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150 lines
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Classes
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"Class" is a complete routing table in common sense.
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I.e. it is tree of nodes (destination prefix, tos, metric)
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with attached information: gateway, device etc.
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This tree is looked up as specified in RFC1812 5.2.4.3
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1. Basic match
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2. Longest match
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3. Weak TOS.
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4. Metric. (should not be in kernel space, but they are)
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5. Additional pruning rules. (not in kernel space).
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We have two special type of nodes:
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REJECT - abort route lookup and return an error value.
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THROW - abort route lookup in this class.
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Currently the number of classes is limited to 255
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(0 is reserved for "not specified class")
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Three classes are builtin:
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RT_CLASS_LOCAL=255 - local interface addresses,
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broadcasts, nat addresses.
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RT_CLASS_MAIN=254 - all normal routes are put there
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by default.
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RT_CLASS_DEFAULT=253 - if ip_fib_model==1, then
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normal default routes are put there, if ip_fib_model==2
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all gateway routes are put there.
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Rules
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Rule is a record of (src prefix, src interface, tos, dst prefix)
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with attached information.
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Rule types:
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RTP_ROUTE - lookup in attached class
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RTP_NAT - lookup in attached class and if a match is found,
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translate packet source address.
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RTP_MASQUERADE - lookup in attached class and if a match is found,
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masquerade packet as sourced by us.
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RTP_DROP - silently drop the packet.
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RTP_REJECT - drop the packet and send ICMP NET UNREACHABLE.
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RTP_PROHIBIT - drop the packet and send ICMP COMM. ADM. PROHIBITED.
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Rule flags:
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RTRF_LOG - log route creations.
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RTRF_VALVE - One way route (used with masquerading)
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Default setup:
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root@amber:/pub/ip-routing # iproute -r
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Kernel routing policy rules
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Pref Source Destination TOS Iface Cl
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0 default default 00 * 255
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254 default default 00 * 254
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255 default default 00 * 253
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Lookup algorithm
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We scan rules list, and if a rule is matched, apply it.
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If a route is found, return it.
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If it is not found or a THROW node was matched, continue
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to scan rules.
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Applications
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1. Just ignore classes. All the routes are put into MAIN class
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(and/or into DEFAULT class).
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HOWTO: iproute add PREFIX [ tos TOS ] [ gw GW ] [ dev DEV ]
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[ metric METRIC ] [ reject ] ... (look at iproute utility)
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or use route utility from current net-tools.
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2. Opposite case. Just forget all that you know about routing
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tables. Every rule is supplied with its own gateway, device
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info. record. This approach is not appropriate for automated
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route maintenance, but it is ideal for manual configuration.
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HOWTO: iproute addrule [ from PREFIX ] [ to PREFIX ] [ tos TOS ]
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[ dev INPUTDEV] [ pref PREFERENCE ] route [ gw GATEWAY ]
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[ dev OUTDEV ] .....
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Warning: As of now the size of the routing table in this
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approach is limited to 256. If someone likes this model, I'll
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relax this limitation.
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3. OSPF classes (see RFC1583, RFC1812 E.3.3)
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Very clean, stable and robust algorithm for OSPF routing
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domains. Unfortunately, it is not widely used in the Internet.
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Proposed setup:
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255 local addresses
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254 interface routes
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253 ASE routes with external metric
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252 ASE routes with internal metric
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251 inter-area routes
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250 intra-area routes for 1st area
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249 intra-area routes for 2nd area
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etc.
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Rules:
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iproute addrule class 253
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iproute addrule class 252
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iproute addrule class 251
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iproute addrule to a-prefix-for-1st-area class 250
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iproute addrule to another-prefix-for-1st-area class 250
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...
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iproute addrule to a-prefix-for-2nd-area class 249
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...
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Area classes must be terminated with reject record.
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iproute add default reject class 250
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iproute add default reject class 249
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...
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4. The Variant Router Requirements Algorithm (RFC1812 E.3.2)
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Create 16 classes for different TOS values.
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It is a funny, but pretty useless algorithm.
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I listed it just to show the power of new routing code.
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5. All the variety of combinations......
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GATED
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-----
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Gated does not understand classes, but it will work
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happily in MAIN+DEFAULT. All policy routes can be set
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and maintained manually.
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IMPORTANT NOTE
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route.c has a compilation time switch CONFIG_IP_LOCAL_RT_POLICY.
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If it is set, locally originated packets are routed
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using all the policy list. This is not very convenient and
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pretty ambiguous when used with NAT and masquerading.
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I set it to FALSE by default.
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Alexey Kuznetov
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kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
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