Commit 961fb1ff authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by David S. Miller

docs: networking: convert udplite.txt to ReST

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Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 973d55e5
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===========================================================================
The UDP-Lite protocol (RFC 3828)
===========================================================================
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
================================
The UDP-Lite protocol (RFC 3828)
================================
UDP-Lite is a Standards-Track IETF transport protocol whose characteristic
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This file briefly describes the existing kernel support and the socket API.
For in-depth information, you can consult:
o The UDP-Lite Homepage:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/udp-lite/
- The UDP-Lite Homepage:
http://web.archive.org/web/%2E/http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/udp-lite/
From here you can also download some example application source code.
o The UDP-Lite HOWTO on
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/udp-lite/
files/UDP-Lite-HOWTO.txt
- The UDP-Lite HOWTO on
http://web.archive.org/web/%2E/http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gerrit/udp-lite/files/UDP-Lite-HOWTO.txt
o The Wireshark UDP-Lite WiKi (with capture files):
- The Wireshark UDP-Lite WiKi (with capture files):
https://wiki.wireshark.org/Lightweight_User_Datagram_Protocol
o The Protocol Spec, RFC 3828, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3828.txt
- The Protocol Spec, RFC 3828, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3828.txt
I) APPLICATIONS
1. Applications
===============
Several applications have been ported successfully to UDP-Lite. Ethereal
(now called wireshark) has UDP-Litev4/v6 support by default.
Porting applications to UDP-Lite is straightforward: only socket level and
IPPROTO need to be changed; senders additionally set the checksum coverage
length (default = header length = 8). Details are in the next section.
II) PROGRAMMING API
2. Programming API
==================
UDP-Lite provides a connectionless, unreliable datagram service and hence
uses the same socket type as UDP. In fact, porting from UDP to UDP-Lite is
very easy: simply add `IPPROTO_UDPLITE' as the last argument of the socket(2)
call so that the statement looks like:
very easy: simply add ``IPPROTO_UDPLITE`` as the last argument of the
socket(2) call so that the statement looks like::
s = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDPLITE);
or, respectively,
::
s = socket(PF_INET6, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDPLITE);
With just the above change you are able to run UDP-Lite services or connect
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* Sender checksum coverage: UDPLITE_SEND_CSCOV
For example,
For example::
int val = 20;
setsockopt(s, SOL_UDPLITE, UDPLITE_SEND_CSCOV, &val, sizeof(int));
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that of a traffic filter: when enabled, it instructs the kernel to drop
all packets which have a coverage _less_ than this value. For example, if
RTP and UDP headers are to be protected, a receiver can enforce that only
packets with a minimum coverage of 20 are admitted:
packets with a minimum coverage of 20 are admitted::
int min = 20;
setsockopt(s, SOL_UDPLITE, UDPLITE_RECV_CSCOV, &min, sizeof(int));
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A detailed discussion of UDP-Lite checksum coverage options is in section IV.
III) HEADER FILES
3. Header Files
===============
The socket API requires support through header files in /usr/include:
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* /usr/include/netinet/udplite.h
for UDP-Lite header fields and protocol constants
For testing purposes, the following can serve as a `mini' header file:
For testing purposes, the following can serve as a ``mini`` header file::
#define IPPROTO_UDPLITE 136
#define SOL_UDPLITE 136
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Ready-made header files for various distros are in the UDP-Lite tarball.
4. Kernel Behaviour with Regards to the Various Socket Options
==============================================================
IV) KERNEL BEHAVIOUR WITH REGARD TO THE VARIOUS SOCKET OPTIONS
To enable debugging messages, the log level need to be set to 8, as most
messages use the KERN_DEBUG level (7).
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3) Disabling the Checksum Computation
On both sender and receiver, checksumming will always be performed
and cannot be disabled using SO_NO_CHECK. Thus
and cannot be disabled using SO_NO_CHECK. Thus::
setsockopt(sockfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_NO_CHECK, ... );
will always will be ignored, while the value of
will always will be ignored, while the value of::
getsockopt(sockfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_NO_CHECK, &value, ...);
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first one contains the L4 header.
The send buffer size has implications on the checksum coverage length.
Consider the following example:
Consider the following example::
Payload: 1536 bytes Send Buffer: 1024 bytes
MTU: 1500 bytes Coverage Length: 856 bytes
UDP-Lite will ship the 1536 bytes in two separate packets:
UDP-Lite will ship the 1536 bytes in two separate packets::
Packet 1: 1024 payload + 8 byte header + 20 byte IP header = 1052 bytes
Packet 2: 512 payload + 8 byte header + 20 byte IP header = 540 bytes
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length in such cases.
As an example of what happens when one UDP-Lite packet is split into
several tiny fragments, consider the following example.
several tiny fragments, consider the following example::
Payload: 1024 bytes Send buffer size: 1024 bytes
MTU: 300 bytes Coverage length: 575 bytes
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lengths), only the first fragment needs to be considered. When using
larger checksum coverage lengths, each eligible fragment needs to be
checksummed. Suppose we have a checksum coverage of 3062. The buffer
of 3356 bytes will be split into the following fragments:
of 3356 bytes will be split into the following fragments::
Fragment 1: 1280 bytes carrying 1232 bytes of UDP-Lite data
Fragment 2: 1280 bytes carrying 1232 bytes of UDP-Lite data
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performance over wireless (or generally noisy) links and thus smaller
coverage lengths are likely to be expected.
V) UDP-LITE RUNTIME STATISTICS AND THEIR MEANING
5. UDP-Lite Runtime Statistics and their Meaning
================================================
Exceptional and error conditions are logged to syslog at the KERN_DEBUG
level. Live statistics about UDP-Lite are available in /proc/net/snmp
and can (with newer versions of netstat) be viewed using
and can (with newer versions of netstat) be viewed using::
netstat -svu
This displays UDP-Lite statistics variables, whose meaning is as follows.
InDatagrams: The total number of datagrams delivered to users.
============ =====================================================
InDatagrams The total number of datagrams delivered to users.
NoPorts: Number of packets received to an unknown port.
NoPorts Number of packets received to an unknown port.
These cases are counted separately (not as InErrors).
InErrors: Number of erroneous UDP-Lite packets. Errors include:
InErrors Number of erroneous UDP-Lite packets. Errors include:
* internal socket queue receive errors
* packet too short (less than 8 bytes or stated
coverage length exceeds received length)
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* checksum coverage violated
* bad checksum
OutDatagrams: Total number of sent datagrams.
OutDatagrams Total number of sent datagrams.
============ =====================================================
These statistics derive from the UDP MIB (RFC 2013).
VI) IPTABLES
6. IPtables
===========
There is packet match support for UDP-Lite as well as support for the LOG target.
If you copy and paste the following line into /etc/protocols,
If you copy and paste the following line into /etc/protocols::
udplite 136 UDP-Lite # UDP-Lite [RFC 3828]
then
then::
iptables -A INPUT -p udplite -j LOG
will produce logging output to syslog. Dropping and rejecting packets also works.
VII) MAINTAINER ADDRESS
7. Maintainer Address
=====================
The UDP-Lite patch was developed at
University of Aberdeen
Electronics Research Group
Department of Engineering
Fraser Noble Building
Aberdeen AB24 3UE; UK
The current maintainer is Gerrit Renker, <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>. Initial
code was developed by William Stanislaus, <william@erg.abdn.ac.uk>.
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