Network Working Group                                          M. Tuexen
Internet-Draft                        Muenster Univ. of Applied Sciences
Intended status: Standards Track                              R. Stewart
Expires: July 14, 2011                                            Huawei
                                                        January 10, 2011


                   UDP Encapsulation of SCTP Packets
                  draft-tuexen-sctp-udp-encaps-06.txt

Abstract

   This document describes a simple method of encapsulating SCTP Packets
   into UDP packets.  This makes it possible to use SCTP in networks
   with legacy NAT not supporting SCTP or implement SCTP on hosts
   without directly accessing the IP-layer.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   2.  Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   3.  Architecture  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
     3.1.  General Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
     3.2.  Internal EDP Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
     3.3.  External EDP Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
   4.  Port Number Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
   5.  Encapsulating Procedures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
   6.  Decapsulating Procedures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
   7.  Address Management of SCTP Endpoints  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
   8.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
   9.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
   10. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
   11. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
     11.1. Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
     11.2. Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
































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.  Introduction

   This document describes a simple method of encapsulating SCTP packets
   into UDP packets.  SCTP is defined in [RFC4960].  There are two main
   reasons for this:

   o  Allow SCTP traffic to pass legacy NATs, which do not provide
      native SCTP support as specified in [I-D.ietf-behave-sctpnat] and
      [I-D.stewart-natsupp-tsvwg].

   o  Allow SCTP to be implemented on hosts which do not provide direct
      access to the IP-layer.  In particular, applications can use their
      own SCTP implementation if the operating system does not provide
      one.


.  Conventions

   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 [RFC2119].


.  Architecture

3.1.  General Considerations

   The basic architecture is shown in the following figure.

                  +----------------+   +----------------+
                  | Encapsulating/ |   | Encapsulating/ |
                +-| Decapsulating  |---| Decapsulating  |-+
                | |     Point      |   |     Point      | |
   +----------+ | +----------------+   +----------------+ | +----------+
   |          |-+                                         +-|          |
   |   SCTP   |                                             |   SCTP   |
   | Endpoint |                                             | Endpoint |
   |          |-+                                         +-|          |
   +----------+ | +----------------+   +----------------+ | +----------+
                | | Encapsulating/ |   | Encapsulating/ | |
                +-| Decapsulating  |---| Decapsulating  |-+
                  |     Point      |   |     Point      |
                  +----------------+   +----------------+

   On each path there is a pair of encapsulating/decapsulating points
   (EDPs).  When the left SCTP endpoint sends an SCTP packet to the
   right SCTP endpoint, the first EDP on the path encapsulates the SCTP
   packet and the second EDP decapsulates it.  Between the EDP a UDP



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   packet is sent which can be processed by legacy NATs.  The EDPs on
   different paths do not need to be synchronized.

3.2.  Internal EDP Considerations

   TBD.

3.3.  External EDP Considerations

   TBD.


.  Port Number Table

   Every EDP maintains an encapsulating table (ET) where each row
   consists of the following entries:

   1.  Source Address

   2.  Source Port

   3.  Destination Address

   4.  Destination Port

   5.  Time Stamp

   Please note that the port numbers in the ET are used to build the UDP
   header while encapsulating.  A row SHOULD be deleted when the time
   stamp is older than T1 seconds.  The default value for T1 is 300
   seconds.


.  Encapsulating Procedures

   When an EDP has to encapsulate an SCTP packet it looks up the source
   and destination port number in the row with matching source and
   destination addresses of the ET.  If no matching row is found, the
   IANA registered value 9899 is used for the source and destination
   port as the result of the lookup procedure.  If a matching row was
   found, the time stamp of that row is set to the current time.

   The EDP inserts then an UDP header between the IP and SCTP header of
   the SCTP packet using the source port and the destination port from
   the above lookup procedure.  Furthermore the length and the checksum
   field of the UDP header have to be set accordingly.  Finally the IP
   header is updated to indicate that it now encapsulates an UDP packet.




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.  Decapsulating Procedures

   When an EDT has to decapsulate an SCTP packet, it removes the UDP
   header from the packet.  The IP header is updated to indicate that it
   now encapsulates an SCTP packet.  If the source and destination port
   numbers are not both equal to 9899, the EDP performs a lookup in the
   ET to find a row with the source address of the packet being the
   destination address in the row and the destination address of the
   packet being the source address in the row.  If such a row is found,
   the port numbers are updated.  If no row is found, a new one is
   created using the addresses and the port numbers from the packet by
   exchanging the source and destination information.  In both cases the
   time stamp of the row is set to the current time.


.  Address Management of SCTP Endpoints

   To allow seamless legacy NAT traversal the SCTP endpoints MUST follow
   the address management procedures described in
   [I-D.ietf-behave-sctpnat]


.  IANA Considerations

   This document does not require any actions from IANA.


.  Security Considerations

   This section is not complete yet.


.  Acknowledgments

   The authors wish to thank Irene Ruengeler for her invaluable
   comments.


.  References

11.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC4960]  Stewart, R., "Stream Control Transmission Protocol",
              RFC 4960, September 2007.




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11.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-behave-sctpnat]
              Stewart, R., Tuexen, M., and I. Ruengeler, "Stream Control
              Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Network Address Translation",
              draft-ietf-behave-sctpnat-04 (work in progress),
              December 2010.

   [I-D.stewart-natsupp-tsvwg]
              Stewart, R., Tuexen, M., and I. Ruengeler, "Stream Control
              Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Network Address Translation
              Support", draft-stewart-natsupp-tsvwg-01 (work in
              progress), June 2010.


Authors' Addresses

   Michael Tuexen
   Muenster University of Applied Sciences
   Stegerwaldstr. 39
   48565 Steinfurt
   Germany

   Email: tuexen@fh-muenster.de


   Randall R. Stewart
   Huawei
   Chapin, SC  29036
   USA

   Email: randall@lakerest.net



















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