The Network Layer: IP, subnets, NAT and Routing Based on slides from the Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach Featuring the Internet by Kurose and

The Network Layer:IP, subnets, NAT and Routing

Based on slides from the Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach Featuring the Internet by Kurose and Ross

Network layer

networkdata linkphysical








application

transportnetworkdata linkphysical

application


transport segment from sending to receiving host

on sending side encapsulates segments into datagrams

on rcving side, delivers segments to transport layer

network layer protocols in every host, router

Router examines header fields in all IP datagrams passing through it

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Key Network-Layer Functions

forwarding: move packets from router’s input to appropriate router output

routing: determine route taken by packets from source to dest.

Routing algorithms

analogy:

routing: process of planning trip from source to dest

forwarding: process of getting through single interchange

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1

23

0111

value in arrivingpacket’s header

routing algorithm

local forwarding tableheader value output link

0100010101111001

3221

Interplay between routing and forwarding

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Datagram networks no call setup at network layer routers: no state about end-to-end connections

no network-level concept of “connection” packets forwarded using destination host address

packets between same source-dest pair may take different paths

application


application


1. Send data 2. Receive data

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Forwarding table

Destination Address Range Link Interface

11001000 00010111 00010000 00000000 through 0 11001000 00010111 00010111 11111111

11001000 00010111 00011000 00000000 through 1 11001000 00010111 00011000 11111111

11001000 00010111 00011001 00000000 through 2 11001000 00010111 00011111 11111111

otherwise 3

4 billion possible entries

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IP datagram format

ver length

32 bits

data (variable length,typically a TCP

or UDP segment)

16-bit identifier

Internet checksum

time tolive

32 bit source IP address

IP protocol versionnumber

header length (bytes)

max numberremaining hops

(decremented at each router)

forfragmentation/reassembly

total datagramlength (bytes)

upper layer protocolto deliver payload to

head.len

type ofservice

“type” of data flgsfragment

offsetupper layer

32 bit destination IP address

Options (if any) E.g. timestamp,record routetaken, specifylist of routers to visit.

how much overhead with TCP?

20 bytes of TCP 20 bytes of IP = 40 bytes +

app layer overhead

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IP Fragmentation & Reassembly network links have MTU

(max.transfer size) - largest possible link-level frame. different link types,

different MTUs large IP datagram divided

(“fragmented”) within net one datagram becomes

several datagrams “reassembled” only at

final destination IP header bits used to

identify, order related fragments

fragmentation: in: one large datagramout: 3 smaller datagrams

reassembly

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IP Fragmentation and Reassembly

ID=x

offset=0

fragflag=0

length=4000

ID=x

offset=0

fragflag=1

length=1500

ID=x

offset=185

fragflag=1

length=1500

ID=x

offset=370

fragflag=0

length=1040

One large datagram becomesseveral smaller datagrams

Example 4000 byte

datagram MTU = 1500

bytes

1480 bytes in data field

offset =1480/8

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IP Addressing: introduction IP address: 32-bit

identifier for host, router interface

interface: connection between host/router and physical link router’s typically have

multiple interfaces host may have

multiple interfaces IP addresses

associated with each interface

223.1.1.1

223.1.1.2

223.1.1.3

223.1.1.4 223.1.2.9

223.1.2.2

223.1.2.1

223.1.3.2223.1.3.1

223.1.3.27

223.1.1.1 = 11011111 00000001 00000001 00000001

223 1 11

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Subnets

IP address: subnet part (high

order bits) host part (low order

bits) What’s a subnet ?

device interfaces with same subnet part of IP address

can physically reach each other without intervening router

223.1.1.1

223.1.1.2

223.1.1.3

223.1.1.4 223.1.2.9

223.1.2.2

223.1.2.1

223.1.3.2223.1.3.1

223.1.3.27

network consisting of 3 subnets

LAN

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Subnets223.1.1.0/24

223.1.2.0/24

223.1.3.0/24

Recipe To determine the

subnets, detach each interface from its host or router, creating islands of isolated networks. Each isolated network is called a subnet. Subnet mask: /24

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Subnets

How many? 223.1.1.1

223.1.1.3

223.1.1.4

223.1.2.2223.1.2.1

223.1.2.6

223.1.3.2223.1.3.1

223.1.3.27

223.1.1.2

223.1.7.0

223.1.7.1223.1.8.0223.1.8.1

223.1.9.1

223.1.9.2

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IP addressing: CIDR

CIDR: Classless InterDomain Routing subnet portion of address of arbitrary length address format: a.b.c.d/x, where x is # bits in

subnet portion of address

11001000 00010111 00010000 00000000

subnetpart

hostpart

200.23.16.0/2314

IP addresses: how to get one?

