direct impact on traffic to a device. The forwarding prioritization given to routing, management, and control traffic by default leaves devices vulnerable to indirect attacks to the infrastructure. By rewriting the IP Precedence at the PE protection is provided for both traffic through the network along with traffic that is to the network that is not blocked by other methods discussed in this document. This document assumes that all customer- and peer-facing interfaces cannot be trusted for inter- domain diff-serv. In cases where a trust relationship exists for inter-domain diff-serv, diff-serv bits 1xxxxxxx do not have to be rewritten. 4.2. Edge Rewriting/Remarking Performance Considerations Device resources required must be taken into consideration when rewriting/remarking IP Precedence/DSCP bits. Devices may require additional resources to rewrite/remark packets. 5. Device/Element Protection Even with the widest possible deployment of the techniques described above in the section Infrastructure Edge Access Control, the individual devices of the network must implement access control mechanisms. This is required because, in addition to the case of incomplete or imperfect deployment of edge infrastructure control, threats may coem from from trusted sources within the perimeter of the network. 5.1. Service Specific Access Control Typically these mechanisms are not directly concerned with protecting the availability of the device as a whole, but the device from exploitation via the service concerned. Analysis of the behavior of widly deployed serivce security features shows that maximizing the security of the particular service, not overall system availability, is the primary goal of the feature. There are many practical examples of vendor specific security mechanisms, the references section provides likes to several of them. These should guide the operator in securing the services that they enable. Gill, et al. Expires March 4, 2007 [Page 8] Internet-Draft Infrastructure Security August 2006 5.1.1. Common Services While each service implemented by network equipment manufacturers differs in its available security features there are some common services and security features for those services that have been widely deployed. The most important first step for the operator is to disable any unneeded/unused services. This reduces the devices profile. If the device is not listening to a port, it is much more difficult to attack via that port. Second, the operator should utilize the services access control mechanisms to limit the access to the devices service to only required sources. Examples of per serive security are using virtual terminal access control lists, or SNMP Community access control lists. 5.2. Aggregate Device Access Control The device must be protected from denial of service threats, in addition, aggregating the security policy -- as opposed to defining it on a per service basis -- allows for a simplified view of the access policies traffic going to the device. A key requirement of these mechanisms is that it must not impact transit data plane traffic. 5.2.1. IP Fragments Traffic destined to a router is not typically fragmented. Use of mechanisms to deny fragments to the device are recommended. 5.2.2. Performance Considerations Care should be taken to understand a vendors implementation of aggregate device access control and to make sure that device operation is not impaired during DoS attacks against the device. 5.2.3. Access Control Implementation Guide Implementing a complex set of access controls for all traffic going to and from a router is non trivial. The following is a recommended set of steps that has been used successfully by many carriers. 1. Develop list of required protocols. 2. Develop source address requirements: Determine destination interface on router Does the protocol access a single interface? Does the protocol access many interfaces? Does the protocol access a virtual or physical interfaces? Gill, et al. Expires March 4, 2007 [Page 9] Internet-Draft Infrastructure Security August 2006 3. Prior to implementing with a deny, it is recommended to test the behavior with the action of "log" and observe the results 4. Deployment should be an iterative process: Start with relatively open lists then tighten as needed 5.3. Device Access Authorization and Accounting Operators should use per command authorization and accounting wherever possible. Aside from their utility in mitigating other security threats, they provide an invaluable tool in the post event forensics. 6. Infrastructure Hiding While core equipment is in the transit path it is necessarily reachable and succeptible to attacks that fall beyond the scope of this document. Primarily, transit equipment is always at risk for collateral damage when hosts downstream come under substantial attack. Hiding the infrastructure of the network provides an elegant mechanism for protecting the network infrastructure. If the an attack vector requires that packets are sent to infrastructure address that is unreachable, successful execution of such attacks becomes far more difficult. The following sections present different options for accomplishing infrastructure hiding. 