Network Working Group D. Oran, Editor
Request for Comments: 1142 Digital Equipment Corp.
February 1990
OSI IS-IS Intra-domain Routing Protocol
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ISO/IEC DIS 10589
Information technology Telecommunications and information exchange
between systems Interme diate system to Intermediate system
Intra-Domain routeing exchange protocol for use in Conjunction with
the Protocol for providing the Connectionless- mode Network Service
(ISO 8473) Technologies de l'information Communication de donnies et
ichange d'information entre systhmes Protocole intra-domain de routage
d'un systhme intermediare ` un systhme intermediare ` utiliser
conjointement avec le protocole fournissant le service de riseau en
mode sans connexion (ISO 8473) UDC 00000.000 : 000.0000000000
Descriptors:
Contents
Introduction iv
1 Scope and Field of Application 1
2 References 1
3 Definitions 2
4 Symbols and Abbreviations 3
5 Typographical Conventions 4
6 Overview of the Protocol 4
7 Subnetwork Independent Functions 9
8 Subnetwork Dependent Functions 35
9 Structure and Encoding of PDUs 47
10 System Environment 65
11 System Management 67
12 Conformance 95
Annex A PICS Proforma 99
Annex B Supporting Technical Material 105
Annex C Implementation Guidelines and Examples 109
Annex D Congestion Control and Avoidance 115
Introduction
This Protocol is one of a set of International Standards produced to
facilitate the interconnection of open systems. The set of standards
covers the services and protocols re quired to achieve such
interconnection. This Protocol is positioned with respect to other
related standards by the layers defined in the ISO 7498 and by the
structure defined in the ISO 8648. In particular, it is a protocol of
the Network Layer. This protocol permits Intermediate Systems within a
routeing Domain to exchange configuration and routeing information to
facilitate the operation of the route ing and relaying functions of
the Network Layer. The protocol is designed to operate in close
conjunction with ISO 9542 and ISO 8473. ISO 9542 is used to establish
connectivity and reachability between End Systems and Inter mediate
Systems on individual Subnetworks. Data is carried by ISO 8473. The
related algo rithms for route calculation and maintenance are also
described. The intra-domain ISIS routeing protocol is intended to
support large routeing domains consisting of combinations of many
types of subnetworks. This includes point-to-point links, multipoint
links, X.25 subnetworks, and broadcast subnetworks such as ISO 8802
LANs. In order to support large routeing domains, provision is made
for Intra-domain routeing to be organised hierarchically. A large
domain may be administratively divided into areas. Each system
resides in exactly one area. Routeing within an area is referred to as
Level 1 routeing. Routeing between areas is referred to as Level 2
routeing. Level 2 Intermediate systems keep track of the paths to
destination areas. Level 1 Intermediate systems keep track of the
routeing within their own area. For an NPDU destined to another area,
a Level 1 Intermediate system sends the NPDU to the nearest level 2 IS
in its own area, re gardless of what the destination area is. Then the
NPDU travels via level 2 routeing to the destination area, where it
again travels via level 1 routeing to the destination End System.
Information technology
Telecommunications and information exchange between systems
Intermediate system to Intermediate system Intra-Domain routeing
exchange protocol for use in Conjunction with the Protocol for
providing the Connectionless-mode Network Service (ISO 8473)
1 Scope and Field of Application
This International Standard specifies a protocol which is used by
Network Layer entities operating ISO 8473 in In termediate Systems to
maintain routeing information for the purpose of routeing within a
single routeing domain. The protocol herein described relies upon the
provision of a connectionless-mode underlying service.11See ISO 8473
and its Addendum 3 for the mechanisms necessary to realise this
service on subnetworks based on ISO 8208, ISO 8802, and the OSI Data
Link Service.
This Standard specifies:
a)procedures for the transmission of configuration and
routeing information between network entities resid
ing in Intermediate Systems within a single routeing
domain;
b)the encoding of the protocol data units used for the
transmission of the configuration and routeing infor
mation;
c)procedures for the correct interpretation of protocol
control information; and
d)the functional requirements for implementations
claiming conformance to this Standard.
The procedures are defined in terms of:
a)the interactions between Intermediate system Network
entities through the exchange of protocol data units;
and
b)the interactions between a Network entity and an un
derlying service provider through the exchange of
subnetwork service primitives.
c)the constraints on route determination which must be
observed by each Intermediate system when each has
a routeing information base which is consistent with
the others.
2 References
2.1 Normative References
The following standards contain provisions which, through reference in
this text, constitute provisions of this Interna tional Standard. At
the time of publication, the editions in dicated were valid. All
standards are subject to revision, and parties to agreements based on
this International Stan dard are encouraged to investigate the
possibility of apply ing the most recent editions of the standards
listed below. Members of IEC and ISO maintain registers of currently
valid International Standards. ISO 7498:1984, Information processing
systems Open Systems Interconnection Basic Reference Model. ISO
7498/Add.1:1984, Information processing systems Open Systems
Interconnection Basic Reference Model Addendum 1: Connectionless-mode
Transmission. ISO 7498-3:1989, Information processing systems Open
Systems Interconnection Basic Reference Model Part 3: Naming and
Addressing. ISO 7498-4:1989, Information processing systems Open
Systems Interconnection Basic Reference Model Part 4: Management
Framework. ISO 8348:1987, Information processing systems Data
communications Network Service Definition. ISO 8348/Add.1:1987,
Information processing systems Data communications Network Service
Definition Addendum 1: Connectionless-mode transmission. ISO
8348/Add.2:1988, Information processing systems Data communications
Network Service Definition Addendum 2: Network layer addressing. ISO
8473:1988, Information processing systems Data communications Protocol
for providing the connectionless-mode network service. ISO
8473/Add.3:1989, Information processing systems Telecommunications and
information exchange between
systems Protocol for providing the connectionless-
mode network service Addendum 3: Provision of the
underlying service assumed by ISO 8473 over
subnetworks which provide the OSI data link service.
ISO 8648:1988, Information processing systems Open
Systems Interconnection Internal organisation of the
Network Layer.
ISO 9542:1988, Information processing systems Tele
communications and information exchange between sys
tems End system to Intermediate system Routeing ex
change protocol for use in conjunction with the protocol
for providing the connectionless -mode network service
(ISO 8473).
ISO 8208:1984, Information processing systems Data
communications X.25 packet level protocol for Data
terminal equipment
ISO 8802:1988, Information processing systems Tele
communications and information exchange between sys
tems Local area networks.
ISO/TR 9575:1989, Information technology Telecom
munications and information exchange between systems
OSI Routeing Framework.
ISO/TR 9577:1990, Information technology Telecom
munications and information exchange between systems
Protocol Identification in the Network Layer.
ISO/IEC DIS 10165-4:, Information technology Open
systems interconnection Management Information Serv
ices Structure of Management Information Part 4:
Guidelines for the Definition of Managed Objects.
ISO/IEC 10039:1990, IPS-T&IEBS MAC Service Defini
tion.
2.2 Other References
The following references are helpful in describing some of
the routeing algorithms:
McQuillan, J. et. al., The New Routeing Algorithm for the
ARPANET, IEEE Transactions on Communications, May
1980.
Perlman, Radia, Fault-Tolerant Broadcast of Routeing In
formation, Computer Networks, Dec. 1983. Also in IEEE
INFOCOM 83, April 1983.
Aho, Hopcroft, and Ullman, Data Structures and Algo
rithms, P204208 Dijkstra algorithm.
3 Definitions
3.1 Reference Model definitions
This International Standard makes use of the following
terms defined in ISO 7498:
a)Network Layer
b)Network Service access point
c)Network Service access point address
d)Network entity
e)Routeing
f)Network protocol
g)Network relay
h)Network protocol data unit
3.2 Network Layer architecture
definitions
This International Standard makes use of the following
terms defined in ISO 8648:
a)Subnetwork
b)End system
c)Intermediate system
d)Subnetwork service
e)Subnetwork Access Protocol
f)Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Protocol
g)Subnetwork Independent Convergence Protocol
3.3 Network Layer addressing
definitions
This International Standard makes use of the following
terms defined in ISO 8348/Add.2:
a)Subnetwork address
b)Subnetwork point of attachment
c)Network Entity Title
3.4 Local Area Network Definitions
This International Standard makes use of the following
terms defined in ISO 8802:
a)Multi-destination address
b)Media access control
c)Broadcast medium
3.5 Routeing Framework Definitions
This document makes use of the following terms defined in
ISO/TR 9575:
a)Administrative Domain
b)Routeing Domain
c)Hop
d)Black hole
3.6 Additional Definitions
For the purposes of this International Standard, the follow
ing definitions apply:
3.6.1
Area: A routeing subdomain which maintains de
tailed routeing information about its own internal
composition, and also maintains routeing informa
tion which allows it to reach other routeing subdo
mains. It corresponds to the Level 1 subdomain.
3.6.2
Neighbour: An adjacent system reachable by tra
versal of a single subnetwork by a PDU.
3.6.3
Adjacency: A portion of the local routeing infor
mation which pertains to the reachability of a sin
gle neighbour ES or IS over a single circuit.
Adjacencies are used as input to the Decision Proc
ess for forming paths through the routeing domain.
A separate adjacency is created for each neighbour
on a circuit, and for each level of routeing (i.e.
level 1 and level 2) on a broadcast circuit.
3.6.4
Circuit: The subset of the local routeing informa
tion base pertinent to a single local SNPA.
3.6.5
Link: The communication path between two
neighbours.
A Link is up when communication is possible
between the two SNPAs.
3.6.6
Designated IS: The Intermediate system on a
LAN which is designated to perform additional du
ties. In particular it generates Link State PDUs on
behalf of the LAN, treating the LAN as a
pseudonode.
3.6.7
Pseudonode: Where a broadcast subnetwork has n
connected Intermediate systems, the broadcast
subnetwork itself is considered to be a
pseudonode.
The pseudonode has links to each of the n Interme
diate systems and each of the ISs has a single link
to the pseudonode (rather than n-1 links to each of
the other Intermediate systems). Link State PDUs
are generated on behalf of the pseudonode by the
Designated IS. This is depicted below in figure 1.
3.6.8
Broadcast subnetwork: A subnetwork which sup
ports an arbitrary number of End systems and In
termediate systems and additionally is capable of
transmitting a single SNPDU to a subset of these
systems in response to a single SN_UNITDATA
request.
3.6.9
General topology subnetwork: A subnetwork
which supports an arbitrary number of End sys
tems and Intermediate systems, but does not sup
port a convenient multi-destination connectionless
trans
mission facility, as does a broadcast sub
net
work. 3.6.10 Routeing Subdomain: a set of Intermediate sys tems and End systems located within the same Routeing domain. 3.6.11 Level 2 Subdomain: the set of all Level 2 Inter mediate systems in a Routeing domain. 4 Symbols and Abbreviations 4.1 Data Units PDU Protocol Data Unit SNSDU Subnetwork Service Data Unit NSDU Network Service Data Unit NPDU Network Protocol Data Unit SNPDU Subnetwork Protocol Data Unit 4.2 Protocol Data Units ESH PDU ISO 9542 End System Hello Protocol Data Unit ISH PDU ISO 9542 Intermediate System Hello Protocol Data Unit RD PDU ISO 9542 Redirect Protocol Data Unit IIH Intermediate system to Intermediate system Hello Protocol Data Unit LSP Link State Protocol Data Unit SNP Sequence Numbers Protocol Data Unit CSNP Complete Sequence Numbers Protocol Data Unit PSNP Partial Sequence Numbers Protocol Data Unit 4.3 Addresses AFI Authority and Format Indicator DSP Domain Specific Part IDI Initial Domain Identifier IDP Initial Domain Part NET Network Entity Title NSAP Network Service Access Point SNPA Subnetwork Point of Attachment 4.4 Miscellaneous DA Dynamically Assigned DED Dynamically Established Data link DTE Data Terminal Equipment ES End System IS Intermediate System L1 Level 1 L2 Level 2 LAN Local Area Network MAC Media Access Control NLPID Network Layer Protocol Identifier PCI Protocol Control Information QoS Quality of Service SN Subnetwork SNAcP Subnetwork Access Protocol SNDCP Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Protocol SNICP Subnetwork Independent Convergence Proto col SRM Send Routeing Message SSN Send Sequence Numbers Message SVC Switched Virtual Circuit 5 Typographical Conventions This International Standard makes use of the following ty pographical conventions: a)Important terms and concepts appear in italic type when introduced for the first time; b)Protocol constants and management parameters appear in sansSerif type with multiple words run together. The first word is lower case, with the first character of subsequent words capitalised; c)Protocol field names appear in San Serif type with each word capitalised. d)Values of constants, parameters, and protocol fields appear enclosed in double quotes. 6 Overview of the Protocol 6.1 System Types There are the following types of system: End Systems: These systems deliver NPDUs to other sys tems and receive NPDUs from other systems, but do not relay NPDUs. This International Standard does not specify any additional End system functions be yond those supplied by ISO 8473 and ISO 9542. Level 1 Intermediate Systems: These systems deliver and receive NPDUs from other systems, and relay NPDUs from other source systems to other destina tion systems. They route directly to systems within their own area, and route towards a level 2 Interme diate system when the destination system is in a dif ferent area. Level 2 Intermediate Systems: These systems act as Level 1 Intermediate systems in addition to acting as a sys tem in the subdomain consisting of level 2 ISs. Sys tems in the level 2 subdomain route towards a desti nation area, or another routeing domain. 6.2 Subnetwork Types There are two generic types of subnetworks supported. a)broadcast subnetworks: These are multi-access subnetworks that support the capability of addressing a group of attached systems with a single NPDU, for instance ISO 8802.3 LANs. b)general topology subnetworks: These are modelled as a set of point-to-point links each of which connects exactly two systems. There are several generic types of general topology subnetworks: 1)multipoint links: These are links between more than two systems, where one system is a primary system, and the remaining systems are secondary (or slave) systems. The primary is capable of direct communication with any of the secondaries, but the secondaries cannot communicate directly among themselves. 2)permanent point-to-point links: These are links that stay connected at all times (unless broken, or turned off by system management), for instance leased lines or private links. 3)dynamically established data links (DEDs): these are links over connection oriented facilities, for in stance X.25, X.21, ISDN, or PSTN networks. Dynamically established data links can be used in one of two ways: i)static point-to-point (Static): The call is estab lished upon system management action and cleared only on system management action (or failure). ii)dynamically assigned (DA): The call is estab lished upon receipt of traffic, and brought down on timer expiration when idle. The ad dress to which the call is to be established is determined dynamically from information in the arriving NPDU(s). No ISIS routeing PDUs are exchanged between ISs on a DA cir cuit. All subnetwork types are treated by the Subnetwork Inde pendent functions as though they were connectionless subnetworks, using the Subnetwork Dependent Conver gence functions of ISO 8473 where necessary to provide a connectionless subnetwork service. The Subnetwork De pendent functions do, however, operate differently on connectionless and connection-oriented subnetworks. 6.3 Topologies A single organisation may wish to divide its Administrative Domain into a number of separate Routeing Domains. This has certain advantages, as described in ISO/TR 9575. Furthermore, it is desirable for an intra-domain routeing protocol to aid in the operation of an inter-domain routeing protocol, where such a protocol exists for interconnecting multiple administrative domains. In order to facilitate the construction of such multi-domain topologies, provision is made for the entering of static inter-domain routeing information. This information is pro vided by a set of Reachable Address Prefixes entered by System Management at the ISs which have links which cross routeing domain boundaries. The prefix indicates that any NSAPs whose NSAP address matches the prefix may be reachable via the SNPA with which the prefix is associ ated. Where the subnetwork to which this SNPA is con nected is a general topology subnetwork supporting dy namically established data links, the prefix also has associ ated with it the required subnetwork addressing information, or an indication that it may be derived from the destination NSAP address (for example, an X.121 DTE address may sometimes be obtained from the IDI of the NSAP address). The Address Prefixes are handled by the level 2 routeing al gorithm in the same way as information about a level 1 area within the domain. NPDUs with a destination address matching any of the prefixes present on any Level 2 Inter mediate System within the domain can therefore be relayed (using level 2 routeing) by that IS and delivered out of the domain. (It is assumed that the routeing functions of the other domain will then be able to deliver the NPDU to its destination.) 6.4 Addresses Within a routeing domain that conforms to this standard, the Network entity titles of Intermediate systems shall be structured as described in 7.1.1. All systems shall be able to generate and forward data PDUs containing NSAP addresses in any of the formats specified by ISO 8348/Add.2. However, NSAP addresses of End systems should be structured as described in 7.1.1 in order to take full advantage of ISIS routeing. Within such a domain it is still possible for some End Systems to have addresses assigned which do not conform to 7.1.1, provided they meet the more general requirements of ISO 8348/Add.2, but they may require additional configura tion and be subject to inferior routeing performance. 6.5 Functional Organisation The intra-domain ISIS routeing functions are divided into two groups -Subnetwork Independent Functions -Subnetwork Dependent Functions 6.5.1 Subnetwork Independent Functions The Subnetwork Independent Functions supply full-duplex NPDU transmission between any pair of neighbour sys tems. They are independent of the specific subnetwork or data link service operating below them, except for recognis ing two generic types of subnetworks: -General Topology Subnetworks, which include HDLC point-to-point, HDLC multipoint, and dynami cally established data links (such as X.25, X.21, and PSTN links), and -Broadcast Subnetworks, which include ISO 8802 LANs. The following Subnetwork Independent Functions are iden tified -Routeing. The routeing function determines NPDU paths. A path is the sequence of connected systems and links between a source ES and a destination ES. The combined knowledge of all the Network Layer entities of all the Intermediate systems within a route ing domain is used to ascertain the existence of a path, and route the NPDU to its destination. The routeing component at an Intermediate system has the follow ing specific functions: 7It extracts and interprets the routeing PCI in an NPDU. 7It performs NPDU forwarding based on the desti nation address. 7It manages the characteristics of the path. If a sys tem or link fails on a path, it finds an alternate route. 7It interfaces with the subnetwork dependent func tions to receive reports concerning an SNPA which has become unavailable, a system that has failed, or the subsequent recovery of an SNPA or system. 7It informs the ISO 8473 error reporting function when the forwarding function cannot relay an NPDU, for instance when the destination is un reachable or when the NPDU would have needed to be segmented and the NPDU requested no seg mentation. -Congestion control. Congestion control manages the resources used at each Intermediate system. 6.5.2 Subnetwork Dependent Functions The subnetwork dependent functions mask the characteris tics of the subnetwork or data link service from the subnetwork independent functions. These include: -Operation of the Intermediate system functions of ISO 9542 on the particular subnetwork, in order to 7Determine neighbour Network entity title(s) and SNPA address(es) 7Determine the SNPA address(s) of operational In termediate systems -Operation of the requisite Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Function as defined in ISO 8473 and its Addendum 3, in order to perform 7Data link initialisation 7Hop by hop fragmentation over subnetworks with small maximum SNSDU sizes 7Call establishment and clearing on dynamically es tablished data links 6.6 Design Goals This International Standard supports the following design requirements. The correspondence with the goals for OSI routeing stated in ISO/TR 9575 are noted. -Network Layer Protocol Compatibility. It is com patible with ISO 8473 and ISO 9542. (See clause 7.5 of ISO/TR 9575), -Simple End systems: It requires no changes to end systems, nor any functions beyond those supplied by ISO 8473 and ISO 9542. (See clause 7.2.1 of ISO/TR 9575), -Multiple Organisations: It allows for multiple route ing and administrative domains through the provision of static routeing information at domain boundaries. (See clause 7.3 of ISO/TR 9575), -Deliverability It accepts and delivers NPDUs ad dressed to reachable destinations and rejects NPDUs addressed to destinations known to be unreachable. -Adaptability. It adapts to topological changes within the routeing domain, but not to traffic changes, except potentially as indicated by local queue lengths. It splits traffic load on multiple equivalent paths. (See clause 7.7 of ISO/TR 9575), -Promptness. The period of adaptation to topological changes in the domain is a reasonable function of the domain diameter (that is, the maximum logical dis tance between End Systems within the domain) and Data link speeds. (See clause 7.4 of ISO/TR 9575), -Efficiency. It is both processing and memory effi cient. It does not create excessive routeing traffic overhead. (See clause 7.4 of ISO/TR 9575), -Robustness. It recovers from transient errors such as lost or temporarily incorrect routeing PDUs. It toler ates imprecise parameter settings. (See clause 7.7 of ISO/TR 9575), -Stability. It stabilises in finite time to good routes, provided no continuous topological changes or con tinuous data base corruptions occur. -System Management control. System Management can control many routeing functions via parameter changes, and inspect parameters, counters, and routes. It will not, however, depend on system management action for correct behaviour. -Simplicity. It is sufficiently simple to permit perform ance tuning and failure isolation. -Maintainability. It provides mechanisms to detect, isolate, and repair most common errors that may affect the routeing computation and data bases. (See clause 7.8 of ISO/TR 9575), -Heterogeneity. It operates over a mixture of network and system types, communication technologies, and topologies. It is capable of running over a wide variety of subnetworks, including, but not limited to: ISO 8802 LANs, ISO 8208 and X.25 subnetworks, PSTN networks, and the OSI Data Link Service. (See clause 7.1 of ISO/TR 9575), -Extensibility. It accommodates increased routeing functions, leaving earlier functions as a subset. -Evolution. It allows orderly transition from algorithm to algorithm without shutting down an entire domain. -Deadlock Prevention. The congestion control compo nent prevents buffer deadlock. -Very Large Domains. With hierarchical routeing, and a very large address space, domains of essentially un limited size can be supported. (See clause 7.2 of ISO/TR 9575), -Area Partition Repair. It permits the utilisation of level 2 paths to repair areas which become partitioned due to failing level 1 links or ISs. (See clause 7.7 of ISO/TR 9575), -Determinism. Routes are a function only of the physi cal topology, and not of history. In other words, the same topology will always converge to the same set of routes. -Protection from Mis-delivery. The probability of mis-delivering a NPDU, i.e. delivering it to a Trans port entity in the wrong End System, is extremely low. -Availability. For domain topologies with cut set greater than one, no single point of failure will parti tion the domain. (See clause 7.7 of ISO/TR 9575), -Service Classes. The service classes of transit delay, expense22Expense is referred to as cost in ISO 8473. The latter term is not used here because of possible confusion with the more general usage of the term to indicate path cost according to any routeing metric. , and residual error probability of ISO 8473 are supported through the optional inclusion of multi ple routeing metrics. -Authentication. The protocol is capable of carrying information to be used for the authentication of Inter mediate systems in order to increase the security and robustness of a routeing domain. The specific mecha nism supported in this International Standard how ever, only supports a weak form of authentication us ing passwords, and thus is useful only for protection against accidental misconfiguration errors and does not protect against any serious security threat. In the future, the algorithms may be enhanced to provide stronger forms of authentication than can be provided with passwords without needing to change the PDU encoding or the protocol exchange machinery. 6.6.1 Non-Goals The following are not within the design scope of the intra- domain ISIS routeing protocol described in this Interna tional Standard: -Traffic adaptation. It does not automatically modify routes based on global traffic load. -Source-destination routeing. It does not determine routes by source as well as destination. -Guaranteed delivery. It does not guarantee delivery of all offered NPDUs. -Level 2 Subdomain Partition Repair. It will not util ise Level 1 paths to repair a level 2 subdomain parti tion. For full logical connectivity to be available, a connected level 2 subdomain is required. -Equal treatment for all ES Implementations. The End system poll function defined in 8.4.5 presumes that End systems have implemented the Suggested ES Configuration Timer option of ISO 9542. An End sys tem which does not implement this option may experi ence a temporary loss of connectivity following cer tain types of topology changes on its local subnetwork. 6.7 Environmental Requirements For correct operation of the protocol, certain guarantees are required from the local environment and the Data Link Layer. The required local environment guarantees are: a)Resource allocation such that the certain minimum re source guarantees can be met, including 1)memory (for code, data, and buffers) 2)processing; See 12.2.5 for specific performance levels required for conformance b)A quota of buffers sufficient to perform routeing func tions; c)Access to a timer or notification of specific timer expi ration; and d)A very low probability of corrupting data. The required subnetwork guarantees for point-to-point links are: a)Provision that both source and destination systems complete start-up before PDU exchange can occur; b)Detection of remote start-up; c)Provision that no old PDUs be received after start-up is complete; d)Provision that no PDUs transmitted after a particular startup is complete are delivered out of sequence; e)Provision that failure to deliver a specific subnetwork SDU will result in the timely disconnection of the subnetwork connection in both directions and that this failure will be reported to both systems; and f)Reporting of other subnetwork failures and degraded subnetwork conditions. The required subnetwork guarantees for broadcast links are: a)Multicast capability, i.e., the ability to address a subset of all connected systems with a single PDU; b)The following events are low probability, which means that they occur sufficiently rarely so as not to impact performance, on the order of once per thou sand PDUs 1)Routeing PDU non-sequentiality, 2)Routeing PDU loss due to detected corruption; and 3)Receiver overrun; c)The following events are very low probability, which means performance will be impacted unless they are extremely rare, on the order of less than one event per four years 1)Delivery of NPDUs with undetected data corrup tion; and 2)Non-transitive connectivity, i.e. where system A can receive transmissions from systems B and C, but system B cannot receive transmissions from system C. The following services are assumed to be not available from broadcast links: a)Reporting of failures and degraded subnetwork condi tions that result in NPDU loss, for instance receiver failure. The routeing functions are designed to account for these failures. 6.8 Functional Organisation of Subnetwork Independent Components The Subnetwork Independent Functions are broken down into more specific functional components. These are de scribed briefly in this sub-clause and in detail in clause 7. This International Standard uses a functional decomposition adapted from the model of routeing presented in clause 5.1 of ISO/TR 9575. The decomposition is not identical to that in ISO/TR 9575, since that model is more general and not specifically oriented toward a detailed description of intra- domain routeing functions such as supplied by this proto col. The functional decomposition is shown below in figure 2. 6.8.1 Routeing The routeing processes are: -Decision Process -Update Process NOTE this comprises both the Information Collection and Information Distribution components identified in ISO/TR 9575. -Forwarding Process -Receive Process 6.8.1.1 Decision Process This process calculates routes to each destination in the do main. It is executed separately for level 1 and level 2 route ing, and separately within each level for each of the route ing metrics supported by the Intermediate system. It uses the Link State Database, which consists of information from the latest Link State PDUs from every other Interme diate system in the area, to compute shortest paths from this IS to all other systems in the area 9in figure 2. The Link State Data Base is maintained by the Update Process. Execution of the Decision Process results in the determina tion of [circuit, neighbour] pairs (known as adjacencies), which are stored in the appropriate Forwarding Information base 10 and used by the Forwarding process as paths along which to forward NPDUs. Several of the parameters in the routeing data base that the Decision Process uses are determined by the implementa tion. These include: -maximum number of Intermediate and End systems within the IS's area; -maximum number of Intermediate and End system neighbours of the IS, etc., so that databases can be sized appropriately. Also parame ters such as -routeing metrics for each circuit; and -timers can be adjusted for enhanced performance. The complete list of System Management set-able parameters is listed in clause 11. 6.8.1.2 Update Process This process constructs, receives and propagates Link State PDUs. Each Link State PDU contains information about the identity and routeing metric values of the adjacencies of the IS that originated the Link State PDU. The Update Process receives Link State and Sequence Numbers PDUs from the Receive Process 4in figure 2. It places new routeing information in the routeing infor mation base 6 and propagates routeing information to other Intermediate systems 7and 8 . General characteristics of the Update Process are: -Link State PDUs are generated as a result of topologi cal changes, and also periodically. They may also be generated indirectly as a result of System Manage ment actions (such as changing one of the routeing metrics for a circuit). -Level 1 Link State PDUs are propagated to all Inter mediate systems within an area, but are not propa gated out of an area. -Level 2 Link State PDUs are propagated to all Level 2 Intermediate systems in the domain. -Link State PDUs are not propagated outside of a do main. -The update process, through a set of System Manage ment parameters, enforces an upper bound on the amount of routeing traffic overhead it generates. 6.8.1.3 Forwarding Process This process supplies and manages the buffers necessary to support NPDU relaying to all destinations. It receives, via the Receive Process, ISO 8473 PDUs to be forwarded 5 in figure 2. It performs a lookup in the appropriate33The appropriate Forwarding Database is selected by choosing a routeing metric based on fields in the QoS Maintenance option of ISO 8473. Forwarding Data base 11 to determine the possible output adjacencies to use for forwarding to a given destination, chooses one adjacency 12, generates error indications to ISO 8473 14 , and signals ISO 9542 to issue Redirect PDUs 13. 6.8.1.4 Receive Process The Receive Process obtains its inputs from the following sources -received PDUs with the NPID of Intra-Domain route ing 2 in figure 2, -routeing information derived by the ESIS protocol from the receipt of ISO 9542 PDUs 1; and -ISO 8473 data PDUs handed to the routeing function by the ISO 8473 protocol machine 3. It then performs the appropriate actions, which may involve passing the PDU to some other function (e.g. to the For warding Process for forwarding 5). 7 Subnetwork Independent Functions This clause describes the algorithms and associated data bases used by the routeing functions. The managed objects and attributes defined for System Management purposes are described in clause 11. The following processes and data bases are used internally by the subnetwork independent functions. Following each process or data base title, in parentheses, is the type of sys tems which must keep the database. The system types are L2 (level 2 Intermediate system), and L1 (level 1 Inter mediate system). Note that a level 2 Intermediate system is also a level 1 Intermediate system in its home area, so it must keep level 1 databases as well as level 2 databases. Processes: -Decision Process (L2, L1) -Update Process (L2, L1) -Forwarding Process (L2, L1) -Receive Process (L2, L1) Databases: -Level 1 Link State data base (L2, L1) -Level 2 Link State data base (L2) -Adjacency Database (L2, L1) -Circuit Database (L2, L1) -Level 1 Shortest Paths Database (L2, L1) -Level 2 Shortest Paths Database (L2) -Level 1 Forwarding Databases one per routeing metric (L2, L1) -Level 2 Forwarding Database one per routeing metric (L2) 7.1 Addresses The NSAP addresses and NETs of systems are variable length quantities that conform to the requirements of ISO 8348/Add.2. The corresponding NPAI contained in ISO 8473 PDUs and in this protocol's PDUs (such as LSPs and IIHs) must use the preferred binary encoding; the underly ing syntax for this information may be either abstract binary syntax or abstract decimal syntax. Any of the AFIs and their corresponding DSP syntax may be used with this pro tocol. 7.1.1 NPAI Of Systems Within A Routeing Domain Figure 3 illustrates the structure of an encoded NSAP ad dress or NET. The structure of the NPAI will be interpreted in the follow ing way by the protocol described in this international stan dard: Area Address address of one area within a routeing domain a variable length quantity consisting of the entire high- order part of the NPAI, excluding the ID and SEL fields, defined below. ID System identifier a variable length field from 1 to 8 octets (inclusive). Each routeing domain employ ing this protocol shall select a single size for the ID field and all Intermediate systems in the routeing do main shall use this length for the system IDs of all systems in the routeing domain. The set of ID lengths supported by an implementa tion is an implementation choice, provided that at least one value in the permitted range can be ac cepted. The routeing domain administrator must en sure that all ISs included in a routeing domain are able to use the ID length chosen for that domain. SEL NSAP Selector a 1-octet field which acts as a se lector for the entity which is to receive the PDU(this may be a Transport entity or the Intermediate system Network entity itself). It is the least significant (last) octet of the NPAI. 7.1.2 Deployment of Systems For correct operation of the routeing protocol defined in this international standard, systems deployed in a routeing domain must meet the following requirements: a)For all systems: 1)Each system in an area must have a unique sys temID: that is, no two systems (IS or ES) in an area can use the same ID value. 2)Each area address must be unique within the global OSIE: that is, a given area address can be associ ated with only one area. 3)All systems having a given value of area address must be located in the same area. b)Additional Requirements for Intermediate systems: 1)Each Level 2 Intermediate system within a route ing domain must have a unique value for its ID field: that is, no two level 2 ISs in a routeing do main can have the same value in their ID fields. c)Additional Requirements for End systems: 1)No two End systems in an area may have ad dresses that match in all but the SEL fields. d)An End system can be attached to a level 1 IS only if its area address matches one of the entries in the adja cent IS's manual
Area
Addresses parameter.
It is the responsibility of the routeing domain's administra
tive authority to enforce the requirements of 7.1.2. The pro
tocol defined in this international standard assumes that
these requirements are met, but has no means to verify
compliance with them.
7.1.3 Manual area addresses
The use of several synonymous area addresses by an IS is
accommodated through the use of the management parame
ter manual
Area
Addresses. This parameter is set locally for each level 1 IS by system management; it contains a list of all synonymous area addresses associated with the IS, in cluding the IS's area address as contained in its own NET. Each level 1 IS distributes its manual
Area
Addresses in its Level 1 LSP's Area Addresses field, thus allowing level 2 ISs to create a composite list of all area addresses supported within a given area. Level 2 ISs in turn advertise the composite list throughout the level 2 subdomain by in cluding it in their Level 2 LSP's Area Addresses field, thus distributing information on all the area addresses asso ciated with the entire routeing domain. The procedures for establishing an adjacency between two level 1 ISs require that there be at least one area address in common between their two manual
Area
Addresses lists, and the proce dures for establishing an adjacency between a level 1 Is and an End system require that the End system's area address must match an entry in the IS's manual
Area
Addresses list. Therefore, it is the responsibility of System Manage ment to ensure that each area address associated with an IS is included: in particular, system management must ensure that the area addresses of all ESs and Level 1 ISs adjacent to a given level 1 IS are included in that IS's manual
Area
Addresses list.
