Review r The Internet (IP) Protocol m Datagram format m IP fragmentation m ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol m NAT: Network Address Translation r Routing in the Internet m Intra-AS routing: RIP and OSPF m Inter-AS routing: BGP Some slides are in courtesy of J. Kurose and K. Ross

IP datagram format ver length 32 bits data (variable length, typically a TCP or UDP segment) 16-bit identifier Internet checksum time to live 32 bit source IP address IP protocol version number header length (bytes) max number remaining hops (decremented at each router) for fragmentation/ reassembly total datagram length (bytes) upper layer protocol to deliver payload to head. len type of service “type” of data flgs fragment offset upper layer 32 bit destination IP address Options (if any) E.g. timestamp, record route taken, specify list of routers to visit. how much overhead with TCP? r 20 bytes of TCP r 20 bytes of IP r = 40 bytes + app layer overhead

Overview r BGP r Multicast Routing Some slides are in courtesy of J. Kurose and K. Ross

Internet inter-AS routing: BGP r BGP (Border Gateway Protocol): the de facto standard r BGP provides each AS a means to: 1. Obtain subnet reachability information from neighboring ASs. 2. Propagate the reachability information to all routers internal to the AS. 3. Determine “good” routes to subnets based on reachability information and policy. r Allows a subnet to advertise its existence to rest of the Internet: “I am here”

BGP basics r Pairs of routers (BGP peers) exchange routing info over semi- permanent TCP conctns: BGP sessions r Note that BGP sessions do not correspond to physical links. r When AS2 advertises a prefix to AS1, AS2 is promising it will forward any datagrams destined to that prefix towards the prefix. m AS2 can aggregate prefixes in its advertisement 3b 1d 3a 1c 2a AS3 AS1 AS2 1a 2c 2b 1b 3c eBGP session iBGP session

Distributing reachability info r With eBGP session between 3a and 1c, AS3 sends prefix reachability info to AS1. r 1c can then use iBGP do distribute this new prefix reach info to all routers in AS1 r 1b can then re-advertise the new reach info to AS2 over the 1b-to-2a eBGP session r When router learns about a new prefix, it creates an entry for the prefix in its forwarding table. 3b 1d 3a 1c 2a AS3 AS1 AS2 1a 2c 2b 1b 3c eBGP session iBGP session

AS Numbers (ASNs) ASNs are 16 bit values through are “private” Genuity: 1 MIT: 3 JANET: 786 UC San Diego: 7377 AT&T: 7018, 6341, 5074, … UUNET: 701, 702, 284, 12199, … Sprint: 1239, 1240, 6211, 6242, … … ASNs represent units of routing policy

How Many ASNs are there today? Thanks to Geoff Huston. on October 24, ,981

How Many ASNs are there today? Thanks to Geoff Huston. on October 26, ,217

How many prefixes today? Thanks to Geoff Huston. on October 24, ,894 Note: numbers actually depends point of view…

How many prefixes today? Thanks to Geoff Huston. on October 26, ,903 Note: numbers actually depends point of view…

Path attributes & BGP routes r When advertising a prefix, advert includes BGP attributes. m prefix + attributes = “route” r Two important attributes: m AS-PATH: contains the ASs through which the advert for the prefix passed: AS 67 AS 17 m NEXT-HOP: Indicates the specific internal-AS router to next-hop AS. (There may be multiple links from current AS to next-hop-AS.) r When gateway router receives route advert, uses import policy to accept/decline.

ASPATH Attribute AS /16 AS Path = 6341 AS 1239 Sprint AS 1755 Ebone AT&T AS 3549 Global Crossing /16 AS Path = /16 AS Path = AS /16 AT&T Research Prefix Originated AS RIPE NCC RIS project AS 1129 Global Access /16 AS Path = /16 AS Path = /16 AS Path = /16 AS Path =

BGP: controlling who routes to you r A,B,C are provider networks r X,W,Y are customer (of provider networks) r X is dual-homed: attached to two networks m X does not want to route from B via X to C m.. so X will not advertise to B a route to C

BGP: controlling who routes to you r A advertises to B the path AW r B advertises to X the path BAW r Should B advertise to C the path BAW? m No way! B gets no “revenue” for routing CBAW since neither W nor C are B’s customers m B wants to force C to route to w via A m B wants to route only to/from its customers!

