Open IP vs. Click: what do they support?
Eddie Kohler
eddietwo at cag.lcs.mit.edu
Sun Jun 25 13:20:14 EDT 2000
list of RFCs taken from Open IP white paper on Nortel site on their "IP
Forwarding module"
RFC OpenIP Click
768 (UDP) yes n/a
791 (IP) yes yes
792 (ICMP) yes yes (some handled by Linux)
793 (TCP) yes n/a
813 (window and acknowledgement) yes n/a
826 (Ethernet ARP) yes yes
879 (TCP MSS) yes n/a
896 (congestion control in IP/TCP net) yes yes?
922 (IP broadcasts w/subnets) yes yes
950 (ISSP = Inet Std Subnet Procedure) yes yes?
972 (ICMP) yes yes (some by Linux)
1058 (RIP) yes no
1112 (host extensions for multicast) yes no
1191 (path MTU discovery) yes n/a
1213 (MIB-II) yes no
1256 (ICMP router discovery) yes ??? (if yes, then Linux)
1321 (MD-5 message digest) yes no
1323 (TCP extensions for high perf) yes n/a
1349 (type of service in the IP suite) yes ???
1519 (CIDR) yes yes
1700 (assigned numbers) yes yes (WTF?!)
1724 (RIPv2 MIB extension) yes no
1812 (IPv4 router requirements) yes yes
2018 (SACK) yes n/a
2082 (RIP-2 MD5 authentication) yes no
2096 (IP forwarding table MIB) yes no
2205 (RSVPv1) yes no
2236 (IGMPv2) yes no
2385 (protecting BGP via TCP MD5) yes no
2390 (IARP) yes ???
2401 (IPsec) yes sort of
2402 (IP authentication header) yes sort of
2406 (IP ESP) yes sort of
2410 (IPsec NULL encryption alg) yes no
The other 3 Open IP modules described on the Nortel site are particular
routing protocols -- BGP, RIPv2, OSPF. Click doesn't support those either.
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