Internet DRAFT - draft-collink-6man-pio-pflag
draft-collink-6man-pio-pflag
IPv6 Maintenance L. Colitti
Internet-Draft J. Linkova
Updates: 4861, 4862 (if approved) X. Ma, Ed.
Intended status: Standards Track Google
Expires: 9 May 2024 D. Lamparter
NetDEF, Inc.
6 November 2023
Signalling DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation Availability to Hosts
draft-collink-6man-pio-pflag-03
Abstract
This document defines a "P" flag in the Prefix Information Option of
IPv6 Router Advertisements (RAs). The flag is used to indicate that
the network prefers that clients do not use the prefix provided in
the PIO for SLAAC but request a prefix via DHCPv6 PD instead, and use
that delegated prefix to form addresses.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Rationale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Router Behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Host Behaviour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5.1. Tracking and requesting prefixes . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5.2. Using received prefix(es) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5.3. Absence of PIOs with P bit set . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5.4. Source Address Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. Multihoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7. Modifications to RFC-Mandated Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7.1. Changes to RFC4861 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7.2. Changes to RFC4862 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
9. Privacy Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1. Introduction
IPv6-capable devices, especially mobile devices, usually have
multiple global IPv6 addresses, such as stable addresses ([RFC8064]),
temporary addresses ([RFC8981]), 464XLAT addresses ([RFC6877]), and
dedicated addresses for virtual systems such as VMs or containers.
Additionally, these devices often extend the network, either
externally to other devices (e.g., when tethering) or internally, to
virtual systems.
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Extending the network to other devices or virtual systems requires
that the device provide a way for those systems to obtain IP
addresses. These addresses may be part of a prefix that is delegated
to the device. Or they may be obtained by the device via other means
such as by running SLAAC or DHCPv6 address assignment on the shared
on-link prefix, and shared with other devices via ND proxying
[RFC8981].
On large networks, the latter mode creates scalability issues, as the
network infrastructure devices need to maintain state per address:
IPv6 neighbor cache, SAVI mappings ([RFC7039]), VXLAN routes, etc.
[I-D.ietf-v6ops-dhcp-pd-per-device] provides a a solution that uses
DHCPv6 PD [RFC8415] to provide a client with a dedicated prefix,
which can be used to form addresses. This solves the scaling issues
because the amount of state that has to be maintained by the network
does not depend on how many addresses are in use.
On small networks, scaling to support multiple individual IPv6
addresses is less of a concern, because many home routers support
hundreds of neighbor cache entries. On the other hand, address space
is more limited compared to the number of hosts connected - the
smallest home network might only have /60 prefixes, or even just a
single /64. In such networks delegating an unique prefix per client
would not provide any notable scalability benefits and would
introduce a risk of address exhaustion.
When a host connects to a network which provides a shared prefix in
PIO to be used for SLAAC and also supports delegating per-host prefix
via DHCPv6 PD, the host cannot know in advance which address
assignment method is most appropriate for the network. It's
desirable to have a mechanism for the network to communicate the
preference to the host.
2. Requirements Language
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
capitals, as shown here.
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3. Rationale
The network administrator might want to indicate to hosts that
requesting a prefix via DHCPv6-PD and using that prefix for address
assignment (see [I-D.ietf-v6ops-dhcp-pd-per-device]) should be
preferred over forming SLAAC addresses from the prefix provided in
the PIO. The information is passed to the host via a P flag in the
Prefix Information Option (PIO). The reason for it being a PIO flag
is as follows:
* The information should be contained in the Router Advertisement
because it must be available to the host before it decides to form
IPv6 addresses from the PIO prefix using SLAAC. Otherwise, the
host might form IPv6 addresses from the PIO provided and start
using them, even if a unique per-host prefix is available via
DHCPv6 PD. This is suboptimal because if the host later acquires
a prefix using DHCPv6 PD, it can either use both the prefix and
SLAAC addresses, reducing the scalability benefits of using DHCPv6
PD, or can remove the SLAAC addresses, which would be disruptive
for applications that are using them.