If the area address field for the destination address of an
8473 PDU or for the next entry in its source routeing
field, when present is not listed in the parameter area
Addresses of a level 1 IS receiving the PDU, then the destination system does not reside in the IS's area. Such PDUs will be routed by level-2 routeing. 7.1.4 Encoding of Level 2 Addresses When a full NSAP address is encoded according to the pre ferred binary encoding specified in ISO 8348/Add.2, the IDI is padded with leading digits (if necessary) to obtain the maximum IDP length specified for that AFI. A Level 2 address prefix consists of a leading sub-string of a full NSAP address, such that it matches a set of full NSAP addresses that have the same leading sub-string. However this truncation and matching is performed on the NSAP represented by the abstract syntax of the NSAP ad dress, not on the encoded (and hence padded) form.11An example of prefix matching may be found in annex B, clause B.1. Level 2 address prefixes are encoded in LSPs in the same way as full NSAP addresses, except when the end of the prefix falls within the IDP. In this case the prefix is directly encoded as the string of semi-octets with no padding. 7.1.5 Comparison of Addresses Unless otherwise stated, numerical comparison of addresses shall be performed on the encoded form of the address, by padding the shorter address with trailing zeros to the length of the longer address, and then performing a numerical comparison. The addresses to which this precedure applies include NSAP addresses, Network Entity Titles, and SNPA ad dresses. 7.2 The Decision Process This process uses the database of Link State information to calculate the forwarding database(s), from which the for warding process can know the proper next hop for each NPDU. The Level 1 Link State Database is used for calcu lating the Level 1 Forwarding Database(s), and the Level 2 Link State Database is used for calculating the Level 2 For warding Database(s). 7.2.1 Input and output INPUT -Link State Database This database is a set of infor mation from the latest Link State PDUs from all known Intermediate systems (within this area, for Level 1, or within the level 2 subdomain, for Level 2). This database is received from the Update Process. -Notification of an Event This is a signal from the Update Process that a change to a link has occurred somewhere in the domain. OUTPUT -Level 1 Forwarding Databases one per routeing metric -(Level 2 Intermediate systems only) Level 2 Forward ing Databases one per routeing metric -(Level 2 Intermediate systems only) The Level 1 De cision Process informs the Level 2 Update Process of the ID of the Level 2 Intermediate system within the area with lowest ID reachable with real level 1 links (as opposed to a virtual link consisting of a path through the level 2 subdomain) -(Level 2 Intermediate systems only) If this Intermedi ate system is the Partition Designated Level 2 Inter mediate system in this partition, the Level 2 Decision Process informs the Level 1 Update Process of the values of the default routeing metric to and ID of the partition designated level 2 Intermediate system in each other partition of this area. 7.2.2 Routeing metrics There are four routeing metrics defined, corresponding to the four possible orthogonal qualities of service defined by the QoS Maintenance field of ISO 8473. Each circuit ema nating from an Intermediate system shall be assigned a value for one or more of these metrics by System manage ment. The four metrics are as follows: a)Default metric: This is a metric understood by every Intermediate system in the domain. Each circuit shall have a positive integral value assigned for this metric. The value may be associated with any objective func tion of the circuit, but by convention is intended to measure the capacity of the circuit for handling traffic, for example, its throughput in bits-per-second. Higher values indicate a lower capacity. b)Delay metric: This metric measures the transit delay of the associated circuit. It is an optional metric, which if assigned to a circuit shall have a positive integral value. Higher values indicate a longer transit delay. c)Expense metric: This metric measures the monetary cost of utilising the associated circuit. It is an optional metric, which if assigned to a circuit shall have a posi tive integral value22The path computation algorithm utilised in this International Standard requires that all circuits be assigned a positive value for a metric. Therefore, it is not possible to represent a free circuit by a zero value of the expense metric. By convention, the value 1 is used to indicate a free circuit. . Higher values indicate a larger monetary expense. d)Error metric: This metric measures the residual error probability of the associated circuit. It is an optional metric, which if assigned to a circuit shall have a non- zero value. Higher values indicate a larger probability of undetected errors on the circuit. NOTE - The decision process combines metric values by simple addition. It is important, therefore, that the values of the metrics be chosen accordingly. Every Intermediate system shall be capable of calculating routes based on the default metric. Support of any or all of the other metrics is optional. If an Intermediate system sup ports the calculation of routes based on a metric, its update process may report the metric value in the LSPs for the as sociated circuit; otherwise, the IS shall not report the met ric. When calculating paths for one of the optional routeing metrics, the decision process only utilises LSPs with a value reported for the corresponding metric. If no value is associated with a metric for any of the IS's circuits the sys tem shall not calculate routes based on that metric. NOTE - A consequence of the above is that a system reach able via the default metric may not be reachable by another metric. See 7.4.2 for a description of how the forwarding process selects one of these metrics based on the contents of the ISO 8473 QoS Maintenance option. Each of the four metrics described above may be of two types: an Internal metric or an External metric. Internal metrics are used to describe links/routes to destinations in ternal to the routeing domain. External metrics are used to describe links/routes to destinations outside of the routeing domain. These two types of metrics are not directly compa rable, except the internal routes are always preferred over external routes. In other words an internal route will always be selected even if an external route with lower total cost exists. 7.2.3 Broadcast Subnetworks Instead of treating a broadcast subnetwork as a fully con nected topology, the broadcast subnetwork is treated as a pseudonode, with links to each attached system. Attached systems shall only report their link to the pseudonode. The designated Intermediate system, on behalf of the pseudonode, shall construct Link State PDUs reporting the links to all the systems on the broadcast subnetwork with a zero value for each supported routeing metric33They are set to zero metric values since they have already been assigned metrics by the link to the pseudonode. Assigning a non-zero value in the pseudonode LSP would have the effect of doubling the actual value. . The pseudonode shall be identified by the sourceID of the Designated Intermediate system, followed by a non-zero pseudonodeID assigned by the Designated Intermediate system. The pseudonodeID is locally unique to the Desig nated Intermediate system. Designated Intermediate systems are determined separately for level 1 and level 2. They are known as the LAN Level 1 Designated IS and the LAN Level 2 Designated IS respec tively. See 8.4.4. An Intermediate system may resign as Designated Interme diate System on a broadcast circuit either because it (or it's SNPA on the broadcast subnetwork) is being shut down or because some other Intermediate system of higher priority has taken over that function. When an Intermediate system resigns as Designated Intermediate System, it shall initiate a network wide purge of its pseudonode Link State PDU(s) by setting their Remaining Lifetime to zero and performing the actions described in 7.3.16.4. A LAN Level 1 Desig nated Intermediate System purges Level 1 Link State PDUs and a LAN Level 2 Designated Intermediate System purges Level 2 Link State PDUs. An Intermediate system which has resigned as both Level 1 and Level 2 Designated Inter mediate System shall purge both sets of LSPs. When an Intermediate system declares itself as designated Intermediate system and it is in possession of a Link State PDU of the same level issued by the previous Designated Intermediate System for that circuit (if any), it shall initiate a network wide purge of that (or those) Link State PDU(s) as above. 7.2.4 Links Two Intermediate systems are not considered neighbours unless each reports the other as directly reachable over one of their SNPAs. On a Connection-oriented subnetwork (either point-to-point or general topology), the two Interme diate systems in question shall ascertain their neighbour re lationship when a connection is established and hello PDUs exchanged. A malfunctioning IS might, however, report an other IS to be a neighbour when in fact it is not. To detect this class of failure the decision process checks that each link reported as up in a LSP is so reported by both Inter mediate systems. If an Intermediate system considers a link down it shall not mention the link in its Link State PDUs. On broadcast subnetworks, this class of failure shall be de tected by the designated IS, which has the responsibility to ascertain the set of Intermediate systems that can all com municate on the subnetwork. The designated IS shall in clude these Intermediate systems (and no others) in the Link State PDU it generates for the pseudonode represent ing the broadcast subnetwork. 7.2.5 Multiple LSPs for the same system The Update process is capable of dividing a single logical LSP into a number of separate PDUs for the purpose of conserving link bandwidth and processing (see 7.3.4). The Decision Process, on the other hand, shall regard the LSP with LSP Number zero in a special way. If the LSP with LSP Number zero and remaining lifetime > 0, is not present for a particular system then the Decision Process shall not process any LSPs with non-zero LSP Number which may be stored for that system. The following information shall be taken only from the LSP with LSP Number zero. Any values which may be present in other LSPs for that system shall be disregarded by the Decision Process. a)The setting of the LSP Database Overload bit. b)The value of the IS Type field. c)The Area Addresses option. 7.2.6 Routeing Algorithm Overview The routeing algorithm used by the Decision Process is a shortest path first (SPF) algorithm. Instances of the algo rithm are run independently and concurrently by all Inter mediate systems in a routeing domain. Intra-Domain route ing of a PDU occurs on a hop-by-hop basis: that is, the al gorithm determines only the next hop, not the complete path, that a data PDU will take to reach its destination. To guarantee correct and consistent route computation by every Intermediate system in a routeing domain, this Inter national Standard depends on the following properties: a)All Intermediate systems in the routeing domain con verge to using identical topology information; and b)Each Intermediate system in the routeing domain gen erates the same set of routes from the same input to pology and set of metrics. The first property is necessary in order to prevent inconsis tent, potentially looping paths. The second property is nec essary to meet the goal of determinism stated in 6.6. A system executes the SPF algorithm to find a set of legal paths to a destination system in the routeing domain. The set may consist of: a)a single path of minimum metric sum: these are termed minimum cost paths; b)a set of paths of equal minimum metric sum: these are termed equal minimum cost paths; or c)a set of paths which will get a PDU closer to its desti nation than the local system: these are called down stream paths. Paths which do not meet the above conditions are illegal and shall not be used. The Decision Process, in determining its paths, also ascer tains the identity of the adjacency which lies on the first hop to the destination on each path. These adjacencies are used to form the Forwarding Database, which the forward ing process uses for relaying PDUs. Separate route calculations are made for each pairing of a level in the routeing hierarchy (i.e. L1 and L2) with a sup ported routeing metric. Since there are four routeing metrics and two levels some systems may execute multiple in stances of the SPF algorithm. For example, -if an IS is a L2 Intermediate system which supports all four metrics and computes minimum cost paths for all metrics, it would execute the SPF calculation eight times. -if an IS is a L1 Intermediate system which supports all four metrics, and additionally computes downstream paths, it would execute the algorithm 4 W (number of neighbours + 1) times. Any implementation of an SPF algorithm meeting both the static and dynamic conformance requirements of clause 12 of this International Standard may be used. Recommended implementations are described in detail in Annex C. 7.2.7 Removal of Excess Paths When there are more than max
i
mum
Path
Splits legal paths to a destination, this set shall be pruned until only max
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mum
Path
Splits remain. The Intermediate system shall discriminate based upon: NOTE - The precise precedence among the paths is speci fied in order to meet the goal of determinism defined in 6.6. -adjacency type: Paths associated with End system or level 2 reachable address prefix adjacencies are re tained in preference to other adjacencies -metric sum: Paths having a lesser metric sum are re tained in preference to paths having a greater metric sum. By metric sum is understood the sum of the metrics along the path to the destination. -neighbour ID: where two or more paths are associ ated with adjacencies of the same type, an adjacency with a lower neighbour ID is retained in preference to an adjacency with a higher neighbour id. -circuit ID: where two or more paths are associated with adjacencies of the same type, and same neigh bour ID, an adjacency with a lower circuit ID is re tained in preference to an adjacency with a higher cir cuit ID, where circuit ID is the value of: 7ptPtCircuitID for non-broadcast circuits, 7l1CircuitID for broadcast circuits when running the Level 1 Decision Process, and 7l2CircuitID for broadcast circuits when running the Level 2 Decision Process. -lANAddress: where two or more adjacencies are of the same type, same neighbour ID, and same circuit ID (e.g. a system with multiple LAN adapters on the same circuit) an adjacency with a lower lANAddress is retained in preference to an adjacency with a higher lANAddress. 7.2.8 Robustness Checks 7.2.8.1 Computing Routes through Overloaded Intermediate systems The Decision Process shall not utilise a link to an Interme diate system neighbour from an IS whose LSPs have the LSP Database Overload indication set. Such paths may in troduce loops since the overloaded IS does not have a com plete routeing information base. The Decision Process shall, however utilise the link to reach End system neighbours since these paths are guaranteed to be non-looping. 7.2.8.2 Two-way connectivity check The Decision Process shall not utilise a link between two Intermediate Systems unless both ISs report the link. NOTE - the check is not applicable to links to an End Sys tem. Reporting the link indicates that it has a defined value for at least the default routeing metric. It is permissible for two endpoints to report different defined values of the same metric for the same link. In this case, routes may be asym metric. 7.2.9 Construction of a Forwarding Database The information that is needed in the forwarding database for routeing metric k is the set of adjacencies for each sys tem N. 7.2.9.1 Identification of Nearest Level 2 IS by a Level 1 IS Level 1 Intermediate systems need one additional piece of information per routeing metric: the next hop to the nearest level 2 Intermediate system according to that routeing met ric. A level 1 IS shall ascertain the set, R, of attached level 2 Intermediate system(s) for metric k such that the to tal cost to R for metric k is minimal. If there are more adjacencies in this set than max
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Path
Splits, then the IS shall remove excess adjacencies as described in 7.2.7. 7.2.9.2 Setting the Attached Flag in Level 2 Intermediate Systems If a level 2 Intermediate system discovers, after computing the level 2 routes for metric k, that it cannot reach any other areas using that metric, it shall: -set AttachedFlag for metric k to False; -regenerate its Level 1 LSP with LSP number zero; and -compute the nearest level 2 Intermediate system for metric k for insertion in the appropriate forwarding database, according to the algorithm described in 7.2.9.1 for level 1 Intermediate systems. NOTE - AttachedFlag for each metric k is examined by the Update Process, so that it will report the value in the ATT field of its Link State PDUs. If a level 2 Intermediate system discovers, after computing the level 2 routes for metric k, that it can reach at least one other area using that metric, it shall -set AttachedFlag for metric k to True; -regenerate its Level 1 LSP with LSP number zero; and -set the level 1 forwarding database entry for metric k which corresponds to nearest level 2 Intermediate system to Self. 7.2.10 Information for Repairing Partitioned Areas An area may become partitioned as a result of failure of one or more links in the area. However, if each of the partitions has a connection to the level 2 subdomain, it is possible to repair the partition via the level 2 subdomain, provided that the level 2 subdomain itself is not partitioned. This is illus trated in Figure 4. All the systems A I, R and P are in the same area n. When the link between D and E is broken, the area be comes partitioned. Within each of the partitions the Parti tion Designated Level 2 Intermediate system is selected from among the level 2 Intermediate systems in that parti tion. In the case of partition 1 this is P, and in the case of partition 2 this is R. The level 1 repair path is then estab lished between between these two level 2 Intermediate sys tems. Note that the repaired link is now between P and R, not between D and E. The Partition Designated Level 2 Intermediate Systems re pair the partition by forwarding NPDUs destined for other partitions of the area through the level 2 subdomain. They do this by acting in their capacity as Level 1 Intermediate Systems and advertising in their Level 1 LSPs adjacencies to each Partition Designated Level 2 Intermediate System in the area. This adjacency is known as a Virtual Adja cency or Virtual Link. Thus other Level 1 Intermediate Systems in a partition calculate paths to the other partitions through the Partition Designated Level 2 Intermediate Sys tem. A Partition Designated Level 2 Intermediate System forwards the Level 1 NPDUs through the level 2 subdomain by encapsulating them in 8473 Data NPDUs with its Virtual Network Entity Title as the source NSAP and the adja cent Partition Designated Level 2 Intermediate System's Virtual Network Entity Title as the destination NSAP. The following sub-clauses describe this in more detail. 7.2.10.1 Partition Detection and Virtual Level 1 Link Creation Partitions of a Level 1 area are detected by the Level 2 In termediate System(s) operating within the area. In order to participate in the partition repair process, these Level 2 In termediate systems must also act as Level 1 Intermediate systems in the area. A partition of a given area exists when ever two or more Level 2 ISs located in that area are re ported in the L2 LSPs as being a Partition Designated Level 2 IS. Conversely, when only one Level 2 IS in an area is reported as being the Partition Designated Level 2 IS, then that area is not partitioned. Partition repair is ac complished by the Partition Designated Level 2 IS. The election of the Partition Designated Level 2 IS as described in the next subsection must be done before the detection and repair process can begin. In order to repair a partition of a Level 1 area, the Partition designated Level 2 IS creates a Virtual Network Entity to represent the partition. The Network Entity Title for this virtual network entity shall be constructed from the first listed area address from its Level 2 Link State PDU, and the ID of the Partition Designated Level 2 IS. The IS shall also construct a virtual link (represented by a new Virtual Adja cency managed object) to each Partition Designated Level 2 IS in the area, with the NET of the partition recorded in the Identifier attribute. The virtual links are the repair paths for the partition. They are reported by the Partition Designated Level 2 IS into the entire Level 1 area by adding the ID of each adjacent Partition Designated Level 2 IS to the In termediate System Neighbours field of its Level 1 Link State PDU. The Virtual Flag shall be set True for these Intermediate System neighbours. The metric value for this virtual link shall be the default metric value d(N) obtained from this system's Level 2 PATHS database, where N is the adjacent Partition Designated Level 2 IS via the Level 2 subdomain. An Intermediate System which operates as the Partition Designated Level 2 Intermediate System shall perform the following steps after completing the Level 2 shortest path computation in order to detect partitions in the Level 1 area and create repair paths: a)Examine Level 2 Link State PDUs of all Level 2 Inter mediate systems. Search area
Addresses for any ad dress that matches any of the addresses in partition
Area
Addresses. If a match is found, and the Parti tion Designated Level 2 Intermediate system's ID does not equal this system's ID, then inform the level 1 update process at this system of the identity of the Partition Designated Level 2 Intermediate system, to gether with the path cost for the default routeing met ric to that Intermediate system. b)Continue examining Level 2 LSPs until all Partition Designated Level 2 Intermediate systems in other par titions of this area are found, and inform the Level 1 Update Process of all of the other Partition Designated Level 2 Intermediate systems in other partitions of this area, so that 1)Level 1 Link State PDUs can be propagated to all other Partition designated level 2 Intermediate sys tems for this area (via the level 2 subdomain). 2)All the Partition Designated Level 2 Intermediate systems for other partitions of this area can be re ported as adjacencies in this system's Level 1 Link State PDUs. If a partition has healed, the IS shall destroy the associated virtual network entity and virtual link by deleting the Vir tual Adjacency. The Partition Designated Level 2 IS de tects a healed partition when another Partition Designated Level 2 IS listed as a virtual link in its Level 1 Link State PDU was not found after running the partition detection and virtual link creation algorithm described above. If such a Virtual Adjacency is created or destroyed, the IS shall generate a partitionVirtualLinkChange notification. 7.2.10.2 Election of Partition Designated Level 2 Intermediate System The Partition Designated Level 2 IS is a Level 2 IS which: -reports itself as attached by the default metric in its LSPs; -reports itself as implementing the partition repair op tion; -operates as a Level 1 IS in the area; -is reachable via Level 1 routeing without traversing any virtual links; and -has the lowest ID The election of the Partition Designated Level 2 IS is per formed by running the decision process algorithm after the Level 1 decision process has finished, and before the Level 2 decision process to determine Level 2 paths is exe cuted. In order to guarantee that the correct Partition Designated Level 2 IS is elected, the decision process is run using only the Level 1 LSPs for the area, and by examining only the Intermediate System Neighbours whose Virtual Flag is FALSE. The results of this decision process is a set of all the Level 1 Intermediate Systems in the area that can be reached via Level 1, non-virtual link routeing. From this set, the Partition Designated Level 2 IS is selected by choosing the IS for which -IS Type (as reported in the Level 1 LSP) is Level 2 Intermediate System; -ATT indicates attached by the default metric; -P indicates support for the partition repair option; and -ID is the lowest among the subset of attached Level 2 Intermediate Systems. 7.2.10.3 Computation of Partition area addresses A Level 2 Intermediate System shall compute the set of partition
Area
Addresses, which is the union of all manual
area
Addresses as reported in the Level 1 Link State PDUs of all Level 2 Intermediate systems reachable in the partition by the traversal of non-virtual links. If more than max
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Addresses are present, the Interme diate system shall retain only those areas with numerically lowest area address (as described in 7.1.5). If one of the lo cal system's manual
Area
Addresses is so rejected the notification manualAddressDroppedFromArea shall be generated. 7.2.10.4 Encapsulation of NPDUs Across the Virtual Link All NPDUs sent over virtual links shall be encapsulated as ISO 8473 Data NPDUs. The encapsulating Data NPDU shall contain the Virtual Network Entity Title of the Parti tion Designated Level 2 IS that is forwarding the NPDU over the virtual link in the Source Address field, and the Virtual NET of the adjacent Partition Designated Level 2 IS in the Destination Address field. The SEL field in both NSAPs shall contain the IS-IS routeing selector value. The QoS Maintenance field of the outer PDU shall be set to indicate forwarding via the default routeing metric (see table 1 on page 32). For Data and Error Report NPDUs the Segmentation Permitted and Error Report flags and the Lifetime field of the outer NPDU shall be copied from the inner NPDU. When the inner NPDU is decapsulated, its Lifetime field shall be set to the value of the Lifetime field in the outer NPDU. For LSPs and SNPs the Segmentation Permitted flag shall be set to True and the Error Report flag shall be set to False. The Lifetime field shall be set to 255. When an inner LSP is decapsulated, its remaining lifetime shall be decremented by half the difference between 255 and the value of the Lifetime field in the outer NPDU. Data NPDUs shall not be fragmented before encapsulation, unless the total length of the Data NPDU (including header) exceeds 65535 octets. In that case, the original Data NPDU shall first be fragmented, then encapsulated. In all cases, the encapsulated Data NPDU may need to be fragmented by ISO 8473 before transmission in which case it must be reassembled and decapsulated by the destination Partition Designated Level 2 IS. The encapsulation is further de scribed as part of the forwarding process in 7.4.3.2. The decapsulation is described as part of the Receive process in 7.4.4. 7.2.11 Computation of area addresses A Level 1 or Level 2 Intermediate System shall compute the values of area
Addresses (the set of area addresses for this Level 1 area), by forming the union of the sets of manual
area
Addresses reported in the Area Addresses field of all Level 1 LSPs with LSP number zero in the local Intermediate system's link state database. NOTE - This includes all source systems, whether currently reachable or not. It also includes the local Intermediate sys tem's own Level 1 LSP with LSP number zero. NOTE - There is no requirement for this set to be updated immediately on each change to the database contents. It is permitted to defer the computation until the next running of the Decision Process. If more than max
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Area
Addresses are present, the Intermediate system shall retain only those areas with nu merically lowest area address (as described in 7.1.5). If one of the local system's manual
area
Addresses is rejected the notification manual
Address
Dropped
From
Area shall be generated. 7.2.12 Order of Preference of Routes If an Intermediate system takes part in level 1 routeing, and determines (by looking at the area address) that a given des tination is reachable within its area, then that destination will be reached exclusively by use of level 1 routeing. In particular: a)Level 1 routeing is always based on internal metrics. b)Amongst routes in the area, routes on which the re quested QoS (if any) is supported are always preferred to routes on which the requested QoS is not supported. c)Amongst routes in the area of the same QoS, the short est routes are preferred. For determination of the shortest path, if a route with specific QoS support is available, then the specified QoS metric is used, other wise the default metric is used. d)Amongst routes of equal cost, load splitting may be performed. If an Intermediate system takes part in level 1 routeing, does not take part in level 2 routeing, and determines (by looking at the area address) that a given destination is not reachable within its area, and at least one attached level 2 IS is reachable in the area, then that destination will be reached by routeing to a level 2 Intermediate system as fol lows: a)Level 1 routeing is always based on internal metrics. b)Amongst routes in the area to attached level 2 ISs, routes on which the requested QoS (if any) is sup ported are always preferred to routes on which the re quested QoS is not supported. c)Amongst routes in the area of the same QoS to at tached level 2 ISs, the shortest route is preferred. For determination of the shortest path, if a route on which the specified QoS is available, then the specified QoS metric is used, otherwise the default metric is used. d)Amongst routes of equal cost, load splitting may be performed. If an Intermediate system takes part in level 2 routeing and is attached, and the IS determines (by looking at the area address) that a given destination is not reachable within its area, then that destination will be reached as follows: a)Routes on which the requested QoS (if any) is sup ported are always preferred to routes on which the re quested QoS is not supported. b)Amongst routes of the same QoS, routes are priori tised as follows: 1)Highest precedence: routes matching the area ad dress of any area in the routeing domain 2)Medium precedence: Routes matching a reachable address prefix with an internal metric. For destina tions matching multiple reachable address prefix entries all with internal metrics, the longest prefix shall be preferred. 3)Lowest precedence: Routes matching a reachable address prefix with an external metric. For destina tions matching multiple reachable address prefix entries all with external metrics, the longest prefix shall be preferred. c)For routes with equal precedence as specified above, the shortest path shall be preferred. For determination of the shortest path, a route supporting the specified QoS is used if available; otherwise a route using the default metric shall be used. Amongst routes of equal cost, load splitting may be performed. 7.3 The Update Process The Update Process is responsible for generating and propagating Link State information reliably throughout the routeing domain. The Link State information is used by the Decision Process to calculate routes. 7.3.1 Input and Output INPUT -Adjacency Database maintained by the Subnetwork Dependent Functions -Reachable Address managed objects - maintained by System Management -Notification of Adjacency Database Change notifi cation by the Subnetwork Dependent Functions that an adjacency has come up, gone down, or changed cost. (Circuit up, Circuit down, Adjacency Up, Adja cency Down, and Cost change events) -AttachedFlag (level 2 Intermediate systems only), a flag computed by the Level 2 Decision Process indi cating whether this system can reach (via level 2 routeing) other areas -Link State PDUs The Receive Process passes Link State PDUs to the Update Process, along with an indi cation of which adjacency it was received on. -Sequence Numbers PDUs The Receive Process passes Sequence Numbers PDUs to the Update Proc ess, along with an indication of which adjacency it was received on. -Other Partitions The Level 2 Decision Process makes available (to the Level 1 Update Process on a Level 2 Intermediate system) a list of aPartition Desig nated Level 2 Intermediate system, Level 2 default metric valueq pairs, for other partitions of this area. OUTPUT -Link State Database -Signal to the Decision Process of an event, which is either the receipt of a Link State PDU with different information from the stored one, or the purging of a Link State PDU from the database. The reception of a Link State PDU which has a different sequence num ber or Remaining Lifetime from one already stored in the database, but has an identical variable length por tion, shall not cause such an event. NOTE - An implementation may compare the checksum of the stored Link State PDU, modified according to the change in sequence number, with the checksum of the re ceived Link State PDU. If they differ, it may assume that the variable length portions are different and an event signalled to the Decision Process. However, if the checksums are the same, an octet for octet comparison must be made in order to determine whether or not to signal the event. 7.3.2 Generation of Local Link State Information The Update Process is responsible for constructing a set of Link State PDUs. The purpose of these Link State PDUs is to inform all the other Intermediate systems (in the area, in the case of Level 1, or in the Level 2 subdomain, in the case of Level 2), of the state of the links between the Intermedi ate system that generated the PDUs and its neighbours. The Update Process in an Intermediate system shall gener ate one or more new Link State PDUs under the following circumstances: a)upon timer expiration; b)when notified by the Subnetwork Dependent Func tions of an Adjacency Database Change; c)when a change to some Network Management charac teristic would cause the information in the LSP to change (for example, a change in manual
area
Addresses). 7.3.3 Use of Manual Routeing Information Manual routeing information is routeing information en tered by system management. It may be specified in two forms. a)Manual Adjacencies b)Reachable Addresses These are described in the following sub-clauses. 7.3.3.1 Manual Adjacencies An End system adjacency may be created by System Man agement. Such an adjacency is termed a manual End sys tem adjacency. In order to create a manual End system ad jacency, system managements shall specify: a)the (set of) system IDs reachable over that adjacency; and b)the corresponding SNPA Address. These adjacencies shall appear as adjacencies with type Manual, neighbourSystemType End system and state Up. Such adjacencies provide input to the Update Process in a similar way to adjacencies created through the operation of ISO 9542. When the state changes to Up the adjacency information is included in the Intermediate Sys tem's own Level 1 LSPs. NOTE - Manual End system adjacencies shall not be in cluded in a Level 1 LSPs issued on behalf of a pseudonode, since that would presuppose that all Intermediate systems on a broadcast subnetwork had the same set of manual adjacen cies as defined for this circuit. Metrics assigned to Manual adjacencies must be Internal metrics. 7.3.3.2 Reachable Addresses A Level 2 Intermediate system may have a number of Reachable Address managed objects created by System management. When a Reachable Address is in state On and its parent Circuit is also in state On, the name and each of its defined routeing metrics shall be included in Level 2 LSPs generated by this system. Metrics assigned to Reachable Address managed objects may be either Internal or External. A reachable address is considered to be active when all the following conditions are true: a)The parent circuit is in state On; b)the Reachable Address is in state On; and c)the parent circuit is of type broadcast or is in data link state Running. Whenever a reachable address changes from being inac tive to active a signal shall be generated to the Update process to cause it to include the Address Prefix of the reachable address in the Level 2 LSPs generated by that system as described in 7.3.9. Whenever a reachable address changes from being active to inactive, a signal shall be generated to the Update process to cause it to cease including the Address Prefix of the reachable address in the Level 2 LSPs. 7.3.4 Multiple LSPs Because a Link State PDU is limited in size to Receive
LSP
Buffer
Size, it may not be possible to include infor mation about all of a system's neighbours in a single LSP. In such cases, a system may use multiple LSPs to convey this information. Each LSP in the set carries the same sourceID field (see clause 9), but sets its own LSP Num ber field individually. Each of the several LSPs is handled independently by the Update Process, thus allowing distri bution of topology updates to be pipelined. However, the Decision Process recognises that they all pertain to a com mon originating system because they all use the same sourceID. NOTE - Even if the amount of information is small enough to fit in a single LSP, a system may optionally choose to use several LSPs to convey it; use of a single LSP in this situ ation is not mandatory. NOTE - In order to minimise the transmission of redundant information, it is advisable for an IS to group Reachable Address Prefix information by the circuit with which it is as sociated. Doing so will ensure that the minimum number of LSP fragments need be transmitted if a circuit to another routeing domain changes state. The maximum sized Level 1 or Level 2 LSP which may be generated by a system is controlled by the values of the management parameters originating
L1
LSP
Buf
fer
Size or ori
ginat
ing
L2
LSP
Buffer
Size respectively. NOTE - These parameters should be set consistently by sys tem management. If this is not done, some adjacencies will fail to initialise. The IS shall treat the LSP with LSP Number zero in a spe cial way, as follows: a)The following fields are meaningful to the decision process only when they are present in the LSP with LSP Number zero: 1)The setting of the LSP Database Overload bit. 2)The value of the IS Type field. 3)The Area Addresses option. (This is only present in the LSP with LSP Number zero, see below). b)When the values of any of the above items are changed, an Intermediate System shall re-issue the LSP with LSP Number zero, to inform other Interme diate Systems of the change. Other LSPs need not be reissued. Once a particular adjacency has been assigned to a particu lar LSP Number, it is desirable that it not be moved to an other LSP Number. This is because moving an adjacency from one LSP to another can cause temporary loss of connectivity to that system. This can occur if the new ver sion of the LSP which originally contained information about the adjacency (which now does not contain that infor mation) is propagated before the new version of the other LSP (which now contains the information about the adja cency). In order to minimise the impact of this, the follow ing restrictions are placed on the assignment of information to LSPs. a)The Area Addresses option field shall occur only in the LSP with LSP Number zero. b)Intermediate System Neighbours options shall occur after the Area Addresses option and before any End System (or in the case of Level 2, Prefix) Neigh bours options. c)End System (or Prefix) Neighbour options (if any) shall occur after any Area Address or Intermediate System Neighbour options. NOTE In this context, after means at a higher octet number from the start of the same LSP or in an LSP with a higher LSP Number. NOTE An implementation is recommended to ensure that the number of LSPs generated for a particular system is within approximately 10% of the optimal number which would be required if all LSPs were densely packed with neighbour options. Where possible this should be accomplished by re-using space in LSPs with a lower LSP Number for new adjacencies. If it is necessary to move an adjacency from one LSP to another, the SRMflags (see 7.3.15) for the two new LSPs shall be set as an atomic action.44If the two SRMflags are not set atomically, a race condition will exist in which one of the two LSPs may be propagated quickly, while the other waits for an entire propagation cycle. If this occurs, adjacencies will be falsely eliminated from the topology and routes may become unstable for period of time potentially as large as maximumLSPGeneratonInterval. When some event requires changing the LSP information for a system, the system shall reissue that (or those) LSPs which would have different contents. It is not required to reissue the unchanged LSPs. Thus a single End system ad jacency change only requires the reissuing of the LSP con taining the End System Neighbours option referring to that adjacency. The parameters max
imum
LSP
Gen
er
a
tion
Int
er
val and minimumLSPGenerationInterval shall
apply to each LSP individually.
7.3.5 Periodic LSP Generation
The Update Process shall periodically re-generate and
propagate on every circuit with an IS adjacency of the ap
propriate level (by setting SRMflag on each circuit), all the
LSPs (Level 1 and/or Level 2) for the local system and any
pseudonodes for which it is responsible. The Intermediate
system shall re-generate each LSP at intervals of at most
max
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mum
LSP
Gen
era
tion
Interval seconds, with jitter
applied as described in 10.1.
These LSPs may all be generated on expiration of a single
timer or alternatively separate timers may be kept for each
LSP Number and the individual LSP generated on expira
tion of this timer.
7.3.6 Event Driven LSP Generation
In addition to the periodic generation of LSPs, an Interme
diate system shall generate an LSP when an event occurs
which would cause the information content to change. The
following events may cause such a change.
-an Adjacency or Circuit Up/Down event
- a change in Circuit metric
-a change in Reachable Address metric
-a change in manual
Area
Addresses -a change in systemID -a change in Designated Intermediate System status -a change in the waiting status When such an event occurs the IS shall re-generate changed LSP(s) with a new sequence number. If the event necessi tated the generation of an LSP which had not previously been generated (for example, an adjacency Up event for an adjacency which could not be accommodated in an exist ing LSP), the sequence number shall be set to one. The IS shall then propagate the LSP(s) on every circuit by setting SRMflag for each circuit. The timer maximum
LSP
Gen
er
ation
Interval shall not be reset. There is a hold-down timer (min
i
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LSP
Generation
Interval) on the generation of each individual LSP.
7.3.7 Generation of Level 1 LSPs
(non-pseudonode)
The Level 1 Link State PDU not generated on behalf of a
pseudonode contains the following information in its vari
able length fields.
-In the Area Addresses option the set of manual
Area
Addresses for this Intermediate System. -In the Intermediate System Neighbours option the set of Intermediate system IDs of neighbouring In termediate systems formed from: 7The set of neighbourSystemIDs with an ap pended zero octet (indicating non-pseudonode) from adjacencies in the state Up, on circuits of type Point-Point, In or Out, with xneighbourSystemType L1 Intermediate System xneighbourSystemType L2 Intermediate System and adjacencyUsage Level 2 or Level1 and 2. The metrics shall be set to the values of Level 1 metrick of the circuit for each supported routeing metric. 7The set of l1CircuitIDs for all circuits of type Broadcast (i.e. the neighbouring pseudonode IDs) . The metrics shall be set to the values of Level 1 metrick of the circuit for each supported routeing metric. 7The set of IDs with an appended zero octet derived from the Network Entity Titles of all Virtual Adja cencies of this IS. (Note that the Virtual Flag is set when encoding these entries in the LSP see 7.2.10.) The default metric shall be set to the total cost to the virtual NET for the default routeing metric. The remaining metrics shall be set to the value in dicating unsupported. -In the End System Neighbours option the set of IDs of neighbouring End systems formed from: 7The systemID of the Intermediate System itself, with a value of zero for all supported metrics. 7The set of endSystemIDs from all adjacencies with type Auto-configured, in state Up, on circuits of type Point-to-Point, In or Out, with neighbourSystemType End system. The metrics shall be set to the values of Level 1 metrick of the circuit for each supported routeing metric. 7The set of endSystemIDs from all adjacencies with type Manual in state Up, on all circuits. The metrics shall be set to the values of Level 1 metrick of the circuit for each supported routeing metric. -In the Authentication Information field if the system's areaTransmitPassword is non-null, in clude the Authentication Information field contain ing an Authentication Type of Password, and the value of the areaTransmitPassword. 7.3.8 Generation of Level 1 Pseudonode LSPs An IS shall generate a Level 1 pseudonode Link State PDU for each circuit for which this Intermediate System is the Level 1 LAN Designated Intermediate System. The LSP shall specify the following information in its variable length fields. In all cases a value of zero shall be used for all sup ported routeing metrics -The Area Addresses option is not present. Note - This information is not required since the set of area addresses for the node issuing the pseudonode LSP will already have been made available via its own non-pseudonode LSP. -In the Intermediate System Neighbours option the set of Intermediate System IDs of neighbouring In termediate Systems on the circuit for which this pseudonode LSP is being generated formed from: 7The Designated Intermediate System's own sys temID with an appended zero octet (indicating non-pseudonode). 7The set of neighbourSystemIDs with an ap pended zero octet (indicating non-pseudonode) from adjacencies on this circuit in the state Up, with xneighbourSystemType L1 Intermediate System xL2 Intermediate System and adjacency Usage Level 1. -In the End System Neighbours option the set of IDs of neighbouring End systems formed from: 7The set of endSystemIDs from all adjacencies with type Auto-configured, in state Up, on the circuit for which this pseudonode is being gen erated, with neighbourSystemType End sys tem. -In the Authentication Information field if the system's areaTransmitPassword is non-null, in clude the Authentication Information field contain ing an Authentication Type of Password, and the value of the areaTransmitPassword. 7.3.9 Generation of Level 2 LSPs (non-pseudonode) The Level 2 Link State PDU not generated on behalf of a pseudonode contains the following information in its vari able length fields: -In the Area Addresses option the set of area
Addresses for this Intermediate system computed as described in 7.2.11. -In the Partition Designated Level 2 IS option the ID of the Partition Designated Level 2 Intermediate System for the partition. -In the Intermediate System Neighbours option the set of Intermediate system IDs of neighbouring In termediate systems formed from: 7The set of neighbourSystemIDs with an ap pended zero octet (indicating non-pseudonode) from adjacencies in the state Up, on circuits of type Point-to-Point, In or Out, with neigh bourSystemType L2 Intermediate System. 7The set of l2CircuitIDs for all circuits of type Broadcast. (i.e. the neighbouring pseudonode IDs) The metric and metric type shall be set to the val ues of Level 2 metrick of the circuit for each sup ported routeing metric. -In the Prefix Neighbours option the set of vari able length prefixes formed from: 7The set of names of all Reachable Address man aged objects in state On, on all circuits in state On. The metrics shall be set to the values of Level 2 metrick for the reachable address. -In the Authentication Information field if the system's domainTransmitPassword is non-null, include the Authentication Information field con taining an Authentication Type of Password, and the value of the domainTransmitPassword. 7.3.10 Generation of Level 2 Pseudonode LSPs A Level 2 pseudonode Link State PDU is generated for each circuit for which this Intermediate System is the Level 2 LAN Designated Intermediate System and contains the following information in its variable length fields. In all cases a value of zero shall be used for all supported route ing metrics. -The Area Addresses option is not present. Note - This information is not required since the set of area addresses for the node issuing the pseudonode LSP will already have been made available via its own non-pseudonode LSP. -In the Intermediate System Neighbours option the set of Intermediate System IDs of neighbouring In termediate Systems on the circuit for which this pseudonode LSP is being generated formed from: 7The Designated Intermediate System's own sys temID with an appended zero octet (indicating non-pseudonode). 7The set of neighbourSystemIDs with an ap pended zero octet (indicating non-pseudonode) from adjacencies on this circuit in the state Up with neighbourSystemType L2 Intermediate System. -The Prefix Neighbours option is not present. -In the Authentication Information field if the system's domainTransmitPassword is non-null, include the Authentication Information field con taining an Authentication Type of Password, and the value of the domainTransmitPassword. 7.3.11 Generation of the Checksum This International Standard makes use of the checksum function defined in ISO 8473. The source IS shall compute the LSP Checksum when the LSP is generated. The checksum shall never be modified by any other system. The checksum allows the detection of memory corruptions and thus prevents both the use of in correct routeing information and its further propagation by the Update Process. The checksum shall be computed over all fields in the LSP which appear after the Remaining Lifetime field. This field (and those appearing before it) are excluded so that the LSP may be aged by systems without requiring re- computation. As an additional precaution against hardware failure, when the source computes the Checksum, it shall start with the two checksum variables (C0 and C1) initialised to what they would be after computing for the systemID portion (i.e. the first 6 octets) of its Source ID. (This value is com puted and stored when the Network entity is enabled and whenever systemID changes.) The IS shall then resume Checksum computation on the contents of the PDU after the first ID Length octets of the Source ID field. NOTE - All Checksum calculations on the LSP are per formed treating the Source ID field as the first octet. This procedure prevents the source from accidentally sending out Link State PDUs with some other system's ID as source. 7.3.12 Initiating Transmission The IS shall store the generated Link State PDU in the Link State Database, overwriting any previous Link State PDU with the same LSP Number generated by this system. The IS shall then set all SRMflags for that Link State PDU, in dicating it is to be propagated on all circuits with Intermedi ate System adjacencies. An Intermediate system shall ensure (by reserving re sources, or otherwise) that it will always be able to store and internalise its own non-pseudonode zeroth LSP. In the event that it is not capable of storing and internalising one of its own LSPs it shall enter the overloaded state as de scribed in 7.3.19.1. NOTE - It is recommended that an Intermediate system en sure (by reserving resources, or otherwise) that it will al ways be able to store and internalise all its own (zero and non-zero, pseudonode and non-pseudonode) LSPs. 7.3.13 Preservation of order When an existing Link State PDU is re-transmitted (with the same or a different sequence number), but with the same information content (i.e. the variable length part) as a result of there having been no changes in the local topology databases, the order of the information in the variable length part shall be the same as that in the previously trans mitted LSP. NOTE - If a sequence of changes result in the state of the database returning to some previous value, there is no re quirement to preserve the ordering. It is only required when there have been no changes whatever. This allows the re ceiver to detect that there has been no change in the infor mation content by performing an octet for octet comparison of the variable length part, and hence not re-run the decision process. 7.3.14 Propagation of LSPs The update process is responsible for propagating Link State PDUs throughout the domain (or in the case of Level 1, throughout the area). The basic mechanism is flooding, in which each Intermedi ate system propagates to all its neighbour Intermediate sys tems except that neighbour from which it received the PDU. Duplicates are detected and dropped. Link state PDUs are received from the Receive Process. The maximum size control PDU (Link State PDU or Se quence Numbers PDU) which a system expects to receive shall be Receive
LSP
Buffer
Size octets. (i.e. the Update process must provide buffers of at least this size for the re ception, storage and forwarding of received Link State PDUs and Sequence Numbers PDUs.) If a control PDU larger than this size is received, it shall be treated as if it had an invalid checksum (i.e. ignored by the Update Proc ess and a corruptedLSPReceived notification generated). Upon receipt of a Link State PDU the Update Process shall perform the following functions: a)Level 2 Link State PDUs shall be propagated on cir cuits which have at least one Level 2 adjacency. b)Level 1 Link State PDUs shall be propagated on cir cuits which have at least one Level 1 adjacency or at least one Level 2 adjacency not marked Level 2 only. c)When propagating a Level 1 Link State PDU on a broadcast subnetwork, the IS shall transmit to the multi-destination subnetwork address AllL1IS. d)When propagating a Level 2 Link State PDU on a broadcast subnetwork, the IS shall transmit to the multi-destination subnetwork address AllL2IS. NOTE When propagating a Link State PDU on a general topology subnetwork the Data Link Address is unambiguous (because Link State PDUs are not propagated across Dynamically Assigned circuits). e)An Intermediate system receiving a Link State PDU with an incorrect LSP Checksum or with an invalid PDU syntax shall 1)log a circuit notification, corruptedLSPRe ceived, 2)overwrite the Checksum and Remaining Lifetime with 0, and 3)treat the Link State PDU as though its Remaining Lifetime had expired (see 7.3.16.4.) f)A Intermediate system receiving a Link State PDU which is new (as identified in 7.3.16) shall 1)store the Link State PDU into Link State database, and 2)mark it as needing to be propagated upon all cir cuits except that upon which it was received. g)When a Intermediate system receives a Link State PDU from source S, which it considers older than the one stored in the database for S, it shall set the SRMflag for S's Link State PDU associated with the circuit from which the older Link State PDU was re ceived. This indicates that the stored Link State PDU needs to be sent on the link from which the older one was received. h)When a system receives a Link State PDU which is the same (not newer or older) as the one stored, the In termediate system shall 1)acknowledge it if necessary, as described in 7.3.17, and 2)clear the SRMflag for that circuit for that Link State PDU. i)A Link State PDU received with a zero checksum shall be treated as if the Remaining Lifetime were 0. The age, if not 0, shall be overwritten with 0. The Update Process scans the Link State Database for Link State PDUs with SRMflags set. When one is found, pro vided the timestamp lastSent indicates that it was propa gated no more recently than min
i
mum
LSP
Trans
mis
sion
Int
er
val, the IS shall a)transmit it on all circuits with SRMflags set, and b)update lastSent. 7.3.15 Manipulation of SRM and SSN Flags For each Link State PDU, and for each circuit over which routeing messages are to be exchanged (i.e. not on DA cir cuits), there are two flags: Send Routeing Message (SRMflag) if set, indicates that Link State PDU should be transmitted on that cir cuit. On broadcast circuits SRMflag is cleared as soon as the LSP has been transmitted, but on non- broadcast circuits SRMflag is only cleared on recep tion of a Link State PDU or Sequence Numbers PDU as described below. SRMflag shall never be set for an LSP with se quence number zero, nor on a circuit whose exter nalDomain attribute is True (See 7.3.15.2). Send Sequence Numbers (SSNflag) if set, indicates that information about that Link State PDU should be in cluded in a Partial Sequence Numbers PDU trans mitted on that circuit. When the Sequence Numbers PDU has been transmitted SSNflag is cleared. Note that the Partial Sequence Numbers PDU serves as an acknowledgement that a Link State PDU was re ceived. SSNflag shall never be set on a circuit whose ex ternalDomain attribute is True. 7.3.15.1 Action on Receipt of a Link State PDU When a Link State PDU is received on a circuit C, the IS shall perform the following functions a)Perform the following PDU acceptance tests: 1)If the LSP was received over a circuit whose ex ternalDomain attribute is True, the IS shall dis card the PDU. 2)If the ID Length field of the PDU is not equal to the value of the IS's routeingDomainIDLength, the PDU shall be discarded and an iDField LengthMismatch notification generated. 3)If this is a level 1 LSP, and the set of areaRe ceivePasswords is non-null, then perform the following tests: i)If the PDU does not contain the Authentica tion Information field then the PDU shall be discarded and an authenticationFailure no tification generated. ii)If the PDU contains the Authentication In formation field, but the Authentication Type is not equal to Password, then the PDU shall be accepted unless the IS imple ments the authenticatiion procedure indicated by the Authentication Type. In this case whether the IS accepts or ignores the PDU is outside the scope of this International Stan dard. iii)Otherwise, the IS shall compare the password in the received PDU with the passwords in the set of areaReceivePasswords, augmented by the value of the areaTransmitPassword. If the value in the PDU matches any of these passwords, the IS shall accept the PDU for further processing. If the value in the PDU does not match any of the above values, then the IS shall ignore the PDU and generate an authenticationFailure notification. 4)If this is a level 2 LSP, and the set of domainRe ceivePasswords is non-null, then perform the following tests: i)If the PDU does not contain the Authentica tion Information field then the PDU shall be discarded and an authenticationFailure no tification generated. ii)If the PDU contains the Authentication In formation field, but the Authentication Type is not equal to Password, then the PDU shall be accepted unless the IS imple ments the authenticatiion procedure indicated by the Authentication Type. In this case whether the IS accepts or ignores the PDU is outside the scope of this International Stan dard. iii)Otherwise, the IS shall compare the password in the received PDU with the passwords in the set of domainReceivePasswords, aug mented by the value of the domainTransmit Password. If the value in the PDU matches any of these passwords, the IS shall accept the PDU for further processing. If the value in the PDU does not match any of the above values, then the IS shall ignore the PDU and generate an authenticationFailure notification. b)If the LSP has zero Remaining Lifetime, perform the actions described in 7.3.16.4. c)If the source S of the LSP is an IS or pseudonode for which all but the last octet are equal to the systemID of the receiving Intermediate System, and the receiv ing Intermediate System does not have that LSP in its database, or has that LSP, but no longer considers it to be in the set of LSPs generated by this system (e.g. it was generated by a previous incarnation of the sys tem), then initiate a network wide purge of that LSP as described in 7.3.16.4. d)If the source S of the LSP is a system (pseudonode or otherwise) for which the first ID Length octets are equal to the systemID of the receiving Intermediate system, and the receiving Intermediate system has an LSP in the set of currently generated LSPs from that source in its database (i.e. it is an LSP generated by this Intermediate system), perform the actions de scribed in 7.3.16.1. e)Otherwise, (the source S is some other system), 1)If the LSP is newer than the one in the database, or if an LSP from that source does not yet exist in the database: i)Store the new LSP in the database, overwriting the existing database LSP for that source (if any) with the received LSP. ii)Set SRMflag for that LSP for all circuits other than C. iii)Clear SRMflag for C. iv)If C is a non-broadcast circuit, set SSNflag for that LSP for C. v)Clear SSNflag for that LSP for the circuits other than C. 2)If the LSP is equal to the one in the database (same Sequence Number, Remaining Lifetimes both zero or both non-zero, same checksums): i)Clear SRMflag for C. ii)If C is a non-broadcast circuit, set SSNflag for that LSP for C. 3)If the LSP is older than the one in the database: i)Set SRMflag for C. ii)Clear SSNflag for C. When storing a new LSP, the Intermediate system shall first ensure that it has sufficient memory resources to both store the LSP and generate whatever internal data structures will be required to process the LSP by the Update Process. If these resources are not available the LSP shall be ignored. It shall neither be stored nor acknowledged. When an LSP is ignored for this reason the IS shall enter the Waiting State. (See 7.3.19). When attempting to store a new version of an existing LSP (with the same LSPID), which has a length less than or equal to that of the existing LSP, the existing LSP shall be removed from the routeing information base and the new LSP stored as a single atomic action. This ensures that such an LSP (which may be carrying the LSP Database Overload indication from an overloaded IS) will never be ignored as a result of a lack of memory resources. 7.3.15.2 Action on Receipt of a Sequence Numbers PDU When a Sequence Numbers PDU (Complete or Partial, see 7.3.17) is received on circuit C the IS shall perform the fol lowing functions: a)Perform the following PDU acceptance tests: 1)If the SNP was received over a circuit whose ex ternalDomain attribute is True, the IS shall dis card the PDU. 2)If the ID Length field of the PDU is not equal to the value of the IS's routeingDomainIDLength, the PDU shall be discarded and an iDField
Length
Mismatch notification generated.