6.1. Use Less IP One way to reduce exposure of network infrastructure is to use unnumbered links wherever possible. This is particularly useful for customers in the simple case of a single provider with a default path to the Internet. Not only can such a configuration reduce the exposure of the equipment on both ends of the link to malicious attack, the overall effort required to manage a link can be reduced considerably with a simplified configuration and without the additional overhead and expense of managing the addresses. 6.2. MPLS Techniques While it may not be feasible to hide the entire infrastructure of large networks from edge to edge using MPLS, it is certainly possible to reduce exposure of critical core infrastructure beyond the first hop by creating an MPLS mesh where TTL is not decremented as packets pass through it. In this manner the number, addresses, and even existence of intermediary devices can be hidden from traffic as it passes through the core. Gill, et al. Expires March 4, 2007 [Page 10] Internet-Draft Infrastructure Security August 2006 6.3. IGP Configuration Using a non-IP control plane for the core routing protocol can substantially reduce the number of IP addresses that comprise (and therefore, expose) the core. This simplifies the task of maintaining edge ACLs or route announcement filters. IS-IS is an elegant and mature protocol that may be suitable for this task. 6.4. Route Advertisement Control 6.4.1. Route Announcement Filtering Inasmuch as it is unavoidable that some network elements must be configured with IP addresses, it may be possible to assign these address out of netblocks for which the routing advertisement can be filtered out, thereby limiting possible sources of traffic to core netblocks down to customers for whom you provide a default route, or direct peers who would make the effort to create a static route for your core netblock into your AS. By assigining address for network infrastructure out of a limited number of address blocks which are well known to internal network administrators, the operator can greatly simplify ACL configuration. This can also minimise the frequency with which ACLs need to be updated based on changes in the network. This can also have performance implications, especially for equipment where the length of ACLs is limited. By keeping ACLs short they may be deployable on a wider range of existing equipment. Further, it may be possible in those situations where customer point- to-point links must be numbered, to address such links out of another range of addresses for which announcements could be similarly filtered. While this has implications for a customer's ability to remote-monitor their circuit, this can often be overcome with application of an address from the customer's routed space to the CPE loopback. 6.4.2. Address Core Out of RFC 1918 Space In addition to filtering the visibility of core addresses to the wider Internet, it may be possible to use rfc1918 netblocks for numbering infrastructure when IP addresses are required (eg, loopbacks). This added level of obscurity takes prevention of wide distribution of your infrastructure address space one step further. Many networks filter out packets with rfc1918 address at ingress/ egress points as a matter of course. In this circumstance, tools such as traceroute can work through your core, but reverse- resolution of descriptive names should be restricted to queries from internal/support groups. Gill, et al. Expires March 4, 2007 [Page 11] Internet-Draft Infrastructure Security August 2006 6.5. Further obfuscation The strategy of changing services to run on ports different from the default and well-known ones will not protect you from a determined attacker. It can, however, provide some level of protection from many attack tools, worms, auto-rooters, etc. Should they find access to the infrastructure equipment in some way. Again, this does nothing to restrict access, nor to make network devices more difficult to reach. As with the other methods, a careful consideration of how much effort and management each strategy requires must be weighed against the protection that it provides and the necessity of that protection in light of all measures taken to protect a network. 7. IPv6 IPv6 Networks contain the same infrastructure security risks as IPv4. All techniques described in this document for IPv4 should be directly applicable to IPv6 networks. Limitations exist where devices do not have feature parity between IPv4 and IPv6. Different techniques maybe required where IPv4 and IPv6 networks deviate in implementation. Multi-vendor networks create greater difficulties when each vendor does not have feature parity with each other. Hardware differences in devices that support both IPv4 and IPv6 must also be taken into consideration. Because IPv6 uses a longer address space the scaling, and performance characteristics of ACLs maybe lower for IPv6 vs IPv4. The fields or number of fields that an ACL can match on may also differ. The fact that all PE devices do not support all the recommended ipv6 security features should not preclude the implementation of the recommendations in this document on the devices that do support the security features. With the number of Network Operators deploying IPv6 growing, along with the continued availability of IPv6 Tunnel services, connecting to the IPv6 internet is less difficult. Dual stack IPv6 networks run on 10Gbps and greater backbones with edge speeds equal to IPv4. Neither the edge nor the core limit potential IPv6 attacks. 