Ch.7 Internet Protocol: Connectionless Datagram Delivery (IPv4, IPv6)

CSC521 Communication Protocols 網路通訊協定 Ch.7 Internet Protocol: Connectionless Datagram Delivery (IPv4, IPv6) 吳俊興國立高雄大學資訊工程學系 Internetworking With TCP/IP, Vol I: Sixth Edition, Douglas E. Comer

Outline 1 Introduction 2 A Virtual Network 3 Internet Architecture And Philosophy 4 Principles Behind The Structure 5 Connectionless Delivery System Characteristics 6 Purpose And Importance Of The Internet Protocol 7 The IP Datagram 8 Datagram Type Of Service And Differentiated Services 9 Datagram Encapsulation 10 Datagram Size, Network MTU, and Fragmentation 11 Datagram Reassembly 12 Header Fields Used For Datagram Reassembly 13 Time To Live (IPv4) And Hop Limit (IPv6) 14 Optional IP Items 15 Options Processing During Fragmentation 16 Network Byte Order 17 Summary 2

Concepts of The Internet Protocol A Virtual Network IP allows a user to think of an internet as a single virtual network that interconnects all hosts, and through which communication is possible; its underlying architecture is both hidden and irrelevant Three sets of internet services conceptual separation Internet software is designed around three conceptual networking services arranged in a hierarchy; much of its success has resulted because this architecture is surprisingly robust and adaptable Two philosophical underpinnings Build reliable service on top of an unreliable, connectionless base The lowest level service exactly matches the facilities provided by underlying hardware networks and the second level provides the service that applications expect 3

IP Characteristics The most fundamental Internet service consists of a packet delivery system Connectionless Unreliable Best-effort delivery Defines three important items Internet addressing scheme Format of packets for the (virtual) Internet Packet forwarding Three important specifications IP defines basic unit of data transfer used throughout a TCP/IP internet The basic transfer unit: a header and payload IP software performs the forwarding function, choosing a path over which a packet will be sent IP includes a set of rules that embody the basis of unreliable delivery 4

Elements of a Packet Switching Protocol Addressing: source IP and destination IP Length: header length and total length Error control: checksum and time-to-live Encapsulation: fragmentation and resembling support Extensibility: version service type de-multiplexing IP option 5

IP Datagram Header Format Vers HLen Service Type Total Length Identification Flags Fragment Offset Time to Live (TTL) Protocol Header Checksum Source IP Address Destination IP Address IP Options (If Any) Padding Data (Payload) VERS: 4 HLEN: header length in 32-bit words Service Type: support differentiated services (DiffServ) Total Length: header + data (MAX=65,535 octets) Time to Live (TTL) how long allowed to remain in network hop limit (i.e. 30, 60, 64) Protocol (1: ICMP; 6: TCP; 17: UDP) Header Checksum Source IP; Destination IP 6

Datagram Encapsulation Encapsulated in Ethernet frame 20-octet IP header follows 14-octet Ethernet header Ethernet Type Field set to 0x0800 source IP: 128.10.2.3 (800a0203) destination IP: 128.10.2.8 (800a0208) IP type: 01 (ICMP) 7

IPv6 Datagram Format IPv6 general form Base header with TCP segment One extension Two extensions 8

IPv6 Base Header Format 9

A Potential Problem MTU Issues Network hardware limits maximum size of frame Known as the network Maximum Transmission Unit ( MTU ) e.g., Ethernet limited to 1500 octets Possible ways to accommodate networks with differing MTUs Force datagram to be less than smallest possible MTU Inefficient Cannot know minimum MTU Hide the network MTU and accommodate arbitrary datagram size A datagram can contain up to 65535 total octets (including header) Question: how is encapsulation handled if datagram exceeds network MTU? 10

Datagram Size, Network MTU, and Fragmentation PathMTU The minimum of the MTUs on networks along the path IPv4 allows any router along a path to fragment a datagram IPv6 requires the original source to learn the path MTU and perform fragmentation 11

IPv4 Datagram Fragmentation Usually performed by routers Divides datagram into several, smaller datagrams called fragments Fragment uses same header format as datagram Each fragment forwarded independently Offset specifies where data belongs in original datagram Offset actually stored as multiples of 8 octets MORE FRAGMENTS bit turned off in header of fragment#3 12

IPv6 Fragmentation And Path MTU Discovery (PMTUD) IPv6 uses a form of early binding Path MTU Discovery (PMTUD) A host should probe periodically by sending a larger datagram 13

Reassembly Ultimate destination puts fragments back together Known as reassembly No need to reassemble sub-fragments first Timer used to ensure all fragments arrive Timer started when first fragment arrives If timer expires, entire datagram discarded Header Fields Used For Datagram Reassembly IPv4 datagram header IDENTIFICATION FLAGS FRAGMENT OFFSET IPv6 Fragment Extension Header IDENTIFICATION M FRAGMENT OFFSET 14

Time to Live (IPv4) and Hop Limit (IPv6) how long allowed to remain in network hop limit (i.e. 30, 60, 64) TTL field of datagram header decremented at each hop (i.e., each router) If TTL reaches zero, datagram discarded Prevents datagrams from looping indefinitely (in case forwarding error introduces loop) IETF recommends initial value of 255 (max) 15

IPv4 Optional IP Items the IP OPTIONS field that follows the destination address is used to send optional items IPv6 each of the extension headers is optional, and a given datagram may include multiple extensions 16

IPv4 Options 17

IPv6 Optional Extensions 18

IPv4 Processing Options During Fragmentation The record route option should only be copied into one of the fragments A source route option must be copied into all fragments IPv6 A datagram into two conceptual pieces: unfragmentable fragmentable The Hop-By-Hop Header and Route Header are not fragmentable; other extension headers are fragmentable 19

IPv6 Processing Options During Fragmentation 20

Little endian Network Byte Order The lowest memory address contains the low-order byte of the integer Big endian The lowest memory address holds the high-order byte of the integer 21

Checksum Field In IPv4 Datagram Header 16-bit 1's complement checksum Over IP header only! Recomputed at each hop unsigned short checksum(char *ptr, int len) { unsigned short *buf = (unsigned short *) ptr; int nwords = len / 2; unsigned long sum; } for(sum = 0; nwords > 0; nwords--) sum += swap16(*buf++); sum = (sum >> 16) + (sum & 0xffff); sum += (sum >> 16); return swap16(~sum); 22

Summary Internet Protocol (IP) provides basic connectionless delivery service for the Internet defines IP datagram to be the format of packets on the Internet Datagram header Has fixed fields Specifies source, destination, and type Allows options Datagram encapsulated in network frame for transmission Fragmentation Needed when datagram larger than MTU Usually performed by routers Divides datagram into fragments Reassembly Performed by ultimate destination If some fragment(s) do not arrive, datagram discarded To accommodate all possible network hardware, IP does not require reliability (best-effort semantics) 23