3)If this is a level 1 SNP and the set of areaRe
ceivePasswords is non-null, then perform the
following tests:
i)If the PDU does not contain the Authentica
tion Information field then the PDU shall be
discarded and an authenticationFailure no
tification generated.
ii)If the PDU contains the Authentication In
formation field, but the Authentication
Type is not equal to Password, then the
PDU shall be accepted unless the IS imple
ments the authenticatiion procedure indicated
by the Authentication Type. In this case
whether the IS accepts or ignores the PDU is
outside the scope of this International Stan
dard.
iii)Otherwise, the IS shall compare the password
in the received PDU with the passwords in the
set of areaReceivePasswords, augmented
by the value of the areaTransmitPassword.
If the value in the PDU matches any of these
passwords, the IS shall accept the PDU for
further processing. If the value in the PDU
does not match any of the above values, then
the IS shall ignore the PDU and generate an
authenticationFailure notification.
4)If this is a level 2 SNP, and the set of domainRe
ceivePasswords is non-null, then perform the
following tests:
i)If the PDU does not contain the Authentica
tion Information field then the PDU shall be
discarded and an authenticationFailure no
tification generated.
ii)If the PDU contains the Authentication In
formation field, but the Authentication
Type is not equal to Password, then the
PDU shall be accepted unless the IS imple
ments the authenticatiion procedure indicated
by the Authentication Type. In this case
whether the IS accepts or ignores the PDU is
outside the scope of this International Stan
dard.
iii)Otherwise, the IS shall compare the password
in the received PDU with the passwords in the
set of domainReceivePasswords, aug
mented by the value of the domainTransmit
Password. If the value in the PDU matches
any of these passwords, the IS shall accept the
PDU for further processing. If the value in the
PDU does not match any of the above values,
then the IS shall ignore the PDU and generate
an authenticationFailure notification.
b)For each LSP reported in the Sequence Numbers
PDU:
1)If the reported value equals the database value and
C is a non-broadcast circuit, Clear SRMflag for C
for that LSP.
2)If the reported value is older than the database
value, Clear SSNflag, and Set SRMflag.
3)If the reported value is newer than the database
value, Set SSNflag, and if C is a non-broadcast
circuit Clear SRMflag.
4)If no database entry exists for the LSP, and the re
ported Remaining Lifetime, Checksum and Se
quence Number fields of the LSP are all non-
zero, create an entry with sequence number 0 (see
7.3.16.1), and set SSNflag for that entry and cir
cuit C. Under no circumstances shall SRMflag be
set for such an LSP with zero sequence number.
NOTE - This is because possessing a zero sequence
number LSP is semantically equivalent to having no
information about that LSP. If such LSPs were
propagated by setting SRMflag it would result in an
unnecessary consumption of both bandwidth and
memory resources.
c)If the Sequence Numbers PDU is a Complete Se
quence Numbers PDU, Set SRMflags for C for all
LSPs in the database (except those with zero sequence
number or zero remaining lifetime) with LSPIDs
within the range specified for the CSNP by the Start
LSPID and End LSPID fields, which were not men
tioned in the Complete Sequence Numbers PDU (i.e.
LSPs this system has, which the neighbour does not
claim to have).
7.3.15.3 Action on expiration of Complete SNP
Interval
The IS shall perform the following actions every
CompleteSNPInterval seconds for circuit C:
a)If C is a broadcast circuit, then
1)If this Intermediate system is a Level 1 Designated
Intermediate System on circuit C, transmit a com
plete set of Level 1 Complete Sequence Numbers
PDUs on circuit C. Ignore the setting of SSNflag
on Level 1 Link State PDUs.
If the value of the IS's areaTransmitPassword
is non-null, then the IS shall include the Authenti
cation Information field in the transmitted
CSNP, indicating an Authentication Type of
Password and containing the areaTransmit
Password as the authentication value.
2)If this Intermediate system is a Level 2 Designated
Intermediate System on circuit C, transmit a com
plete set of Level 2 Complete Sequence Numbers
PDUs on circuit C. Ignore the setting of SSNflag
on Level 2 Link State PDUs.
If the value of the IS's domainTransmitPass
word is non-null, then the IS shall include the
Authentication Information field in the trans
mitted CSNP, indicating an Authentication Type
of Password and containing the domainTrans
mitPassword as the authentication value.
A complete set of CSNPs is a set whose startLSPID
and endLSPID ranges cover the complete possible
range of LSPIDs. (i.e. there is no possible LSPID
value which does not appear within the range of one
of the CSNPs in the set). Where more than one CSNP
is transmitted on a broadcast circuit, they shall be
separated by an interval of at least min
i
mum
Broad
cast
LSP
TransmissionInterval seconds. NOTE An IS is permitted to transmit a small number of CSNPs (no more than 10) with a shorter separation in terval, (or even back to back), provided that no more than 1000/minimum
Broad
cast
LSP
Trans
mis
sion
Int
er
val CSNPs are transmitted in any one second period.
b)Otherwise (C is a point to point circuit, including non-
DA DED circuits and virtual links), do nothing.
CSNPs are only transmitted on point to point circuits
at initialisation.
7.3.15.4 Action on expiration of Partial SNP
Interval
The maximum sized Level 1 or Level 2 PSNP which may
be generated by a system is controlled by the values of
originating
L1
LSP
Buf
fer
Size or originating
L2
LSP
Buffer
Size respectively. An Intermediate system shall per form the following actions every partialSNPInterval sec onds for circuit C with jitter applied as described in 10.1: a)If C is a broadcast circuit, then 1)If this Intermediate system is a Level 1 Intermedi ate System or a Level 2 Intermediate System with manual
L2
Only
Mode False, but is not a Level 1 Designated Intermediate System on circuit C, transmit a Level 1 Partial Sequence Numbers PDU on circuit C, containing entries for as many Level 1 Link State PDUs with SSNflag set as will fit in the PDU, and then clear SSNflag for these entries. To avoid the possibility of starvation, the scan of the LSP database for those with SSNflag set shall commence with the next LSP which was not included in the previous scan. If there were no Level 1 Link State PDUs with SSNflag set, do not transmit a Level 1 Partial Sequence Numbers PDU. If the value of the IS's areaTransmitPassword is non-null, then the IS shall include the Authenti cation Information field in the transmitted PSNP, indicating an Authentication Type of Password and containing the areaTransmit Password as the authentication value. 2)If this Intermediate system is a Level 2 Intermedi ate System, but is not a Level 2 Designated Inter mediate System on circuit C, transmit a Level 2 Partial Sequence Numbers PDU on circuit C, con taining entries for as many Level 2 Link State PDUs with SSNflag set as will fit in the PDU, and then clear SSNflag for these entries. To avoid the possibility of starvation, the scan of the LSP database for those with SSNflag set shall com mence with the next LSP which was not included in the previous scan. If there were no Level 2 Link State PDUs with SSNflag set, do not transmit a Level 2 Partial Sequence Numbers PDU. If the value of the IS's domainTransmitPass word is non-null, then the IS shall include the Authentication Information field in the trans mitted PSNP, indicating an Authentication Type of Password and containing the domainTrans mitPassword as the authentication value. b)Otherwise (C is a point to point circuit, including non- DA DED circuits and virtual links) 1)If this system is a Level 1 Intermediate system, transmit a Level 1 Partial Sequence Numbers PDU on circuit C, containing entries for as many Level 1 Link State PDUs with SSNflag set as will fit in the PDU, and then clear SSNflag for these en tries. To avoid the possibility of starvation, the scan of the LSP database for those with SSNflag set shall commence with the next LSP which was not included in the previous scan. If there were no Level 1 Link State PDUs with SSNflag set, do not transmit a Partial Sequence Numbers PDU. If the value of the IS's areaTransmitPassword is non-null, then the IS shall include the Authenti cation Information field in the transmitted PSNP, indicating an Authentication Type of Password and containing the areaTransmit Password as the authentication value. 2)If this system is a Level 2 Intermediate system, transmit a Level 2 Partial Sequence Numbers PDU on circuit C, containing entries for as many Level 2 Link State PDUs with SSNflag set as will fit in the PDU, and then clear SSNflag for these en tries. To avoid the possibility of starvation, the scan of the LSP database for those with SSNflag set shall commence with the next LSP which was not included in the previous scan. If there were no Level 2 Link State PDUs with SSNflag set, do not transmit a Partial Sequence Numbers PDU. If the value of the IS's domainTransmitPass word is non-null, then the IS shall include the Authentication Information field in the trans mitted PSNP, indicating an Authentication Type of Password and containing the domainTrans mitPassword as the authentication value. 7.3.15.5 Action on expiration of Minimum LSP Transmission Interval An IS shall perform the following actions every min
i
mum
LSP
Trans
mis
sion
Int
er
val seconds with jitter applied as described in 10.1. a)For all Point to Point circuits C transmit all LSPs that have SRMflag set on circuit C, but do not clear the SRMflag. The SRMflag will subsequently be cleared by receipt of a Complete or Partial Sequence Numbers PDU. The interval between two consecutive transmissions of the same LSP shall be at least min
i
mum
LSP
Trans
mis
sion
Int
er
val. Clearly, this can only be achieved precisely by keep ing a separate timer for each LSP. This would be an unwar ranted overhead. Any technique which ensures the interval will be between min
i
mum
LSP
Trans
mis
sion
Int
er
val and
2 * min
i
mum
LSP
Trans
mis
sion
Int
er
val is acceptable.
7.3.15.6 Controlling the Rate of Transmission on
Broadcast Circuits
The attribute min
i
mum
Broad
cast
LSP
Trans
mis
sion
Inter
val indicates the minimum interval between PDU arri vals which can be processed by the slowest Intermediate System on the LAN. Setting SRMflags on an LSP for a broadcast circuit does not cause the LSP to be transmitted immediately. Instead the Intermediate system shall scan the LSP database every min
i
mum
Broad
cast
LSP
Trans
mis
sion
Int
er
val (with jitter applied as described in 10.1), and from the set of LSPs which have SRMflags set for this circuit, one LSP shall be chosen at random. This LSP shall be multicast on the cir cuit, and SRMflags cleared. NOTE - In practice it would be very inefficient to scan the whole database at this rate, particularly when only a few LSPs had SRMflags set. Implementations may require ad ditional data structures in order to reduce this overhead. NOTE - An IS is permitted to transmit a small number of LSPs (no more than 10) with a shorter separation interval, (or even back to back), provided that no more than 1000/min
i
mum
Broad
cast
LSP
Trans
mis
sion
Int
er
val LSPs are transmitted in any one second period. In addition, the presence of any LSPs which have been re ceived on a particular circuit and are queued awaiting proc essing shall inhibit transmission of LSPs on that circuit. However, LSPs may be transmitted at a minimum rate of one per second even in the presence of such a queue. 7.3.16 Determining the Latest Information The Update Process is responsible for determining, given a received link state PDU, whether that received PDU repre sents new, old, or duplicate information with respect to what is stored in the database. It is also responsible for generating the information upon which this determination is based, for assigning a sequence number to its own Link State PDUs upon generation, and for correctly adjusting the Remaining Lifetime field upon broadcast of a link state PDU generated originally by any system in the domain. 7.3.16.1 Sequence Numbers The sequence number is a 4 octet unsigned value. Sequence numbers shall increase from zero to (SequenceModulus - 1). When a system initialises, it shall start with sequence number 1 for its own Link State PDUs.55It starts with 1 rather than 0 so that the value 0 can be reserved to be guaranteed to be less than the sequence number of any actually generated Link State PDU. This is a useful property for Sequence Numbers PDUs. The sequence numbers the Intermediate system generates for its Link State PDUs with different values for LSP num ber are independent. The algorithm for choosing the num bers is the same, but operationally the numbers will not be synchronised. If an Intermediate system R somewhere in the domain has information that the current sequence number for source S is greater than that held by S, R will return to S a Link State PDU for S with R's value for the sequence number. When S receives this LSP it shall change its sequence number to be the next number greater than the new one received, and shall generate a link state PDU. If an Intermediate system needs to increment its sequence number, but the sequence number is already equal to SequenceModulus 1, the notification attempt
To
Ex
ceed
Maximum
Se
quence
Num
ber shall be generated and the Routeing Module shall be disabled for a period of at least MaxAge + ZeroAgeLifetime, in order to be sure that any versions of this LSP with the high sequence num ber have expired. When it is re-enabled the IS shall start again with sequence number 1. 7.3.16.2 LSP Confusion It is possible for an LSP generated by a system in a previ ous incarnation to be alive in the domain and have the same sequence number as the current LSP. To ensure database consistency among the Intermediate Systems, it is essential to distinguish two such PDUs. This is done efficiently by comparing the checksum on a re ceived LSP with the one stored in memory. If the sequence numbers match, but the checksums do not and the LSP is not in the current set of LSPs generated by the local system, then the system that notices the mismatch shall treat the LSP as if its Remaining Lifetime had expired. It shall store one of the copies of the LSP, with zero written as the Remaining Lifetime, and flood the LSP. If the LSP is in the current set of LSPs generated by the lo cal system then the IS shall change the LSP's sequence number to be the next number greater than that of the re ceived LSP and regenerate the LSP. 7.3.16.3 Remaining Lifetime field When the source generates a link state PDU, it shall set the Remaining Lifetime to MaxAge. When a system holds the information for some time before successfully transmitting it to a neighbour, that system shall decrement the Remaining Lifetime field according to the holding time. Before transmitting a link state PDU to a neighbour, a system shall decrement the Remaining Life time in the PDU being transmitted by at least 1, or more than 1 if the transit time to that neighbour is estimated to be greater than one second. When the Remaining Lifetime field reaches 0, the system shall purge that Link State PDU from its database. In order to keep the Intermediate Sys tems' databases synchronised, the purging of an LSP due to Remaining Lifetime expiration is synchronised by flooding an expired LSP. See 7.3.16.4. If the RemainingLifetime of the received LSP is zero it shall be processed as described in 7.3.16.4. If the Remain ing Lifetime of the received LSP is non-zero, but there is an LSP in the database with the same sequence number and zero Remaining Lifetime, the LSP in the database shall be considered most recent. Otherwise, the PDU with the larger sequence number shall be considered the most recent. If the value of Remaining Lifetime is greater than MaxAge, the LSP shall be processed as if there were a checksum error. 7.3.16.4 LSP Expiration Synchronisation When the Remaining Lifetime on an LSP in memory be comes zero, the IS shall a)set all SRMflags for that LSP, and b)retain only the LSP header. c)record the time at which the Remaining Lifetime for this LSP became zero. When ZeroAgeLifetime has elapsed since the LSP Remaining Lifetime became zero, the LSP header shall be purged from the data base. NOTE - A check of the checksum of a zero Remaining Life time LSP succeeds even though the data portion is not pre sent When a purge of an LSP with non-zero Remaining Lifetime is initiated, the header shall be retained for MaxAge. If an LSP from source S with zero Remaining Lifetime is received on circuit C : a)If no LSP from S is in memory, then the IS shall 1)send an acknowledgement of the LSP on circuit C, but 2)shall not retain the LSP after the acknowledgement has been sent. b)If an LSP from S is in the database, then 1)If the received LSP is newer than the one in the da tabase (i.e. received LSP has higher sequence number, or same sequence number and database LSP has non-zero Remaining Lifetime) the IS shall: i)overwrite the database LSP with the received LSP, and note the time at which the zero Re maining Lifetime LSP was received, so that after ZeroAgeLifetime has elapsed, that LSP can be purged from the database, ii)set SRMflag for that LSP for all circuits other than C, iii)clear SRMflag for C, iv)if C is a non-broadcast circuit, set SSNflag for that LSP for C, and v)clear SSNflag for that LSP for the circuits other than C. 2)If the received LSP is equal to the one in the data base (i.e. same Sequence Number, Remaining Lifetimes both zero) the IS shall: i)clear SRMflag for C, and ii)if C is a non-broadcast circuit, set SSNflag for that LSP for C. 3)If the received LSP is older than the one in the da tabase (i.e. received LSP has lower sequence num ber) the IS shall: i)set SRMflag for C, and ii)clear SSNflag for C. c)If this system (or pseudonode) is S and there is an un- expired LSP from S (i.e. its own LSP) in memory, then the IS: 1)shall not overwrite with the received LSP, but 2)shall change the sequence number of the un- expired LSP from S as described in 7.3.16.1, 3)generate a new LSP; and 4)set SRMflag on all circuits. 7.3.17 Making the Update Reliable The update process is responsible for making sure the latest link state PDUs reach every reachable Intermediate System in the domain. On point-to-point links the Intermediate system shall send an explicit acknowledgement encoded as a Partial Sequence Numbers PDU (PSNP) containing the following informa tion: a)source's ID b)PDU type (Level 1 or 2) c)sequence number d)Remaining Lifetime e)checksum This shall be done for all received link state PDUs which are newer than the one in the database, or duplicates of the one in the database. Link state PDUs which are older than that stored in the database are answered instead by a newer link state PDU, as specified in 7.3.14 above. On broadcast links, instead of explicit acknowledgements for each link state PDU by each Intermediate system, a spe cial PDU known as a Complete Sequence Numbers PDU (CSNP), shall be multicast periodically by the Designated Intermediate System. The PDU shall contain a list of all LSPs in the database, together with enough information so that Intermediate systems receiving the CSNP can compare with their LSP database to determine whether they and the CSNP transmitter have synchronised LSP databases. The maximum sized Level 1 or Level 2 Sequence Numbers PDU which may be generated by a system is controlled by the values of originating
L1
LSP
Buf
fer
Size or originat
ingL2LSPBufferSize respectively. In practice, the infor
mation required to be transmitted in a single CSNP may be
greater than will fit in a single PDU. Therefore each CSNP
carries an inclusive range of LSPIDs to which it refers. The
complete set of information shall be conveyed by transmit
ting a series of individual CSNPs, each referring to a subset
of the complete range. The ranges of the complete set of
CSNPs shall be contiguous (though not necessarily trans
mitted in order) and shall cover the entire range of possible
LSPIDs.
The LAN Level 1 Designated Intermediate System shall
periodically multicast complete sets of Level 1 CSNPs to
the multi-destination address AllL1ISs. The LAN Level 2
Designated Intermediate System shall periodically multicast
complete sets of Level 2 CSNPs to the multi-destination ad
dress AllL2ISs.
Absence of an LSPID from a Complete Sequence Numbers
PDU whose range includes that LSPID indicates total lack
of information about that LSPID.
If an Intermediate system, upon receipt of a Complete Se
quence Numbers PDU, detects that the transmitter was out
of date, the receiver shall multicast the missing information.
NOTE - Receipt of a link state PDU on a link is the same as
successfully transmitting the Link State PDU on that link, so
once the first Intermediate system responds, no others will,
unless they have already transmitted replies.
If an Intermediate system detects that the transmitter had
more up to date information, the receiving Intermediate sys
tem shall multicast a Partial Sequence Numbers PDU
(PSNP), containing information about LSPs for which it has
older information. This serves as an implicit request for the
missing information. Although the PSNP is multicast, only
the Designated Intermediate System of the appropriate level
shall respond to the PSNP.
NOTE - This is equivalent to the PSNP being transmitted di
rectly to the Designated Intermediate System, in that it
avoids each Intermediate System unnecessarily sending the
same LSP(s) in response. However, it has the advantage of
preserving the property that all routeing messages can be re
ceived on the multi-destination addresses, and hence by a
LAN adapter dedicated to the multi-destination address.
When a non-broadcast circuit (re)starts, the IS shall:
a)set SRMflag for that circuit on all LSPs, and
b)send a Complete set of Complete Sequence Numbers
PDUs on that circuit.
7.3.18 Validation of Databases
An Intermediate System shall not continue to operate for an
extended period with corrupted routeing information. The
IS shall therefore operate in a fail-stop manner. If a failure
is detected, the Intermediate system Network entity shall be
disabled until the failure is corrected. In the absence of an
implementation-specific method for ensuring this, the IS
shall perform the following checks at least every max
i
mum
LSPGenerationInterval seconds: a)On expiration of this timer the IS shall re-check the checksum of every LSP in the LSP database (except those with a Remaining Lifetime of zero) in order to detect corruption of the LSP while in memory. If the checksum of any LSP is incorrect, the notification corruptedLSPDetected shall be logged, and as a minimum the entire Link State Database shall be de leted and action taken to cause it to be re-acquired. One way to achieve this is to disable and re-enable the IS Network entity. NOTE On point to point links, this requires at least that a CSNP be transmitted. b)On completion of these checks the decision process shall be notified of an event (even if any newly gener ated LSPs have identical contents to the previous ones). This causes the decision process to be run and the forwarding databases re-computed, thus protecting against possible corruption of the forwarding data bases in memory, which would not otherwise be de tected in a stable topology. c)The IS shall reset the timer for a period of maximumLSPGenerationInterval with jitter ap plied as described in 10.1. 7.3.19 LSP Database Overload As a result of network mis-configuration, or certain transi tory conditions, it is possible that there may be insufficient memory resources available to store a received Link State PDU. When this occurs, an IS needs to take certain steps to ensure that if its LSP database becomes inconsistent with the other ISs', that these ISs do not rely on forwarding paths through the overloaded IS. 7.3.19.1 Entering the Waiting State When an LSP cannot be stored, the LSP shall be ignored and Waiting State shall be entered. A timer shall be started for waitingTime seconds, and the Intermediate System shall generate and flood its own LSP with zero LSP number with the LSP Database Overload Bit set. This prevents this Intermediate system from being considered as a for warding path by other Intermediate Systems. It is possible that although there are sufficient resources to store an LSP and permit the operation of the Update Proc ess on that LSP, the Decision Process may subsequently re quire further resources in order to complete. If these re sources are not available, the Intermediate system shall then (i.e. during the attempt to run the Decision Process) enter Waiting State until such time as they are available and waitingTime seconds have elapsed since the last LSP was ignored by the Update Process. An implementation shall partition the available memory re sources between the Level 1 and Level 2 databases. An overload condition can therefore exist independently for Level 1 or Level 2 (or both). The status attributes l1State and l2State indicate the condition for the Level 1 and Level 2 databases respectively. On entering Level 1 Wait ing State the IS shall generate the lSP
L1
Data
base
Over
load notification, and on entering Level 2 Waiting State the IS shall generate the lSP
L2
Data
base
Over
load notifi
cation.
7.3.19.2 Actions in Level 1 Waiting State
While in Level 1 waiting state
a)If a Link State PDU cannot be stored, the IS shall ig
nore it and restart the timer for waitingTime seconds.
b)The IS shall continue to run the Decision and For
warding processes as normal.
c)When the waitingTime timer expires, the IS shall:
1)Generate an lSP
L1
Data
base
Over
load (recov
ered) notification.
2)Clear the LSP Database Overload bit in its own
Level 1 LSP with zero LSP number and re-issue it.
3)Set the l1State to On.
4)Resume normal operation.
7.3.19.3 Actions in Level 2 Waiting State
While in Level 2 waiting state
a)If a Link State PDU cannot be stored, the IS shall ig
nore it and restart the timer for waitingTime seconds.
b)The IS shall continue to run the Decision and For
warding processes as normal.
c)When the waitingTime timer expires, the IS shall:
1)Generate an lSP
L2
Data
base
Over
load (recov ered) notification. 2)Clear the LSP Database Overload bit in its own Level 2 LSP with zero LSP number and re-issue it. 3)Set the l2State to On. 4)Resume normal operation. 7.3.20 Use of the Link State Database The only portion of the database relevant to the Decision Process is the data portion of the Link State PDUs. The Update Process additionally uses the fields Sequence Number, Remaining Lifetime, and variable SRMflag. The Remaining Lifetimes in the stored link state PDUs can either be periodically decremented, or converted upon re ceipt into an internal timestamp, and converted back into a Remaining Lifetime upon transmission. 7.3.20.1 Synchronisation with the Decision Process Since the Update Process and the Decision Process share the Link State Database, care must be taken that the Update Process does not modify the Link State Database while the Decision Process is running. There are two approaches to this. In one approach, the De cision Process signals when it is running. During this time, the Update Process queues incoming Link State PDUs, and does not write them into the Link State Database. If more Link State PDUs arrive than can fit into the queue allotted while the Decision Process is running, the Update Process drops them and does not acknowledge them. Another approach is to have two copies of the Link State Database one in which the Decision Process is comput ing, and the other in which the Update Process initially cop ies over the first database, and in which all new Link State PDUs are written. Additionally, depending on the hashing scheme, it is likely that a second copy of the address hash table will be required, so that the Update Process can do a rehash occasionally for efficiency. When the Decision Process is ready to run again, it locks the new copy of the Link State Database, leaving the Up date Process to copy over the information into the first area, and write new updates while the Decision Process runs again. The advantage of the first approach is that it takes less memory. The advantage of the second approach is that Link State PDUs will never need to be dropped. NOTE - If the decision process is implemented according to the specification in C.2, a finer level of parallelism is possi ble, as described below. Arrival of a Link State PDU for a system before that system has been put into TENT is permitted. The new Link State PDU is used when that system is eventually put into TENT. Similarly, arrival of a new Link State PDU for a system af ter that system has been put into PATHS is permitted. That system has already been completely processed. The arrival of the new Link State PDU is noted and the decision process re-executed when the current execution has completed. An in-progress execution of the decision process shall not be abandoned, since this could prevent the decision process from ever completing. Arrival of a Link State PDU for a system between that sys tem being put on TENT and being transferred to PATHS shall be treated as equivalent to one of the previous two cases (for example, by buffering, or taking some corrective action). 7.3.20.2 Use of Buffers and Link Bandwidth Implementations shall have a buffer management strategy that does not prevent other clients of the buffering service from acquiring buffers due to excessive use by the Update Process. They shall also ensure that the Update Process does not consume all the available bandwidth of links. In particular no type of traffic should experience starvation for longer than its acceptable latency. Acceptable latencies are approximately as follows: -Hello traffic Hello timer W 0.5 -Data Traffic 10 seconds. NOTE - The first of these requirements can be met by re stricting the Update process to the use of a single buffer on each circuit for transmission. This may also cause the sec ond requirement to be met, depending on the processor speed. 7.3.21 Parameters MaxAge This is the amount of time that may elapse since the estimated origination of the stored Link State PDU by the source before the LSP is consid ered expired. The expired LSP can be deleted from the database after a further ZeroAgeLifetime has expired. MaxAge shall be larger than maximum
LSP
Generation
Interval, so that a system is not
purged merely because of lack of events for report
ing Link State PDUs.
MaxAge is an architectural constant equal to 20
minutes.
ZeroAgeLifetime - This is the minimum amount of time
for which the header of an expired LSP shall be re
tained after it has been flooded with zero Remaining
Lifetime. A very safe value for this would be
2 W MaxAge. However all that is required is that
the header be retained until the zero Remaining Life
time LSP has been safely propagated to all the
neighbours.
ZeroAgeLifetime is an architectural constant with
a value of 1 minute.
maximumLSPGenerationInterval This is the maxi
mum amount of time allowed to elapse between gen
eration of Link State PDUs by a source. It shall be
less than MaxAge.
Setting this parameter too fast adds overhead to the
algorithms (a lot of Link State PDUs). Setting this
parameter too slow (and not violating constraints)
causes the algorithm to wait a long time to recover
in the unlikely event that incorrect Link State infor
mation exists somewhere in the domain about the
system.
A reasonable setting is 15 minutes.
minimumLSPGenerationInterval This is the minimum
time interval between generation of Link State
PDUs. A source Intermediate system shall wait at
least this long before re-generating one of its own
Link State PDUs.
Setting this too large causes a delay in reporting new
information. Setting this too small allows too much
overhead.
A reasonable setting is 30 seconds.
min
i
mum
LSP
Trans
mis
sion
Int
er
val This is the amount
of time an Intermediate system shall wait before fur
ther propagating another Link State PDU from the
same source system.
Setting this too large causes a delay in propagation
of routeing information and stabilisation of the
routeing algorithm. Setting this too small allows the
possibility that the routeing algorithm, under low
probability circumstances, will use too many re
sources (CPU and bandwidth).
Setting min
i
mum
LSP
Trans
mis
sion
Int
er
val greater than minimumLSPGenerationInterval makes no sense, because the source would be allowed to gen erate LSPs more quickly than they'd be allowed to be broadcast. Setting min
i
mum
LSP
Trans
mis
sion
Int
er
val smaller than min
i
mum
LSP
Generation
Inter
val is desirable to recover from lost LSPs.
A reasonable value is 5 seconds.
CompleteSNPInterval This is the amount of time be
tween periodic transmissions of a complete set of
Sequence Number PDUs by the Designated Interme
diate system on a broadcast link. Setting this too low
slows down the convergence of the routeing algo
rithm when Link State PDUs are lost due to the
datagram environment of the Data Link layer on the
broadcast link.
Setting this too high results in extra control traffic
overhead.
A reasonable value is 10 seconds.
7.4 The Forwarding Process
The forwarding process is responsible both for transmitting
NPDUs originated by this system, and for forwarding
NPDUs originated by other systems
7.4.1 Input and Output
INPUT
-NPDUs from the ISO 8473 protocol machine
-PDUs from Update Process
-PDUs from Receive Process
-Forwarding Databases (Level 1 and 2) one for each
routeing metric
OUTPUT
-PDUs to Data Link Layer
7.4.2 Routeing Metric Selection
The Forwarding process selects a forwarding database for
each NPDU to be relayed based on:
-the level at which the forwarding is to occur: level 1
or level 2; and
-a mapping of the ISO 8473 QoS Maintenance field
onto one of the Intermediate system's supported route
ing metrics.
The former selection is made by examining the Destination
Address field of the NPDU.
The latter selection is made as follows:
a)If the QoS Maintenance field is not present in the
NPDU, then the IS shall select the forwarding data
base calculated for the default metric.
b)If the QoS Maintenance field is present, the IS shall
examine bits 7 and 8 of the parameter value octet. If
these two bits specify any combination other than 1
1 (meaning globally unique QoS), then the IS shall
select the forwarding database calculated for the de
fault metric, otherwise
c)The IS shall select a forwarding database by mapping
the values of bits 3, 2 and 1 of the parameter value as
shown below in table 1 and shall proceed as follows:
1)If the IS does not support the selected routeing
metric, the IS shall forward based upon the default
metric;
2)If the forwarding database for one of the optional
routeing metrics is selected and the database either
does not contain an entry for the Destination Ad
dress in the NPDU being relayed, or contains an
entry indicating that the destination is unreachable
using that metric, then the IS shall attempt to for
ward based upon the default metric;
3)Otherwise, forward based on the selected optional
metric.
Table 1 - QoS Maintenance bits to routeing
metric mappingsSelected Routeing Metric
bit 3
bit 2
bit 1
expense metric
0
0
0
default metric
0
0
1
expense metric
0
1
0
delay metric
1
0
0
error metric
0
1
1
delay metric
1
0
1
error metric
1
1
1
default metric
1
1
0
7.4.3 Forwarding Decision
7.4.3.1 Basic Operation
Let DEST = the Network Layer destination address of the
PDU to be forwarded, or the next entry in the source route
ing field, if present. It consists of sub-fields Area Address,
ID, and SEL.
NOTE - The SEL field in the destination address is not ex
amined by Intermediate Systems. It is used by End Systems
to select the proper Transport entity to which to deliver NS
DUs.
This system's (the one examining this PDU for proper for
warding decision) address consists of sub-fields area ad
dress and ID.
a)If the local system type is a level 1 Intermediate sys
tem, or the local system type is a level 2 Intermediate
system and AttachedFlagk = False, then:
1)If the Area Address in the PDU to be forwarded
matches any one of the area addresses of this IS,
then consult the level 1 forwarding database to de
termine the adjacency which is the next hop on the
path to the NPDU's destination. Forward the
NPDU on this adjacency.
2)Otherwise, consult the level 1 forwarding database
to determine the adjacency which is the next hop
on the path to the nearest level 2 is in the area, and
forward the NPDU on this adjacency.
b)If the local system type is Level 2, and Attached
Flagk = True then:
1)If the Area Address in the PDU to be forwarded
matches any one of the area addresses of this IS,
then consult the level 1 forwarding database to de
termine the adjacency which is the next hop on the
path to the NPDU's destination. Forward the
NPDU on this adjacency.
2)Otherwise, consult the level 2 forwarding database
to determine the adjacency which is the next hop
on the path to the destination area, and forward the
NPDU on this adjacency.
7.4.3.2 Encapsulation for Partition Repair
If this Intermediate system is the Partition Designated
Level 2 IS for this partition, and the PDU is being for
warded onto the special adjacency to a Partition Designated
Level 2 Intermediate system in a different partition of this
area, encapsulate the complete PDU as the data field of a
data NPDU (i.e., with an additional layer of header), mak
ing this system the Source address and the other Partition
Designated Level 2 Intermediate system (obtained from the
identifier attribute of the Virtual Adjacency managed ob
ject) the Destination Address field in the outer PDU
header. Set the QoS Maintenance field of the outer PDU
to indicate forwarding via the default routeing metric (see
table 1). Then forward the encapsulated PDU onto an adja
cency ADJ, obtained by calling the Forward procedure, de
scribed below.
7.4.3.3 The Procedure Forward
This procedure chooses, from a Level 1 forwarding data
base if level is level1, or from a Level 2 forwarding da
tabase if level is level2, an adjacency on which to for
ward NPDUs for destination dest. A pointer to the adja
cency is returned in adj, and the procedure returns the value
True. A destination of 0 at level 1 selects the adjacency
for the nearest level 2 IS computed as described in 7.2.9.1.
If there are multiple possible adjacencies, as a result of mul
tiple minimum cost paths, then one of those adjacencies
shall be chosen. An implementation may chose the adja
cency at random, or may use the possible adjacencies in
round robin fashion.
If there is no entry in the selected forwarding database for
the address dest, and the NPDU originated from the a local
Transport entity and the system has one or more Intermedi
ate System adjacencies, then one of those is chosen at ran
dom (or in round robin fashion) and the procedure returns
the value True. Otherwise the procedure returns the value
False.66This is done so that a system in the overloaded state will
still be able to originate or forward NPDUs. If a system with a partial
routeing information base
were prohibited from attempting to forward to an unknown destination,
system management would be unable to either communicate with this system, or
route through it, for the purpose of diagnosing and/or correcting the
underlying fault.
NOTE - Since the local adjacency database is pre-loaded
into the decision process, there will always be an entry in
the forwarding database for destinations to which an adja
cency exists.
NOTE - The PDU to be forwarded may require fragmenta
tion, depending on which circuit it is to be forwarded over.
Generating Redirect PDUs
In addition to forwarding an NPDU, the IS shall inform the
local ISO 9542 protocol machine to generate a Redirect
PDU if the PDU is being forwarded onto the same circuit
from which it came, and if the source SNPA address of the
NPDU indicates that the NPDU was received from an End
System.
7.4.4 The Receive Process
The Receive Process is passed information from any of the
following sources.
-received PDUs with the NLPID of Intra-Domain
routeing,
-configuration information from the ISO 9542 protocol
machine,
-ISO 8473 data PDUs handed to the routeing function
by the ISO 8473 protocol machine.
When an area is partitioned, a level 2 path is used as a
level 1 link to repair the partitioned area. When this occurs,
all PDUs (between the neighbours which must utilise a
multi-hop path for communication) shall be encapsulated in
a data NPDU, addressed to the Intra-Domain routeing se
lector. Control traffic (LSPs, Sequence Numbers PDUs)
shall also be encapsulated, as well as data NPDUs that are
to be passed between the neighbours.
NOTE - It is not necessary to transmit encapsulated IIH
PDUs over a virtual link, since virtual adjacencies are estab
lished and monitored by the operation of the Decision Proc
ess and not the Subnetwork Dependent functions
The Receive Process shall perform the following functions:
-If it is a data NPDU, addressed to this system with
SEL = Intra-Domain routeing, then
7decapsulate the NPDU (remove the outer NPDU
header).
7If the decapsulated PDU is a data NPDU, move
the congestion indications to the decapsulated
NPDU, and pass it to the ISO 8473 protocol ma
chine.
7Otherwise, if the decapsulated PDU is not an ISO
8473 PDU, perform the following steps on the de
capsulated PDU:
-If it is a Link State PDU, pass it to the Update Process
-If it is a Sequence Numbers PDU, pass it to the Up
date Process
-If it is an IIH PDU, pass it to the appropriate
Subnetwork Dependent Function
-If it is a data NPDU or Error Report for another desti
nation, pass it to the Forwarding Process
-Otherwise, ignore the PDU
7.5 Routeing Parameters
The routeing parameters setable by System Management
are listed for each managed object in clause 11.
7.5.1 Architectural Constants
The architectural constants are described in Table 2.
Table 2 - Routeing architectural constantsName
Value
Description
MaxLinkMetric
63.
Maximum value of a routeing metric assign
able to a circuit
MaxPathMetric
1023.