Q: How does host get IP address?

hard-coded by system admin in a file Wintel: control-panel->network->configuration->tcp/ip-

>properties UNIX: /etc/rc.config

DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol: dynamically get address from as server “plug-and-play”

(more in next chapter)

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IP addresses: how to get one?

Q: How does network get subnet part of IP addr?

A: gets allocated portion of its provider ISP’s address space

ISP's block 11001000 00010111 00010000 00000000 200.23.16.0/20

Organization 0 11001000 00010111 00010000 00000000 200.23.16.0/23 Organization 1 11001000 00010111 00010010 00000000 200.23.18.0/23 Organization 2 11001000 00010111 00010100 00000000 200.23.20.0/23 ... ….. …. ….

Organization 7 11001000 00010111 00011110 00000000 200.23.30.0/23

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IP addressing: the last word...Q: How does an ISP get block of addresses?A: ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigned

Names and Numbers allocates addresses manages DNS assigns domain names, resolves disputes

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NAT: Network Address Translation

10.0.0.1

10.0.0.2

10.0.0.3

10.0.0.4

138.76.29.7

local network(e.g., home network)

10.0.0/24

rest ofInternet

Datagrams with source or destination in this networkhave 10.0.0/24 address for

source, destination (as usual)

All datagrams leaving localnetwork have same single source

NAT IP address: 138.76.29.7,different source port numbers

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Motivation: local network uses just one IP address as far as outside word is concerned: no need to be allocated range of addresses from ISP:

- just one IP address is used for all devices can change addresses of devices in local network

without notifying outside world can change ISP without changing addresses of

devices in local network devices inside local net not explicitly addressable,

visible by outside world (a security plus).

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NAT: Network Address TranslationImplementation: NAT router must:

outgoing datagrams: replace (source IP address, port #) of every outgoing datagram to (NAT IP address, new port #). . . remote clients/servers will respond using (NAT

IP address, new port #) as destination addr.

remember (in NAT translation table) every (source IP address, port #) to (NAT IP address, new port #) translation pair

incoming datagrams: replace (NAT IP address, new port #) in dest fields of every incoming datagram with corresponding (source IP address, port #) stored in NAT table

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10.0.0.1

10.0.0.2

10.0.0.3

S: 10.0.0.1, 3345D: 128.119.40.186, 80

1

10.0.0.4

138.76.29.7

1: host 10.0.0.1 sends datagram to 128.119.40, 80

NAT translation tableWAN side addr LAN side addr

138.76.29.7, 5001 10.0.0.1, 3345…… ……

S: 128.119.40.186, 80 D: 10.0.0.1, 3345

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S: 138.76.29.7, 5001D: 128.119.40.186, 80

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2: NAT routerchanges datagramsource addr from10.0.0.1, 3345 to138.76.29.7, 5001,updates table

S: 128.119.40.186, 80 D: 138.76.29.7, 5001

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3: Reply arrives dest. address: 138.76.29.7, 5001

4: NAT routerchanges datagramdest addr from138.76.29.7, 5001 to 10.0.0.1, 3345

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ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol

used by hosts & routers to communicate network-level information error reporting:

unreachable host, network, port, protocol

echo request/reply (used by ping)

network-layer “above” IP: ICMP msgs carried in IP

datagrams ICMP message: type, code

plus first 8 bytes of IP datagram causing error

Type Code description0 0 echo reply (ping)3 0 dest. network unreachable3 1 dest host unreachable3 2 dest protocol unreachable3 3 dest port unreachable3 6 dest network unknown3 7 dest host unknown4 0 source quench (congestion control - not used)8 0 echo request (ping)9 0 route advertisement10 0 router discovery11 0 TTL expired12 0 bad IP header

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1

23

0111

value in arrivingpacket’s header

routing algorithm

local forwarding tableheader value output link

0100010101111001

3221

Interplay between routing and forwarding

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Intra-AS Routing Also known as Interior Gateway Protocols (IGP) Most common Intra-AS routing protocols:

