[j-nsp] ip(v6) options

[Adam Vitkovsky]

Hey Saku,

> Saku Ytti
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 9:38 PM
>
> Anyone remember from top of their head if or not Trio originally punted
> transit IP packets with IP options through lo0 filter or not?
>
Isn’t there a requirement that packets with IP options needs to be punted to the CPU for processing (process switched) (on every hop)
Although I'd be interested to know if it's the LC CPU or RE CPU handling these then.

Also my understanding of RE filter is that it is passed down to all PFEs in the system -so what you filter there is dropped right at the ingress and only what you permit is then subject to the built in DDoS protection rate-limiters (Junos "static" version of LPTS in XR) before it ends up in CPU (wanted to say RE-CPU but now I'm not that sure, could be LC CPU possibly??? ).

> I could have sworn when I tested MX80, I needed forwarding-filters to limit
> them.
>
> Now it seems they hit lo0 filter and JTAC considers this to be correct and by
> design. I view it wildly broken, because it essentially means, if you want to
> allow IP options, you need to do something like this
>
> a) match IP options and match any local DADDR => DROP
> b) match IP options => police
>
> As opposed to just do b) in forwarding filters.
>
> Much same as it would be wildly broken to punt TTL exceeded messages
> through lo0 filter, or anything else that is not destined to the router itself.
>
Do you mean the term "discard-TTL_1-unknown" i.e. "from ttl 1 then discard"?
It looks like there's a built in mechanism that filters ingress packets with TTL1 that are not destined to the router - as those would not make out the egress interface because of TTL decremented to 0 anyway.
So it looks like instead of just the source IP and possibly some other fields the whole packet is actually passed up to the CPU (RE/LC) so that the CPU can generate Time Exceeded ICMP message. (if just necessary fields would have been listed in a msg sent to CPU there would be no need to mention packets with TTL1 in the RE filter)
The rate at which these packets are punted to CPU is then subject to built-in DDoS protection.


adam


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