Maximum total metric value for a complete
path
AllL1ISs
01-80-C2-00-00-14
The multi-destination address All Level 1 In
termediate Systems
AllL2ISs
01-80-C2-00-00-15
The multi-destination address All Level 2 In
termediate Systems
AllIntermediateSystems
09-00-2B-00-00-05
The multi-destination address All Intermedi
ate Systems used by ISO 9542
ISO-SAP
FE
The SAP for ISO Network Layer on
ISO 8802-3 LANs
IntradomainRoute
ing- PD 10000011 The Network Layer Protocol Discriminator assigned by ISO/TR 9577 for this Protocol IntradomainRouteing Selector 0. The NSAP selector for the Intermediate Sys tem Network entity SequenceModulus 232 Size of the sequence number space used by the Update Process ReceiveLSPBuffer
Size 1492. The size of LSP which all Intermediate sys tems must be capable of receiving. MaxAge 1200. Number of seconds before LSP considered ex pired. ZeroAgeLifetime 60. Number of seconds that an LSP with zero Re maining Lifetime shall be retained after propagating a purge. AllEndSystems 09-00-2B-00-00-04 The multi-destination address All End Sys tems used by ISO 9542 Max
i
mum
Area
Addresses 3. The maximum number of area addresses which may exist for a single area. HoldingMultiplier 3. The number by which to multiply hello
Timer to obtain Holding Timer for ISH PDUs and for Point to Point IIH PDUs. ISISHoldingMultiplier 10. The number by which to multiply iSISHel loTimer to obtain Holding Timer for Level 1 and Level 2 LAN IIH PDUs. Jitter 25. The percentage of jitter which is applied to the generation of periodic PDUs. 8 Subnetwork Dependent Functions The Subnetwork Dependent Functions mask the charac teristics of the different kinds of Subnetworks from the Subnetwork Independent Routeing Functions. The only two types of circuits the Subnetwork Independent Functions recognise are broadcast and general topology. The Subnetwork Dependent Functions include: -The use of the ISO 8473 Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Functions (SNDCF) so that this proto col may transmit and receive PDUs over the same subnetwork types, using the same techniques, as does ISO 8473. -Co-ordination with the operation of the ESIS proto col (ISO 9542) in order to determine the Network layer addresses (and on Broadcast subnetworks, the subnetwork points of attachment) and identities (End System or Intermediate System) of all adjacent neigh bours. This information is held in the Adjacency data base. It is used to construct Link State PDUs. -The exchange of IIH PDUs. While it is possible for an Intermediate System to identify that it has an Interme diate System neighbour by the receipt of an ISO 9542 ISH PDU, there is no provision within ISO 9542 to in dicate whether the neighbour is a Level 1 or a Level 2 Intermediate System. Specific PDUs (LAN Level 1, LAN Level 2 and Point to point IIH PDUs) are de fined to convey this information. 8.1 Multi-destination Circuits on ISs at a Domain Boundary Routeing information (e.g. Link State PDUs) is not ex changed across a routeing domain boundary. All routeing information relating to a circuit connected to another route ing domain is therefore entered via the Reachable Address managed objects. This information is disseminated to the rest of the routeing domain via Link State PDUs as de scribed in 7.3.3.2. This has the effect of causing NPDUs destined for NSAPs which are included in the addressPrefixes of the Reachable Addresses to be re layed to that Intermediate System at the domain boundary. On receipt of such an NPDU the Intermediate system shall forward it onto the appropriate circuit, based on its own Link State information. However in the case of multi- destination subnetworks (such as an ISO 8208 subnetwork using Dynamic Assignment, a broadcast subnetwork, or a connectionless subnetwork) it is necessary to ascertain ad ditional subnetwork dependent addressing information in order to forward the NPDU to a suitable SNPA. (This may be the target End system or an Intermediate system within the other domain.) In general the SNPA address to which an NPDU is to be forwarded can be derived from the destination NSAP of the NPDU. It may be possible to perform some algorithmic ma nipulation of the NSAP address in order to derive the SNPA address. However there may be some NSAPs where this is not possible. In these cases it is necessary to have pre-configured information relating an address prefix to a particular SNPA address. This is achieved by additional information contained in the Reachable Address managed object. The mappingType attribute may be specified as Manual, in which case a particular SNPA address or set of SNPA addresses is speci fied in the SNPA Address characteristic. Alternatively the name of an SNPA address extraction algorithm may be specified. 8.2 Point to Point Subnetworks This clause describes the identification of neighbours on both point to point links and Static circuits. The IS shall operate the ISO 9542 protocol, shall be able to receive ISO 9542 ISH PDUs from other ISs, and shall store the information so obtained in the adjacency database. 8.2.1 Receipt of ESH PDUs Database of End Systems An IS shall enter an End system into the adjacency database when an ESH PDU is received on a circuit. If an ESH PDU is received on the same circuit, but with a different NSAP address, the new address shall be added to the adjacency, with a separate timer. A single ESH PDU may contain more than one NSAP address. When a new data link address or NSAP address is added to the adjacency database, the IS shall generate an adjacencyStateChange (Up) notifica tion on that adjacency. The IS shall set a timer for the value of Holding Time in the received ESH PDU. If another ESH PDU is not re ceived from the ES before that timer expires, the ES shall be purged from the database, provided that the Subnetwork Independent Functions associated with initialising the adja cency have been completed. Otherwise the IS shall clear the adjacency as soon as those functions are completed. When the adjacency is cleared, the Subnetwork Independ ent Functions shall be informed of an adjacencyState Change (Down) notification, and the adjacency can be re- used after the Subnetwork Independent Functions associ ated with bringing down the adjacency have been com pleted. 8.2.2 Receiving ISH PDUs by an Intermediate System On receipt of an ISH PDU by an Intermediate System, the IS shall create an adjacency (with state Initialising and neighbourSystemType Unknown), if one does not al ready exist, and then perform the following actions:. a)If the Adjacency state is Up and the ID portion of the NET field in the ISH PDU does not match the neighbourID of the adjacency then the IS shall: 1)generate an adjacencyStateChange (Down) no tification; 2)delete the adjacency; and 3)create a new adjacency with: i)state set to Initialising, and ii)neighbourSystemType set to Unknown. 4)perform the following actions.. b)If the Adjacency state is Initialising, and the neighbourSystemType status is Intermediate Sys tem, the ISH PDU shall be ignored. c)If the Adjacency state is Initialising and the neigh bourSystemType status is not Intermediate Sys tem, a point to point IIH PDU shall be transmitted as described in 8.2.3. d)The neighbourSystemType status shall be set to In termediate System indicating that the neighbour is an Intermediate system, but the type (L1 or L2) is, as yet, unknown. 8.2.3 Sending Point to Point IIH PDUs An IS shall send Point-to-Point IIH PDUs on those Point- to-Point circuits whose externalDomain attribute is set False. The IIH shall be constructed and transmitted as follows: a)The Circuit Type field shall be set according to Ta ble 3. b)The Local Circuit ID field shall be set to a value as signed by this Intermediate system when the circuit is created. This value shall be unique among all the cir cuits of this Intermediate system. c)The first Point to Point IIH PDU (i.e. that transmitted as a result of receiving an ISH PDU, rather than as a result of timer expiration) shall be padded (with trail ing PAD options containing arbitrary valued octets) so that the SNSDU containing the IIH PDU has a length of at least maxsize - 1 octets77The minimum length of PAD which may be added is 2 octets, since that is the size of the option header. Where possible the PDU should be padded to maxsize, but if the PDU length is maxsize- 1 octets no padding is possible (or required). where maxsize is the maximum of 1)dataLinkBlocksize 2)originating
L1
LSP
Buf
fer
Size 3)originatingL2LSPBufferSize This is done to ensure that an adjacency will only be formed between systems which are capable of ex changing PDUs of length up to maxsize octets. In the absence of this check, it would be possible for an adja cency to exist with a lower maximum block size, with the result that some LSPs and SNPs (i.e. those longer than this maximum, but less than maxsize) would not be exchanged. NOTE - It is necessary for the manager to ensure that the value of dataLinkBlocksize on a circuit which will be used to form an Intermediate system to Intermediate sys tem adjacency is set to a value greater than or equal to the maximum of the LSPBufferSize characteristics listed above. If this is not done, the adjacency will fail to initial ise. It is not possible to enforce this requirement, since it is not known until initialisation time whether or not the neighbour on the circuit will be an End system or an In termediate system. An End system adjacency may oper ate with a lower value for dataLinkBlocksize. d)If the value of the circuitTransmitPassword for the circuit is non-null, then the IS shall include the Authentication Information field in the transmitted IIH PDU, indicating an Authentication Type of Password and containing the circuitTransmit Password as the authentication value. 8.2.4 Receiving Point to Point IIH PDUs 8.2.4.1 PDU Acceptance Tests On receipt of a Point-to-Point IIH PDU, perform the fol lowing PDU acceptance tests: a)If the IIH PDU was received over a circuit whose ex ternalDomain attribute is set True, the IS shall dis card the PDU. b)If the ID Length field of the PDU is not equal to the value of the IS's routeingDomainIDLength, the PDU shall be discarded and an iDFieldLengthMis match notification generated. c)If the set of circuitReceivePasswords for this cir cuit is non-null, then perform the following tests: 1)If the PDU does not contain the Authentication Information field then the PDU shall be discarded and an authenticationFailure notification gener ated. 2)If the PDU contains the Authentication Infor mation field, but the Authentication Type is not equal to Password, then the PDU shall be ac cepted unless the IS implements the authentica tiion procedure indicated by the Authentication Type. In this case whether the IS accepts or ig nores the PDU is outside the scope of this Interna tional Standard. 3)Otherwise, the IS shall compare the password in the received PDU with the passwords in the set of circuitReceivePasswords for the circuit on which the PDU was received. If the value in the PDU matches any of these passwords, the IS shall accept the PDU for further processing. If the value in the PDU does not match any of the circuitRe ceivePasswords, then the IS shall ignore the PDU and generate an authenticationFailure no tification. 8.2.4.2 IIH PDU Processing When a Point to Point IIH PDU is received by an Interme diate system, the area addresses of the two Intermediate Systems shall be compared to ascertain the validity of the adjacency. If the two Intermediate systems have an area ad dress in common, the adjacency is valid for all combina tions of Intermediate system types (except where a Level 1 Intermediate system is connected to a Level 2 Intermediate system with manualL2OnlyMode set True). However, if they have no area address in common, the adjacency is only valid if both Intermediate systems are Level 2, and the IS shall mark the adjacency as Level 2 Only. This is de scribed in more detail below. On receipt of a Point to Point IIH PDU, each of the area ad dresses from the PDU shall be compared with the set of area addresses in the manual
Area
Addresses attribute. a)If a match is detected between any pair the following actions are taken. 1)If the local system is of iSType L1
Inter
mediate
Sys
tem the IS shall perform the action indicated by Table 4. 2)If the local system is of iSType L2
Intermediate
System and the Circuit manualL2OnlyMode has the value False, the IS shall perform the ac tion indicated by Table 5. 3)If the local system is of iSType L2
Intermediate
System and the Circuit manualL2OnlyMode has the value True, the IS shall perform the ac tion indicated by Table 6. b)If a no match is detected between any pair, the follow ing actions shall be performed. 1)If the local system is of iSType L1
Inter
mediate
Sys
tem and the adjacency is not in state Up, the IS shall delete the adjacency (if any) and gen erate an initialisationFailure (Area Mismatch) notification. 2)If the local system is of iSType L1
Inter
mediate
Sys
tem and the adjacency is in state Up, the IS shall delete the adjacency and generate an adja cencyStateChange (Down Area Mismatch) notification . 3)If the local system is of iSType L2
Intermediate
System the IS shall perform the action indicated
by Table 7 (irrespective of the value of manu
alL2OnlyMode for this circuit).
c)If the action taken is Up, as detailed in the tables
referenced above, the IS shall compare the Source ID
field of the PDU with the local systemID.
1)If the local Intermediate system has the higher
Source ID, the IS shall set the Circuit CircuitID
status to the concatenation of the local systemID
and the Local Circuit ID (as sent in the Local Cir
cuit ID field of point to point IIH PDUs from this
Intermediate System) of this circuit.
2)If the remote Intermediate system has the higher
Source ID, the IS shall set the Circuit CircuitID
status to the concatenation of the remote system's
Source ID (from the Source ID field of the PDU),
and the remote system's Local Circuit ID (from the
Local Circuit ID field of the PDU).
3)If the two source IDs are the same (i.e. the system
is initialising to itself), the local systemID is used.
NOTE The circuitID status is not used to generate
the Local Circuit ID to be sent in the Local Circuit
ID field of IIH PDUs transmitted by this Intermedi
ate system. The Local Circuit ID value is assigned
once, when the circuit is created and is not subse
quently changed.
d)If the action taken is Accept and the new value com
puted for the circuitID is different from that in the ex
isting adjacency, the IS shall
1)generate an adjacencyStateChange(Down) noti
fication, and
2)delete the adjacency.
e)If the action taken is Up or Accept the IS shall
1)copy the Adjacency neighbourAreas entries
from the PDU,
2)set the holdingTimer to the value of the Holding
Time from the PDU, and
3)set the neighbourSystemID to the value of the
Source ID from the PDU.
8.2.5 Monitoring Point-to-point Adjacencies
The IS shall keep a holding time (adjacency holding
Timer) for the point-to-point adjacency. The value of the holding
Timer shall be set to the Holding Time as reported in the Holding Timer field of the Pt-Pt IIH PDU. If a neigh bour is not heard from in that time, the IS shall a)purge it from the database; and b)generate an adjacencyStateChange (Down) notifi cation. 8.3 ISO 8208 Subnetworks 8.3.1 Network Layer Protocols The way in which the underlying service assumed by ISO 8473 is provided for ISO 8208 subnetworks is described in clause 8 of ISO 8473. This defines a set of Subnetwork De pendent Convergence Functions (SNDCFs) that relate the service provided by specific individual ISO-standard subnetworks to the abstract underlying service defined in clause 5.5 of ISO 8473. In particular 8.4.3 describes the Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Functions used with ISO 8208 Subnetworks. 8.3.2 SVC Establishment 8.3.2.1 Use of ISO 8473 Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Functions SVCs shall be established according to the procedures de fined in the ISO 8208 Subnetwork Dependent Convergence Functions of ISO 8473 (this may be on system management action or on arrival of data depending on the type of cir cuit). The Call Request shall contain a Protocol Discrimina tor specifying ISO 8473 in the first octet of Call Userdata. In the case of a static circuit, an SVC shall be established only upon system management action. The IS shall use neighbourSNPAAddress as the called SNPA address. In the case of a DA circuit, the call establishment proce dures are initiated by the arrival of traffic for the circuit. 8.3.2.2 Dynamically Assigned Circuits A dynamically assigned circuit has multiple adjacencies, and can therefore establish SVCs to multiple SNPAs. In general the SNPA address to which a call is to be estab lished can be derived from the NSAP to which an NPDU is to be forwarded. In the case where all the NSAPs accessible over the ISO 8208 subnetwork have IDIs which are their SNPA addresses, the correct SNPA can be ascertained by extracting the IDI. However there may be some NSAPs, which it is required to reach over the ISO 8208 subnetwork, whose IDI does not correspond to the SNPA address of their point of attachment to the ISO 8208 subnetwork. The IDI may refer to some other SNPA address which is sub- optimally connected to the target NSAP (or not even con nected at all), or the IDP may not contain an X.121 address at all (e.g. ISO DCC scheme). In these cases the IS shall have pre-configured information relating an IDP (or address prefix) to a particular SNPA address to call. This is achieved, as described in 8.1, by additional informa tion contained in the Reachable Address managed object. The address extraction algorithm may be specified to ex tract the IDI portion where the IDI is the required X.121 ad dress. An example of a set of Reachable Addresses is shown in Table 8. Table 8 - Example of address prefixesAddress Prefix
39 37 aaaaa 37 * 37 D SNPA Address 123X B Y Extract X.121 SNPA address R, S, T This is interpreted as follows: a)For the ISO DCC prefix 39 123, call the SNPA ad dress X. b)For the X.121 IDI address prefix 37 aaaaa, don't call aaaaa, but call B instead. c)For all IDPs based on SNPAs with DNIC D (i.e. with address prefix 37 D), call the address Y (which would probably be a gateway to a subnetwork with DNIC D). d)For any other X.121 IDI (i.e. address prefix 37) call the SNPA whose address is used as the IDI. e)Anything else (* in table 8) call one of the SNPA addresses R, S or T. These would typically be the SNPA addresses of Level 2 Intermediate Systems through which any other addresses could potentially be reached. NOTE - If a DA circuit is defined with a reachable address prefix which includes the addresses reachable over a DCM or STATIC circuit, the cost(s) for the DA circuit must be greater than those of the STATIC circuit. If this is not the case, the DA circuit may be used to establish a call to the re mote SNPA supporting the STATIC circuit, which would then (wrongly) assume it was the STATIC circuit. 8.3.2.3 Initiating Calls (Level 2 Intermediate Systems) When an NPDU is to be forwarded on a dynamically as signed circuit, for destination NSAP address D, the IS shall: a)Calculate D's subnetwork address, either as explicitly stated in the circuit database, or as extracted from the IDP. 1)If this system is an ES and there is an entry in the RedirectCache or ReversePathCache for D, use the subnetwork address in the cache entry. 2)If this system is an ES or Level 2 Intermediate sys tem, and the address matches one of the listed reachable address prefixes (including *, if pre sent), the subnetwork address is that specified ac cording to the mappingType attribute (either Manual, indicating that the set of addresses in the sNPAAddresses attribute of that Reachable Address are to be used, or Algorithm, indicating that it is to be extracted from the IDP using the specified algorithm). If multiple SNPA addresses are specified, and there is already an adjacency up to one of those SNPA addresses, then choose that subnetwork address, otherwise choose the subnetwork address with the oldest timestamp as described in 8.3.2.4. 3)If the address does not match one of the listed reachable address prefixes (and there is no * en try), invoke the ISO 8473 Discard PDU function. b)Scan the adjacencies for one already open to D's subnetwork address (i.e. reserveTimer has not yet expired). If one is found, transmit the NPDU on that adjacency. c)If no adjacency has a call established to the required subnetwork address, but there is a free adjacency, at tempt to establish the call using that subnetwork ad dress. d)If there is no free adjacency invoke the ISO 8473 Dis card PDU function. NOTE Where possible, when an adjacency is reserved (when an SVC has been cleared as a result of the idleTimer expiring, but the reserveTimer has not yet ex pired), resources within the subnetwork service provider should be reserved, in order to minimise the probability that the adjacency will not be able to initiate a call when required. 8.3.2.4 Call Attempt Failures The Reachable Address managed objects may contain a set of SNPA addresses, each of which has an associated time- stamp. The time-stamps shall be initialised to infinitely old. Some of the SNPAs in this set may be unreachable. If a call attempt fails to one of the SNPA addresses listed, the IS shall mark that entry in the list with the time of the latest failed attempt. When an SNPA address is to be chosen from the list, the IS shall choose the one with the oldest time- stamp , unless the oldest time-stamp is more recent than recallTimer. If the oldest time-stamp is more recent than recallTimer, all SNPAs in the set shall be assumed tempo rarily unreachable and no call attempt is made. The IS shall instead invoke the ISO 8473 Discard PDU function. When attempting to establish a connection to a single spe cific subnetwork address (not through one of a set of SNPA addresses), if a call attempt to a particular SNPA address, A, fails for any reason, the IS shall invoke the ISO 8473 Discard PDU function. Additionally the adjacency on which the call attempt was placed shall be placed in Failed state, and the recall timer set. Until it expires, the IS shall not attempt call establishment for future NPDUs to be forwarded over subnetwork address A, but instead the IS shall invoke the ISO 8473 Discard PDU function. When the recall timer expires, the IS shall free the adja cency for calls to a different destination or retry attempts to subnetwork address A. NOTE - If an implementation can store the knowledge of SNPA addresses that have failed along with the time since the attempt was made in a location other than the adjacency on which the call was attempted, then that adjacency can be used for other calls. 8.3.3 Reverse Path Forwarding on DA Circuits Where a subdomain is attached to a Connection-oriented subnetwork by two or more SNPAs, the IDP for the ad dresses within the subdomain may be chosen to be con structed from the address of one of the points of attachment. (It need not be. The whole subdomain could be multi- homed by using both SNPA addresses, or some other IDP could be chosen; e.g. ISO DCC.) Traffic to the subdomain from some other SNPA will cause a call to be established to the SNPA corresponding to the IDP of the addresses in the subdomain. Traffic from the subdomain may use either of the SNPAs depending on the routeing decisions made by the subdomain. This is illustrated in the diagram below (fig ure 5). Figure 5 - B.xB.yC.zISO 8208 SubnetworkBACExample for reverse path forwarding The subdomain is attached to the connection-oriented subnetwork via SNPAs A and B. The addresses on the subdomain are constructed using the SNPA address of B as the IDI. If traffic for C.z is sent from B.x, a call will be es tablished from A to C. The reverse traffic from C.z to B.x will cause another call to be established from C to B. Thus two SVCs have been established where only one is re quired. This problem is prevented by the local system retaining a cache (known as the ReversePathCache) of NSAP ad dresses from which traffic has been received over each ad jacency. When it has traffic to forward over the connection- oriented subnetwork, the IS shall it first check to see if the destination NSAP is in the cache of any of its adjacencies, and if so forwards the traffic over that adjacency. An NSAP shall only be added to the cache when the remote SNPA ad dress of the adjacency over which it is received differs from the SNPA address to be called which would be generated by checking against the Circuit Reachable Addresses man aged objects. If the cache is full, the IS shall overwrite the least recently used entry. The ReversePathCache, if imple mented, shall have a size of at least one entry. The IS shall purge the cache when the adjacency is taken down (i.e. when the reserve timer expires). 8.3.4 Use of ISO 9542 on ISO 8208 subnetworks STATIC and DA circuits are equivalent to point to point links, and as such permit the operation of ISO 9542 as de scribed for point to point links in 8.2. For DA circuits, it is impractical to use ISO 9542 to obtain configuration information, such as the location of Interme diate systems, since this would require calls to be estab lished to all possible SNPA addresses. The IS shall not send ISO 9542 ISH PDUs on a DA circuit. The IS shall take no action on receipt of an ESH PDU or ISH PDU, and the circuit shall complete initialisation with out waiting for their arrival. The IS shall not send Point to point IIH PDU on DA cir cuits. The IS shall ignore receipt of a point-point IIH PDU. (This would only occur if a STATIC or DA circuit became erroneously connected to an SVC being used for a DA cir cuit.) 8.3.5 Interactions with the Update Process A dynamically assigned circuit contains a list of <reachable address prefix, cost, SNPA address> tuples. Also, each dy namically assigned circuit has a specified call establishment cost measured by call
Estab
lish
ment
Met
rick (where k in dexes the four defined metrics). The call establishment cost is always an internal metric, and is therefore directly com parable with the reachable address metric only if the reach able address metric is also internal. When the circuit is enabled, the Subnetwork Dependent functions in an Intermediate system shall report (to the Up date Process) adjacency cost change events for all ad dress prefixes in the circuit Reachable Address managed object, together with the Reachable address metrick + Del tak increment. If reachable address metrick is internal, then Deltak = call
Estab
lish
ment
Met
rick. If reachable address
metrick is external, then Deltak = 0.
This causes this information to be included in subsequently
generated LSPs as described in 7.3.3.2.
Routeing PDUs (LSPs and Sequence number PDUs) shall
not be sent on dynamically assigned circuits.
NOTE - In the following sub-clauses, it is assumed that the
Reachable Addresses referenced are only those which have
been enabled (i.e. that have state On), and whose parent
circuit is also in state On.
8.3.5.1 Adjacency Creation
After an SVC to SNPA address D is successfully estab
lished and a new adjacency created for it (whether it was in
itiated by the local or the remote system), if call
Estab
lish
ment
Met
rickIncrement is greater than 0, the IS shall scan the circuit Reachable Address managed objects for all addressPrefixes listed with D as (one of) the sNPAAd dress(es). For Reachable Addresses with mappingType Algo rithm, the IS shall construct an implied address prefix88i.e. some address prefix which matches the addressPrefix of the Reachable Address, and which would generate the SNPA Address D when the extrac tion algorithm is applied from the actual remote SNPA address D and the address ex traction algorithm. The IS shall generate an Adjacency cost change event for each such address prefix (both actual and implied) with the Reachable Address metrick (without the added call
Estab
lish
ment
Met
rickIncrement). This causes
information that those address prefixes are reachable with
the lower cost to be included in subsequently generated
LSPs. The effect of this is to encourage the use of already
established SVCs where possible.
8.3.5.2 Adjacency Deletion
When the adjacency with sNPAAddress D is freed (Re
serve Timer has expired, or the adjacency is deleted by Sys
tem Management action) then if call
Estab
lish
ment
Met
rickIncrement is greater than 0, the IS shall scan the Cir
cuit Reachable Address managed objects for all those with
mappingType Manual and (one of) their sNPAAd
dresses equal to D. The IS shall generate Adjacency
cost change events to the Update Process for all such ad
dress prefixes with the Reachable Address metrick + Deltak
increment (where Deltak is the same as defined above). For
Reachable Addresses with mappingType X.121 for
which it is possible to construct an implied address prefix
as above, the IS shall generate an adjacencyState
Change notification for that implied prefix.
A cost change event shall only be generated when the count
of the number of subnetwork addresses which have an es
tablished SVC changes between 1 and 0.
8.3.5.3 Circuit Call Establishment Increment
Change
On a dynamically assigned circuit, when system manage
ment changes the Circuit call
Estab
lish
ment
Met
rickIncrement for that circuit, the IS shall generate adja cency cost change events for all address prefixes affected by the change (i.e. those for which calls are not currently established). The IS shall scan all the Reachable Address managed ob jects of that Circuit. If the Reachable Address has mappingType X.121, the IS shall generate an adja cency cost change event for that name with the Reach able Address metrick + the new value of Deltak. If (based on the new value of callEstab
lish
ment
Met
rickIncrement)
the Reachable Address has mappingType Manual, the
IS shall scan all the Adjacencies of the Circuit for an Adja
cency with sNPAAddress equal to (one of) the sN
PAAddresses of that Reachable Address. If no such adja
cency is found the IS shall generate an adjacency cost
change event for that name with the Reachable Address
metrick + the new value of Deltak (based on the new value
of callEstlishmentMetrickIncrement).
8.3.5.4 Reachable Address Cost Change
When the metrick characteristic of a Reachable Address in
state On is changed by system management, the IS shall
generate cost change events to the Update Process to reflect
this change.
If the Reachable Address has mappingType Manual,
the IS shall scan all the Adjacencies of the Circuit for an
Adjacency with sNPAAddress equal to (one of) the sN
PAAddresses of that Reachable Address. If one or more
such adjacencies are found, the IS shall generate an adja
cency cost change event for that name with the new
Reachable Address metrick. If no such adjacency is found
the IS shall generate an adjacency cost change event for
that name with the new Reachable Address metrick.
If the Reachable Address has mappingType X.121, the
IS shall generate an adjacency cost change event for that
name with the new Reachable Address metrick + Deltak
(based on the new value of call
Estab
lish
ment
Met
rick
Increment). In addition, for all Adjacencies of the Circuit with an sNPAAddress for which an implied address pre fix can be generated for this Reachable Address, the IS shall generate an adjacency cost change event for that im plied address prefix and the new Reachable Address met rick. 8.3.5.5 Disabling a Reachable Address When a Reachable Address managed object is disabled via management action, the IS shall generate an Adjacency down event to the Update Process for the name of that Reachable Address and also for any implied prefixes asso ciated with that Reachable Address. 8.3.5.6 Enabling a Reachable Address When a Reachable Address is enabled via system manage ment action, the IS shall generate Adjacency cost change events as described for Reachable Address cost change in 8.3.5.4 above. 8.4 Broadcast Subnetworks 8.4.1 Broadcast Subnetwork IIH PDUs All Intermediate systems on broadcast circuits (both Level 1 and Level 2) shall transmit LAN IIH PDUs as de scribed in 8.4.3. Level 1 Intermediate systems shall transmit only Level 1 LAN IIH PDUs. Level 2 Intermediate Systems on circuits with manualL2OnlyMode set to the value True, shall transmit only Level 2 LAN IIH PDUs. Level 2 Intermediate systems on circuits with manu alL2OnlyMode set to the value False, shall transmit both. Level n LAN IIH PDUs contain the transmitting Intermedi ate system's ID, holding timer, Level n Priority and manual
Area
Addresses, plus a list containing the lA NAddresses of all the adjacencies of neighbourSystem Type Ln Intermediate System (in state Initialising or Up) on this circuit. LAN IIH PDUs shall be padded (with trailing PAD options containing arbitrary valued octets) so that the SNSDU con taining the IIH PDU has a length of at least maxsize- 1 oc tets99The minimum length of PAD which may be added is 2 octets, since that is the size of the option header. Where possible the PDU should be padded to maxsize, but if the PDU length is maxsize- 1 octets no padding is possible (or required). where maxsize for Level 1 IIH PDUs is the maximum of -dataLinkBlocksize -originating
L1
LSP
Buf
fer
Size and for Level 2 IIH PDUs is the maximum of -dataLinkBlocksize -originatingL2LSPBufferSize This is done to ensure that an adjacency will only be formed between systems which are capable of exchanging PDUs of length up to maxsize octets. In the absence of this check, it would be possible for an adjacency to exist with a lower maximum block size, with the result that some LSPs and SNPs (i.e. those longer than this maximum, but less than maxsize) would not be exchanged. NOTE - An example of a topology where this could occur is one where an extended LAN is constructed from LAN seg ments with different maximum block sizes. If, as a result of mis-configuration or some dynamic reconfiguration, a path exists between two Intermediate systems on separate LAN segments having a large maximum block size, which in volves transit of a LAN segment with a smaller maximum block size, loss of larger PDUs will occur if the Intermediate systems continue to use the larger maximum block size. It is better to refuse to bring up the adjacency in these circum stances. Level 1 Intermediate systems shall transmit Level 1 LAN IIH PDUs to the multi-destination address AllL1ISs, and also listen on that address. They shall also listen for ESH PDUs on the multi-destination address AllIntermediateSys tems. The list of neighbour Intermediate systems shall con tain only Level 1 Intermediate Systems within the same area. (i.e. Adjacencies of neighbourSystemType L1 In termediate System.) Level 2 Only Intermediate systems (i.e. Level 2 Intermedi ate systems which have the Circuit manualL2OnlyMode characteristic set to the value True) shall transmit Level 2 LAN IIH PDUs to the multi-destination address AllL2ISs, and also listen on that address. The list of neighbour Inter mediate systems shall contain only Level 2 Intermediate systems. (i.e. Adjacencies of neighbourSystemType L2 Intermediate System.) Level 2 Intermediate systems (with manualL2OnlyMode False) shall perform both of the above actions. Separate Level 1 and Level 2 LAN IIH PDUs shall be sent to the multi-destination addresses AllL1ISs and AllL2ISs de scribing the neighbour Intermediate systems for Level 1 and Level 2 respectively. Separate adjacencies shall be cre ated by the receipt of Level 1 and Level 2 LAN IIH PDUs. 8.4.1.1 IIH PDU Acceptance Tests On receipt of a Broadcast IIH PDU, perform the following PDU acceptance tests: a)If the IIH PDU was received over a circuit whose ex ternalDomain attribute is True, the IS shall discard the PDU. b)If the ID Length field of the PDU is not equal to the value of the IS's routeingDomainIDLength, the PDU shall be discarded and an iDFieldLengthMis match notification generated. c)If the set of circuitReceivePasswords for this cir cuit is non-null, then perform the following tests: 1)If the PDU does not contain the Authentication Information field then the PDU shall be discarded and an authenticationFailure notification gener ated. 2)If the PDU contains the Authentication Infor mation field, but the Authentication Type is not equal to Password, then the PDU shall be ac cepted unless the IS implements the authentica tiion procedure indicated by the Authentication Type. In this case whether the IS accepts or ig nores the PDU is outside the scope of this Interna tional Standard. 3)Otherwise, the IS shall compare the password in the received PDU with the passwords in the set of circuitReceivePasswords for the circuit on which the PDU was received. If the value in the PDU matches any of these passwords, the IS shall accept the PDU for further processing. If the value in the PDU does not match any of the circuitRe ceivePasswords, then the IS shall ignore the PDU and generate an authenticationFailure no tification. 8.4.1.2 Receipt of Level 1 IIH PDUs On receipt of a Level 1 LAN IIH PDU on the multi- destination address AllL1ISs, the IS shall compare each of the area addresses, from the received IIH PDU with the set of area addresses in the manual
Area
Addresses charac teristic. If a match is not found between any pair (i.e. the lo cal and remote system have no area address in common), the IS shall reject the adjacency and generate an initialisa tionFailure (area mismatch) notification. Otherwise (a match is found) the IS shall accept the adjacency and set the Adjacency neighbourSystemType to L1 Intermediate System. 8.4.1.3 Receipt of Level 2 IIH PDUs On receipt of a Level 2 LAN IIH PDU on the multi- destination address AllL2ISs, the IS shall accept the adja cency, and set the Adjacency neighbourSystemType to L2 Intermediate System. 8.4.1.4 Existing Adjacencies When a Level n LAN IIH PDU (Level 1 or Level 2) is re ceived from an Intermediate system for which there is al ready an adjacency with a)the Adjacency lANAddress equal to the MAC Source address of the PDU, and b)the Adjacency neighbourSystemID equal to the Source ID field from the PDU and c)the neighbourSystemType equal to Ln Intermedi ate System, the IS shall update the holding timer, LAN Priority and neighbourAreas according to the values in the PDU. 8.4.1.5 New Adjacencies When a)a Level n LAN IIH PDU (Level 1 or Level 2) is re ceived (from Intermediate system R), and b)there is no adjacency for which the Adjacency lANAd dress is equal to the MAC Source address of the PDU; and c)the Adjacency neighbourSystemID is equal to the Source ID field from the PDU, and d)neighbourSystemType is Ln Intermediate System, the IS shall create a new adjacency. However, if there is in sufficient space in the adjacency database, to permit the creation of a new adjacency the IS shall instead perform the actions described in 8.4.2. The IS shall a)set neighbourSystemType status to Ln Intermedi ate System (where n is the level of the IIH PDU), b)set the holding timer, LAN Priority, neighbourID and neighbourAreas according to the values in the PDU., and c)set the lANAddress according to the MAC source ad dress of the PDU. The IS shall set the state of the adjacency to initialising, until it is known that the communication between this sys tem and the source of the PDU (R) is two-way. However R shall be included in future Level n LAN IIH PDUs trans mitted by this system. When R reports this circuit's lANAddress in its Level n LAN IIH PDUs, the IS shall a)set the adjacency's state to Up, and b)generate an adjacencyStateChange (Up) notifica tion. The IS shall keep a separate Holding Time (Adjacency holding
Timer) for each Ln Intermediate System adja cency. The value of holding
Timer shall be set to the Hold ing Time as reported in the Holding Timer field of the Level n LAN IIH PDUs. If a neighbour is not heard from in that time, the IS shall a)purge it from the database; and b)generate an adjacencyStateChange (Down) notifi cation. If a Level n LAN IIH PDU is received from neighbour N, and this system's lANAddress is no longer in N's IIH PDU, the IS shall a)set the adjacency's state to initialising, and b)generate an adjacencyStateChange (Down) notifi cation. 8.4.2 Insufficient Space in Adjacency Database If an IS needs to create a new Intermediate system adja cency, but there is insufficient space in the adjacency data base, the adjacency of neighbourSystemType Ln Inter mediate System with lowest lANPriority (or if more than one adjacency has the lowest priority, the adjacency with the lowest lANAddress, from among those with the lowest priority) shall be purged from the database. If the new adja cency would have the lowest priority, it shall be ignored, and a rejectedAdjacency notification generated. If an old adjacency must be purged, the IS shall generate an adjacencyStateChange (Down) notification for that adja cency. After the Subnetwork Independent Functions issue an adjacency down complete, the IS may create a new ad jacency. 8.4.3 Transmission of LAN IIH PDUs A Level 1 IS shall transmit a Level 1 LAN IIH PDU imme diately when any circuit whose externalDomain attribute is False has been enabled. A Level 2 Intermediate Sys tem shall transmit a Level 2 LAN IIH PDU. A Level 2 In termediate System shall also transmit a Level 1 LAN IIH PDU unless the circuit is marked as manualL2OnlyMode True. The IS shall also transmit a LAN IIH PDU when at least 1 second has transpired since the last transmission of a LAN IIH PDU of the same type on this circuit by this system and: a)iSIS
Hello
Timer seconds have elapsed1010Jitter is applied as described in 10.1. since the last periodic LAN IIH PDU transmission The Holding Time is set to ISISHoldingMultiplier W iSIS
Hello
Timer. For a Designated Intermediate Sys tem the value of dRISIS
Hello
Timer1111 In this case jitter is not applied, since it would result in intervals of less than one second. is used instead of iSISHelloTimer. The Holding Time for this PDU shall therefore be set to ISISHoldingMultiplier W dR
ISIS
Hello
Timer seconds. This permits failing
Designated Intermediate Systems to be detected more
rapidly,
or
b)the contents of the next IIH PDU to be transmitted
would differ from the contents of the previous IIH
PDU transmitted by this system, or
c)this system has determined that it is to become or re
sign as LAN Designated Intermediate System for that
level.
To minimise the possibility of the IIH PDU transmissions
of all Intermediate systems on the LAN becoming synchro
nised, the Hello Time timer shall only be reset when a IIH
PDU is transmitted as a result of timer expiration, or on be
coming or resigning as Designated Intermediate System.
Where an Intermediate system is transmitting both Level 1
and Level 2 LAN IIH PDUs, it shall maintain a separate
timer (separately jittered) for the transmission of the
Level 1 and Level 2 IIH PDUs. This avoids correlation be
tween the Level 1 and Level 2 IIH PDUs and allows the re
ception buffer requirements to be minimised.
If the value of the circuitTransmitPassword for the cir
cuit is non-null, then the IS shall include the Authentica
tion Information field in the transmitted IIH PDU, indicat
ing an Authentication Type of Password and contain
ing the circuitTransmitPassword as the authentication
value.
8.4.4 LAN Designated Intermediate Systems
A LAN Designated Intermediate System is the highest pri
ority Intermediate system in a particular set on the LAN,
with numerically highest MAC source lANAddress break
ing ties. (See 7.1.5 for how to compare LAN addresses.)
There are, in general, two LAN Designated Intermediate
Systems on each LAN, namely the LAN Level 1 Desig
nated Intermediate System and the LAN Level 2 Desig
nated Intermediate System. They are elected as follows.
a)Level 1 Intermediate systems elect the LAN Level 1
Designated Intermediate System.
b)Level 2 Only Intermediate systems (i.e. Level 2 Inter
mediate Systems which have the Circuit manual
L2
Only
Mode characteristic set to the value True) elect the LAN Level 2 Designated Intermediate Sys tem. c)Level 2 Intermediate systems (with manu alL2OnlyMode False) elect both the LAN Level 1 and LAN Level 2 Designated Intermediate Systems. The set of Intermediate systems to be considered includes the local Intermediate system, together with all Intermedi ate systems of the appropriate type as follows. a)For the LAN Level 1 Designated Intermediate System, it is the set of Intermediate systems from which LAN Level 1 IIH PDUs are received and to which Level 1 adjacencies exist in state Up. When the local sys tem either becomes or resigns as LAN Level 1 Desig nated Intermediate System, the IS shall generate a lan Level1
Designated
Inter
mediate
Sys
tem
Change notification. In addition, when it becomes LAN Level 1 Designated Intermediate System, it shall per form the following actions. 1)Generate and transmit Level 1 pseudonode LSPs using the existing End system configuration. 2)Purge the Level 1 pseudonode LSPs issued by the previous LAN Level 1 Designated Intermediate System (if any) as described in 7.2.3. 3)Solicit the new End system configuration as de scribed in 8.4.5. b)For the LAN Level 2 Designated Intermediate System, it is the set of Intermediate systems from which LAN Level 2 IIH PDUs are received and to which Level 2 adjacencies exist in state Up. When the local sys tem either becomes or resigns as LAN Level 2 Desig nated Intermediate System, the IS shall generate a lan Level2
Designated
Inter
mediate
System
Change notification. In addition, when it becomes LAN Level 2 Designated Intermediate System, it shall per form the following actions. 1)Generate and transmit a Level 2 pseudonode LSP. 2)Purge the Level 2 pseudonode LSPs issued by the previous LAN Level 2 Designated Intermediate System (if any) as described in 7.2.3. When an Intermediate system resigns as LAN Level 1 or Level 2 Designated Intermediate System it shall perform the actions on Link State PDUs described in 7.2.3. When the broadcast circuit is enabled on an Intermediate system the IS shall perform the following actions. a)Commence sending IIH PDUs with the LAN ID field set to the concatenation of its own systemID and its locally assigned one octet Local Circuit ID. b)Solicit the End system configuration as described in 8.4.5. c)Start listening for ISO 9542 ISH PDUs and ESH PDUs and acquire adjacencies as appropriate. Do not run the Designated Intermediate System election proc ess. d)After waiting iSIS
Hello
Timer * 2 seconds, run the
Level 1 and or the Level 2 Designated Intermediate
System election process depending on the Intermedi
ate system type. This shall be run subsequently when
ever an IIH PDU is received or transmitted as de
scribed in 8.4.3. (For these purposes, the transmission
of the system's own IIH PDU is equivalent to receiv
ing it). If there has been no change to the information
on which the election is performed since the last time
it was run, the previous result can be assumed. The
relevant information is
1)the set of Intermediate system adjacency states,
2)the set of Intermediate System priorities (including
this system's) and
3)the existence (or otherwise) of at least one Up
End system (not including Manual Adjacencies) or
Intermediate system adjacency on the circuit.
An Intermediate system shall not declare itself to be a LAN
Designated Intermediate system of any type until it has at
least one Up End system (not including Manual Adjacen
cies) or Intermediate system adjacency on the circuit. (This
prevents an Intermediate System which has a defective re
ceiver and is incapable of receiving any PDUs from errone
ously electing itself LAN Designated Intermediate System.)
The LAN ID field in the LAN IIH PDUs transmitted by this
system shall be set to the value of the LAN ID field reported
in the LAN IIH PDU (for the appropriate level) received
from the system which this system considers to be the Des
ignated Intermediate System. This value shall also be
passed to the Update Process, as the pseudonode ID, to en
able Link State PDUs to be issued for this system claiming
connectivity to the pseudonode.
If this system, as a result of the Designated Intermediate
System election process, considers itself to be designated
Intermediate System, the LAN ID field shall be set to the
concatenation of this system's own system ID and the lo
cally assigned one octet Local Circuit ID.
8.4.5 Soliciting the ES configuration
When there is a change in the topology or configuration of
the LAN (for example the partitioning of a LAN into two
segments by the failure of a repeater or bridge), it is desir
able for the (new) Designated Intermediate System to ac
quire the new End system configuration of the LAN as
quickly as possible in order that it may generate Link State
PDUs which accurately reflect the actual configuration.
This is achieved as follows.