* This information is specific to the particular prefix being
announced. For example, a network administrator might want hosts
to assign global addresses from delegated prefixes, but use the
PIO prefix to form ULA addresses. Also, in a multihoming
situation, one upstream network might choose to assign prefixes
via prefix delegation, and another via PIOs.
Note that the prefix(es) that the client obtains via DHCPv6 PD are
not related in any way to the prefix(es) in the Router Advertisement
which have the P bit set.
4. Router Behaviour
Routers SHOULD set the P flag to zero by default, unless explicitly
configured by the administrator, and SHOULD allow the opearator to
set the P flag value for any given prefix.
5. Host Behaviour
5.1. Tracking and requesting prefixes
The host SHOULD NOT use SLAAC to obtain IPv6 addresses from
prefix(es) with the P bit set.
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Otherwise, for each interface, the host MUST keep a list of every PIO
it has received with the P flag. Each time the client receives a
Router Advertisement containing a PIO with the P bit set that is not
in the list, and every time a previously-received PIO with the P bit
set becomes deprecated:
* If the client has not previously received any delegated prefixes
from the network, it SHOULD start DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation.
* If the client has already received delegated prefix(es) from one
or more servers, it MUST consider this change in PIOs a change in
configuration information as described in Section 18.2.12 of
[RFC8415], i.e. it MUST perform a REBIND. This allows the host to
obtain new prefixes if necessary, e.g. when the network is being
renumbered. It also refreshes state related to the delegated
prefix(es).
Whenever a Prefix Information Option’s Valid lifetime reaches zero,
or its P flag changes to 0, the prefix is removed from the list.
When there are no such prefixes, the host SHOULD stop the DHCPv6
client if it has no other reason to run it. The lifetimes of any
already obtained via DHCPv6 are unaffected.
When a host requests a prefix via DHCPv6 PD, it MUST use the prefix
length hint Section 18.2.4 of [RFC8415] to request a prefix that is
short enough to form addresses via SLAAC.
The P flag is meaningless for link-local prefixes and any Prefix
Information Option containing the link-local prefix MUST be ignored
as specified in Section 5.5.3 of [RFC4862].
5.2. Using received prefix(es)
If the received prefix is too long to be used for SLAAC, the host
MUST ignore it. If the prefix is shorter than required for SLAAC,
the host SHOULD accept it, allocate one or more longer prefix
suitable for SLAAC and use the prefixes as described below.
For every accepted prefix:
* The host MAY form as many IPv6 addresses from the prefix as it
chooses.
* The host MAY use the prefix to provide IPv6 addresses to internal
components such as virtual machines or containers.
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* If the host is capable of acting as a router, and doing so is
allowed by local policy, it MAY use the prefix to allow devices
directly connected to it to obtain IPv6 addresses, e.g., by
sending a Router Advertisement containing the prefix to a
connected interface.
If the host doesn't obtain any suitable prefixes via DHCPv6 PD it MAY
choose, as a fallback mechanism, to form addresses via SLAAC using
PIOs with A flag set to 1.
5.3. Absence of PIOs with P bit set
The P bit is purely a positive indicator, telling nodes that DHCPv6
Prefix Delegation is available and the network prefers the node use
it. The absence of any PIOs with the P bit does not carry any kind
of signal to the opposite, and MUST NOT be processed to mean that
DHCPv6-PD is absent. In particular, nodes that are already running
DHCPv6 PD either by explicit configuration or by default MUST NOT
disable DHCPv6 PD on the absence of PIOs with the P bit set. A very
common example of this are CE routers as described by [RFC7084].
5.4. Source Address Selection
For the purpose of source address selection [RFC6724], if the host
forms addresses from a delegated prefix, it SHOULD treat those
addresses as if they were assigned to the interface on which the
prefix was received. This includes placing them in the candidate
set, and associating them with the outgoing interface when
implementing rule 5.