Why different Intra- and Inter-AS routing ? Policy: r Inter-AS: admin wants control over how its traffic routed, who routes through its net. r Intra-AS: single admin, so no policy decisions needed Scale: r hierarchical routing saves table size, reduced update traffic Performance: r Intra-AS: can focus on performance r Inter-AS: policy may dominate over performance

Why different Intra- and Inter-AS routing ? Policy: r Inter-AS: admin wants control over how its traffic routed, who routes through its net. r Intra-AS: single admin, so no policy decisions needed Scale: r hierarchical routing saves table size, reduced update traffic Performance: r Intra-AS: can focus on performance r Inter-AS: policy may dominate over performance

Overview r BGP r Multicast Routing Some slides are in courtesy of J. Kurose and K. Ross

Multicast: one sender to many receivers r Multicast: act of sending datagram to multiple receivers with single “transmit” operation r Difference from Broadcast m Deliver packets from source to all other nodes r Question: how to achieve multicast Multicast via unicast r source sends N unicast datagrams, one addressed to each of N receivers multicast receiver (red) not a multicast receiver (red) routers forward unicast datagrams

Multicast: one sender to many receivers r Multicast: act of sending datagram to multiple receivers with single “transmit” operation m analogy: one teacher to many students r Question: how to achieve multicast Network multicast r Router actively participate in multicast, making copies of packets as needed and forwarding towards multicast receivers Multicast routers (red) duplicate and forward multicast datagrams

Multicast: one sender to many receivers r Multicast: act of sending datagram to multiple receivers with single “transmit” operation m analogy: one teacher to many students r Question: how to achieve multicast Application-layer multicast r end systems involved in multicast copy and forward unicast datagrams among themselves

Internet Multicast Service Model multicast group concept: use of indirection m hosts addresses IP datagram to multicast group m routers forward multicast datagrams to hosts that have “joined” that multicast group multicast group

Multicast groups  class D Internet addresses reserved for multicast:  host group semantics: oanyone can “join” (receive) multicast group oanyone can send to multicast group ono network-layer identification to hosts of members  needed: infrastructure to deliver mcast-addressed datagrams to all hosts that have joined that multicast group

Joining a mcast group: two-step process r local: host informs local mcast router of desire to join group: IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) r wide area: local router interacts with other routers to receive mcast datagram flow m many protocols (e.g., DVMRP, MOSPF, PIM) IGMP wide-area multicast routing

Multicast Routing: Problem Statement r Goal: find a tree (or trees) connecting routers having local mcast group members m tree: not all paths between routers used m source-based: different tree from each sender to rcvrs m shared-tree: same tree used by all group members Shared tree Source-based trees

Approaches for building mcast trees Approaches: r source-based tree: one tree per source m shortest path trees m reverse path forwarding r group-shared tree: group uses one tree m minimal spanning (Steiner) m center-based trees

Shortest Path Tree r mcast forwarding tree: tree of shortest path routes from source to all receivers m Dijkstra’s algorithm R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R i router with attached group member router with no attached group member link used for forwarding, i indicates order link added by algorithm LEGEND S: source

Reverse Path Forwarding if (mcast datagram received on incoming link on shortest path back to sender) then flood datagram onto all outgoing links else ignore datagram  rely on router’s knowledge of unicast shortest path from it to sender  each router has simple forwarding behavior:

Reverse Path Forwarding: example result is a source-specific reverse SPT –may be a bad choice with asymmetric links R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 router with attached group member router with no attached group member datagram will be forwarded LEGEND S: source datagram will not be forwarded

Reverse Path Forwarding: pruning r forwarding tree contains subtrees with no mcast group members m no need to forward datagrams down subtree m “prune” msgs sent upstream by router with no downstream group members R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 router with attached group member router with no attached group member prune message LEGEND S: source links with multicast forwarding P P P

Shared-Tree: Steiner Tree r Steiner Tree: minimum cost tree connecting all routers with attached group members r problem is NP-complete r excellent heuristics exists r not used in practice: m computational complexity m information about entire network needed m monolithic: rerun whenever a router needs to join/leave

Center-based trees r single delivery tree shared by all r one router identified as “center” of tree r to join: m edge router sends unicast join-msg addressed to center router m join-msg “processed” by intermediate routers and forwarded towards center m join-msg either hits existing tree branch for this center, or arrives at center m path taken by join-msg becomes new branch of tree for this router

Center-based trees: an example Suppose R6 chosen as center: R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 router with attached group member router with no attached group member path order in which join messages generated LEGEND