When the circuit is enabled, or the Intermediate system de
tects a change in the set of Intermediate systems on the
LAN, or a change in the Designated Intermediate System
ID, the IS shall initiate a poll of the ES configuration by
performing the following actions.
a)Delay a random interval between 0 and iSIS
Hello
Timer seconds. (This is to avoid synchronisation with other Intermediate systems which have detected the change.) b)If (and only if) an Intermediate System had been re moved from the set of Intermediate systems on the LAN, reset the entryRemainingTime field in the endSystemIDs adjacency database record of all adja cencies on this circuit to the value (iSIS
Hello
Timer + pollESHelloRate) W HoldingMultiplier or the existing value whichever is the lower. (This causes any End systems which are no longer present on the LAN to be rapidly timed out, but not before they have a chance to respond to the poll.) c)Transmit HoldingMultiplier ISH PDUs for each NET possessed by the Intermediate system with a Sug gested ES Configuration Timer value of poll
ES
Hello
Rate at an interval between them of iSIS
Hello
Timer seconds and a holding time of hello
Timer * HoldingMultiplier. d)Resume sending ISH PDUs at intervals of hello
Timer seconds with a Suggested ES Configuration Timer value of defaultESHelloTimer. 8.4.6 Receipt of ESH PDUs Database of End Systems An IS shall enter an End system into the adjacency database when an ESH PDU is received from a new data link ad dress. If an ESH PDU is received with the same data link address as a current adjacency, but with a different NSAP address, the new address shall be added to the adjacency, with a separate timer. A single ESH PDU may contain more than one NSAP address. When a new data link address or NSAP address is added to the adjacency database, the IS shall generate an adjacencyStateChange (Up) notifica tion on that adjacency. The IS shall set a timer for the value of the Holding Time field in the received ESH PDU. If another ESH PDU is not received from the ES before that timer expires, the ES shall be purged from the database, provided that the Subnetwork Independent Functions associated with initialising the adja cency have been completed. Otherwise the IS shall clear the adjacency as soon as those functions are completed. When the adjacency is cleared, the Subnetwork Independ ent Functions shall be informed of an adjacencyState Change (Down) notification, and the adjacency can be re- used after the Subnetwork Independent Functions associ ated with bringing down the adjacency have been com pleted. 9 Structure and Encoding of PDUs This clause describes the PDU formats of the Intra-Domain Routeing protocol. 9.1 General encoding Rules Octets in a PDU are numbered starting from 1, in increasing order. Bits in a octet are numbered from 1 to 8, where bit 1 is the least significant bit and is pictured on the right. When consecutive octets are used to represent a number, the lower octet number has the most significant value. Fields marked Reserved (or simply R) are transmitted as zero, and ignored on receipt, unless otherwise noted. Values are given in decimal. All numeric fields are un signed integers, unless otherwise noted. 9.2 Encoding of Network Layer Addresses Network Layer addresses (NSAP addresses, NETs, area ad dresses and Address Prefixes) are encoded in PDUs accord ing to the preferred binary encoding specified in ISO 8348/Add.2; the entire address, taken as a whole is rep resented explicitly as a string of binary octets. This string is conveyed in its entirety in the address fields of the PDUs. The rules governing the generation of the preferred binary encoding are described in ISO 8348/Add.2. The address so generated is encoded with the most significant octet (i.e. the AFI) of the address being the first octet transmitted, and the more significant semi-octet of each pair of semi-octets in the address is encoded in the more significant semi-octet of each octet (i.e. in the high order 4 bits). Thus the address /371234 is encoded as Figure 6 - 111No. of Octets3 7 1 2 3 4 Address encoding example 9.3 Encoding of SNPA Addresses SNPA addresses (e.g. lANAddress) shall be encoded ac cording to the rules specified for the particular type of subnetwork being used. In the case of an ISO 8802 subnetwork, the SNPA address is the MAC address defined in ISO 10039, which is encoded according to the binary representation of MAC addresses specified in ISO 10039. 9.4 PDU Types The types of PDUs are: -Level 1 LAN IS to IS Hello PDU -Level 2 LAN IS to IS Hello PDU -Point-to-Point IS to IS Hello PDU -Level 1 Link State PDU -Level 2 Link State PDU -Level 1 Complete Sequence Numbers PDU -Level 2 Complete Sequence Numbers PDU -Level 1 Partial Sequence Numbers PDU -Level 2 Partial Sequence Numbers PDU These are described in the following subclauses. 9.5 Level 1 LAN IS to IS Hello PDU This PDU is multicast by Intermediate systems on broad cast circuits to the multi-destination address AllL1ISs. The purpose of this PDU is for Intermediate systems on broadcast circuits to discover the identity of other Level 1 Intermediate systems on that circuit. Trailing Pad options are inserted to make PDU Length equal to at least maxsize - 1 where maxsize is the maximum of -dataLinkBlocksize -originating
L1
LSP
Buf
fer
Size (see 8.4.1). 11No. of Octets1111111ID Length2ID Length + 121VARIABLEIntradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator Length Indicator Version/Protocol ID Extension ID Length PDU Type R R R Version ECO User ECO Reserved/Circuit Type Source ID Holding Time LAN ID PDU Length Priority R VARIABLE LENGTH FIELDS -Intradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator architectural constant -Length Indicator Length of the fixed header in oc tets -Version/Protocol ID Extension 1 -ID Length Length of the ID field of NSAP ad dresses and NETs used in this routeing domain. This field shall take on one of the following values: 7An integer between 1 and 8, inclusive, indicating an ID field of the corresponding length 7The value zero, which indicates a 6 octet ID field length 7The value 255, whhich means a null ID field (i.e. zero length) All other values are illegal and shall not be used. -PDU Type (bits 1 through 5) 15. Note bits 6, 7 and 8 are Reserved, which means they are transmitted as 0 and ignored on receipt. -Version 1 -ECO transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt -User ECO transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt -Reserved/Circuit Type Most significant 6 bits re served (Transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt). Low order bits (bits 1 and 2) indicate: 70 reserved value (if specified the entire PDU shall be ignored) 71 Level 1 only 72 Level 2 only (sender is Level 2 Intermediate system with manualL2OnlyMode set True for this circuit, and will use this link only for Level 2 traffic) 73 both Level 1 and Level 2 (sender is Level 2 In termediate system, and will use this link both for Level 1 and Level 2 traffic) NOTE In a LAN Level 1 IIH PDU the Circuit Type shall be either 1 or 3. -Source ID the system ID of transmitting Intermedi ate system -Holding Time Holding Timer to be used for this In termediate system -PDU Length Entire length of this PDU, in octets, including header -Reserved/Priority Bit 8 reserved (Transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt). Bits 1 through 7 priority for being LAN Level 1 Designated Intermediate Sys tem. Higher number has higher priority for being LAN Level 1 Designated Intermediate System. Unsigned integer. -LAN ID a field composed the system ID (18 octets) of the LAN Level 1 Designated Intermediate System, plus a low order octet assigned by LAN Level 1 Des ignated Intermediate System. Copied from LAN Level 1 Designated Intermediate System's IIH PDU. -VARIABLE LENGTH FIELDS fields of the form:11No. of OctetsLENGTHCODE LENGTH VALUE Any codes in a received PDU that are not recognised shall be ignored. Currently defined codes are: 7Area Addresses the set of manual
Area
Addresses of this Intermediate System. xCODE 1 xLENGTH total length of the value field. xVALUE 1Address Length1Address LengthNo. of OctetsAddress Length Area Address Address Length Area Address 7Address Length Length of Area Ad dress in octets. 7Area Address Area address. 7Intermediate System Neighbours This option field can occur multiple times. The set of Interme diate systems on this LAN to which adjacencies of neighbourSystemType L1 Intermediate Sys tem exist in state Up or Initialising (i.e. those from which Level 1 IIH PDUs have been heard). xCODE 6 xLENGTH total length of the value field. xVALUE 66No. of OctetsLAN Address LAN Address 7LAN Address 6 octet MAC Address of Intermediate System neighbour. 7Padding This option may occur multiple times. It is used to pad the PDU to at least maxsize - 1. xCODE 8. xLENGTH total length of the value field (may be zero). xVALUE LENGTH octets of arbitrary value. 7Authentication Information information for performing authentication of the originator of the PDU. xCODE 10. xLENGTH variable from 1254 octets xVALUE 1VARIABLENo. of OctetsAuthentication Type Authentication Value 7Authentication Type a one octet iden tifier for the type of authentication to be carried out. The following values are de fined: 0 RESERVED 1 Cleartext Password 2254 RESERVED 255 Routeing Domain private authentication method 7Authentication Value determined by the value of the authentication type. If Cleartext Password as defined in this Inter national Standard is used, then the authenti cation value is an octet string. 9.6 Level 2 LAN IS to IS Hello PDU This PDU is multicast by Intermediate systems on broad cast circuits to the multi-destination address AllL2ISs. The purpose of this PDU is for Intermediate systems on broadcast circuits to discover the identity of other Level 2 Intermediate systems on that circuit. Trailing Pad options are inserted to make PDU Length equal to at least maxsize - 1 where -dataLinkBlocksize -originatingL2LSPBufferSize (see 8.4.1). 11No. of Octets1111111ID Length2ID Length + 121VARIABLEIntradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator Length Indicator Version/Protocol ID Extension ID Length PDU Type R R R Version ECO User ECO Reserved/Circuit Type Source ID Holding Time LAN ID PDU Length Priority R VARIABLE LENGTH FIELDS -Intradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator ar chitectural constant -Length Indicator Length of fixed header in octets -Version/Protocol ID Extension 1 -ID Length Length of the ID field of NSAP ad dresses and NETs used in this routeing domain. This field shall take on one of the following values: 7An integer between 1 and 8, inclusive, indicating an ID field of the corresponding length 7The value zero, which indicates a 6 octet ID field length 7The value 255, whhich means a null ID field (i.e. zero length) All other values are illegal and shall not be used. -PDU Type (bits 1 through 5) 16. Note bits 6, 7 and 8 are Reserved, which means they are transmitted as 0 and ignored on receipt. -Version 1 -ECO transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt -User ECO transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt -Reserved/Circuit Type Most significant 6 bits re served (Transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt). Low order bits (bits 1 and 2) indicate: 70 reserved value (if specified the entire PDU shall be ignored) 71 Level 1 only 72 Level 2 only (sender is Level 2 Intermediate System with manualL2OnlyMode set True for this circuit, and will use this link only for Level 2 traffic) 73 both Level 1 and Level 2 (sender is Level 2 In termediate System, and will use this link both for Level 1 and Level 2 traffic) NOTE In a LAN Level 2 IIH PDU the Circuit Type shall be either 2 or 3. -Source ID the system ID of transmitting Intermedi ate System -Holding Time Holding Timer to be used for this In termediate System -PDU Length Entire length of this PDU, in octets, including header -Reserved/Priority Bit 8 reserved (Transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt). Bits 1 through 7 priority for being LAN Level 2 Designated Intermediate Sys tem. Higher number has higher priority for being LAN Level 2 Designated Intermediate System. Unsigned integer. -LAN ID a field composed the system ID (18 octets) of the LAN Level 1 Designated Intermediate System, plus a low order octet assigned by LAN Level 1 Des ignated Intermediate System. Copied from LAN Level 1 Designated Intermediate System's IIH PDU. -VARIABLE LENGTH FIELDS fields of the form:11No. of OctetsLENGTHCODE LENGTH VALUE Any codes in a received PDU that are not recognised shall be ignored. Currently defined codes are: 7Area addresses the set of manual
Area
Addresses of this Intermediate system. xCODE 1 xLENGTH total length of the value field. xVALUE 1Address Length1Address LengthNo. of OctetsAddress Length Area Address Address Length Area Address 7Address Length Length of area address in octets. 7Area Address Area address. 7Intermediate System Neighbours This option can occur multiple times. The set of Intermediate systems on this LAN to which adjacencies of neighbourSystemType L2 Intermediate Sys tem exist in state Up or Initialising (i.e. those from which Level 2 IIH PDUs have been heard). xCODE 6 xLENGTH total length of the value field. xVALUE 66No. of OctetsLAN Address LAN Address xLAN Address 6 octet MAC Address of In termediate System neighbour 7Padding This option may occur multiple times. It is used to pad the PDU to at least maxsize 1. xCODE 8. xLENGTH total length of the value field (may be zero). xVALUE LENGTH octets of arbitrary value. 7Authentication Information information for performing authentication of the originator of the PDU. xCODE 10. xLENGTH variable from 1254 octets xVALUE 1VARIABLENo. of OctetsAuthentication Type Authentication Value 7Authentication Type a one octet iden tifier for the type of authentication to be carried out. The following values are de fined: 0 RESERVED 1 Cleartext Password 2254 RESERVED 255 Routeing Domain private authentication method 7Authentication Value determined by the value of the authentication type. If Cleartext Password as defined in this Inter national Standard is used, then the authenti cation value is an octet string. 9.7 Point-to-Point IS to IS Hello PDU This PDU is transmitted by Intermediate systems on non- broadcast circuits, after receiving an ISH PDU from the neighbour system. Its purpose is to determine whether the neighbour is a Level 1 or a Level 2 Intermediate System. Trailing pad options are inserted to make PDU Length equal to at least maxsize 1 where maxsize is the maxi mum of -dataLinkBlocksize -originating
L1
LSP
Buf
fer
Size -originatingL2LSPBufferSize (see 8.2.3).11No. of Octets1111111ID Length212VARIABLEIntradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator Length Indicator Version/Protocol ID Extension ID Length PDU Type R R R Version ECO User ECO Reserved/Circuit Type Source ID Holding Time Local Circuit ID PDU Length VARIABLE LENGTH FIELDS -Intradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator architectural constant -Length Indicator Length of fixed header in octets -Version/Protocol ID Extension 1 -ID Length Length of the ID field of NSAP ad dresses and NETs used in this routeing domain. This field shall take on one of the following values: 7An integer between 1 and 8, inclusive, indicating an ID field of the corresponding length 7The value zero, which indicates a 6 octet ID field length 7The value 255, whhich means a null ID field (i.e. zero length) All other values are illegal and shall not be used. -PDU Type (bits 1 through 5) 17. Note bits 6, 7 and 8 are Reserved, which means they are transmitted as 0 and ignored on receipt. -Version 1 -ECO transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt -User ECO transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt -Reserved/Circuit Type Most significant 6 bits re served (Transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt). Low order bits (bits 1 and 2) indicate: 70 reserved value (if specified the entire PDU shall be ignored) 71 Level 1 only 72 Level 2 only (sender is Level 2 Intermediate system with manualL2OnlyMode set True for this circuit, and will use this link only for Level 2 traffic) 73 both Level 1 and Level 2 (sender is Level 2 In termediate system and will use this link both for Level 1 and Level 2 traffic) -Source ID the system ID of transmitting Intermedi ate system -Holding Time Holding Timer to be used for this In termediate system -PDU Length Entire length of this PDU, in octets, including header -Local Circuit ID 1 octet unique ID assigned to this circuit when it is created by this Intermediate system. The actual ID by which the circuit is known to both ends of the link is determined by the Intermediate sys tem with the lower Source ID. -VARIABLE LENGTH FIELDS fields of the form:11No. of OctetsLENGTHCODE LENGTH VALUE Any codes in a received PDU that are not recognised shall be ignored. Currently defined codes are: 7Area addresses the set of manual
Area
Addresses of this Intermediate system xCODE 1 xLENGTH total length of the value field. xVALUE 1Address Length1Address LengthNo. of OctetsAddress Length Area Address Address Length Area Address 7Address Length Length of area address in octets. 7Area Address Area address. 7Padding This option may occur multiple times. It is used to pad the PDU to at least maxsize 1. xCODE 8. xLENGTH total length of the value field (may be zero). xVALUE LENGTH octets of arbitrary value. 7Authentication Information information for performing authentication of the originator of the PDU. xCODE 10. xLENGTH variable from 1254 octets xVALUE 1VARIABLENo. of OctetsAuthentication Type Authentication Value 7Authentication Type a one octet iden tifier for the type of authentication to be carried out. The following values are de fined: 0 RESERVED 1 Cleartext Password 2254 RESERVED 255 Routeing Domain private authentication method 7Authentication Value determined by the value of the authentication type. If Cleartext Password as defined in this Inter national Standard is used, then the authenti cation value is an octet string. 9.8 Level 1 Link State PDU Level 1 Link State PDUs are generated by Level 1 and Level 2 Intermediate systems, and propagated throughout an area. The contents of the Level 1 Link State PDU indi cates the state of the adjacencies to neighbour Intermediate Systems, or pseudonodes, and End systems of the Interme diate system that originally generated the PDU.11No. of Octets11111122ID Length + 214VARIABLE2Intradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator Length Indicator Version/Protocol ID Extension ID Length PDU Type R R R Version ECO User ECO PDU Length Remaining Lifetime LSP ID P Sequence Number VARIABLE LENGTH FIELDS LSPDBOL IS Type Checksum ATT -Intradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator ar chitectural constant -Length Indicator Length if fixed header in octets -Version/Protocol ID Extension 1 -ID Length Length of the ID field of NSAP ad dresses and NETs used in this routeing domain. This field shall take on one of the following values: 7An integer between 1 and 8, inclusive, indicating an ID field of the corresponding length 7The value zero, which indicates a 6 octet ID field length 7The value 255, whhich means a null ID field (i.e. zero length) All other values are illegal and shall not be used. -PDU Type (bits 1 through 5) 18. Note bits 6, 7 and 8 are Reserved, which means they are transmitted as 0 and ignored on receipt. -Version 1 -ECO transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt -User ECO transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt -PDU Length Entire Length of this PDU, in octets, including header -Remaining Lifetime Number of seconds before LSP considered expired -LSP ID the system ID of the source of the Link State PDU. It is structured as follows:ID Length1No. of Octets1Source ID Pseudonode ID LSP Number -Sequence Number sequence number of LSP -Checksum Checksum of contents of LSP from Source ID to end. Checksum is computed as de scribed in 7.3.11. -P/ATT/LSPDBOL/IS Type -P Bit 8, indicates when set that the issuing Interme diate System supports the Partition Repair optional function. 7ATT - Bits 7-4 indicate, when set, that the issuing Intermediate System is `attached' to other areas using: xBit 4 - the Default Metric xBit 5 - the Delay Metric xBit 6 - the Expense Metric xBit 7 - the Error Metric. 7LSPDBOL Bit 3 A value of 0 indicates no LSP Database Overload, and a value of 1 indicates that the LSP Database is Overloaded. An LSP with this bit set will not be used by any decision proc ess to calculate routes to another IS through the originating system. 7IS Type Bits 1 and 2 indicate the type of Inter mediate System One of the following values: x0 Unused value x1 ( i.e. bit 1 set) Level 1 Intermediate system x2 Unused value x3 (i.e. bits 1 and 2 set) Level 2 Intermediate system. -VARIABLE LENGTH FIELDS fields of the form:11No. of OctetsLENGTHCODE LENGTH VALUE Any codes in a received LSP that are not recognised are ignored and passed through unchanged. Currently defined codes are: 7Area Addresses the set of manual
Area
Addresses of this Intermediate system. For LSPs not generated on behalf of the pseudonode this option shall always be present in the LSP with LSP number zero, and shall never be present in an LSP with non-zero LSP number. It shall appear before any Intermediate System Neighbours or End System Neighbours options. This option shall never be present in pseudonode LSPs. xCODE 1 xLENGTH total length of the value field. xVALUE 1Address Length1Address LengthNo. of OctetsAddress Length Area Address Address Length Area Address 7Address Length Length of area address in octets. 7Area Address Area address. 7Intermediate System Neighbours Intermedi ate system and pseudonode neighbours. This is permitted to appear multiple times, and in an LSP with any LSP number. However, all the Intermediate System Neighbours options shall precede the End System Neighbours op tions. i.e. they shall appear before any End system Neighbour options in the same LSP and no End system Neighbour options shall appear in an LSP with lower LSP number. xCODE 2. xLENGTH 1. plus a multiple of 11. xVALUE No. of Octets11ID Length + 11111ID Length + 1111Virtual Flag Default Metric Neighbour ID Delay Metric Expense Metric Error Metric I/E 0 I/E S I/E S I/E S Default Metric Neighbour ID Delay Metric Expense Metric Error Metric I/E 0 I/E S I/E S I/E S 7Virtual Flag is a Boolean. If equal to 1, this indicates the link is really a Level 2 path to repair an area partition. (Level 1 Intermedi ate Systems would always report this octet as 0 to all neighbours). 7Default Metric is the value of the default metric for the link to the listed neighbour. Bit 8 of this field is reserved. Bit 7 of this field (marked I/E) indicates the metric type, and shall contain the value 0, indicating an Internal metric. 7Delay Metric is the value of the delay met ric for the link to the listed neighbour. If this IS does not support this metric it shall set the bit S to 1 to indicate that the met ric is unsupported. Bit 7 of this field (marked I/E) indicates the metric type, and shall contain the value 0, indicating an Internal metric. 7Expense Metric is the value of the ex pense metric for the link to the listed neigh bour. If this IS does not support this metric it shall set the bit S to 1 to indicate that the metric is unsupported. Bit 7 of this field (marked I/E) indicates the metric type, and shall contain the value 0, indicating an Internal metric. 7Error Metric is the value of the error metric for the link to the listed neighbour. If this IS does not support this metric it shall set the bit S to 1 to indicate that the metric is unsupported. Bit 7 of this field (marked I/E) indicates the metric type, and shall contain the value 0, indicating an Internal metric. 7Neighbour ID. For Intermediate System neighbours, the first ID Length octets are the neighbour's system ID, and the last oc tet is 0. For pseudonode neighbours, the first ID Length octets is the LAN Level 1 Designated Intermediate System's ID, and the last octet is a non-zero quantity defined by the LAN Level 1 Designated Intermedi ate System. 7End System Neighbours End system neigh bours This may appear multiple times, and in an LSP with any LSP number. See the description of the Intermediate System Neighbours option above for the relative ordering constraints. Only adjacencies with identical costs can appear in the same list. xCODE 3. xLENGTH 4. plus a multiple of 6. xVALUE ID LengthNo. of Octets1ID Length111Neighbour ID Default Metric Neighbour ID Delay Metric Expense Metric Error Metric I/E 0 I/E S I/E S I/E S 7Default Metric is the value of the default metric for the link to each of the listed neighbours. Bit 8 of this field is reserved. Bit 7 of this field (marked I/E) indicates the metric type, and shall contain the value 0, indicating an Internal metric. 7Delay Metric is the value of the delay met ric for the link to each of the listed neigh bours. If this IS does not support this met ric it shall set the bit S to 1 to indicate that the metric is unsupported. Bit 7 of this field (marked I/E) indicates the metric type, and shall contain the value 0, indicating an Internal metric. 7Expense Metric is the value of the ex pense metric for the link to each of the listed neighbours. If this IS does not sup port this metric it shall set the bit S to 1 to indicate that the metric is unsupported. Bit 7 of this field (marked I/E) indicates the metric type, and shall contain the value 0, indicating an Internal metric. 7Error Metric is the value of the error metric for the link to each of the listed neighbour. If this IS does not support this metric it shall set the bit S to 1 to indicate that the metric is unsupported. Bit 7 of this field (marked I/E) indicates the metric type, and shall contain the value 0, indicating an Internal metric. 7Neighbour ID system ID of End system neighbour. 7Authentication Information information for performing authentication of the originator of the PDU. xCODE 10. xLENGTH variable from 1254 octets xVALUE 1VARIABLENo. of OctetsAuthentication Type Authentication Value 7Authentication Type a one octet iden tifier for the type of authentication to be carried out. The following values are de fined: 0 RESERVED 1 Cleartext Password 2254 RESERVED 255 Routeing Domain private authentication method 7Authentication Value determined by the value of the authentication type. If Cleartext Password as defined in this Inter national Standard is used, then the authenti cation value is an octet string. 9.9 Level 2 Link State PDU Level 2 Link State PDUs are generated by Level 2 Interme diate systems, and propagated throughout the level 2 do main. The contents of the Level 2 Link State PDU indicates the state of the adjacencies to neighbour Level 2 Intermedi ate Systems, or pseudonodes, and to reachable address pre fixes of the Intermediate system that originally generated the PDU.11No. of Octets11111122ID Length + 214VARIABLE2Intradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator Length Indicator Version/Protocol ID Extension ID Length PDU Type R R R Version ECO User ECO PDU Length Remaining Lifetime LSP ID P Sequence Number VARIABLE LENGTH FIELDS LSPDBOL IS Type Checksum ATT -Intradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator ar chitectural constant -Length Indicator Length of fixed header in octets -Version/Protocol ID Extension 1 -ID Length Length of the ID field of NSAP ad dresses and NETs used in this routeing domain. This field shall take on one of the following values: 7An integer between 1 and 8, inclusive, indicating an ID field of the corresponding length 7The value zero, which indicates a 6 octet ID field length 7The value 255, whhich means a null ID field (i.e. zero length) All other values are illegal and shall not be used. -PDU Type (bits 1 through 5) 20. Note bits 6, 7 and 8 are Reserved, which means they are transmitted as 0 and ignored on receipt. -Version 1 -ECO transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt -User ECO transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt -PDU Length Entire Length of this PDU, in octets, including header. -Remaining Lifetime Number of seconds before LSP considered expired -LSP ID the system ID of the source of the Link State PDU. It is structured as follows:ID Length1No. of Octets1Source ID Pseudonode ID LSP Number -Sequence Number sequence number of LSP -Checksum Checksum of contents of LSP from Source ID to end. Checksum is computed as de scribed in 7.3.11. -P/ATT/LSPDBOL/IS Type 7P Bit 8, indicates when set that the issuing Inter mediate System supports the Partition Repair op tional function. 7ATT - Bits 7-4 indicate, when set, that the issuing Intermediate System is `attached' to other areas using: xBit 4 - the Default Metric xBit 5 - the Delay Metric xBit 6 - the Expense Metric xBit 7 - the Error Metric. 7LSPDBOL Bit 3 A value of 0 indicates no LSP Database Overload, and a value of 1 indicates that the LSP Database is Overloaded. An LSP with this bit set will not be used by any decision proc ess to calculate routes to another IS through the originating system. 7IS Type Bits 1 and 2 indicate the type of Inter mediate System One of the following values: x0 Unused value x1 ( i.e. bit 1 set) Level 1 Intermediate system x2 Unused value x3 (i.e. bits 1 and 2 set) Level 2 Intermediate system. NOTE In a Level 2 Link State PDU, IS Type shall be 3. -VARIABLE LENGTH FIELDS fields of the form:11No. of OctetsLENGTHCODE LENGTH VALUE Any codes in a received LSP that are not recognised are ignored and passed through unchanged. Currently defined codes are: 7Area Addresses the set of partition
Area
Addresses of this Intermediate system. For non- pseudonode LSPs this option shall always be pre sent in the LSP with LSP number zero, and shall never be present in an LSP with non-zero LSP number. It shall appear before any Intermediate System Neighbours or Prefix Neighbours op tions. This option shall never be present in pseudonode LSPs. xCODE 1 xLENGTH total length of the value field. xVALUE 1Address Length1Address LengthNo. of OctetsAddress Length Area Address Address Length Area Address 7Address Length Length of area address in octets. 7Area Address Area address. 7Partition Designated Level 2 Intermediate System ID of Designated Level 2 Intermediate System for the partition. For non-pseudonode LSPs issued by Intermediate Systems which sup port the partition repair optional function this op tion shall always be present in the LSP with LSP number zero, and shall never be present in an LSP with non-zero LSP number. It shall appear before any Intermediate System Neighbours or Prefix Neighbours options. This option shall never be present in pseudonode LSPs. xCODE 4. xLENGTH 6 xVALUE ID of Partition Designated Level 2 Intermediate System for the partition. 7Intermediate System Neighbours Intermedi ate system and pseudonode neighbours. This is permitted to appear multiple times, and in an LSP with any LSP number. However, all the Intermediate System Neighbours options shall precede the Prefix Neighbours options. i.e. they shall appear before any Prefix Neighbour options in the same LSP and no Prefix Neighbour options shall appear in an LSP with lower LSP number. xCODE 2. xLENGTH 1. plus a multiple of 11. xVALUE No. of Octets11ID Length + 11111ID Length + 1111Virtual Flag Default Metric Neighbour ID Delay Metric Expense Metric Error Metric I/E 0 I/E S I/E S I/E S Default Metric Neighbour ID Delay Metric Expense Metric Error Metric I/E 0 I/E S I/E S I/E S 7Virtual Flag is a Boolean. If equal to 1, this indicates the link is really a Level 2 path to repair an area partition. (Level 1 Intermedi ate Systems would always report this octet as 0 to all neighbours). 7Default Metric is the value of the default metric for the link to the listed neighbour. Bit 8 of this field is reserved. Bit 7 of this field (marked I/E) indicates the metric type, and shall contain the value 0, indicating an Internal metric. 7Delay Metric is the value of the delay met ric for the link to the listed neighbour. If this IS does not support this metric it shall set bit S to 1 to indicate that the metric is unsupported. Bit 7 of this field (marked I/E) indicates the metric type, and shall contain the value 0, indicating an Internal metric. 7Expense Metric is the value of the ex pense metric for the link to the listed neigh bour. If this IS does not support this metric it shall set bit S to 1 to indicate that the metric is unsupported. Bit 7 of this field (marked I/E) indicates the metric type, and shall contain the value 0, indicating an Internal metric. 7Error Metric is the value of the error metric for the link to the listed neighbour. If this IS does not support this metric it shall set bit S to 1 to indicate that the metric is un supported. Bit 7 of this field (marked I/E) indicates the metric type, and shall contain the value 0, indicating an Internal metric. 7Neighbour ID. For Intermediate System neighbours, the first ID Length octets are the neighbour's system ID, and the last oc tet is 0. For pseudonode neighbours, the first ID Length octets is the LAN Level 1 Designated Intermediate System's ID, and the last octet is a non-zero quantity defined by the LAN Level 1 Designated Intermedi ate System. 7Prefix Neighbours reachable address prefix neighbours This may appear multiple times, and in an LSP with any LSP number. See the description of the Intermediate System Neighbours option above for the relative ordering constraints. Only adjacencies with identical costs can appear in the same list. xCODE 5. xLENGTH Total length of the VALUE field. xVALUE 1iAddress Prefix Length /2y1No. of OctetsiAddress Prefix Length /2y1111Address Prefix Length Address Prefix Address Prefix Length Address Prefix Default Metric Delay Metric Expense Metric Error Metric I/E 0 I/E S I/E S I/E S 7Default Metric is the value of the default metric for the link to each of the listed neighbours. Bit 8 of this field is reserved. Bit 7 (marked I/E) indicates the metric type, and may be set to zero indicating an internal metric, or may be set to 1 indicat ing an external metric. 7Delay Metric is the value of the delay met ric for the link to each of the listed neigh bours. If this IS does not support this met ric it shall set the bit S to 1 to indicate that the metric is unsupported. Bit 7 (marked I/E) indicates the metric type, and may be set to zero indicating an internal metric, or may be set to 1 indicating an ex ternal metric. 7Expense Metric is the value of the ex pense metric for the link to each of the listed neighbours. If this IS does not sup port this metric it shall set the bit S to 1 to indicate that the metric is unsupported. Bit 7 (marked I/E) indicates the metric type, and may be set to zero indicating an internal metric, or may be set to 1 indicat ing an external metric. 7Error Metric is the value of the error metric for the link to each of the listed neighbour. If this IS does not support this metric it shall set the bit S to 1 to indicate that the metric is unsupported. Bit 7 (marked I/E) indicates the metric type, and may be set to zero indicating an internal metric, or may be set to 1 indicating an external metric. 7Address Prefix Length is the length in semi-octets of the following prefix. A length of zero indicates a prefix that matches all NSAPs. 7Address Prefix is a reachable address pre fix encoded as described in 7.1.4. If the length in semi-octets is odd, the prefix is padded out to an integral number of octets with a trailing zero semi-octet. Note that the area addresses listed in the Area Ad dresses option of Level 2 Link State PDU with LSP number zero, are understood to be reachable address neighbours with cost 0. They are not listed separately in the Prefix Neighbours options. 7Authentication Information information for performing authentication of the originator of the PDU. xCODE 10. xLENGTH variable from 1254 octets xVALUE 1VARIABLENo. of OctetsAuthentication Type Authentication Value 7Authentication Type a one octet iden tifier for the type of authentication to be carried out. The following values are de fined: 0 RESERVED 1 Cleartext Password 2254 RESERVED 255 Routeing Domain private authentication method 7Authentication Value determined by the value of the authentication type. If Cleartext Password as defined in this Inter national Standard is used, then the authenti cation value is an octet string. 9.10 Level 1 Complete Sequence Numbers PDU11No. of Octets1111112ID Length + 1ID Length + 2ID Length + 2VARIABLEIntradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator Length Indicator Version/Protocol ID Extension ID Length PDU Type R R R Version ECO User ECO PDU Length Source ID Start LSP ID End LSP ID VARIABLE LENGTH FIELDS -Intradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator ar chitectural constant -Length Indicator Length of fixed header in octets -Version/Protocol ID Extension 1 -ID Length Length of the ID field of NSAP ad dresses and NETs used in this routeing domain. This field shall take on one of the following values: 7An integer between 1 and 8, inclusive, indicating an ID field of the corresponding length 7The value zero, which indicates a 6 octet ID field length 7The value 255, whhich means a null ID field (i.e. zero length) All other values are illegal and shall not be used. -PDU Type (bits 1 through 5) 24. Note bits 6, 7 and 8 are Reserved, which means they are transmitted as 0 and ignored on receipt. -Version 1 -ECO transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt -User ECO transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt -PDU Length Entire Length of this PDU, in octets, including header -Source ID the system ID of Intermediate System (with zero Circuit ID) generating this Sequence Num bers PDU. -Start LSP ID the system ID of first LSP in the range covered by this Complete Sequence Numbers PDU. -End LSP ID the system ID of last LSP in the range covered by this Complete Sequence Numbers PDU. -VARIABLE LENGTH FIELDS fields of the form:11No. of OctetsLENGTHCODE LENGTH VALUE Any codes in a received CSNP that are not recognised are ignored. Currently defined codes are: 7LSP Entries This may appear multiple times. The option fields, if they appear more than once, shall appear sorted into ascending LSPID order. xCODE 9 xLENGTH total length of the value field. xVALUE a list of LSP entries of the form:4No. of Octets2ID Length + 2242ID Length + 22LSP Sequence Number Checksum Remaining Lifetime LSP ID LSP Sequence Number Checksum Remaining Lifetime LSP ID 7Remaining Lifetime Remaining Life time of LSP. 7LSP ID system ID of the LSP to which this entry refers. 7LSP Sequence Number Sequence number of LSP. 7Checksum Checksum reported in LSP. The entries shall be sorted into ascending LSPID order (the LSP number octet of the LSPID is the least significant octet). 7Authentication Information information for performing authentication of the originator of the PDU. xCODE 10. xLENGTH variable from 1254 octets xVALUE 1VARIABLENo. of OctetsAuthentication Type Authentication Value 7Authentication Type a one octet iden tifier for the type of authentication to be carried out. The following values are de fined: 0 RESERVED 1 Cleartext Password 2254 RESERVED 255 Routeing Domain private authentication method 7Authentication Value determined by the value of the authentication type. If Cleartext Password as defined in this Inter national Standard is used, then the authenti cation value is an octet string. 9.11 Level 2 Complete Sequence Numbers PDU 11No. of Octets1111112ID Length + 1ID Length + 2ID Length + 2VARIABLEIntradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator Length Indicator Version/Protocol ID Extension ID Length PDU Type R R R Version ECO User ECO PDU Length Source ID Start LSP ID End LSP ID VARIABLE LENGTH FIELDS -Intradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator ar chitectural constant -Length Indicator Length of fixed header in octets -Version/Protocol ID Extension 1 -ID Length Length of the ID field of NSAP ad dresses and NETs used in this routeing domain. This field shall take on one of the following values: 7An integer between 1 and 8, inclusive, indicating an ID field of the corresponding length 7The value zero, which indicates a 6 octet ID field length 7The value 255, whhich means a null ID field (i.e. zero length) All other values are illegal and shall not be used. -PDU Type (bits 1 through 5) 25. Note bits 6, 7 and 8 are Reserved, which means they are transmitted as 0 and ignored on receipt. -Version 1 -ECO transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt -User ECO transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt -PDU Length Entire Length of this PDU, in octets, including header -Source ID the system ID of Intermediate System (with zero Circuit ID) generating this Sequence Num bers PDU. -Start LSP ID the system ID of first LSP in the range covered by this Complete Sequence Numbers PDU. -End LSP ID the system ID of last LSP in the range covered by this Complete Sequence Numbers PDU. -VARIABLE LENGTH FIELDS fields of the form:11No. of OctetsLENGTHCODE LENGTH VALUE Any codes in a received CSNP that are not recognised are ignored. Currently defined codes are: 7LSP Entries this may appear multiple times. The option fields, if they appear more than once, shall appear sorted into ascending LSPID order. xCODE 9 xLENGTH total length of the value field. xVALUE a list of LSP entries of the form:4No. of Octets2ID Length + 2242ID Length + 22LSP Sequence Number Checksum Remaining Lifetime LSP ID LSP Sequence Number Checksum Remaining Lifetime LSP ID 7Remaining Lifetime Remaining Life time of LSP. 7LSP ID the system ID of the LSP to which this entry refers. 7LSP Sequence Number Sequence number of LSP. 7Checksum Checksum reported in LSP. The entries shall be sorted into ascending LSPID order (the LSP number octet of the LSPID is the least significant octet). 7Authentication Information information for performing authentication of the originator of the PDU. xCODE 10. xLENGTH variable from 1254 octets xVALUE 1VARIABLENo. of OctetsAuthentication Type Authentication Value 7Authentication Type a one octet iden tifier for the type of authentication to be carried out. The following values are de fined: 0 RESERVED 1 Cleartext Password 2254 RESERVED 255 Routeing Domain private authentication method 7Authentication Value determined by the value of the authentication type. If Cleartext Password as defined in this Inter national Standard is used, then the authenti cation value is an octet string. 9.12 Level 1 Partial Sequence Numbers PDU 11No. of Octets1111112ID Length + 1VARIABLEIntradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator Length Indicator Version/Protocol ID Extension ID Length PDU Type R R R Version ECO User ECO PDU Length Source ID VARIABLE LENGTH FIELDS -Intradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator ar chitectural constant -Length Indicator Length of fixed header in octets -Version/Protocol ID Extension 1 -ID Length Length of the ID field of NSAP ad dresses and NETs used in this routeing domain. This field shall take on one of the following values: 7An integer between 1 and 8, inclusive, indicating an ID field of the corresponding length 7The value zero, which indicates a 6 octet ID field length 7The value 255, whhich means a null ID field (i.e. zero length) All other values are illegal and shall not be used. -PDU Type (bits 1 through 5) 26. Note bits 6, 7 and 8 are Reserved, which means they are transmitted as 0 and ignored on receipt. -Version 1 -ECO transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt -User ECO transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt -PDU Length Entire Length of this PDU, in octets, including header -Source ID the system ID of Intermediate system (with zero Circuit ID) generating this Sequence Num bers PDU. -VARIABLE LENGTH FIELDS fields of the form:11No. of OctetsLENGTHCODE LENGTH VALUE Any codes in a received PSNP that are not recognised are ignored. Currently defined codes are: 7LSP Entries this may appear multiple times. The option fields, if they appear more than once, shall appear sorted into ascending LSPID order. xCODE 9 xLENGTH total length of the value field. xVALUE a list of LSP entries of the form:4No. of Octets2ID Length + 2242ID Length + 22LSP Sequence Number Checksum Remaining Lifetime LSP ID LSP Sequence Number Checksum Remaining Lifetime LSP ID 7Remaining Lifetime Remaining Life time of LSP. 7LSP ID the system ID of the LSP to which this entry refers. 7LSP Sequence Number Sequence number of LSP. 7Checksum Checksum reported in LSP. The entries shall be sorted into ascending LSPID order (the LSP number octet of the LSPID is the least significant octet). 7Authentication Information information for performing authentication of the originator of the PDU. xCODE 10. xLENGTH variable from 1254 octets xVALUE 1VARIABLENo. of OctetsAuthentication Type Authentication Value 7Authentication Type a one octet iden tifier for the type of authentication to be carried out. The following values are de fined: 0 RESERVED 1 Cleartext Password 2254 RESERVED 255 Routeing Domain private authentication method 7Authentication Value determined by the value of the authentication type. If Cleartext Password as defined in this Inter national Standard is used, then the authenti cation value is an octet string. 9.13 Level 2 Partial Sequence Numbers PDU 11No. of Octets1111112ID Length + 1VARIABLEIntradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator Length Indicator Version/Protocol ID Extension ID Length PDU Type R R R Version ECO User ECO PDU Length Source ID VARIABLE LENGTH FIELDS -Intradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator ar chitectural constant -Length Indicator Length of fixed header in octets -Version/Protocol ID Extension 1 -ID Length Length of the ID field of NSAP ad dresses and NETs used in this routeing domain. This field shall take on one of the following values: 7An integer between 1 and 8, inclusive, indicating an ID field of the corresponding length 7The value zero, which indicates a 6 octet ID field length 7The value 255, whhich means a null ID field (i.e. zero length) All other values are illegal and shall not be used. -PDU Type (bits 1 through 5) 27. Note bits 6, 7 and 8 are Reserved, which means they are transmitted as 0 and ignored on receipt. -Version 1 -ECO transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt -User ECO transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt -PDU Length Entire Length of this PDU, in octets, including header -Source ID the system ID of Intermediate system (with zero Circuit ID) generating this Sequence Num bers PDU. -VARIABLE LENGTH FIELDS fields of the form:11No. of OctetsLENGTHCODE LENGTH VALUE Any codes in a received PSNP that are not recognised are ignored. Currently defined codes are: 7LSP Entries this may appear multiple times. The option fields, if they appear more than once, shall appear sorted into ascending LSPID order. xCODE 9 xLENGTH total length of the value field. xVALUE a list of LSP entries of the form:4No. of Octets2ID Length + 2242ID Length + 22LSP Sequence Number Checksum Remaining Lifetime LSP ID LSP Sequence Number Checksum Remaining Lifetime LSP ID 7Remaining Lifetime Remaining Life time of LSP. 7LSP ID the system ID of the LSP to which this entry refers. 7LSP Sequence Number Sequence number of LSP. 7Checksum Checksum reported in LSP. The entries shall be sorted into ascending LSPID order (the LSP number octet of the LSPID is the least significant octet). 7Authentication Information information for performing authentication of the originator of the PDU. xCODE 10. xLENGTH variable from 1254 octets xVALUE 1VARIABLENo. of OctetsAuthentication Type Authentication Value 7Authentication Type a one octet iden tifier for the type of authentication to be carried out. The following values are de fined: 0 RESERVED 1 Cleartext Password 2254 RESERVED 255 Routeing Domain private authentication method 7Authentication Value determined by the value of the authentication type. If Cleartext Password as defined in this Inter national Standard is used, then the authenti cation value is an octet string. 10 System Environment 10.1 Generating Jitter on Timers When PDUs are transmitted as a result of timer expiration, there is a danger that the timers of individual systems may become synchronised. The result of this is that the traffic distribution will contain peaks. Where there are a large number of synchronised systems, this can cause overload ing of both the transmission medium and the systems re ceiving the PDUs. In order to prevent this from occurring, all periodic timers, the expiration of which can cause the transmission of PDUs, shall have jitter introduced as de fined in the following algorithm. CONSTANT Jitter = 25; (* The percentage jitter as defined in the architectural constant Jitter *) Resolution = 100; (* The timer resolution in milliseconds *) PROCEDURE Random(max : Integer): Integer; (* This procedure delivers a Uniformly distributed random integer R such that 0 < R < max *) PROCEDURE DefineJitteredTimer(baseTimeValueInSeconds: Integer; expirationAction : Procedure); VAR baseTimeValue, maximumTimeModifier, waitTime : Integer; nextexpiration : Time; BEGIN baseTimeValue := baseTimeValueInSeconds * 1000 / Resolution; maximumTimeModifier := baseTimeValue * Jitter / 100; (* Compute maximum possible jitter *) WHILE running DO BEGIN (* First compute next expiration time *) randomTimeModifier := Random(maximumTimeModifier); waitTime := baseTimeValue - randomTimeModifier; nextexpiration := CurrentTime + waitTime; (* Then perform expiration Action *) expirationAction; WaitUntil(nextexpiration); END (* of Loop *) END (* of DefineJitteredTimer *) Thus the call DefineJitteredTimer(HelloTime, SendHel loPDU); where HelloTime is 10 seconds, will cause the action SendHelloPDU to be performed at random inter vals of between 7.5 and 10 seconds. The essential point of this algorithm is that the value of randomTimeModifier is randomised within the inner loop. Note that the new expira tion time is set immediately on expiration of the last inter val, rather than when the expiration action has been com pleted. The time resolution shall be less than or equal to 100 milli seconds. It is recommended to be less than or equal to 10 milliseconds. The time resolution is the maximum interval that can elapse without there being any change in the value of the timer. The periodic transmission period shall be ran dom or pseudo-random in the specified range, with uniform distribution across similar implementations. 10.2 Resolution of Timers All timers specified in units of seconds shall have a resolu tion of no less than 11 second. All timers specified in units of milliseconds shall have a resolution of no less than 110 milliseconds 10.3 Requirements on the Operation of ISO 9542 This International Standard places certain requirements on the use of ISO 9542 by Intermediate systems which go be yond those mandatory requirements stated in the conformance clause of ISO 9542. These requirements are: a)The IS shall operate the Configuration Information functions on all types of subnetworks supported by the IS. This includes the reception of ESH PDUs, and the reception and transmission of ISH PDUs. b)The IS shall enable the All Intermediate Systems multi-destination subnetwork address. 11 System Management 11.1 General The operation of the Intra-domain ISIS routeing functions may be monitored and controlled using System Manage ment. This clause is the management specification for ISO 10589 in the GDMO notation as defined in ISO 10165-4. 11.1.1 Naming Hierarchy The containment hierarchy for ISO 10589 is illustrated be low in figure 8NetworkVirtualAdjacencyAdjacencyDestinationSystemDestinationAreaCircuit ReachableAddressEntityCLNS(ISO 10589 Package)(ISO 10589 Package)ManualAdjacencyLevel 2 OnlyFigure 8 - Containment and Naming Hierarchy . 11.1.2 Resetting of Timers Many of the attributes defined herein represent the values of timers. They specify the interval between certain events in the operation of the routeing state machines. If the value of one of these characteristics is changed to a new value t while the routeing state machine is in operation the imple mentation shall take the necessary actions to ensure that for any time interval which was in progress when the corre sponding attribute was changed, the next expiration of that interval takes place t seconds from the original start of that interval, or immediately, whichever is the later. Where this action is necessary it is indicated in the applica ble behaviour clause of the GDMO. See 11.2.16 11.1.3 Resource Limiting Characteristics Certain attributes place limits on some resource, such as max