6. Multihoming
In multi-prefix multihoming, the host generally needs to associate
the prefix with the router that advertised it (see for example,
[RFC6724] Rule 5.5). If the host supports Rule 5.5, then it SHOULD
associate each prefix with the link-local address of the DHCPv6 relay
from which it received the REPLY packet. When receiving multiple
REPLYs carrying the same prefix from distinct link-local addresses,
the host SHOULD associate that prefix with all of these addresses.
This can commonly happen in networks with redundant routers and
DHCPv6 relays.
7. Modifications to RFC-Mandated Behavior
7.1. Changes to RFC4861
This document makes the following changes to Section 4.6.2 of
[RFC4861], (last updated by [RFC6275]):
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OLD TEXT:
==
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length | Prefix Length |L|A|R|Reserved1|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 1
===
NEW TEXT
===
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length | Prefix Length |L|A|R|P| Rsvd1 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 2
OLD TEXT
===
A 1-bit autonomous address-configuration flag. When set indicates
that this prefix can be used for stateless address configuration as
specified in [ADDRCONF].
Reserved1 6-bit unused field. It MUST be initialized to zero by the
sender and MUST be ignored by the receiver.
===
NEW TEXT
===
A 1-bit autonomous address-configuration flag. When set indicates
that this prefix can be used for stateless address configuration as
specified in [ADDRCONF].
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P 1-bit DHCPv6-PD flag. When set, indicates that this prefix SHOULD
NOT be used for stateless address configuration. Instead the host
SHOULD request a dedicated prefix via DHCPv6-PD and use that prefix
for stateless address configuration.
Rsvd1 4-bit unused field. It MUST be initialized to zero by the
sender and MUST be ignored by the receiver.
===
7.2. Changes to RFC4862
This document makes the following changes to Section 5.5.3 of
[RFC4862]:
OLD TEXT
===
For each Prefix-Information option in the Router Advertisement:
a) If the Autonomous flag is not set, silently ignore the Prefix
Information option.
===
NEW TEXT: Insert the following text after "For each Prefix-
Information option in the Router Advertisement:" but before "If the
Autonomous flag is not set, silently ignore the Prefix Information
option.":
===
a) If the P flag is set, start the DHCPv6 PD process and use the
delegated prefix to assign addresses to the interfaces as described
in draft-collink-6man-pio-pflag. The Prefix Information option
SHOULD be processed as if A flag is set to zero.
===
8. Security Considerations
The mechanism described in this document relies on the information
provided in the Router Advertisement and therefore shares the same
security model as SLAAC. If the network doesn't implement RA Guard
[RFC6105], an attacker might sent RAs containing the PIO used by the
network, set P flag to 1 and force hosts to ignore A flag. In the
absense of DHCPv6 PD infrastructure, hosts would experience delays in
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obtaining IPv6 addresses (as no delegated prefixes are available,
hosts MAY choose to fallback to SLAAC).
The attacker might force hosts to oscillate between DHCPv6 PD and
PIO-based SLAAC by sending the same set of PIOs with and then w/o P
flag set. That would cause the clients to issue REBIND requests,
increasing the load on the DHCP infrastructure. However Section 14.1
of [RFC8415] requires that DHCPv6 PD clients rate limit transmitted
DHCPv6 messages.
It should be noted that if the network allows rogue RAs to be sent,
the attacker would be able to disrupt hosts connectivity anyway, so
this document doesn't introduce any fundamentally new security
considerations.
9. Privacy Considerations
Implementing the P flag on a host / receiving side enables other
systems on the network to trigger running DHCPv6 on that network.
Doing so may reveal some minor additional information about the host,
most prominently the hostname. This is the same consideration as for
the M flag.
No privacy considerations result from supporting the P flag on the
sender side.
10. IANA Considerations
This memo requests that IANA allocate bit 3 from the "IPv6 Neighbor
Discovery Prefix Information Option Flags" registry created by
[RFC8425] for use as the P flag as described in this document. The
following entry should be appended:
+================+==============================+=================+
| PIO Option Bit | Description | Reference |
+================+==============================+=================+
| 3 | P - DHCPv6-PD preferred flag | [THIS DOCUMENT] |
+----------------+------------------------------+-----------------+
Table 1
11. References
11.1. Normative References
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[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
[RFC4861] Narten, T., Nordmark, E., Simpson, W., and H. Soliman,
"Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 4861,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4861, September 2007,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4861>.