7.1. Use LIPv6 Edge Infrastructure Access Control Lists The same process should be used for constructing the IPv6 eiacl as the IPv4 EIACL. 7.2. IPv6 Edge Remarking IPv6 DSCP bits should be rewritten in the same manner that IPv4 DSCP bits. Differences between DSCP rewriting of IPv4 and IPv6 will minimal except in cases where the device capabilities differ between Gill, et al. Expires March 4, 2007 [Page 12] Internet-Draft Infrastructure Security August 2006 IPv4 and IPv6. 7.3. IPv6 Device and Element Protection Device and Element protection should be created using the same methods described in this document for IPv4. The policy may differ for IPv6 from IPv4 in cases where services are exclusively IPv4 or exclusively IPv6. Services not used with IPv6 should be disabled. 7.4. IPv6 Infrastructure Hiding Network operators may deploy IPv4 differently from IPv6 in their network. Providers may use native forwarding for IPv6 while using MPLS for IPv4, other combinations. IPv6 infrastructure hiding should have parity with IPv4 infrastructure hiding even if the technique used is different. Implementation of IPv6 route advertisement control for infrastructure hiding is difficult when using global address space. Registeries assign fewer large blocks of IPv6 space compared to IPv4. Providers cannot control the announcement of infrastructure global IPv6 blocks for infrastructure hiding without deaggregating their IPv6 announcements. 8. IP Multicast IP Multicast behaves differently from IP unicast therefore must be secured in a different manner. Some of the protocols used with Multicast rely on IP unicast to transport the routing, and control information. Unicast based protocols should be secured using the technique described in much of this document. Because this document is focused on hardening a service providers infrastructure rather than validating routing announcements, much of IP Multicast filtering will be better covered in other documents. In much the same way a host must listen on a certain IP address and port for an IP unicast connection, Multicast must join a group in order to receive any information via Multicast. The major difference is that multicast groups are global and not assigned to a specific customer or end user. Administrative boundaries and scope are created to isolate Multicast groups within one network or desired area. 8.1. Multicast Group Protection Certain Multicast groups should never be joined from outside an operators network or administrative boundary. Filters should be placed on the protocols used to communicate with external hosts and networks. IGMP should have a join filter to prevent hosts from joining internal groups. MSDP should be configured with a Source Address (SA) filter to prevent other networks from joining internal Gill, et al. Expires March 4, 2007 [Page 13] Internet-Draft Infrastructure Security August 2006 groups. EIACLs should include administratively bounded multicast groups, along with any groups used for protocols internal to a providers network. When constructing router Access Control as described in section 5.2.4, multicast protocols must be taken into consideration. 8.2. Performance Considerations Multicast protocols and implementation have different performance and scaling limitation than IP unicast. Multicast users create state on the router every time the user joins a group. Router resources can be exhausted if the amount of state created exceeds the resources available on the router. Placing limits on the resources used by the Multicast protocols can prevent collateral damage to services other than Multicast on a router. MSDP should have a limit placed on the number of SA announcements received. A fixed limit should be placed on the number of entries the router stores in the IP Multicast routing table. The number of SAP entries should have a limit placed on them. 8.3. IPv6 and Multicast IPv6 Multicast policy should be consistent with the IP Multicast policy. 9. Security Considerations This entire document is concerned with security. 10. References 10.1. Normative References [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. 10.2. Informative References [RFC2334] "Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", October 1998. [RFC3667] "IETF Rights in Contributions", February 2004. [RFC3668] "Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology", February 2004. Gill, et al. Expires March 4, 2007 [Page 14] Internet-Draft Infrastructure Security August 2006 Authors' Addresses James Gill Verizon Business 22001 Louden County Parkway Ashburn, VA 20147 US Phone: +1-703-886-3834 Email: james.gill@verizonbusiness.com URI: www.verizonbusiness.com Darrel Lewis Cisco Systems Inc. 170 West Tasman Dr. San Jose, CA 95134 US Phone: +1-408-853-3653 Email: darlewis@cisco.com URI: www.cisco.com Paul Quinn Cisco Systems Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134 US Phone: +1-408-527-3560 Email: paulq@cisco.com URI: www.cisco.com Peter Schoenmaker NTT America 101 Park Ave., FL 41 New York, NY 10178 US Phone: +1-202-808-2298 Fax: Email: pds@ntt.net URI: Gill, et al. Expires March 4, 2007 [Page 15] Internet-Draft Infrastructure Security August 2006 Full Copyright Statement Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006). This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights. 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