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Adjacencies. In general, implementa tions may allocate memory resources up to this limit when the managed object is enabled and it may be impossible to change the allocation without first disabling and re-enabling the corresponding Network entity. Therefore this Interna tional Standard only requires that system management shall be able to change these attributes when the managed object is disabled (i.e. in the state off). However some implementations may be able to change the allocation of resources without first disabling the Network entity. In this case it is permitted to increase the value of the characteristic at any time, but it shall not be decreased below the currently used value of the resource. For exam ple, maximumSVCAdjacencies shall not be decreased below the current number of SVCs which have been cre ated. Characteristics of this type are indicated in the behaviour clause of the GDMO. See 11.2.16. 11.2 GDMO Definition 11.2.1 Name Bindings iSO10589-NB NAME BINDING SUBORDINATE OBJECT CLASS cLNS; NAMED BY SUPERIOR OBJECT CLASS "ISO/IEC xxxxx":networkEntity; WITH ATTRIBUTE "ISO/IEC xxxxx":cLNS-MO-Name; CREATE with-automatic-instance-naming iSO10589-NB-p1; DELETE only-if-no-contained-objects; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.nboi iSO10589-NB (1)}; level1ISO10589Circuit-NB NAME BINDING SUBORDINATE OBJECT CLASS circuit; NAMED BY SUPERIOR OBJECT CLASS cLNS; WITH ATTRIBUTE "ISO/IEC xxxxx":circuit-MO-Name; CREATE with-reference-object iSO10589Circuit-MO-p1; DELETE only-if-no-contained-objects; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.nboi level1ISO10589Circuit-NB (2)}; destinationSystem-NB NAME BINDING SUBORDINATE OBJECT CLASS destinationSystem; NAMED BY SUPERIOR OBJECT CLASS cLNS; WITH ATTRIBUTE networkEntityTitle; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.nboi destinationSystem-NB (3)}; destinationArea-NB NAME BINDING SUBORDINATE OBJECT CLASS destinationArea; NAMED BY SUPERIOR OBJECT CLASS cLNS; WITH ATTRIBUTE addressPrefix; BEHAVIOUR destinationArea-NB-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS This name binding is only applicable where the superior object has an iSType of Level2;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.nboi destinationArea-NB (4)}; virtualAdjacency-NB NAME BINDING SUBORDINATE OBJECT CLASS virtualAdjacency; NAMED BY SUPERIOR OBJECT CLASS cLNS; WITH ATTRIBUTE networkEntityTitle; BEHAVIOUR virtualAdjacency-NB-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS This name binding is only applicable where the superior object has an iSType of Level2;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.nboi virtualAdjacency-NB (5)}; reachableAddress-NB NAME BINDING SUBORDINATE OBJECT CLASS reachableAddress; NAMED BY SUPERIOR OBJECT CLASS circuit; WITH ATTRIBUTE addressPrefix; BEHAVIOUR reachableAddress-NB-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS This name binding is only applicable where the superior object of the Circuit instance is an object with iSType level2IS;; CREATE with-reference-object reachableAddressP1 reachableAddressP2; DELETE only-if-no-contained-objects; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.nboi reachableAddress-NB (6)}; adjacency-NB NAME BINDING SUBORDINATE OBJECT CLASS adjacency; NAMED BY SUPERIOR OBJECT CLASS circuit; WITH ATTRIBUTE adjacencyName; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.nboi adjacency-NB (7)}; manualAdjacency-NB NAME BINDING SUBORDINATE OBJECT CLASS manualAdjacency; NAMED BY SUPERIOR OBJECT CLASS circuit; WITH ATTRIBUTE adjacencyName; BEHAVIOUR manualAdjacency-NB-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS When an instance name is specified in the CREATE operation, that value shall be used for the adjacencyName, otherwise automatic instance naming shall be used;; CREATE with-reference-object, with-automatic-instance-naming manualAdjacencyP1 manualAdjacencyP2; DELETE only-if-no-contained-objects; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.nboi manualAdjacency-NB (8)}; 11.2.2 The CLNS Managed Object for ISO 10589 cLNS MANAGED OBJECT CLASS DERIVED FROM "ISO/IEC xxxx":cLNS; -- To be replaced by the number of the network layer MO definitions when assigned. CONDITIONAL PACKAGES level1ISO10589Package PRESENT IF The Intermediate System is a Level 1 Intermediate System, level2ISO10589Package PRESENT IF The Intermediate System is a Level 2 Intermediate System (i.e. the value of iSType is Level2), partitionRepairPackage PRESENT IF The Intermediate System is a Level 2 Intermediate System and the partition repair option is implemented, level1AuthenticationPackage PRESENT IF The authentication procedures are im plemented, level2AuthenticationPackage PRESENT IF The Intermediate System is a Level 2 Intermediate System and the authentication proce dures are implemented; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.moi cLNS (1)}; level1ISO10589Package PACKAGE ATTRIBUTES version GET, iSType GET, maximumPathSplits REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.maximumPathSplits-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.MaximumPathSplits-Permitted GET-REPLACE, maximumBuffers REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.maximumBuffers-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.MaximumBuffers-Permitted GET-REPLACE, minimumLSPTransmissionInterval REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.minimumLSPTransmissionInterval- Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.MinimumLSPTransmissionInterval- Permitted GET-REPLACE, maximumLSPGenerationInterval REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.maximumLSPGenerationInterval-D efault PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.MaximumLSPGenerationInterval-Pe rmitted GET-REPLACE, minimumBroadcastLSPTransmissionInterval REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.minimumBroadcastLSPTransmissio nInterval-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.MinimumBroadcastLSPTransmissio nInterval-Permitted GET-REPLACE, -- Note this is defined for all Circuits, but would only be required if one of them were a broadcast Circuit completeSNPInterval REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.completeSNPInterval-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.CompleteSNPInterval-Permitted GET-REPLACE, -- Ditto originatingL1LSPBufferSize REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.originatingL1LSPBufferSize-Defaul t PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.OriginatingL1LSPBufferSize-Permit ted GET-REPLACE, -- Note: redirectHoldingTime moved to ISO9542ISPackage manualAreaAddresses REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.manualAreaAddresses-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.ManualAreaAddresses-Permitted GET ADD-REMOVE, minimumLSPGenerationInterval REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.minimumLSPGenerationInterval-De fault PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.MinimumLSPGenerationInterval-Pe rmitted GET-REPLACE, defaultESHelloTimer REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.defaultESHelloTime-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.DefaultESHelloTime-Permitted GET-REPLACE, pollESHelloRate REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.pollESHelloRate-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.PollESHelloRate-Permitted GET-REPLACE, partialSNPInterval REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.partialSNPInterval-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.PartialSNPInterval-Permitted GET-REPLACE, waitingTime REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.waitingTime-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.WaitingTime-Permitted GET-REPLACE, dRISISHelloTimer REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.dRISISHelloTimer-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.DRISISHelloTimer-Permitted GET-REPLACE, l1State GET, areaAddresses GET, -- PDUFormatErrors now in network layer MO corruptedLSPsDetected GET, lSPL1DatabaseOverloads GET, manualAddressesDroppedFromArea GET, attemptsToExceedMaximumSequenceNumber GET, sequenceNumberSkips GET, ownLSPPurges GET, iDFieldLengthMismatches GET; ATTRIBUTE GROUPS counters -- PDUFormatErrors now in Network Layer MO corruptedLSPsDetected lSPL1DatabaseOverloads manualAddressesDroppedFromArea attemptsToExceedMaximumSequenceNumber sequenceNumberSkips ownLSPPurges iDFieldLengthMismatches; -- activate and deactivate actions now in Network Layer MO NOTIFICATIONS "ISO/IEC xxxxx":pduFormatError notificationReceivingAdjacency, -- extra parameter for ISO 10589 corruptedLSPDetected, lSPL1DatabaseOverload, manualAddressDroppedFromArea, attemptToExceedMaximumSequenceNumber, sequenceNumberSkip, ownLSPPurge, iDFieldLengthMismatch; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi level1ISO10589Package (1)}; level2ISO10589Package PACKAGE ATTRIBUTES originatingL2LSPBufferSize REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.originatingL2LSPBufferSize-Defaul t PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.OriginatingL2LSPBufferSize-Permit ted GET-REPLACE, l2State GET, lSPL2DatabaseOverloads GET; ATTRIBUTE GROUPS counters lSPL2DatabaseOverloads; NOTIFICATIONS lSPL2DatabaseOverload; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi level2ISO10589Package (2)}; partitionRepairPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS partitionRepairPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Present when the partition repair option is implemented;; ATTRIBUTES maximumVirtualAdjacencies REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.maximumVirtualAdjacencies-Defau lt PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.MaximumVirtualAdjacencies-Permi tted GET-REPLACE, partitionAreaAddresses GET, partitionDesignatedL2IntermediateSystem GET, partitionVirtualLinkChanges GET; ATTRIBUTE GROUPS counters partitionVirtualLinkChanges; NOTIFICATIONS partitionVirtualLinkChange; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi partitionRepairPackage (3)}; level1AuthenticationPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS level1AuthenticationPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Present when the authentication proce dures option is implemented;; ATTRIBUTES areaTransmitPassword REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.password-Default GET-REPLACE, areaReceivePasswords REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.passwords-Default GET-REPLACE ADD-REMOVE, authenticationFailures GET; ATTRIBUTE GROUPS counters authenticationFailures; NOTIFICATIONS authenticationFailure; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi level1AuthenticationPackage (4)}; level2AuthenticationPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS level2AuthenticationPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Present when the authentication proce dures option is implemented and the value of the iSType attribute is Level2;; ATTRIBUTES domainTransmitPassword REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.password-Default GET-REPLACE, domainReceivePasswords REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.passwords-Default GET-REPLACE ADD-REMOVE; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi level2AuthenticationPackage (5)}; 11.2.3 The Circuit Managed Object for ISO 10589 circuit MANAGED OBJECT CLASS DERIVED FROM "ISO/IEC xxxx":circuit; -- xxxx to be replaced with the number of the network layer managed object definitions when one is assigned CONDITIONAL PACKAGES level1ISO10589CircuitPackage PRESENT IF the Circuit is a level 1 ISO 10589 Cir cuit, level1ISO10589BroadcastCircuitPackage PRESENT IF the Circuit is a level 1 ISO 10589 broadcast Circuit, level1ISO10589PtToPtCircuitPackage PRESENT IF the Circuit is a level 1 ISO 10589 Point to Point Circuit, level2ISO10589DACircuitPackage PRESENT IF the Circuit is a level 2 ISO 10589 X.25 DA Circuit, level1ISO10589StaticCircuitPackage PRESENT IF the Circuit is a level 1 ISO10589 X.25 STATIC Circuit (IN or OUT), level1ISO10589StaticOutCircuitPackage PRESENT IF the Circuit is a level1 ISO 10589 X.25 STATIC OUT SNAP, level2ISO10589CircuitPackage PRESENT IF the IS is a Level2 ISO 10589 IS, level2ISO10589BroadcastCircuitPackage PRESENT IF the Circuit is a level 1 ISO 10589 broadcast Circuit and the IS is a L2 IS, dACircuitCallEstablishmentMetricIncrementPackage PRESENT IF the Circuit is an X.25 DA circuit and support is implemented for call establishement met ric increment values greater than zero, circuitAuthenticationPackage PRESENT IF the authentication procedures are im plemented on this IS; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.moi circuit (2)}; level1ISO10589CircuitPackage PACKAGE ATTRIBUTES type GET, helloTimer REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.helloTimer-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.HelloTimer-Permitted GET-REPLACE, l1DefaultMetric REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.defaultMetric-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.DefaultMetric-Permitted GET-REPLACE, l1DelayMetric REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.optionalMetric-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.OptionalMetric-Permitted GET-REPLACE, l1ExpenseMetric REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.optionalMetric-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.OptionalMetric-Permitted GET-REPLACE, l1ErrorMetric REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.optionalMetric-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.OptionalMetric-Permitted GET-REPLACE, externalDomain REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.externalDomain-Default GET-REPLACE, circuitChanges GET, changesInAdjacencyState GET, initializationFailures GET, rejectedAdjacencies GET, controlPDUsSent GET, controlPDUsReceived GET, iDFieldLengthMismatches GET; ATTRIBUTE GROUPS counters circuitChanges changesInAdjacencyState initializationFailures rejectedAdjacencies controlPDUsSent controlPDUsReceived iDFieldLengthMismatches; -- Note: activate and deactivate are now imported from the network layer definition of circuit MO NOTIFICATIONS circuitChange, adjacencyStateChange, initializationFailure, rejectedAdjacency, iDFieldLengthMismatch; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi level1ISO10589CircuitPackage (6)}; level1ISO10589BroadcastCircuitPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS level1BroadcastCircuitPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Present when the Circuit is of type Broadcast;; ATTRIBUTES iSISHelloTimer REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.iSISHelloTimer-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.ISISHelloTimer-Permitted GET-REPLACE, l1IntermediateSystemPriority REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.l1IntermediateSystemPriority-Defau lt PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.L1IntermediateSystemPriority-Perm itted GET-REPLACE, l1CircuitID GET, l1DesignatedIntermediateSystem GET, lanL1DesignatedIntermediateSystemChanges GET; ATTRIBUTE GROUPS counters lanL1DesignatedIntermediateSystemChanges; NOTIFICATIONS lanL1DesignatedIntermediateSystemChange; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi level1ISO10589BroadcastCircuitPackage (7)}; level1ISO10589PtToPtCircuitPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS level1PtToPtCircuitPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Present when the Circuit is of type Pt ToPt;; ATTRIBUTES ptPtCircuitID GET; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi level1ISO10589PtToPtCircuitPackage (8)}; dACircuitCallEstablishmentMetricIncrementPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS dACircuitCallEstablishmentMetricIncrementPackag e-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Present when values of call establish ment metric increment greater than zero are sup ported and the parent iS MO has iSType Level2;; ATTRIBUTES callEstablishmentDefaultMetricIncrement REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.callEstablishmentMetricIncrement- Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.CallEstablishmentMetricIncrement- Permitted GET-REPLACE, callEstablishmentDelayMetricIncrement REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.callEstablishmentMetricIncrement- Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.CallEstablishmentMetricIncrement- Permitted GET-REPLACE, callEstablishmentExpenseMetricIncrement REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.callEstablishmentMetricIncrement- Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.CallEstablishmentMetricIncrement- Permitted GET-REPLACE, callEstablishmentErrorMetricIncrement REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.callEstablishmentMetricIncrement- Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.CallEstablishmentMetricIncrement- Permitted GET-REPLACE; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi dACircuitCallEstablishmentMetricIncrementPackag e (9)}; level2ISO10589DACircuitPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS level2ISO10589DACircuitPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Present when the Circuit is of type DA, and the IS is operating as a L2 IS;; -- Note: a DA Circuit is only permitted on an L2 IS ATTRIBUTES recallTimer REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.recallTimer-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.RecallTimer-Permitted GET-REPLACE, idleTimer REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.idleTimer-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.IdleTimer-Permitted GET-REPLACE, initialMinimumTimer REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.initialMinimumTimer-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.InitialMinimumTimer-Permitted GET-REPLACE, reserveTimer REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.reserveTimer-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.ReserveTimer-Permitted GET-REPLACE, maximumSVCAdjacencies REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.maximumSVCAdjacencies-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.MaximumSVCAdjacencies-Permitte d GET-REPLACE, reservedAdjacency REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.reservedAdjacency-Default GET-REPLACE, -- Note: it is not clear that this attribute is required callsPlaced GET, callsFailed GET, timesExceededMaximumSVCAdjacencies GET; ATTRIBUTE GROUPS counters callsPlaced callsFailed timesExceededMaximumSVCAdjacencies; NOTIFICATIONS exceededMaximumSVCAdjacencies; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi level2ISO10589DACircuitPackage (10)}; level1ISO10589StaticCircuitPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS level1StaticCircuitPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Present when the Circuit is of type Static;; ATTRIBUTES neighbourSNPAAddress REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.neighbourSNPAAddress-Default GET-REPLACE, -- Note: should this be handled by an X.25 IVMO? ptPtCircuitID GET; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi level1ISO10589StaticCircuitPackage (11)}; level1ISO10589StaticOutCircuitPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS level1StsticOutCircuitPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Present when the Circuit is of type Static Out;; ATTRIBUTES recallTimer REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.recallTimer-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.RecallTimer-Permitted GET-REPLACE, maximumCallAttempts REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.maximumCallAttempts-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.MaximumCallAttempts-Permitted GET-REPLACE, callsPlaced GET, callsFailed GET, timesExceededMaximumCallAttempts GET; ATTRIBUTE GROUPS counters callsPlaced callsFailed timesExceededMaximumCallAttempts; NOTIFICATIONS exceededMaximumCallAttempts ; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi level1ISO10589StaticOutCircuitPackage (12)}; level2ISO10589CircuitPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS level2CircuitPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Present when IS is an L2 IS;; ATTRIBUTES l2DefaultMetric REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.defaultMetric-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.DefaultMetric-Permitted GET-REPLACE, l2DelayMetric REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.optionalMetric-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.OptionalMetric-Permitted GET-REPLACE, l2ExpenseMetric REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.optionalMetric-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.OptionalMetric-Permitted GET-REPLACE, l2ErrorMetric REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.optionalMetric-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.OptionalMetric-Permitted GET-REPLACE, manualL2OnlyMode REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.manualL2OnlyMode-Default GET-REPLACE; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi level2ISO10589CircuitPackage (13)}; level2ISO10589BroadcastCircuitPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS level2BroadcastCircuitPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Present when the Circuit is of type Broadcast and the IS is an L2 IS;; ATTRIBUTES l2IntermediateSystemPriority REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.l2IntermediateSystemPriority-Defau lt PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.L2IntermediateSystemPriority-Perm itted GET-REPLACE, l2CircuitID GET, l2DesignatedIntermediateSystem GET, lanL2DesignatedIntermediateSystemChanges GET; ATTRIBUTE GROUPS counters lanL2DesignatedIntermediateSystemChanges; NOTIFICATIONS lanL2DesignatedIntermediateSystemChange; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi level2ISO10589BroadcastCircuitPackage (14)}; circuitAuthenticationPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS circuitAuthenticationPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Present when the authentication proce dures option is implemented;; ATTRIBUTES circuitTransmitPassword REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.password-Default GET-REPLACE, circuitReceivePasswords REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.passwords-Default GET-REPLACE ADD-REMOVE, authenticationFailures GET; ATTRIBUTE GROUPS counters authenticationFailures; NOTIFICATIONS authenticationFailure; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi circuitAuthenticationPackage (15)}; 11.2.4 The Adjacency managed Object adjacency MANAGED OBJECT CLASS DERIVED FROM "ISO/IEC 10165-2":top; CHARACTERIZED BY adjacencyPackage PACKAGE ATTRIBUTES adjacencyName GET, adjacencyState GET; -- Note: this is NOT operational state ;; CONDITIONAL PACKAGES broadcastAdjacencyPackage PRESENT IF the parent Circuit is of type broadcast, dAAdjacencyPackage PRESENT IF the parent Circuit is of type DA, ptToPtAdjacencyPackage PRESENT IF the parent Circuit is of type PtToPt or STATIC, iSAdjacencyPackage PRESENT IF the adjacency is to an IS (i.e the neighbourSystemType is Intermediate System L1 Intermediate System or L2 Intermediate System), broadcastISAdjacencyPackage PRESENT IF the parent Circuit is of type broadcast and is to an IS as above, eSAdjacencyPackage PRESENT IF the adjacency is to an ES (i.e. the neighbourSystemType is EndSystem; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.moi adjacency (3)}; broadcastAdjacencyPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS broadcastAdjacencyPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS present if the parent Circuit is of type broadcast;; ATTRIBUTES neighbourLANAddress GET, neighbourSystemType GET; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi broadcastAdjacencyPackage (16)}; dAAdjacencyPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS dAAdjacencyPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS present if the parent Circuit is of type DA;; ATTRIBUTES sNPAAddress GET; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi dAAdjacencyPackage (17)}; ptToPtAdjacencyPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS ptToPtAdjacencyPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS present if the parent Circuit is of type PtToPt;; ATTRIBUTES neighbourSystemType GET; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi ptToPtAdjacencyPackage (18)}; iSAdjacencyPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS iSAdjacencyPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS present if the adjacency is to an IS;; ATTRIBUTES adjacencyUsageType GET, neighbourSystemID GET, neighbourAreas GET, holdingTimer GET; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi iSAdjacencyPackage (19)}; broadcastISAdjacencyPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS broadcastISAdjacencyPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS present if the parent Circuit is of type broadcast and the adjacency is to an IS;; ATTRIBUTES lANPriority GET; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi broadcastISAdjacencyPackage (20)}; eSAdjacencyPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS eSAdjacencyPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS present if the adjacency is to an ES;; ATTRIBUTES endSystemIDs GET; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi eSAdjacencyPackage (21)}; 11.2.5 The Manual Adjacency Managed Object manualAdjacency MANAGED OBJECT CLASS DERIVED FROM "ISO/IEC 10165-2":top; CHARACTERIZED BY manualAdjacencyPackage PACKAGE ATTRIBUTES adjacencyName GET, neighbourLANAddress GET, endSystemIDs GET; ;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.moi manualAdjacency (4)}; 11.2.6 The Virtual Adjacency managed Object virtualAdjacency MANAGED OBJECT CLASS DERIVED FROM "ISO/IEC 10165-2":top; CHARACTERIZED BY virtualAdjacencyPackage PACKAGE ATTRIBUTES networkEntityTitle GET, metric GET; ;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.moi virtualAdjacency (5)}; 11.2.7 The Destination Managed Object -- The destination MO class is never instantiated. It exists only to allow the destinationSystem and destinationArea MO classes to be derived from it. destination MANAGED OBJECT CLASS DERIVED FROM "ISO/IEC 10165-2":top; CHARACTERIZED BY destinationPackage PACKAGE ATTRIBUTES defaultMetricPathCost GET, defaultMetricOutputAdjacencies GET, delayMetricPathCost GET, delayMetricOutputAdjacencies GET, expenseMetricPathCost GET, expenseMetricOutputAdjacencies GET, errorMetricPathCost GET, errorMetricOutputAdjacencies GET; ;; -- no need for an object ID since it is never instantiated, but GDMO needs one REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.moi destination (6)}; 11.2.8 The Destination System Managed Object destinationSystem MANAGED OBJECT CLASS DERIVED FROM destination; CHARACTERIZED BY destinationSystemPackage PACKAGE ATTRIBUTES networkEntityTitle GET; ;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.moi destinationSystem (7)}; 11.2.9 The Destination Area Managed Object destinationArea MANAGED OBJECT CLASS DERIVED FROM destination; CHARACTERIZED BY destinationAreaPackage PACKAGE ATTRIBUTES addressPrefix GET; ;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.moi destinationArea (8)}; 11.2.10 The Reachable Address Managed Object reachableAddress MANAGED OBJECT CLASS DERIVED FROM "ISO/IEC 10165-2":top; CHARACTERIZED BY reachableAddressPackage PACKAGE ATTRIBUTES addressPrefix GET, defaultMetric REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.defaultMetric-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.DefaultMetric-Permitted GET-REPLACE, delayMetric REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.optionalMetric-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.OptionalMetric-Permitted GET-REPLACE, expenseMetric REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.optionalMetric-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.OptionalMetric-Permitted GET-REPLACE, errorMetric REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.optionalMetric-Default PERMITTED VALUES ISO10589-ISIS.OptionalMetric-Permitted GET-REPLACE, defaultMetricType REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.metricType-Default GET-REPLACE, delayMetricType REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.metricType-Default GET-REPLACE, expenseMetricType REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.metricType-Default GET-REPLACE, errorMetricType REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.metricType-Default GET-REPLACE, "ISO/IEC 10165-2":operationalState GET; ACTIONS activate, deactivate; ;; CONDITIONAL PACKAGES mappingRAPackage PRESENT IF the parent Circuit is of type broadcast or DA, broadcastRAPackage PRESENT IF the parent Circuit is of type broadcast and the value of mappingType is `manual', dARAPackage PRESENT IF the parent Circuit is of type DA and the value of mappingType is `manual'; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.moi reachableAddress (9)}; mappingRAPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS mappingRAPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS When present, the NSAP to Circuit mapping is controlled by the value of the map pingType attribute;; ATTRIBUTES mappingType GET; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi mappingRAPackage (22)}; broadcastRAPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS broadcastRAPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS When present, the remote SNPA address is determined by the value of the lANAddress attrib ute;; ATTRIBUTES lANAddress REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.lANAddress-Default GET-REPLACE; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi broadcastRAPackage (23)}; dARAPackage PACKAGE BEHAVIOUR DEFINITIONS dARAPackage-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS When present, the remote SNPA address is determined by the value of the sNPAAddresses at tribute;; ATTRIBUTES sNPAAddresses REPLACE-WITH-DEFAULT DEFAULT VALUE ISO10589-ISIS.sNPAAddresses-Default GET-REPLACE; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.poi dARAPackage (24)}; 11.2.11 Attribute Definitions version ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.Version; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR version-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The version number of this International Standard to which the implementation conforms;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi version (1)}; iSType ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.ISType; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR iSType-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The type of this Intermediate System. The value of this attribute is only settable via the create parameter;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi iSType (2)}; maximumPathSplits ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MaximumPathSplits; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR maximumPathSplits-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Maximum number of paths with equal routeing metric value which it is permitted to split between;, replaceOnlyWhileDisabled-B; PARAMETERS constraintViolation; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi maximumPathSplits (3)}; maximumBuffers ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MaximumBuffers; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR maximumBuffers-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Maximum guaranteed number of buffers for forwarding. This is the number of forwarding buffers that is to be reserved, more may be used if they are available. (See clause D.1.1);, resourceLimiting-B; PARAMETERS constraintViolation; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi maximumBuffers (4)}; minimumLSPTransmissionInterval ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MinimumLSPTransmissionInterval; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR minimumLSPTransmissionInterval-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Minimum interval, in seconds, between re- transmissions of an LSP;, resettingTimer-B; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi minimumLSPTransmissionInterval (5)}; maximumLSPGenerationInterval ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MaximumLSPGenerationInterval; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR maximumLSPGenerationInterval-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Maximum interval, in seconds, between generated LSPs by this system;, resettingTimer-B; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi maximumLSPGenerationInterval (6)}; minimumBroadcastLSPTransmissionInterval ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MinimumBroadcastLSPTransmissio nInterval; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR minimumBroadcastLSPTransmissionInterval-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Minimum interval, in milliseconds, be tween transmission of LSPs on a broadcast circuit (See clause 7.3.15.6);, resettingTimer-B; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi minimumBroadcastLSPTransmissionInterval (7)}; completeSNPInterval ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.CompleteSNPInterval; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR completeSNPInterval-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Interval, in seconds, between generation of Complete Sequence Numbers PDUs by a Desig nated Intermediate System on a broadcast circuit;, resettingTimer-B; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi completeSNPInterval (8)}; originatingL1LSPBufferSize ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.OriginatingLSPBufferSize; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR originatingL1LSPBufferSize-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The maximum size of Level 1 LSPs and SNPs originated by this system;, replaceOnlyWhileDisabled-B; PARAMETERS constraintViolation; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi originatingL1LSPBufferSize (9)}; manualAreaAddresses ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.AreaAddresses; MATCHES FOR Equality, Set Comparison, Set Intersection; BEHAVIOUR manualAreaAddresses-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Area Addresses to be used for this Inter mediate System. At least one value must be sup plied. The maximum number of Area Addresses which may exist in the set is MaximumAreaAd dresses;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi manualAreaAddresses (10)}; minimumLSPGenerationInterval ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MinimumLSPGenerationInterval; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR minimumLSPGenerationInterval-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Maximum interval in seconds between successive generation of LSPs with the same LSPID by this IS;, resettingTimer-B; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi minimumLSPGenerationInterval (11)}; defaultESHelloTimer ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.DefaultESHelloTimer; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR defaultESHelloTimer-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The value to be used for the suggested ES configuration timer in ISH PDUs when not solic iting the ES configuration;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi defaultESHelloTimer (12)}; pollESHelloRate ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.PollESHelloRate; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR pollESHelloRate-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The value to be used for the suggested ES configuration timer in ISH PDUs when soliciting the ES configuration;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi pollESHelloRate (13)}; partialSNPInterval ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.PartialSNPInterval; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR partialSNPInterval-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Minimum interval between sending Par tial Sequence Number PDUs;, resettingTimer-B; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi partialSNPInterval (14)}; waitingTime ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.WaitingTime; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR waitingTime-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of seconds to delay in waiting state before entering On state;, resettingTimer-B; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi waitingTime (15)}; dRISISHelloTimer ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.DRISISHelloTimer; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR dRISISHelloTimer-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The interval in seconds between the generation of IIH PDUs by the designated IS on a LAN;, resettingTimer-B; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi dRISISHelloTimer (16)}; l1State ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.DatabaseState; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR l1State-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The state of the Level 1 database;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi l1State (17)}; areaAddresses ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.AreaAddresses; MATCHES FOR Equality, Set Comparison, Set Intersection; BEHAVIOUR areaAddresses-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The union of the sets of manualAreaAd dresses reported in all Level 1 Link State PDUs re ceived by this Intermediate System;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi areaAddresses (18)}; corruptedLSPsDetected ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR corruptedLSPsDetected-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of Corrupted LSP Detected events generated;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi corruptedLSPsDetected (19)}; lSPL1DatabaseOverloads ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR lSPL1DatabaseOverloads-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of times the LSP L1 Database Overload event has been generated;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi lSPL1DatabaseOverloads (20)}; manualAddressesDroppedFromArea ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR manualAddressesDroppedFromArea-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of times the Manual Addresses Dropped From Area event has been generated;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi manualAddressesDroppedFromArea (21)}; attemptsToExceedMaximumSequenceNumber ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR attemptsToExceedMaximumSequenceNumber-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of times the Attempt To Exceed Maximum Sequence Number event has been generated;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi attemptsToExceedMaximumSequenceNumber (22)}; sequenceNumberSkips ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR sequenceNumberSkips-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of times the Sequence Number Skipped event has been generated;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi sequenceNumberSkips (23)}; ownLSPPurges ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR ownLSPPurges-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of times the Own LSP Purged event has been generated;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi ownLSPPurges (24)}; iDFieldLengthMismatches ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR iDFieldLengthMismatches-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of times the iDFieldLengthMis match event has been generated;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi iDFieldLengthMismatches (25)}; originatingL2LSPBufferSize ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.OriginatingLSPBufferSize; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR originatingL2LSPBufferSize-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The maximum size of Level 2 LSPs and SNPs originated by this system;, replaceOnlyWhileDisabled-B; PARAMETERS constraintViolation; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi originatingL2LSPBufferSize (26)}; maximumVirtualAdjacencies ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MaximumVirtualAdjacencies; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR maximumVirtualAdjacencies-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Maximum number of Virtual Adjacen cies which may be created to repair partitioned Level 1 domains;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi maximumVirtualAdjacencies (27)}; l2State ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.DatabaseState; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR l2State-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The state of the Level 2 database;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi l2State (28)}; partitionAreaAddresses ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.AreaAddresses; MATCHES FOR Equality, Set Comparison, Set Intersection; BEHAVIOUR partitionAreaAddresses-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The set union of all manualAreaAd dresses of all Intermediate systems in the partition reachable by non-virtual links (calculated from their Level 1 LSPs);; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi partitionAreaAddresses (29)}; partitionDesignatedL2IntermediateSystem ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.SystemID; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR partitionDesignatedL2IntermediateSystem-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The ID of the Partition Designated Level 2 Intermediate System for this system;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi partitionDesignatedL2IntermediateSystem (30)}; partitionVirtualLinkChanges ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR partitionVirtualLinkChanges-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of times the Partition Virtual Link Change Notification has been generated;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi partitionVirtualLinkChanges (31)}; lSPL2DatabaseOverloads ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR lSPL2DatabaseOverloads-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of times the LSP L2 Database Overload event has been generated;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi lSPL2DatabaseOverloads (32)}; type ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.CircuitType; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR type-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The type of the circuit. This attribute may only be set when the Circuit is created. Subse quently it is read-only;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi type (33)}; helloTimer ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.HelloTimer; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR helloTimer-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The period, in seconds, between ISH PDUs;, resettingTimer-B; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi helloTimer (34)}; l1DefaultMetric ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.HopMetric; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR l1defaultMetric-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The default metric value of this circuit for Level 1 traffic. The value of zero is reserved to indicate that this metric is not supported;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi l1DefaultMetric (35)}; l1DelayMetric ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.HopMetric; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR l1DelayMetric-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The delay metric value of this circuit for Level 1 traffic. The value of zero is reserved to indi cate that this metric is not supported;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi l1DelayMetric (36)}; l1ExpenseMetric ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.HopMetric; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR l1ExpenseMetric-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The expense metric value of this circuit for Level 1 traffic. The value of zero is reserved to indicate that this metric is not supported;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi l1ExpenseMetric (37)}; l1ErrorMetric ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.HopMetric; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR l1ErrorMetric-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The error metric value of this circuit for Level 1 traffic. The value of zero is reserved to indi cate that this metric is not supported;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi l1ErrorMetric (38)}; circuitChanges ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR circuitChanges-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of times this Circuit state changed between On and Off and vice versa;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi circuitChanges (39)}; changesInAdjacencyState ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR changesInAdjacencyState-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of Adjacency State Change events generated;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi changesInAdjacencyState (40)}; initializationFailures ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR initializationFailures-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of Initialization Failure events generated;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi initializationFailures (41)}; rejectedAdjacencies ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR rejectedAdjacencies-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of Rejected Adjacency events generated;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi rejectedAdjacencies (42)}; controlPDUsSent ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR controlPDUsSent-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of control PDUs sent on this circuit;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi controlPDUsSent (43)}; controlPDUsReceived ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR controlPDUsReceived-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of control PDUs received on this circuit;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi controlPDUsReceived (44)}; iSISHelloTimer ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.ISISHelloTimer; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR iSISHelloTimer-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The period, in seconds, between LAN Level 1 and Level 2 IIH PDUs. It is also used as the period between ISH PDUs when polling the ES con figuration;, resettingTimer-B; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi iSISHelloTimer (45)}; externalDomain ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.Boolean; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR externalDomain-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS If TRUE, suppress notmal transmission of and interpretation of Intra-domain ISIS PDUs on this circuit.;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi externalDomain (46)}; l1IntermediateSystemPriority ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.IntermediateSystemPriority; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR l1IntermediateSystemPriority-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Priority for becoming LAN Level 1 Designated Intermediate System;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi l1IntermediateSystemPriority (47)}; l1CircuitID ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.CircuitID; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR l1CircuitID-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The LAN ID allocated by the LAN Level 1 Designated Intermediate System. Where this system is not aware of the value (because it is not participating in the Level 1 Designated Intermediate System election), this attribute has the value which would be proposed for this circuit. (i.e. the concate nation of the local system ID and the one octet local Circuit ID for this circuit.;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi l1CircuitID (48)}; l1DesignatedIntermediateSystem ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.SystemID; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR l1DesignatedIntermediateSystem-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The ID of the LAN Level 1 Designated Intermediate System on this circuit. If, for any rea son this system is not partaking in the relevant Des ignated Intermediate System election process, then the value returned is zero;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi l1DesignatedIntermediateSystem (49)}; lanL1DesignatedIntermediateSystemChanges ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR lanL1DesignatedIntermediateSystemChanges-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of LAN L1 Designated Inter mediate System Change events generated;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi lanL1DesignatedIntermediateSystemChanges (50)}; ptPtCircuitID ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.CircuitID; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR ptPtCircuitID-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The ID of the circuit allocated during initialization. If no value has been negotiated (either because the adjacency is to an End system, or because initialization has not yet successfully completed), this attribute has the value which would be proposed for this circuit. (i.e. the concatenation of the local system ID and the one octet local Circuit ID for this circuit.;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi ptPtCircuitID (51)}; callEstablishmentDefaultMetricIncrement ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MetricIncrement; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR callEstablishmentDefaultMetricIncrement-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Additional value to be reported for the default metric value of unestablished DA adjacen cies;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi callEstablishmentDefaultMetricIncrement (52)}; callEstablishmentDelayMetricIncrement ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MetricIncrement; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR callEstablishmentDelayMetricIncrement-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Additional value to be reported for the delay metric value of unestablished DA adjacen cies;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi callEstablishmentDelayMetricIncrement (53)}; callEstablishmentExpenseMetricIncrement ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MetricIncrement; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR callEstablishmentExpenseMetricIncrement-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Additional value to be reported for the Expense metric value of unestablished DA adjacen cies;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi callEstablishmentExpenseMetricIncrement (54)}; callEstablishmentErrorMetricIncrement ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MetricIncrement; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR callEstablishmentErrorMetricIncrement-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Additional value to be reported for the Error metric value of unestablished DA adjacencies;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi callEstablishmentErrorMetricIncrement (55)}; recallTimer ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.RecallTimer; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR recallTimer-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of seconds that must elapse be tween a call failure on a DED circuit and a recall;, resettingTimer-B; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi recallTimer (56)}; idleTimer ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.IdleTimer; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR idleTimer-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of seconds of idle time before call is cleared;, resettingTimer-B; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi idleTimer (57)}; initialMinimumTimer ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.InitialMinimumTimer; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR initialMinimumTimer-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of seconds that a call remains connected after being established, irrespective of traffic. (Note. This should be set small enough so that the call is cleared before the start of the next charging