[RFC4862] Thomson, S., Narten, T., and T. Jinmei, "IPv6 Stateless
Address Autoconfiguration", RFC 4862,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4862, September 2007,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4862>.
[RFC6724] Thaler, D., Ed., Draves, R., Matsumoto, A., and T. Chown,
"Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol Version 6
(IPv6)", RFC 6724, DOI 10.17487/RFC6724, September 2012,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6724>.
[RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.
[RFC8415] Mrugalski, T., Siodelski, M., Volz, B., Yourtchenko, A.,
Richardson, M., Jiang, S., Lemon, T., and T. Winters,
"Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)",
RFC 8415, DOI 10.17487/RFC8415, November 2018,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8415>.
[RFC8425] Troan, O., "IANA Considerations for IPv6 Neighbor
Discovery Prefix Information Option Flags", RFC 8425,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8425, July 2018,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8425>.
11.2. Informative References
[RFC4389] Thaler, D., Talwar, M., and C. Patel, "Neighbor Discovery
Proxies (ND Proxy)", RFC 4389, DOI 10.17487/RFC4389, April
2006, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4389>.
[RFC6105] Levy-Abegnoli, E., Van de Velde, G., Popoviciu, C., and J.
Mohacsi, "IPv6 Router Advertisement Guard", RFC 6105,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6105, February 2011,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6105>.
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[I-D.ietf-v6ops-dhcp-pd-per-device]
Colitti, L., Linkova, J., and X. Ma, "Using DHCPv6-PD to
Allocate Unique IPv6 Prefix per Client in Large Broadcast
Networks", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-
v6ops-dhcp-pd-per-device-05, 5 November 2023,
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-
dhcp-pd-per-device-05>.
[RFC6275] Perkins, C., Ed., Johnson, D., and J. Arkko, "Mobility
Support in IPv6", RFC 6275, DOI 10.17487/RFC6275, July
2011, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6275>.
[RFC6877] Mawatari, M., Kawashima, M., and C. Byrne, "464XLAT:
Combination of Stateful and Stateless Translation",
RFC 6877, DOI 10.17487/RFC6877, April 2013,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6877>.
[RFC7084] Singh, H., Beebee, W., Donley, C., and B. Stark, "Basic
Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers", RFC 7084,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7084, November 2013,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7084>.
[RFC7039] Wu, J., Bi, J., Bagnulo, M., Baker, F., and C. Vogt, Ed.,
"Source Address Validation Improvement (SAVI) Framework",
RFC 7039, DOI 10.17487/RFC7039, October 2013,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7039>.
[RFC8064] Gont, F., Cooper, A., Thaler, D., and W. Liu,
"Recommendation on Stable IPv6 Interface Identifiers",
RFC 8064, DOI 10.17487/RFC8064, February 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8064>.
[RFC8981] Gont, F., Krishnan, S., Narten, T., and R. Draves,
"Temporary Address Extensions for Stateless Address
Autoconfiguration in IPv6", RFC 8981,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8981, February 2021,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8981>.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Fernando Gont, Suresh Krishnan, Andrew McGregor, Tomek
Mrugalski, Timothy Winters for the discussions, the input and all
contribution.
Authors' Addresses
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Lorenzo Colitti
Google
Shibuya 3-21-3,
Japan
Email: lorenzo@google.com
Jen Linkova
Google
1 Darling Island Rd
Pyrmont NSW 2009
Australia
Email: furry13@gmail.com, furry@google.com
Xiao Ma (editor)
Google
Shibuya 3-21-3,
Japan
Email: xiaom@google.com
David 'equinox' Lamparter
NetDEF, Inc.
San Jose,
United States of America
Email: equinox@diac24.net, equinox@opensourcerouting.org
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