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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