interval.);, resettingTimer-B; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi initialMinimumTimer (58)}; reserveTimer ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.ReserveTimer; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR reserveTimer-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of seconds, after call is cleared due to lack of traffic, during which the SVC remains reserved for the previous SNPA address;, resettingTimer-B; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi reserveTimer (59)}; maximumSVCAdjacencies ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MaximumSVCAdjacencies; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR maximumSVCAdjacencies-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of Adjacencies to reserve for SVCs for this circuit. This is the maximum number of simultaneous calls which are possible on this cir cuit;, resourceLimiting-B; PARAMETERS constraintViolation; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi maximumSVCAdjacencies (60)}; reservedAdjacency ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.Boolean; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR reservedAdjacency-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS When True, indicates that one SVC must be reserved for a connection to an Intermediate System;, replaceOnlyWhileDisabled-B; PARAMETERS constraintViolation; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi reservedAdjacency (61)}; callsPlaced ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR callsPlaced-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of Call attempts (successful or unsuccessful);; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi callsPlaced (62)}; callsFailed ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR callsFailed-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of Unsuccessful Call attempts;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi callsFailed (63)}; timesExceededMaximumSVCAdjacencies ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR timesExceededMaximumSVCAdjacencies-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of Exceeded Maximum SVC Adjacencies events generated;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi timesExceededMaximumSVCAdjacencies (64)}; neighbourSNPAAddress ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.SNPAAddress; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR neighbourSNPAAddress-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS SNPA Address to call, or SNPA Ad dress from which to accept call;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi neighbourSNPAAddress (65)}; maximumCallAttempts ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MaximumCallAttempts; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR maximumCallAttempts-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Maximum number of successive call failures before halting. (A value of zero means infi nite retries.;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi maximumCallAttempts (66)}; timesExceededMaximumCallAttempts ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR timesExceededMaximumCallAttempts-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of Exceeded Maximum Call Attempts events generated;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi timesExceededMaximumCallAttempts (67)}; l2DefaultMetric ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.HopMetric; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR l2defaultMetric-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The default metric value of this circuit for Level 2 traffic. The value of zero is reserved to indicate that this metric is not supported;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi l2DefaultMetric (68)}; l2DelayMetric ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.HopMetric; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR l2DelayMetric-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The delay metric value of this circuit for Level 2 traffic. The value of zero is reserved to indi cate that this metric is not supported;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi l2DelayMetric (69)}; l2ExpenseMetric ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.HopMetric; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR l2ExpenseMetric-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The expense metric value of this circuit for Level 2 traffic. The value of zero is reserved to indicate that this metric is not supported;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi l2ExpenseMetric (70)}; l2ErrorMetric ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.HopMetric; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR l2ErrorMetric-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The error metric value of this circuit for Level 2 traffic. The value of zero is reserved to indi cate that this metric is not supported;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi l2ErrorMetric (71)}; manualL2OnlyMode ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.Boolean; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR manualL2OnlyMode-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS When True, indicates that this Circuit is to be used only for Level 2;, replaceOnlyWhileDisabled-B; PARAMETERS constraintViolation; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi manualL2OnlyMode (72)}; l2IntermediateSystemPriority ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.IntermediateSystemPriority; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR l2IntermediateSystemPriority-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Priority for becoming LAN Level 2 Designated Intermediate System;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi l2IntermediateSystemPriority (73)}; l2CircuitID ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.CircuitID; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR l2CircuitID-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The LAN ID allocated by the LAN Level 2 Designated Intermediate System. Where this system is not aware of the value (because it is not participating in the Level 2 Designated Intermediate System election), this attribute has the value which would be proposed for this circuit. (i.e. the concate nation of the local system ID and the one octet local Circuit ID for this circuit.;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi l2CircuitID (74)}; l2DesignatedIntermediateSystem ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.SystemID; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR l2DesignatedIntermediateSystem-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The ID of the LAN Level 2 Designated Intermediate System on this circuit. If, for any rea son this system is not partaking in the relevant Des ignated Intermediate System election process, then the value returned is ;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi l2DesignatedIntermediateSystem (75)}; lanL2DesignatedIntermediateSystemChanges ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR lanL2DesignatedIntermediateSystemChanges-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Number of LAN L2 Designated Inter mediate System Change events generated;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi lanL2DesignatedIntermediateSystemChanges (76)}; adjacencyName ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.GraphicString; MATCHES FOR Equality, Substrings; BEHAVIOUR adjacencyName-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS A string which is the Identifier for the Adjacency and which is unique amongst the set of Adjacencies maintained for this Circuit. If this is a manually created adjacency (i.e. the type is Manual) it is set by the System Manager when the Adjacency is created, otherwise it is generated by the imple mentation such that it is unique. The set of identifier containing the leading string "Auto" are reserved for Automatic Adjacencies. An attempt to create a Man ual Adjacency with such an identifier will cause an exception to be raised;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi adjacencyName (77)}; adjacencyState ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.AdjacencyState; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR adjacencyState-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The state of the adjacency;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi adjacencyState (78)}; neighbourLANAddress ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.LANAddress; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR neighbourLANAddress-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The MAC address of the neighbour sys tem on a broadcast circuit;, replaceOnlyWhileDisabled-B; PARAMETERS constraintViolation; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi neighbourLANAddress (79)}; neighbourSystemType ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NeighbourSystemType; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR neighbourSystemType-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The type of the neighbour system one of: Unknown End system Intermediate system L1 Intermediate system L2 Intermediate system;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi neighbourSystemType (80)}; sNPAAddress ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.SNPAAddress; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR sNPAAddress-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The SNPA Address of the neighbour system on an X.25 circuit;, replaceOnlyWhileDisabled-B; PARAMETERS constraintViolation; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi sNPAAddress (81)}; adjacencyUsageType ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.AdjacencyUsageType; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR level-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The usage of the Adjacency. An Adjacency of type Level 1" will be used for Level 1 traffic only. An adjacency of type Level 2" will be used for Level 2 traffic only. An adjacency of type Level 1 and 2" will be used for both Level 1 and Level 2 traffic. There may be two adjacencies (of types Level 1" and Level 2" between the same pair of Intermediate Systems.;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi adjacencyUsageType (82)}; neighbourSystemID ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.SystemID; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR neighbourSystemID-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The SystemID of the neighbouring In termediate system from the Source ID field of the neighbour's IIH PDU. The Intermediate System ID for this neighbour is derived by appending zero to this value.;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi neighbourSystemID (83)}; neighbourAreas ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.AreaAddresses; MATCHES FOR Equality, Set Comparison, Set Intersection; BEHAVIOUR neighbourAreas-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS This contains the Area Addresses of a neighbour Intermediate System from the IIH PDU.;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi neighbourAreas (84)}; holdingTimer ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.HoldingTimer; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR holdingTimer-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Holding time for this adjacency updated from the IIH PDUs;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi holdingTimer (85)}; lANPriority ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.IntermediateSystemPriority; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR lANPriority-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Priority of neighbour on this adjacency for becoming LAN Level 1 Designated Intermediate System if adjacencyType is L1 Intermediate System or LAN Level 2 Designated Intermediate System if adjacencyType is L2 Intermediate System;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi lANPriority (86)}; endSystemIDs ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.EndSystemIDs; MATCHES FOR Equality, Set Comparison, Set Intersection; BEHAVIOUR endSystemIDs-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS This contains the system ID(s) of a neighbour End system. Where (in a Intermediate System) an adjacency has been created manually, these will be the set of IDs given in the manualIDs parameter of the create directive.;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi endSystemIDs (87)}; networkEntityTitle ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NetworkEntityTitle; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR networkEntityTitle-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The Network entity Title which is the destination of a Virtual link being used to repair a partitioned Level 1 area (see clause 7.2.10);; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi networkEntityTitle (88)}; metric ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.PathMetric; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR metric-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Cost of least cost L2 path(s) to destina tion area based on the default metric;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi metric (89)}; defaultMetricPathCost ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.PathMetric; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR defaultMetricPathCost-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Cost of least cost path(s) using the de fault metric to destination;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi defaultMetricPathCost (90)}; defaultMetricOutputAdjacencies ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.OutputAdjacencies; MATCHES FOR Equality, Set Comparison, Set Intersection; BEHAVIOUR defaultMetricOutputAdjacencies-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The set of Adjacency (or Reachable Ad dress) managed object identifiers representing the forwarding decisions based upon the default metric for the destination;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi defaultMetricOutputAdjacencies (91)}; delayMetricPathCost ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.PathMetric; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR delayMetricPathCost-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Cost of least cost path(s) using the delay metric to destination;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi delayMetricPathCost (92)}; delayMetricOutputAdjacencies ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.OutputAdjacencies; MATCHES FOR Equality, Set Comparison, Set Intersection; BEHAVIOUR delayMetricOutputAdjacencies-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The set of Adjacency (or Reachable Ad dress) managed object identifiers representing the forwarding decisions based upon the delay metric for the destination;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi delayMetricOutputAdjacencies (93)}; expenseMetricPathCost ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.PathMetric; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR expenseMetricPathCost-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Cost of least cost path(s) using the ex pense metric to destination;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi expenseMetricPathCost (94)}; expenseMetricOutputAdjacencies ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.OutputAdjacencies; MATCHES FOR Equality, Set Comparison, Set Intersection; BEHAVIOUR expenseMetricOutputAdjacencies-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The set of Adjacency (or Reachable Ad dress) managed object identifiers representing the forwarding decisions based upon the expense metric for the destination;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi expenseMetricOutputAdjacencies (95)}; errorMetricPathCost ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.PathMetric; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR errorMetricPathCost-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Cost of least cost path(s) using the error metric to destination;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi errorMetricPathCost (96)}; errorMetricOutputAdjacencies ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.OutputAdjacencies; MATCHES FOR Equality, Set Comparison, Set Intersection; BEHAVIOUR errorMetricOutputAdjacencies-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The set of Adjacency (or Reachable Ad dress) managed object identifiers representing the forwarding decisions based upon the error metric for the destination;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi errorMetricOutputAdjacencies (97)}; addressPrefix ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.AddressPrefix; MATCHES FOR Equality, Substrings; BEHAVIOUR addressPrefix-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS An Area Address (or prefix) of a desti nation area;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi addressPrefix (98)}; defaultMetric ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.HopMetric; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR defaultMetric-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The default metric value for reaching the specified prefix over this Circuit. If this attribute is changed while both the Reachable Address and the Circuit are Enabled (i.e. state On), the actions described in clause 8.3.5.4 must be taken. The value of zero is reserved to indicate that this metric is not supported;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi defaultMetric (99)}; delayMetric ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.HopMetric; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR delayMetric-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The delay metric value for reaching the specified prefix over this Circuit.BEHAVIOURIf this attribute is changed while both the Reachable Address and the Circuit are Enabled (i.e. state On), the actions described in clause 8.3.5.4 must be taken. The value of zero is reserved to indicate that this metric is not supported;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi delayMetric (100)}; expenseMetric ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.HopMetric; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR expenseMetric-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The expense metric value for reaching the specified prefix over this Circuit. If this attribute is changed while both the Reachable Address and the Circuit are Enabled (i.e. state On), the actions described in clause 8.3.5.4 must be taken. The value of zero is reserved to indicate that this metric is not supported;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi expenseMetric (101)}; errorMetric ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.HopMetric; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR errorMetric-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The error metric value for reaching the specified prefix over this Circuit. If this attribute is changed while both the Reachable Address and the Circuit are Enabled (i.e. state On), the actions de scribed in clause 8.3.5.4 must be taken. The value of zero is reserved to indicate that this metric is not supported;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi errorMetric (102)}; defaultMetricType ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MetricType; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR defaultMetricType-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Indicates whether the default metric is internal or external;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi defaultMetricType (103)}; delayMetricType ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MetricType; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR delayMetricType-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Indicates whether the delay metric is in ternal or external;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi delayMetricType (104)}; expenseMetricType ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MetricType; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR expenseMetricType-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Indicates whether the expense metric is internal or external;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi expenseMetricType (105)}; errorMetricType ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MetricType; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR errorMetricType-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Indicates whether the error metric is in ternal or extternal;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi errorMetricType (106)}; mappingType ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MappingType; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR mappingType-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The type of mapping to be employed to ascertain the SNPA Address to which a call should be placed for this prefix. X.121 indicates that the X.121 address extraction algorithm is to be em ployed. This will extract the SNPA address from the IDI of an X.121 format IDP of the NSAP address to which the NPDU is to be forwarded. Manual indi cates that the set of addresses in the sNPAAddresses or LANAddresses characteristic are to be used. For Broadcast circuits, only the value Manual is permit ted;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi mappingType (107)}; lANAddress ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.LANAddress; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR lANAddress-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Asingle LAN addresses to which an NPDU may be directed in order to reach an address which matches the address prefix of the Reachable Address. An exception is raised if an attempt is made to enable the Reachable Address with the de fault value;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi lANAddress (108)}; sNPAAddresses ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.SNPAAddresses; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR sNPAAddresses-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS A set of SNPA addresses to which a call may be directed in order to reach an address which matches the address prefix of the Reachable Ad dress. Associated with each SNPA Address, but not visible to System Management, is a variable lastFail ure of Type BinaryAbsoluteTime;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi sNPAAddresses (109)}; nonWrappingCounter ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NonWrappingCounter; MATCHES FOR Equality, Ordering; BEHAVIOUR nonWrappingCounter-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Non-replaceable, non-wrapping counter;; -- This attibute is only defined in order to allow other counter attributes to be derived from it. REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi nonWrappingCounter (110)}; areaTransmitPassword ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.Password; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR areaTransmitPassword-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The value to be used as a transmit pass word in Level 1 LSP, and SNP PDUs transmitted by this Intermediate System;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi areaTransmitPassword (111)}; areaReceivePasswords ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.Passwords; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR areaReceivePasswords-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The values to be used as receive pass words to check the receipt of Level 1 LSP, and SNP PDUs;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi areaReceivePasswords (112)}; domainTransmitPassword ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.Password; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR domainTransmitPassword-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The value to be used as a transmit pass word in Level 2 LSP, and SNP PDUs transmitted by this Intermediate System;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi domainTransmitPassword (113)}; domainReceivePasswords ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.Passwords; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR domainReceivePasswords-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The values to be used as receive pass words to check the receipt of Level 2 LSP, and SNP PDUs;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi domainReceivePasswords (114)}; circuitTransmitPassword ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.Password; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR circuitTransmitPassword-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The value to be used as a transmit pass word in IIH PDUs transmitted by this Intermediate System;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi circuitTransmitPassword (115)}; circuitReceivePasswords ATTRIBUTE WITH ATTRIBUTE SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.Passwords; MATCHES FOR Equality; BEHAVIOUR circuitReceivePasswords-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The values to be used as receive pass words to check the receipt of IIH PDUs;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi circuitReceivePasswords (116)}; authenticationFailures ATTRIBUTE DERIVED FROM nonWrappingCounter; BEHAVIOUR authenticationFailures-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Count of authentication Failure notifica tions generated;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.aoi authenticationFailures (117)}; 11.2.12 Notification Definitions -- Note pduFormatError notification now included in Network layer definitions corruptedLSPDetected NOTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR corruptedLSPDetected-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The Corrupted LSP Detected Notifica tion is generated when a corrupted Link State PDU is detected in memory. The occurance of this event is counted by the corruptedLSPsDetected counter.;; MODE NON-CONFIRMED; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NotificationInfo; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.noi corruptedLSPDetected (1)}; lSPL1DatabaseOverload NOTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR lSPL1DatabaseOverload-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The LSP L1 Database Overload Notifi cation is generated when the l1State of the system changes between On and Waiting or Waiting and On. The stateChange argument is set to indicate the resulting state, and in the case of Waiting the sour ceID is set to indicate the source of the LSP which precipitated the overload. The occurance of this event is counted by the lSPL1DatabaseOverloads counter.;; MODE NON-CONFIRMED; PARAMETERS notificationOverloadStateChange, notificationSourceID; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NotificationInfo; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.noi lSPL1DatabaseOverload (2)}; manualAddressDroppedFromArea NOTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR manualAddressDroppedFromArea-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The Manual Address Dropped From Area Notification is generated when one of the man ualAreaAddresses (specified on this system) is ig nored when computing partitionAreaAddresses or areaAddresses because there are more than Maximu mAreaAddresses distinct Area Addresses. The areaAddress argument is set to the ignored Area Ad dress. It is generated once for each Area Address in manualAreaAddresses which is dropped. It is not logged again for that Area Address until after it has been reinstated into areaAddresses (i.e. it is only the action of dropping the Area Address and not the state of being dropped, which causes the event to be generated). The occurance of this event is counted by the manualAddressDroppedFromAreas counter.;; MODE NON-CONFIRMED; PARAMETERS notificationAreaAddress; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NotificationInfo; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.noi manualAddressDroppedFromArea (3)}; attemptToExceedMaximumSequenceNumber NOTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR attemptToExceedMaximumSequenceNumber-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The Attempt To Exceed Maximum Se quence Number Notification is generated when an attempt is made to increment the sequence number of an LSP beyond the maximum sequence number. Following the generation of this event the operation of the Routeing state machine shall be disabled for at least (MaxAge + ZeroAgeLifetime) seconds. The occurance of this event is counted by the attemptsToExceedMaximumSequenceNumber counter.;; MODE NON-CONFIRMED; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NotificationInfo; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.noi attemptToExceedMaximumSequenceNumber (4)}; sequenceNumberSkip NOTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR sequenceNumberSkip-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The Sequence Number Skipped Notifi cation is generated when the sequence number of an LSP is incremented by more than one. The occur ance of this event is counted by the sequenceNum berSkips counter.;; MODE NON-CONFIRMED; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NotificationInfo; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.noi sequenceNumberSkip (5)}; ownLSPPurge NOTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR ownLSPPurge-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The Own LSP Purged Notification is generated when a zero aged copy of a system's own LSP is received from some other system. This repre sents an erroneous attempt to purge the local sys tem's LSP. The occurance of this event is counted by the ownLSPPurges counter.;; MODE NON-CONFIRMED; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NotificationInfo; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.noi ownLSPPurge (6)}; partitionVirtualLinkChange NOTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR partitionVirtualLinkChange-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The Partition Virtual Link Change Noti fication is generated when a virtual link (for the pur poses of Level 1 partition repair) is either created or deleted. The relative order of events relating to the same Virtual Link must be preserved. The occur ance of this event is counted by the partitionVirtual LinkChanges counter.;; MODE NON-CONFIRMED; PARAMETERS notificationVirtualLinkChange, notificationVirtualLinkAddress; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NotificationInfo; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.noi partitionVirtualLinkChange (7)}; lSPL2DatabaseOverload NOTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR lSPL2DatabaseOverload-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The LSP L2 Database Overload Notifi cation is generated when the l2State of the system changes between On and Waiting or Waiting and On. The stateChange argument is set to indicate the resulting state, and in the case of Waiting the sour ceID is set to indicate the source of the LSP which precipitated the overload. The occurance of this event is counted by the lSPL2DatabaseOverloads counter.;; MODE NON-CONFIRMED; PARAMETERS notificationOverloadStateChange, notificationSourceID; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NotificationInfo; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.noi lSPL2DatabaseOverload (8)}; iDFieldLengthMismatch NOTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR iDFieldLengthMismatch-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The iDFieldLengthMismatch Notifica tion is generated when a PDU is received with a dif ferent value for ID field length to that of the receiving Intermediate system. The occurance of this event is counted by the iDFieldLengthMismatches counter.;; MODE NON-CONFIRMED; PARAMETERS notificationIDLength, notificationSourceID; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NotificationInfo; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.noi iDFieldLengthMismatch (9)}; circuitChange NOTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR circuitChange-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The Circuit Change Notification is gen erated when the state of the Circuit changes from On to Off or from Off to On. The relative order of events relating to the same Circuit must be pre served. The occurance of this event is counted by the circuitChanges counter.;; MODE NON-CONFIRMED; PARAMETERS notificationNewCircuitState; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NotificationInfo; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.noi circuitChange (10)}; adjacencyStateChange NOTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR adjacencyStateChange-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The Adjacency State Change Notifica tion is generated when the state of an Adjacency on the Circuit changes from Up to Down or Down to Up (in the latter case the Reason argument is omit ted). For these purposes the states Up and Up/dormant are considered to be Up, and any other state is considered to be Down. The relative order of events relating to the same Adjacency must be pre served. The occurance of this event is counted by the adjacencyStateChanges counter.;; MODE NON-CONFIRMED; PARAMETERS notificationAdjacentSystem, notificationNewAdjacencyState, notificationReason, notificationPDUHeader, notificationCalledAddress, notificationVersion; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NotificationInfo; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.noi adjacencyStateChange (11)}; initializationFailure NOTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR initializationFailure-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The Initialisation Failure Notification is generated when an attempt to initialise with an adja cent system fails as a result of either Version Skew or Area Mismatch. In the case of Version Skew, the Adjacent system argument is not present. The oc curance of this event is counted by the initialization Failures counter.;; MODE NON-CONFIRMED; PARAMETERS notificationAdjacentSystem, notificationReason, notificationPDUHeader, notificationCalledAddress, notificationVersion; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NotificationInfo; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.noi initializationFailure (12)}; rejectedAdjacency NOTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR rejectedAdjacency-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The Rejected Adjacency Notification is generated when an attempt to create a new adja cency is rejected, because of a lack of resources. The occurance of this event is counted by the reject edAdjacencies counter.;; MODE NON-CONFIRMED; PARAMETERS notificationAdjacentSystem, notificationReason, notificationPDUHeader, notificationCalledAddress, notificationVersion; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NotificationInfo; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.noi rejectedAdjacency (13)}; lanL1DesignatedIntermediateSystemChange NOTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR lanL1DesignatedIntermediateSystemChange-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The LAN L1 Designated Intermediate System Change Notification is generated when the local system either elects itself or resigns as being the LAN L1 Designated Intermediate System on this circuit. The relative order of these events must be preserved. The occurance of this event is counted by the lanL1DesignatedIntermediateSystemChanges counter.;; MODE NON-CONFIRMED; PARAMETERS notificationDesignatedIntermediateSystemChange; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NotificationInfo; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.noi lanL1DesignatedIntermediateSystemChange (14)}; exceededMaximumSVCAdjacencies NOTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR exceededMaximumSVCAdjacencies-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The Exceeded Maximum SVC Adjacen cies Notification is generated when there is no free adjacency on which to establish an SVC for a new destination.(see clause 8.3.2.3) The occurance of this event is counted by the timesExceededMaximumSVCAdjacencies counter.;; MODE NON-CONFIRMED; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NotificationInfo; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.noi exceededMaximumSVCAdjacencies (15)}; exceededMaximumCallAttempts NOTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR exceededMaximumCallAttempts-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The Exceeded Maximum Call Attempts Notification is generated when recallCount becomes equal to maximumCallAttempts. The occurance of this event is counted by the timesExceededMaxi mumCallAttempts counter.;; MODE NON-CONFIRMED; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NotificationInfo; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.noi exceededMaximumCallAttempts (16)}; lanL2DesignatedIntermediateSystemChange NOTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR lanL2DesignatedIntermediateSystemChange-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The LAN L2 Designated Intermediate System Change Notification is generated when the local system either elects itself or resigns as being the LAN L2 Designated Intermediate System on this circuit. The relative order of these events must be preserved. The occurance of this event is counted by the lanL2DesignatedIntermediateSystemChanges counter.;; MODE NON-CONFIRMED; PARAMETERS notificationDesignatedIntermediateSystemChange; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NotificationInfo; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.noi lanL2DesignatedIntermediateSystemChange (17)}; authenticationFailure NOTIFICATION BEHAVIOUR authenticationFailure-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Generated when a PDU is received with an incorrect Authentication information field;; MODE NON-CONFIRMED; PARAMETERS notificationAdjacentSystem; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NotificationInfo; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.noi authenticationFailure (18)}; 11.2.13 Action Definitions -- Note: The following actions have been proposed (in SC21 N4977) for inclusion in DMI. Until such time as this is completed, the definitions of these actions are given here. -- activate ACTION BEHAVIOUR activate-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Sets OperationalState to `enabled' and commences operation;; MODE CONFIRMED; PARAMETERS successResponse, failureResponse, failureReason; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.ActionInfo; WITH REPLY SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.ActionReply; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.acoi activate (1)}; deactivate ACTION BEHAVIOUR deactivate-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Sets OperationalState to `disabled' and ceases operation;; MODE CONFIRMED; PARAMETERS successResponse, failureResponse, failureReason; WITH INFORMATION SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.ActionInfo; WITH REPLY SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.ActionReply; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.acoi deactivate (2)}; 11.2.14 Parameter Definitions iSO10589-NB-p1 PARAMETER CONTEXT CREATE-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.ISType; BEHAVIOUR iSO10589-NB-p1-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The value to be given to the iStype at tribute on MO creation. This parameter is manda tory;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi iSO10589-NB-p1 (1)}; iSO10589Circuit-MO-p1 PARAMETER CONTEXT CREATE-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.CircuitType; BEHAVIOUR iSO10589Circuit-MO-p1-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The value to be given to the type attrib ute on MO creation. This parameter is mandatory;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi iSO10589Circuit-MO-p1 (2)}; reachableAddressP1 PARAMETER CONTEXT CREATE-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.AddressPrefix; BEHAVIOUR reachableAddressp1-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The value to be given to the addressPre fix attribute on MO creation. This parameter is man datory;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi reachableAddressP1 (3)}; reachableAddressP2 PARAMETER CONTEXT CREATE-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.MappingType; BEHAVIOUR reachableAddressp2-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The value to be given to the map pingType attribute on MO creation. This parameter is only permitted when the `type' of the parent cir cuit is either `broadcast' or `DA'. In those cases the default value is `manual';; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi reachableAddressP2 (4)}; manualAdjacencyP1 PARAMETER CONTEXT CREATE-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.LANAddress; BEHAVIOUR manualAdjacencyP1-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The value to be given to the lANAd dress attribute on MO creation;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi manualAdjacencyP1 (5)}; manualAdjacencyP2 PARAMETER CONTEXT CREATE-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.EndSystemIDs; BEHAVIOUR manualAdjacencyP2-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The value to be given to the endSys temIDs attribute on MO creation;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi manualAdjacencyP2 (6)}; successResponse PARAMETER CONTEXT ACTION-REPLY; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.ResponseCode; BEHAVIOUR successResponse-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Returned in the responseCode field of an ActionReply when the action has completed suc cessfully.;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi successResponse (7)}; failureResponse PARAMETER CONTEXT ACTION-REPLY; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.ResponseCode; BEHAVIOUR failureResponse-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Returned in the responseCode field of an ActionReply when the action failed to complete. The failureReason parameter is returned with this re sponseCode, giving additional information;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi failureResponse (8)}; failureReason PARAMETER CONTEXT ACTION-REPLY; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.ActionFailureReason; BEHAVIOUR failureReason-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS Gives the reason why an entity failed to activate or deactivate.;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi failureReason (9)}; constraintViolation PARAMETER CONTEXT SPECIFIC-ERROR; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.ConstraintViolationReason; BEHAVIOUR constraintViolation-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The specific error returned on failure of a REPLACE operation when the MO prohibits such operations under certain conditions, for example while the MO is in the disabled operational state.;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi constraintViolation (10)}; notificationReceivingAdjacency PARAMETER CONTEXT EVENT-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.LocalDistinguishedName; BEHAVIOUR notificationReceivingAdjacency-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The local managed object name of the adjacency upon which the NPDU was received;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi notificationReceivingAdjacency (11)}; notificationIDLength PARAMETER CONTEXT EVENT-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.IDLength; BEHAVIOUR notificationIDLength-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The IDLength specified in the ignored PDU;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi notificationIDLength (12)}; notificationAreaAddress PARAMETER CONTEXT EVENT-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.AreaAddress; BEHAVIOUR notificationAreaAddress-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The Area Address which caused Maxi mumAreaAddresses to be exceeded;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi notificationAreaAddress (13)}; notificationSourceID PARAMETER CONTEXT EVENT-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.SourceID; BEHAVIOUR notificationSourceID-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The source ID of the LSP;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi notificationSourceID (14)}; notificationVirtualLinkChange PARAMETER CONTEXT EVENT-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.VirtualLinkChange; BEHAVIOUR notificationVirtualLinkChange-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS This indicates whether the event was genrated as a result of the creation or deletion of a Virtual Link between two Level 2 Intermediate Sys tems.;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi notificationVirtualLinkChange (15)}; notificationVirtualLinkAddress PARAMETER CONTEXT EVENT-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NetworkEntityTitle; BEHAVIOUR notificationVirtualLinkAddress-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The Network Entity Title of the Level 2 Intermediate System at the remote end of the virtual link;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi notificationVirtualLinkAddress (16)}; notificationNewCircuitState PARAMETER CONTEXT EVENT-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NewCircuitState; BEHAVIOUR notificationNewCircuitState-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The direction of the Circuit state change specified as the resulting state. i.e. a change from On to Off is specified as Off;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi notificationNewCircuitState (17)}; notificationNewAdjacencyState PARAMETER CONTEXT EVENT-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.NewAdjacencyState; BEHAVIOUR notificationNewAdjacencyState-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The direction of the Adjacency state change specified as the resulting state. i.e. a change from Up to Down is specified as Down. Any state other than Up is considered to be Down.;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi notificationNewAdjacencyState (18)}; notificationAdjacentSystem PARAMETER CONTEXT EVENT-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.SystemID; BEHAVIOUR notificationAdjacentSystem-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The system ID of the adjacent system;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi notificationAdjacentSystem (19)}; notificationReason PARAMETER CONTEXT EVENT-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.Reason; BEHAVIOUR notificationReason-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The associated Reason;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi notificationReason (20)}; notificationPDUHeader PARAMETER CONTEXT EVENT-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.PDUHeader; BEHAVIOUR notificationPDUHeader-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The header of the PDU which caused the notification;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi notificationPDUHeader (21)}; notificationCalledAddress PARAMETER CONTEXT EVENT-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.SNPAAddress; BEHAVIOUR notificationCalledAddres-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The SNPA Address which was being called when the Adjacency was taken down as a re sult of a call reject;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi notificationCalledAddress (22)}; notificationVersion PARAMETER CONTEXT EVENT-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.Version; BEHAVIOUR notificationVersion-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The version number reported by the other system;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi notificationVersion (23)}; notificationDesignatedIntermediateSystemChange PARAMETER CONTEXT EVENT-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.DesignatedISChange; BEHAVIOUR notificationDesignatedIntermediateSystemChange-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The direction of the change in Desig nated Intermediate System status of this system;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi notificationDesignatedIntermediateSystemChange (24)}; notificationOverloadStateChange PARAMETER CONTEXT EVENT-INFO; WITH SYNTAX ISO10589-ISIS.OverloadStateChange; BEHAVIOUR notificationOverloadStateChange-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS The direction of the change in Overload status;; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.proi notificationOverloadStateChange (25)}; 11.2.15 Attribute Groups counters ATTRIBUTE GROUP DESCRIPTION The group of all counters; REGISTERED AS {ISO10589-ISIS.agoi counters (1)}; 11.2.16 Behaviour Definitions resettingTimer-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS This attribute specifies the interval be tween certain events in the operation of the protocol state machine. If the value of this attribute is changed to a new value t while the protocol state machine is in operation, the implementation shall take the necessary steps to ensure that for any time interval which was in progress when the correspond ing attribute was changed, the next expiration of the that interval takes place t seconds from the original start of that interval, or immediately, whichever is later. The precision with which this time shall be im plemented shall be the same as that associated with the basic operation of the timer attribute; replaceOnlyWhileDisabled-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS This attribute shall only permit the RE PLACE operation to be performed on it while the MO is in the Disabled Operational State. An at tempt to perform a REPLACE operation while the MO is in the Enabled Operation State shall fail with the generation of the constraintViolation specific er ror.; resourceLimiting-B BEHAVIOUR DEFINED AS This attribute places limits on some re source". In general implementations may allocate reources up to this limit when the managed object is enabled and it may be impossible to change the allo cation without first disabling and re-enabling the managed object. Therefore this International Stan dard only requires that it shall be possible to perform a REPLACE operation on this attribute while the MO is disabled. However some implementations may be able to to change the allocation of resources without first disabling the MO. In this case it is per mitted to increase the value of the atribute at any time, but it shall not be decreased below the cur rently used" value of the resource. Where an at tempt to perform a REPLACE operation fails either because the MO is enabled, or because an attempt has been made to decrease the value, the REPLACE operation shall fail with the generation of the con straintViolation specific error.; 11.2.17 ASN1 Modules ISO10589-ISIS{tbd1} DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN -- object identifier definitions sc6 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {joint-iso-ccitt sc6(?)} -- value to be assigned by SC21 secretariat isisoi OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {sc6 iSO10589(?)} -- value to be assigned by SC6 secretariat moi OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {isisoi objectClass (3)} poi OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {isisoi package (4)} proi OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {isisoi parameter (5)} nboi OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {isisoi nameBinding (6)} aoi OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {isisoi attribute (7)} agoi OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {isisoi attributeGroup (8)} acoi OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {isisoi action (10)} noi OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {isisoi notification (11)} ActionFailureReason ::= ENUMERATED{ reason1(0), reason2(1)} -- Note: actual reasons TBS ActionInfo ::= SET OF Parameter ActionReply ::= SEQUENCE{ responseCode OBJECT IDENTIFIER, responseArgs SET OF Parameter OPTIONAL} AddressPrefix ::= OCTETSTRING(SIZE(0..20)) AdjacencyState ::= ENUMERATED{ initializing(0), up(1), failed(2)}-- was 4 in N5821 , is it required at all? AreaAddress ::= OCTETSTRING(SIZE(1..20)) AreaAddresses ::= SET OF AreaAddress Boolean ::= BOOLEAN CircuitID ::= OCTETSTRING(SIZE(1..10)) CompleteSNPInterval ::= INTEGER(1..600) ConstraintViolationReason ::= OBJECT IDENTIFIER; DRISISHelloTimer ::= INTEGER(1..65535) DatabaseState ::= ENUMERATED{ off(0), on(1), waiting(2)} DesignatedISChange ::= ENUMERATED{ resigned(0), elected(1)} DefaultESHelloTimer ::= INTEGER(1..65535) EndSystemIDs ::= SET OF SystemID GraphicString ::= GRAPHICSTRING HelloTimer ::= INTEGER(1..65535) HoldingTimer ::= INTEGER(1..65535) HopMetric ::= INTEGER(0..63) ISISHelloTimer ::= INTEGER(1..65535) IDLength ::= INTEGER(0..9) IdleTimer ::= INTEGER(1..65535) InitialMinimumTimer ::= INTEGER(1..65535) IntermediateSystemPriority ::= INTEGER(1..127) ISType ::= ENUMERATED{ level1IS(1), level2IS(2)} LANAddress ::= OCTETSTRING(SIZE(6)) AdjacencyUsageType::= ENUMERATED{ undefined(0), level1(1), level2(2), level1and2(3)} LocalDistinguishedName ::= CMIP-1.ObjectInstance -- A suitable free standing definition is requred LSPID ::= OCTETSTRING(SIZE(2..11)) MappingType ::= ENUMERATED{ manual(0), x121(1)} MaximumBuffers ::= INTEGER(1..65535) MaximumCallAttempts ::= INTEGER(1..65535) MaximumLSPGenerationInterval ::= INTEGER(1..65535) MaximumPathSplits ::= INTEGER(1..32) MaximumSVCAdjacencies ::= INTEGER(1..65535) MaximumVirtualAdjacencies ::= INTEGER(0..32) MetricIncrement ::= INTEGER(0..63) MetricType ::= ENUMERATED{ internal(0), external(1)} MinimumBroadcastLSPTransmissionInterval ::= INTEGER(1..65535) MinimumLSPGenerationInterval ::= INTEGER(1..65535) MinimumLSPTransmissionInterval ::= INTEGER(1..65535) NeighbourSystemType ::= ENUMERATED{ unknown(0), endSystem(1), intermediateSystem(2), l1IntermediateSystem(3), l2IntermediateSystem(4)} NetworkEntityTitle ::= OCTETSTRING(SIZE(1..19)) NewAdjacencyState ::= ENUMERATED{ down(0), up(1)} NewCircuitState ::= ENUMERATED{ off(0), on(1)} NonWrappingCounter ::= INTEGER(0..264-1) NotificationInfo ::= SET OF Parameter NSAPAddress ::= OCTETSTRING(SIZE(1..20)) OctetString ::= OCTETSTRING OriginatingLSPBufferSize ::= INTEGER(512..1492) OutputAdjacencies ::= SET OF LocalDistinguishedName OverloadStateChange ::= ENUMERATED{ on(0), waiting(1)} Parameter ::= SEQUENCE{ paramIdOBJECT IDENTIFIER, paramInfoANY DEFINED BY paramID} PartialSNPInterval ::= INTEGER(1..65535) Password ::= OCTETSTRING(SIZE(0..254) Passwords ::= SET OF Password PathMetric ::= INTEGER(0..1023) PDUHeader ::= OCTETSTRING(SIZE(0..255)) PollESHelloRate ::= INTEGER(1..65535) Reason ::= ENUMERATED{ holdingTimerExpired(0), checksumError(1), oneWayConnectivity(2), callRejected(3), reserveTimerExpired(4), circuitDisabled(5), versionSkew(6), areaMismatch(7), maximumBroadcastIntermediateSystemsExceeded(8), maximumBroadcastEndSystemsExceeded(9), wrongSystemType(10)} ResponseCode ::= OBJECT IDENTIFIER RecallTimer ::= INTEGER(1..65535) ReserveTimer ::= INTEGER(1..65535) SNPAAddress ::= NUMERICSTRING(FROM("0"|"1"|"2"|"3"|"4"|"5"| "6"|"7"|"8"|"9"))(SIZE(0..15)) -- Up to 15 Digits 0..9 SNPAAddresses ::= SET OF SNPAAddress CircuitType ::= ENUMERATED{ broadcast(0), ptToPt(1), staticIN(2), staticOut(3), dA(4)} SourceID ::= OCTETSTRING(SIZE(1..10)) SystemID ::= OCTETSTRING(SIZE(0..9)) VirtualLinkChange ::= ENUMERATED{ deleted(0), created(1)} Version ::= GRAPHICSTRING WaitingTime ::= INTEGER(1..65535) maximumPathSplits-Default INTEGER ::= 2 MaximumPathSplits-Permitted ::= INTEGER(1..32) maximumBuffers-Default INTEGER ::= ImpSpecific MaximumBuffers-Permitted ::= INTEGER(1..ImpSpecific) minimumLSPTransmissionInterval-Default INTEGER ::= 5 MinimumLSPTransmissionInterval-Permitted ::= INTEGER(5..30) maximumLSPGenerationInterval-Default INTEGER ::= 900 MaximumLSPGenerationInterval-Permitted ::= INTEGER(60..900) minimumBroadcastLSPTransmissionInterval-Default INTEGER ::=33 MinimumBroadcastLSPTransmissionInterval-Permitted ::= INTEGER(1..65535) completeSNPInterval-Default INTEGER ::= 10 CompleteSNPInterval-Permitted ::= INTEGER(1..600) originatingL1LSPBufferSize-Default INTEGER ::= receiveLSPBufferSize OriginatingL1LSPBufferSize-Permitted ::= INTEGER(512..receiveLSPBufferSize) manualAreaAddresses-Default AreaAddresses ::= {} ManualAreaAddresses-Permitted ::= AreaAddresses (SIZE(0..MaximumAreaAddresses)) minimumLSPGenerationInterval-Default INTEGER ::= 30 MinimumLSPGenerationInterval-Permitted ::= INTEGER(5..300) defaultESHelloTime-Default INTEGER ::= 600 DefaultESHelloTime-Permitted ::= INTEGER(1..65535) pollESHelloRate-Default INTEGER ::= 50 PollESHelloRate-Permitted ::= INTEGER(1..65535) partialSNPInterval-Default INTEGER ::= 2 PartialSNPInterval-Permitted ::= INTEGER(1..65535) waitingTime-Default INTEGER ::= 60 WaitingTime-Permitted ::= INTEGER(1..65535) dRISISHelloTimer-Default INTEGER ::= 1 DRISISHelloTimer-Permitted ::= INTEGER(1..65535) originatingL2LSPBufferSize-Default INTEGER ::= receiveLSPBufferSize OriginatingL2LSPBufferSize-Permitted ::= INTEGER(512..receiveLSPBufferSize) maximumVirtualAdjacencies-Default INTEGER ::= 2 MaximumVirtualAdjacencies-Permitted ::= INTEGER(0..32) helloTimer-Default INTEGER ::= 10 HelloTimer-Permitted ::= INTEGER(1..21845) defaultMetric-Default INTEGER ::= 20 DefaultMetric-Permitted ::= INTEGER(1..MaxLinkMetric) optionalMetric-Default INTEGER ::= 0 OptionalMetric-Permitted ::= INTEGER(0..MaxLinkMetric) metricType-Default MetricType ::= Internal iSISHelloTimer-Default INTEGER ::= 3 ISISHelloTimer-Permitted ::= INTEGER(1..21845) externalDomain-Default BOOLEAN ::= TRUE l1IntermediateSystemPriority-Default INTEGER ::= 64 L1IntermediateSystemPriority-Permitted ::= INTEGER(1..127) callEstablishmentMetricIncrement-Default INTEGER ::= 0 CallEstablishmentMetricIncrement-Permitted ::= INTEGER(0..MaxLinkMetric) idleTimer-Default INTEGER ::= 30 IdleTimer-Permitted ::= INTEGER(0..65535) initialMinimumTimer-Default INTEGER ::= 55 InitialMinimumTimer-Permitted ::= INTEGER(1..65535) reserveTimer-Default INTEGER ::= 600 ReserveTimer-Permitted ::= INTEGER(1..65535) maximumSVCAdjacencies-Default INTEGER ::= 1 MaximumSVCAdjacencies-Permitted ::= INTEGER(1..65535) reservedAdjacency-Default BOOLEAN ::= FALSE neighbourSNPAAddress-Default INTEGER ::= 0 recallTimer-Default INTEGER ::= 60 RecallTimer-Permitted ::= INTEGER(0..65535) maximumCallAttempts-Default INTEGER ::= 10 MaximumCallAttempts-Permitted ::= INTEGER(0..255) manualL2OnlyMode-Default BOOLEAN ::= FALSE l2IntermediateSystemPriority-Default INTEGER ::= 64 L2IntermediateSystemPriority-Permitted ::= INTEGER(1..127) lANAddress-Default LANAddress ::= 000000000000 sNPAAddresses-Default SNPAAddresses::= {} password-Default Password ::= {} passwords-Default Passwords ::= {} -- The empty set END