RIP: Routing Information Protocol

OSPF: Open Shortest Path First

IGRP: Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (Cisco proprietary)

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RIP ( Routing Information Protocol)

Distance vector algorithm Included in BSD-UNIX Distribution in 1982 Distance metric: # of hops (max = 15 hops)

DC

BA

u v

w

x

yz

destination hops u 1 v 2 w 2 x 3 y 3 z 2

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RIP: Example

Destination Network Next Router Num. of hops to dest.

w A 2y B 2

z B 7x -- 1…. …. ....

w x y

z

A

C

D B

Routing table in D

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RIP: Example

Destination Network Next Router Num. of hops to dest.

w A 2y B 2

z B A 7 5x -- 1…. …. ....

Routing table in D

w x y

z

A

C

D B

Dest Next hops w - - x - - z C 4 …. … ...

Advertisementfrom A to D

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RIP advertisements Distance vectors: exchanged among

neighbors every 30 sec via Response Message (also called advertisement)

Each advertisement: list of up to 25 destination nets within AS

Loops Why loops?

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RIP: Link Failure and Recovery

If no advertisement heard after 180 sec --> neighbor/link declared dead routes via neighbor invalidated new advertisements sent to neighbors neighbors in turn send out new advertisements (if

tables changed) link failure info quickly propagates to entire net poison reverse used to prevent ping-pong loops

(infinite distance = 16 hops)

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RIP Table processing RIP routing tables managed by application-level

process called route-d (daemon) advertisements sent in UDP packets, periodically

repeated

physical

link

network forwarding (IP) table

Transprt (UDP)

routed

physical

link

network (IP)

Transprt (UDP)

routed

forwardingtable

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OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) “open”: publicly available Uses Link State algorithm

LS packet dissemination Topology map at each node Route computation using Dijkstra’s algorithm

OSPF advertisement carries one entry per neighbor router

Advertisements disseminated to entire AS (via flooding) Carried in OSPF messages directly over IP (rather

than TCP or UDP

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OSPF “advanced” features (not in RIP) Security: all OSPF messages authenticated

(to prevent malicious intrusion) Multiple same-cost paths allowed (only one

path in RIP) For each link, multiple cost metrics for

different TOS (e.g., satellite link cost set “low” for best effort; high for real time)

Integrated uni- and multicast support: Multicast OSPF (MOSPF) uses same topology

data base as OSPF Hierarchical OSPF in large domains.32

Hierarchical OSPF

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Hierarchical OSPF

Two-level hierarchy: local area, backbone. Link-state advertisements only in area each nodes has detailed area topology; only know

direction (shortest path) to nets in other areas. Area border routers: “summarize” distances to

nets in own area, advertise to other Area Border routers.

Backbone routers: run OSPF routing limited to backbone.

Boundary routers: connect to other AS’s.

Hierarchical Routing

scale: with 200 million destinations:

can’t store all dest’s in routing tables!

routing table exchange would swamp links!

administrative autonomy

internet = network of networks

each network admin may want to control routing in its own network

Our routing study thus far - idealization all routers identical network “flat”… not true in practice

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3b

1d

3a

1c2aAS3

AS1

AS21a

2c2b

1b

Intra-ASRouting algorithm

Inter-ASRouting algorithm

Forwardingtable

3c

Interconnected ASes

Forwarding table is configured by both intra- and inter-AS routing algorithm Intra-AS sets entries for

internal dests Inter-AS & Intra-As sets

entries for external dests

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3b

1d

3a

1c2aAS3

AS1

AS21a

2c2b

1b

3c

Inter-AS tasks Suppose router in

AS1 receives datagram for which dest is outside of AS1 Router should forward

packet towards on of the gateway routers, but which one?

AS1 needs:1. to learn which dests

are reachable through AS2 and which through AS3

2. to propagate this reachability info to all routers in AS1

Job of inter-AS routing!

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Why different Intra- and Inter-AS routing ?

Policy: Inter-AS: admin wants control over how its traffic

routed, who routes through its net. Intra-AS: single admin, so no policy decisions

needed

Scale: hierarchical routing saves table size, reduced

update trafficPerformance: Intra-AS: can focus on performance Inter-AS: policy may dominate over performance

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