PS: I assume we only need to identify traffic going from the pledge to the
JRC, not the join response?

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Thomas Watteyne <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Malisa,
> I there no way for a forwarding node to recognize joining traffic from the
> 6tisch.arpa Uri-Host option? I assume that's encrypted end-to-end?
> Trying to see whether there is anything, in the current spec, which allows
> a forwarding node to identify join traffic...
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Michael Richardson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Mališa Vučinić <[email protected]> wrote:
>>     > At the interim today, we discussed the need of tagging join traffic
>> at
>>     > the Join Proxy (JP). The problem is that JP forwards into the
>> network
>>     > traffic that originates from untrusted pledges, which can cause the
>>     > exchange of 6P commands at intermediate nodes on the path from JP to
>>     > 6LBR.
>>
>>     > A malicious pledge is therefore able to affect scheduling of
>>     > intermediate nodes in the network which could potentially result in
>>     > resource exhaustion. A bandwidth cap at JP, that is currently
>>     > recommended in minimal-security draft, limits but doesn’t completely
>>     > solve the problem. An attacker with access to multiple JPs could
>> inject
>>     > enough traffic to disturb the network.
>>
>>     > Pascal proposed using ToS bits in the IPv6 header to tag join
>>     > traffic. As part of the JP behavior in minimal-security draft, we
>> would
>>     > specify that each forwarded packet must be tagged. Then, it would
>> be up
>>     > to individual SFs to determine what to do with this traffic.
>>
>> To be specific, I think that the JP should set the DSCP bits in the packet
>> as per rfc2597 section 6, we want AF43 (0b100110).
>>
>>
>> --
>> Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
>>  -= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
>>
>>
>>
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