12 Conformance 12.1 Static Conformance Requirements 12.1.1 Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement A Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) shall be completed in respect of any claim for conformance of an implementation to this International Standard: the PICS shall be produced in accordance with the relevant PICS pro-forma in Annex A. 12.1.2 Static Conformance for all ISs A system claiming conformance to this International Stan dard shall be capable of: a)calculating a single minimum cost route to each desti nation according to 7.2.6 for the default metric speci fied in 7.2.2; b)utilising Link State information from a system only when an LSP with LSP number 0 and remaining life time>0 is present according to 7.2.5; c)removing excess paths according to 7.2.7 d)performing the robustness checks according to 7.2.8; e)constructing a forwarding database according to 7.2.9; f)if (and only if) Area Partition Repair is supported, 1)performing the operations according to 7.2.10; 2)performing the encapsulation operations in the for warding process according to 7.4.3.2; and 3)performing the decapsulation operations in the re ceive process according to 7.4.4; TEMPORARY NOTE may need to reor ganise clause 7.4.4 in order to make it crystal clear what is required in the receive process in the presence/absence of partition repair g)computing area addresses according to 7.2.11; h)generating local Link State information as required by 7.3.2; i)including information from Manual Adjacencies ac cording to 7.3.3.1; j)if (and only if) Reachable Addresses are supported, in cluding information from Reachable Addresses ac cording to 7.3.3.2; k)generating multiple LSPs according to 7.3.4; l)generating LSPs periodically according to 7.3.5; m)generating LSPs on the occurrence of events accord ing to 7.3.6; n)generating an LSP checksum according to 7.3.11; o)operating the Update Process according to 7.3.12 7.3.17 including controlling the rate of LSP transmis sion only for each broadcast circuit (if any) according to 7.3.15.6; p)operating the LSP database overload procedures ac cording to 7.3.19.1; q)selecting the appropriate forwarding database accord ing to 7.4.2; r)forwarding ISO 8473 PDUs according to 7.4.3.1 and 7.4.3.3; s)operating the receive process according to 7.4.4; TEMPORARY NOTE item 1 of the second bulleted list is only required if you implement partition repair. We need to reorganise the structure so we can pull this out. t)performing on each supported Point-to-Point circuit (if any): 1)forming and maintaining adjacencies according to 8.2; u)performing on each supported ISO 8208 circuit (if any) 1)SVC establishment according to 8.3.2.1 using the network layer protocols according to 8.3.1; 2)If Reachable Addresses are supported, the opera tions specified in 8.3.2.2 8.3.5.6. 3)If call
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ricIncrement greater than zero are supported, the operations specified in 8.3.5.3. 4)If the Reverse Path Cache is supported, the opera tions specified in 8.3.3 v)performing on each supported broadcast circuit (if any) 1)the pseudonode operations according to 7.2.3; 2)controlling the rate of LSP transmission according to 7.3.15.6; 3)the operations specified in 8.4.18.4.4 and 8.4.6; 4)the operations specified in 8.4.5. w)constructing and correctly parsing all PDUs according to clause 9; x)providing a system environment in accordance with clause 10; y)being managed via the system management attributes defined in clause 11. For all attributes referenced inthe normative text, the default value (if any) shall be sup ported. Other values shall be supported if referenced in a REQUIRED VALUES clause of the GDMO definition; z)If authentication procedures are implemented: 1)the authentication field processing functions of clauses 7.3.77.3.10, 7.3.15.17.3.15.4, 8.2.3 8.2.4, and 8.4.1.1; 2)the Authentication Information field of the PDU in clauses 9.59.13. 12.1.3 Static Conformance Requirements for level 1 ISs A system claiming conformance to this International Stan dard as a level 1 IS shall conform to the requirements of 12.1.2 and in addition shall be capable of a)identifying the nearest Level 2 IS according to 7.2.9.1; b)generating Level 1 LSPs according to 7.3.7; c)generating Level 1 pseudonode LSPs for each sup ported broadcast circuit (if any) according to 7.3.8; d)performing the actions in Level 1 Waiting State ac cording to 7.3.19.2 12.1.4 Static Conformance Requirements for level 2 ISs A system claiming conformance to this International Stan dard as a level 2 IS shall conform to the requirements of 12.1.2 and in addition shall be capable of a)setting the attached flag according to 7.2.9.2; b)generating Level 2 LSPs according to 7.3.9; c)generating Level 2 pseudonode LSPs for each sup ported broadcast circuit (if any) according to 7.3.10; d)performing the actions in Level 2 Waiting State ac cording to 7.3.19.3. 12.2 Dynamic Conformance 12.2.1 Receive Process Conformance Requirements Any protocol function supported shall be implemented in accordance with 7.4.4. 12.2.2 Update Process Conformance Requirements Any protocol function supported shall be implemented in accordance with 7.3 and its subclauses. Any PDU transmitted shall be constructed in accordance with the appropriate subclauses of 9. 12.2.3 Decision Process Conformance Requirements Any protocol function supported shall be implemented in accordance with 7.2 and its subclauses. 12.2.4 Forwarding Process Conformance Requirements Any protocol function supported shall be implemented in accordance with 7.4 and its subclauses. 12.2.5 Performance Requirements This International Standard requires that the following per formance criteria be met. These requirements apply regard less of other demands on the system; if an Intermediate sys tem has other tasks as well, those will only get resources not required to meet these criteria. Each Intermediate system implementation shall specify (in its PICS): a)the maximum number of other Intermediate systems it can handle. (For L1 Intermediate systems that means Intermediate systems in the area; for L2 Intermediate systems that is the sum of Intermediate systems in the area and Intermediate systems in the L2 subdomain.) Call this limit N. b)the maximum supported forwarding rate in ISO 8473 PDUs per second. 12.2.5.1 Performance requirements on the Update process The implementation shall guarantee the update process enough resources to process N LSPs per 30 seconds. (Re sources = CPU, memory, buffers, etc.) In a stable topology the arrival of a single new LSP on a circuit shall result in the propagation of that new LSP over the other circuits of the IS within one second, irrespective of the forwarding load for ISO 8473 data PDUs. 12.2.5.2 Performance requirement on the Decision process The implementation shall guarantee the decision process enough resources to complete (i.e. start to finish) within 5 seconds, in a stable topology while forwarding at the maxi mum rate. (For L2 Intermediate Systems, this applies to the two levels together, not each level separately.) 12.2.5.3 Reception and Processing of PDUs An ideal Intermediate system would be able to correctly process all PDUs, both control and data, with which it was presented, while simultaneously running the decision proc ess and responding to management requests. However, in the implementations of real Intermediate systems some compromises must be made. The way in which these com promises are made can dramatically affect the correctness of operation of the Intermediate system. The following gen eral principles apply. a)A stable topology should result in stable routes when forwarding at the maximum rated forwarding rate. b)Some forwarding progress should always be made (al beit over incorrect routes) even in the presence of a maximally unstable topology. In order to further characterise the required behaviour, it is necessary to identify the following types of traffic. a)IIH traffic. This traffic is important for maintaining In termediate system adjacencies and hence the Interme diate system topology. In order to prevent gratuitous topology changes it is essential that Intermediate sys tem adjacencies are not caused to go down errone ously. In order to achieve this no more than ISISHoldingMultiplier - 1 IIH PDUs may be dropped between any pair of Intermediate systems. A safer requirement is that no IIH PDUs are dropped. The rate of arrival of IIH PDUs is approximately con stant and is limited on Pointto-Point links to 1/iSIS
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In practice it will be limited by the operation of the congestion avoidance and control algorithms, but owing to the relatively slow response time of these algorithms, substantial peaks are likely to occur. An Intermediate system shall state in its PICS its maximum forwarding rate. This shall be quoted under at least the following conditions. 1)A stable topology of maximum size. 2)A maximally unstable topology. This figure shall be non-zero, but may reasonably be as low as 1 PDU per second. The following constraints must be met. a)The implementation shall be capable of receiving the maximum rate of ISH PDUs without loss whenever the following conditions hold 1)The data forwarding traffic rate averaged over any period of one second does not exceed the rate which the implementation claims to support 2)The ESH and LSP rates do not exceed the back ground (stable topology) rate. b)If it is unavoidable that PDUs are dropped, it is a goal that the order of retaining PDUs shall be as follows (i.e. It is least desirable for IIH PDUs to be dropped). 1)IIH PDUs 2)ESH PDUs 3)LSPs and SNPs 4)data PDUs. However, no class of traffic shall be completely starved. One way to achieve this is to allocate a queue of suitable length to each class of traffic and place the PDUs onto the appropriate queue as they arrive. If the queue is full the PDUs are discarded. Processor re sources shall be allocated to the queues to ensure that they all make progress with the same priorities as above. This model assumes that an implementation is capable of receiving PDUs and selecting their correct queue at the maximum possible data rate (14,000 PDUs per second for a LAN). If this is not the case, reception of data traffic at a rate greater than some limit (which must be greater than the maximum rated limit) will cause loss of some IIH PDUs even in a sta ble topology. This limit shall be quoted in the PICS if it exists. NOTE - Starting from the stable topology condition at maxi mum data forwarding rate, an increase in the arrival rate of data PDUs will initially only cause some data NPDUs to be lost. As the rate of arrival of data NPDUs is further in creased a point may be reached at which random PDUs are dropped. This is the rate which must be quoted in the PICS 12.2.5.4 Transmission Sufficient processor resources shall be allocated to the transmission process to enable it to keep pace with recep tion for each PDU type. Where prioritisation is required, the same order as for reception of PDU types applies. Annex A PICS Proforma (This annex is normative) A.1 Introduction The supplier of a protocol implementation which is claimed to conform to International Standard ISO 10589, whether as a level 1 or level 2 Intermediate system implementation, shall complete the applicable Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) proforma. A completed PICS proforma is the PICS for the implemen tation in question. The PICS is a statement of which capa bilities and options of the protocol have been implemented. The PICS can have a number of uses, including use: -by the protocol implementor, as a check-list to reduce the risk of failure to conform to the standard through oversight; -by the supplier and acquirer or potential acquirer of the implementation, as a detailed indication of the capabilities of the implementation, stated relative to the common basis for understanding provided by the standard PICS proforma; -by the user or potential user of the implementa tion, as a basis for initially checking the possibility of interworking with another implementation (note that, while interworking can never be guaranteed, failure to interwork can often be predicted from incompatible PICS's); -by a protocol tester, as the basis for selecting appropri ate tests against which to assess the claim for conformance of the implementation. A.2 Abbreviations and Special Symbols A.2.1 Status-related symbols M mandatory O optional O.<n> optional, but support of at least one of the group of options labelled by the same numeral <n> is required. X prohibited not applicable c.<p> conditional requirement, according to condi tion <p> A.3 Instructions for Completing the PICS Proformas A.3.1 General structure of the PICS proforma The first part of the PICS proforma Implementation Identification and Protocol Summary is to be completed as indicated with the information necessary to identify fully both the supplier and the implementation. The main part of the PICS proforma is a fixed-format ques tionnaire divided into subclauses each containing a group of individual items. Answers to the questionnaire items are to be provided in the rightmost column, either by simply marking an answer to indicate a restricted choice (usually Yes or No), or by entering a value or a set or range of val ues. (Note that there are some items where two or more choices from a set of possible answers can apply: all rele vant choices are to be marked.) Each item is identified by an item reference in the first col umn; the second column contains the question to be an swered; the third column contains the reference or refer ences to the material that specifies the item in the main body of the standard. the remaining columns record the status of the item whether support is mandatory, optional or conditional and provide the space for the answers: see A.3.4 below. A supplier may also provide or be required to provide further information, categorised as either Additional Infor mation or Exception Information. When present, each kind of further information is to be provided in a further sub clause of items labelled A<i> or X<i> respectively for cross-referencing purposes, where <i> is any unambiguous identification for the item (e.g. simply a number): there are no other restrictions on its format and presentation. A completed PICS proforma, including any Additional In formation and Exception Information, is the Protocol Im plementation Conformance Statement for the implementa tion in question. NOTE - Where an implementation is capable of being con figured in more than one way, a single PICS may be able to describe all such configurations. However, the supplier has the choice of providing more than one PICS, each covering some subset of the implementation's configuration capabili ties, in case this makes for easier and clearer presentation of the information. A.3.2 Additional Information Items of Additional Information allow a supplier to provide further information intended to assist the interpretation of the PICS. It is not intended or expected that a large quantity will be supplied, and a PICS can be considered complete without any such information. Examples might be an out line of the ways in which a (single) implementation can be set up to operate in a variety of environments and configu rations. References to items of Additional information may be en tered next to any answer in the questionnaire, and may be included in items of Exception Information. A.3.3 Exception Information It may occasionally happen that a supplier will wish to an swer an item with mandatory or prohibited status (after any conditions have been applied) in a way that conflicts with the indicated requirement. No pre-printed answer will be found in the Support column for this, but the Supplier may write the desired answer into the Support column. If this is done, the supplier is required to provide an item of Excep tion Information containing the appropriate rationale, and a cross-reference from the inserted answer to the Exception item. An implementation for which an Exception item is required in this way does not conform to ISO 10589. NOTE - A possible reason for the situation described above is that a defect report is being progressed, which is expected to change the requirement that is not met by the implemen tation. A.3.4 Conditional Status A.3.4.1 Conditional items The PICS proforma contains a number of conditional items. These are items for which the status mandatory, optional or prohibited that applies is dependent upon whether or not certain other items are supported, or upon the values supported for other items. In many cases, whether or not the item applies at all is conditional in this way, as well as the status when the item does apply. Individual conditional items are indicated by a conditional symbol in the Status column as described in A.3.4.2 below. Where a group of items are subject to the same condition for applicability, a separate preliminary question about the condition appears at the head of the group, with an instruc tion to skip to a later point in the questionnaire if the Not Applicable answer is selected. A.3.4.2 Conditional symbols and conditions A conditional symbol is of the form c.<n> or c.G<n> where <n> is a numeral. For the first form, the numeral identifies a condition appearing in a list at the end of the subclause containing the item. For the second form, c.G<n>, the nu meral identifies a condition appearing in the list of global conditions at the end of the PICS. A simple condition is of the form:if <p> then <s1> else <s2> where <p> is a predicate (see A.3.4.3 below), and <s1> and <s2> are either basic status symbols (M,O,O.<n>, or X) or the symbol . An extended condition is of the formif <p1> then <s1> else <s2> else if <p2> then <s2> [else if <p3> ...] else <sn> where <p1> etc. are predicates and <s1> etc. are basic status symbols or . The status symbol applicable to an item governed by a sim ple condition is <s1> if the predicate of the condition is true, and <s2> otherwise; the status symbol applicable to an item governed by an extended condition is <si> where <pi> is the first true predicate, if any, in the sequence <p1>, <p2>..., and <sn> if no predicate is true. A.3.4.3 Predicates A simple predicate in a condition is either a)a single item reference; or b)a relation containing a comparison operator (=, <, etc.) with one (or both) of its operands being an item refer ence for an item taking numerical values as its answer. In case (a) the predicate is true if the item referred to is marked as supported, and false otherwise. In case (b), the predicate is true if the relation holds when each item refer ence is replaced by the value entered in the Support column as answer to the item referred to. Compound predicates are boolean expressions constructed by combining simple predicates using the boolean operators AND, OR and NOT, and parentheses, in the usual way. A compound predicate is true if and only if the boolean ex pression evaluates to true when the simple predicates are in terpreted as described above. Items whose references are used in predicates are indicated by an asterisk in the Item column. A.3.4.4 Answering conditional items To answer a conditional item, the predicate(s) of the condi tion is (are) evaluated as described in A.3.4.3 above, and the applicable status symbol is determined as described in A.3.4.2. If the status symbol is this indicates that the item is to be marked in this case; otherwise, the Support column is to be completed in the usual way. When two or more basic status symbols appear in a condi tion for an item, the Support column for the item contains one line for each such symbol, labelled by the relevant sym bol. the answer for the item is to be marked in the line la belled by the symbol selected according to the value of the condition (unselected lines may be crossed out for added clarity). For example, in the item illustrated below, the N/A column would be marked if neither predicate were true; the answer line labelled M: would be marked if item A4 was marked as supported, and the answer line labelled O: would be marked if the condition including items D1 and B52 applied.Item References Status N/A Support H3 Is ... supported? 42.3(d) C.1 M: Yes O: Yes No C.1if A4 then M else if D1 AND (B52 < 3) then O else A.4 Identification A.4.1 Implementation IdentificationSupplierContact point for queriesabout this PICSImplementation Name(s)and Version(s)Operating systemName(s and Version(s)Other Hardware and Operating SystemsClaimedSystem Name(s)(if different)Notes: a)Only the first three items are required for all implementations; others may be completed as appropriate in meeting the requirements for full identification. b)The terms Name and Version should be interpreted appropriately to correspond with a supplier's terminology (using, e.g., Type, Series, Model) A.4.2 Protocol Summary: ISO 10589:19xxProtocol VersionAddenda Implemented(if applicable)AmmendmentsImplementedDate of StatementHave any Exception items been required (see A.3.3)? No Yes (The answer Yes means that the implementation does not conform to ISO 10589) PICS Proforma: Item References Status N/A Support AllIS Are all basic ISIS routeing functions implemented? 12.1.2 M M: Yes C.1if L2IS then O else C.2if 8208 then O else PartitionRe pair Is Level 1 Partition Repair imple mented? 12.1.2.f C.1 O: Yes No L1IS Are Level 1 ISIS routeing functions implemented? 12.1.3 M M: Yes L2IS Are Level 2 ISIS routeing functions implemented? 12.1.4 O O: Yes No PtPt Are point-to-point circuits imple mented? 12.1.2.t O.1 O: Yes No 8208 Are ISO 8208 circuits implemented? 12.1.2.u O.1 O: Yes No LAN Are broadcast circuits implemented? 12.1.2.v O.1 O: Yes No EqualCost Paths Is computation of equal minimum cost paths implemented? 7.2.6 O O: Yes No Downstream Is computation of downstream routes implemented? 7.2.6 O O: Yes No DelayMetric Is path computation based on the delay metric implemented? 7.2.2 O O: Yes No ExpenseMet ric Is path computation based on the Ex pense metric implemented? 7.2.2 O O: Yes No Prefixes Are Reachable Address Prefixes imple mented? 12.1.2.j C.1 O: Yes No Forward
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agement? Yes No PDU Authen tication Is PDU Authentication based on Pass words implemented? 12.1.2.z O O: Yes No ISO 10589:19xx (continued) Annex B Supporting Technical Material (This annex is informative) B.1 Matching of Address Prefixes The following example shows how address prefixes may be matched according to the rules defined in 7.1.4. The prefix 37-123 matches both the full NSAP addresses 37-1234::AF< and 37-123::AF< which are encoded as 3700000000001234AF< and 3700000000000123AF< respectively. This can be achieved by first converting the address to be compared to an internal decoded form (i.e. any padding, as indicated by the particular AFI, is removed), which corre sponds to the external representation of the address. The position of the end of the IDP must be marked, since it can no longer be deduced. This is done by inserting the semi- octet F after the last semi-octet of the IDP. (There can be no confusion, since the abstract syntax of the IDP is deci mal digits). Thus the examples above become in decoded form 371234FAF< and 37123FAF< and the prefix 37-123 matches as a leading sub-string of both of them. For comparison purposes the prefix is converted to the in ternal decoded form as above. B.2 Addressing and Routeing In order to ensure the unambiguous identification of Net work and Transport entities across the entire OSIE, some form of address administration is mandatory. ISO 8348/Add.2 specifies a hierarchical structure for network addresses, with a number of top-level domains responsible for administering addresses on a world-wide basis. These address registration authorities in turn delegate to sub- authorities the task of administering portions of the address space. There is a natural tendency to repeat this sub- division to a relatively fine level of granularity in order to ease the task of each sub-authority, and to assign responsi bility for addresses to the most localised administrative body feasible. This results in (at least in theory) reduced costs of address administration and reduced danger of mas sive address duplication through administrative error. Fur thermore, political factors come into play which require the creation of sub-authorities in order to give competing inter ests the impression of hierarchical parity. For example at the top level of the ISO geographic address space, every country is assigned an equally-sized portion of the address space even though some countries are small and might in practice never want to undertake administration of their own addresses. Other examples abound at lower levels of the hierarchy, where divisions of a corporation each wish to operate as an independent address assignment authority even though this is inefficient operationally and may waste monumental amounts of potential address space. If network topologies and traffic matrices aligned naturally with the hierarchical organisation of address administration authorities, this profligate use of hierarchy would pose little problem, given the large size (20 octets) of the N-address space. Unfortunately, this is not usually the case, especially at higher levels of the hierarchy. Network topologies may cross address administration boundaries in many cases, for example: -Multi-national Corporations with a backbone network that spans several countries -Community-of-interest networks, such as academic or research networks, which span organisations and ge ographies -Military networks, which follow treaty alignments rather than geographic or national administrations -Corporate networks where divisions at times operate as part of a contractor's network, such as with trade consortia or government procurements. These kinds of networks also exhibit rich internal topolo gies and large scale (105 systems), which require sophisti cated routeing technology such as that provided by this In ternational Standard. In order to deploy such networks ef fectively, a considerable amount of address space must be left over for assignment in a way which produces efficient routes without undue consumption of memory and bandwidth for routeing overhead11This is just a fancy way of saying that hierarchical routing, with its natural effect on address assignment, is a mandatory requirement for such net works. . Similarly important is the inter-connection of these net works via Inter-domain routeing technology. If all of the as signment flexibility of the addressing scheme is exhausted in purely administrative hierarchy (at the high-order end of the address) and in Intra-Domain routeing assignment (at the low end of the address) there may be little or no address space left to customise to the needs of inter-domain routing. The considerations for how addresses may be structured for the Intra- and Inter-domain cases are discussed in more de tail in the following two clauses. B.2.1 Address Structure for Intra-domain Routeing The IS-IS Intra-domain routeing protocol uses a preferred addressing scheme. There are a number of reasons the de signers of this protocol chose to specify a single address structure, rather than leaving the matter entirely open to the address assignment authorities and the routeing domain ad ministrators: a)If one address structure is very common and known a priori, the forwarding functions can be made much faster; b)If part of the address is known to be assigned locally to an end system, then the routeing can be simpler, use less memory, and be potentially faster, by not having to discriminate based on that portion of the address. c)If part of the address can be designated as globally unique by itself (as opposed to only the entire address having this property) a number of benefits accrue: 1)Errors in address administration causing duplicate addresses become much less likely 2)Automatic and dynamic NSAP address assignment becomes feasible without global knowledge or synchronisation 3)Routeing on this part of the address can be made simple and fast, since no address collisions will oc cur in the forwarding database. d)If a part of the address can be reserved for assignment purely on the basis of topological efficiency (as op posed to political or address administration ease), hier archical routeing becomes much more memory and bandwidth efficient, since the addresses and the topol ogy are in close correspondence. e)If an upper bound can be placed on the amount of ad dress space consumed by the Intra-domain routeing scheme, then the use of address space by Inter-domain routeing can be made correspondingly more flexible. The preferred address format of the Intra-domain ISIS protocol achieves these goals by being structured into two fixed-sized fields as follows shown in figure 91#ID#81Used by level 1 routeingKey:Used by level 2 routeingID SEL HO-DSP IDP IDP Initial Domain Part HO-DSP High Order Domain Specific Part ID System Identifier SEL NSAP Selector Figure 9 - Preferred Address Format below: The field marked IDP in the figure is precisely the IDP specified in ISO 8348/Add.2. The field marked HO-DSP is that portion of the DSP from ISO 8348/Add.2 whose structure, assignment, and meaning are not specified or constrained by the Intra-domain ISIS routeing protocol. However, the design presumes that the routeing domain ad ministrator has at least some flexibility in assigning a por tion of the HO-DSP field. The purpose and usage of the fields specified by the Intra-domain ISIS routeing protocol is explained in the following paragraphs. B.2.1.1 The IDP + HO-DSP Since the Intra-domain ISIS protocol is customised for op eration with ISO 8473, all addresses are specified to use the preferred binary encoding of ISO 8348/Add.2. B.2.1.2 The Selector (SEL) Field The SEL field is intended for two purposes. Its main use is to allow for multiple higher-layer entities in End systems (such as multiple transport entities) for those systems which need this capability. This allows up to 256 NSAPs in a sin gle End system. The advantage of reserving this field exclu sively for local system administration the Intra-domain routing functions need not store routeing information about, nor even look at this field. If each individual NSAP were represented explicitly in routing tables, the size of these ta bles would grow with the number of NSAPs, rather than with the number of End systems. Since Intra-domain rout ing routes to systems, explicit recording of each NSAP brings no efficiency benefit and potentially consumes large amounts of memory in the Intermediate systems. A second use for the SEL field is in Intermediate systems. Certain ISIS functions require that PDUs be encapsulated and sent to the Network Entity in an Intermediate system rather than to an NSAP and upward to a Transport entity. An example of this is the Partition Repair function of this International Standard. In order to use a level 2 path as if it were a single subnetwork in a level 1 area, PDUs are encap sulated and addressed to an IS on the other side of the parti tion11This is a gross oversimplification for the purpose of illustrating the need for the SEL field. See 7.2.10. . By reserving certain values of the SEL field in Inter mediate systems for direct addressing of Intermediate sys tem Network entities, the normal addressing and relaying functions of other Intermediate systems can be transpar ently used for such purposes. B.2.1.3 The Identifier (ID) Field The ID field is a flat, large identifier space for identifying OSI systems. The purpose of this field is to allow very fast, simple routeing to a large (but not unconstrained) number of End systems in a routeing domain. The Intra-Domain IS IS protocol uses this field for routeing within a area. While this field is only required to be unambiguous within a single area, if the values are chosen to be globally unambiguous the Intra-domain ISIS design can exploit this fact in the following ways. First, a certain amount of parallelism can be obtained dur ing relaying. An IS can be simultaneously processing the ID field along with other fields (i.e. IDP, HO-DSP). If the ID is found in the forwarding table, the IS can initiate forward ing while checking to make sure that the other fields have the expected value. Conversely, if the ID is not found the IS can assume that either the addressed NSAP is unreach able or exists only in some other area or routeing domain. In the case where the ID is not globally unique, the for warding table can indicate this fact and relaying delayed until the entire address is analysed and the route looked up. Second, a considerable savings can be obtained in manual address administration for all systems in the routeing do main. If the ID is chosen from the ISO 8802 48-bit address space, the ID is known to be globally unique. Furthermore, since LAN systems conforming to ISO 8802 often have their 48-bit MAC address stored in ROM locally, each sys tem can be guaranteed to have a globally unambiguous NET and NSAP(s) without centralised address administra tion at the area level.22Note, however, that the use of the ISO 8802 addresses does not avoid the necessity to run ISO 9542 or to maintain tables mapping NSAP addresses to MAC (i.e. SNPA) addresses on the ISO 8802 subnetwork. This is because there is no guarantee that a particular MAC address is always enabled (the LAN controller may be turned off) or that a system has only a single MAC address. This not only eliminates administra tive overhead, but also drastically reduces the possibility of duplicate NSAP addresses, which are illegal, difficult to di agnose, and often extremely difficult to isolate. An alternative to a large, flat space for the lowest level of routeing would be to hierarchically subdivide this field to allow more levels of routeing within a single routeing do main. The designers of the Intra-domain ISIS protocol considered that this would lead to an inferior routeing archi tecture, since: a)The cost of memory in the ISs was sufficiently reason able that large (e.g. 104 system) areas were quite fea sible, thus requiring at least 2 octets per level to ad dress b)Two levels of routeing within a routeing domain were sufficient (allowing domains of 106107 systems) be cause it was unlikely that a single organisation would wish to operate and manage a routeing domain much larger than that. c)Administrative boundaries often become the dominant concern once routeing domains reach a certain size. d)The additional burdens and potential for error in man ual address assignment were deemed serious enough to permit the use of a large, flat space. B.3 Use of the HO-DSP field in Intra-domain routeing Use of a portion of the HO-DSP field provides for hierar chical routeing within a routeing domain. A value is as signed to a set of ISs in order to group the ISs into a single area for the usual benefits of hierarchical routeing: a)Limiting the size of routeing tables in the ISs; b)conserving bandwidth by hierarchical summarisation of routeing information; c)designating portions of the network which are to have optimal routeing within themselves; and d)moderate firewalling of portions of the routeing do main from failures in other portions. It is important to note that the assignment of HO-DSP val ues is intended to provide the routeing domain administra tor with a mechanism to optimise the routeing within a large routeing domain. The Intra-domain ISIS designers did not intend the HO-DSP to be entirely consumed by many levels of address registration authority. Reserving the assignment of a portion of the HO-DSP field to the route ing domain administrator also allows the administrator to start with a single assigned IDP+HO-DSP and run the routing domain as a single area. As the routeing domain grows, the routeing domain administrator can then add ar eas without the need to go back to the address administra tion authority for further assignments. Areas can be added and re-assigned within the routeing domain without involv ing the external address administration authority. A useful field to reserve as part of the HO-DSP would be 2 octets,permitting up to 65,536 areas in a routeing domain. This is viewed as a reasonable compromise between route ing domain size and address space consumption. The field may be specified as flat for the same reasons that the ID field may be flat. B.3.1 Addressing considerations for Inter-domain Routeing It is in the Inter-domain arena where the goals of routeing efficiency and administrative independence collide most strongly. Although the OSI Routeing Framework explicitly gives priority in Inter-domain routeing to considerations of autonomy and firewalls over efficiency, it must be feasible to construct an Inter-Domain topology that both produces isolable domains and relays data at acceptable cost. Since no routeing information is exchanged across domain boundaries with static routeing, the practicality of a given Inter-domain topology is essentially determined by the size of the routeing tables that are present at the boundary ISs. If these tables become too large, the memory needed to store them, the processing needed to search them, and the bandwidth needed to transmit them within the routeing do main all combine to disallow certain forms of interconnection. Inter-domain routeing primarily computes routes to other routeing domains33This International Standard also uses static Inter-domain tables for routeing to individual End systems across dynamically assigned circuits, and also to End systems whose addresses do not conform to the address construction rules. . If there is no correspondence between the address registration hierarchy and the organisation of routeing domains (and their interconnection) then the task of static table maintenance quickly becomes a nightmare, since each and every routeing domain in the OSIE would need a table entry potentially at every boundary IS of every other routeing domain. Luckily, there is some reason to be lieve that a natural correspondence exists, since at least at the global level the address registration authorities fall within certain topological regions. For example, most of the routeing domains which obtained their IDP+HO-DSP from a hierarchy of French authorities are likely to reside in France and be more strongly connected with other routeing domains in France that with routeing domains in other countries. There are enough exceptions to this rule, however, to be a cause for concern. The scenarios cited in B.2 all exist today and may be expected to remain common for the foreseeable future. Consider as a practical case the High Energy Phys ics Network (HEPnet), which contains some 17000 End systems, and an unknown number of intermediate systems44The number of ISs is hard to estimate since some ISs and links are in fact shared with other networks, such as the similarly organised NASA Space Physics network, or SPAN. . This network operates as a single routeing domain in order to provide a known set of services to a known community of users, and is funded and cost-justified on this basis. This network is international in scope (at least 10 countries in North America, Europe, and the far east) and yet its topol ogy does not map well onto existing national boundaries. Connectivity is richer between CERN and FERMIlab, for example than between many points within the U.S. More importantly, this network has rich connectivity with a number of other networks, including the PDNs of the vari ous countries, the NSFnet in the U.S., the international ESnet (Energy Sciences Network), the general research Internet, and military networks in the U.S. and elsewhere. None of these other networks shares a logical part of the NSAP address hierarchy with HEPnet55It is conceivable that ISO would sanction such networks by assigning a top-level IDI from the ISO non-geographic AFI, but this is unlikely and would only exacerbate the problem if many such networks were assigned top-level registrations. . If the only method of routing from the HEPnet to these other networks was to place each within one and only one of the existing registra tion authorities, and to build static tables showing these re lationships, the tables would clearly grow as O(n2). It seems therefore, that some means must be available to as sign addresses in a way that captures the Inter-Domain to pology, and which co-exists cleanly with both the adminis trative needs of the registration authorities, and the algo rithms employed by both the Intra- and Inter-domain routeing protocols. As alluded to in an earlier clause, it seems prudent to leave some portion of the address space (most likely from the HO-DSP part) sufficiently undefined and flexible that various Inter-domain topologies may be efficiently constructed. Annex C Implementation Guidelines and Examples (This annex is informative) C.1 Routeing Databases Each database contains records as defined in the following sub-clauses. The following datatypes are defined. FROM CommonMgmt IMPORT NSAPAddress, AddressPrefix, BinaryAbsoluteTime; PDU Type lspID = ARRAY [0..7] OF Octet; systemID = ARRAY [0..5] OF Octet; octetTimeStamp = BinaryAbsoluteTime; C.1.1 Level 1 Link State Database This database is kept by Level 1 and Level 2 Intermediate Systems, and consists of the latest Level 1 Link State PDUs from each Intermediate System (or pseudonode) in the area. The Level 1 Link State PDU lists Level 1 links to the Inter mediate System that originally generated the Link State PDU. RECORD adr: lspID; (* 8 octet ID of LSP originator *) type: (Level1IntermediateSystem, AttachedLevel2IntermediateSystem, UnattachedLevel2IntermediateSystem); seqnum: [0..SequenceModulus 1]; LSPage: [0..MaxAge]; (*Remaining Lifetime *) expirationTime: TimeStamp; (*Time at which LSP age became zero (see 7.3.16.4). *) SRMflags: ARRAY[1..(maximumCircuits + maximumVirtualAdjacencies)] OF BOOLEAN; (*Indicates this LSP to be sent on this circuit. Note that level 2 Intermediate systems may send level 1 LSPs to other partitions (if any exist). Only one level 2 Intermediate system per partition does this. For level 1 Intermediate Systems the array is just maximumCircuits long. *) SSNflags: ARRAY[1..maximumCircuits + maximumVirtualAdjacencies] OF BOOLEAN; (*Indicates that information about this LSP shall be included in the next partial sequence number PDU transmitted on this circuit. *) POINTER TO LSP; (*The received LSP *) END; C.1.2 Level 2 Link State Database This database is kept by Level 2 Intermediate Systems, and consists of the latest Level 2 Link State PDUs from each Level 2 Intermediate System (or pseudonode) in the do main. The Level 2 Link State PDU lists Level 2 links to the Intermediate System that originally generated the Link State PDU. RECORD adr: lspID; (* 8 octet ID of LSP originator *) type: (AttachedLevel2IntermediateSystem, UnattachedLevel2IntermediateSystem); seqnum: [0..SequenceModulus 1]; LSPage: [0..MaxAge]; (*Remaining Lifetime *) expirationTime: TimeStamp; (*Time at which LSP age became zero (see 7.3.16.4). *) SRMflags: ARRAY[1..(maximumCircuits)] OF BOOLEAN; (*Indicates this LSP to be sent on this circuit. *) SSNflags: ARRAY[1..maximumCircuits] OF BOOLEAN; (*Indicates that information about this LSP must be included in the next partial sequence number PDU transmitted on this circuit. *) POINTER TO LSP; (*The received LSP *) END; C.1.3 Adjacency Database This database is kept by all systems. Its purpose is to keep track of neighbours. For Intermediate systems, the adjacency database comprises a database with an entry for each: -Adjacency on a Point to Point circuit. -Broadcast Intermediate System Adjacency. 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SVC
Adja
cencies for a DA circuit, or 1 for a Static cir cuit). -Virtual Link Adjacency. Each entry contains the parameters in Clause 11 for the Ad jacency managed object. It also contains the variable used to store the remaining holding time for each Adjacency IDEntry and NETEntry entry, as defined below. IDEntry = RECORD ID: systemID; (* The 6 octet System ID of a neighbour End system extracted from the SOURCE ADDRESS field of its ESH PDUs. *) entryRemainingTime: Unsigned [1..65535] (* The remaining holding time in seconds for this entry. This value is not accessible to system management. An implementation may choose to implement the timer rules without an explicit remainingTime being maintained. For example by the use of asynchronous timers. It is present here in order to permit a consistent description of the timer rules. *) END NETEntry = RECORD NET: NetworkEntityTitle; (* The NET of a neighbour Intermediate system as reported in its IIH PDUs. *) entryRemainingTime: Unsigned [1..65535] (* The remaining holding time in seconds for this entry. This value is not accessible to system management. An implementation may choose to implement the timer rules without an explicit remainingTime being maintained. For example by the use of asynchronous timers. It is present here in order to permit a consistent description of the timer rules. *) END; C.1.4 Circuit Database This database is kept by all systems. Its purpose is to keep information about a circuit. It comprises an AR RAY[1..maximumCircuits]. Each entry contains the parameters in Clause 11 for a Cir cuit managed object (see 11.3). It also contains the remain ingHelloTime (WordUnsigned [1..65535] seconds) vari able for the Circuit. This variable not accessible to system management. An implementation may choose to implement the timer rules without an explicit remainingHelloTime being maintained. For example by the use of asynchronous timers. It is present here in order to permit a consistent de scription of the timer rules. Additionally, for Circuits of type X.25 Static Outgoing or X.25 DA, it contains the recallCount (Unsigned[0..255]) variable for the Circuit. This variable is not accessible to system management. It used to keep track of recall attempts. C.1.5 Level 1 Shortest Paths Database This database is kept by Level 1 and Level 2 Intermediate Systems (unless each circuit is Level 2 Only). It is com puted by the Level 1 Decision Process, using the Level 1 Link State Database. The Level 1 Forwarding Database is a subset of this database. RECORD adr: systemId; (*6 octet ID of destination system *) cost: [1..MaxPathMetric]; (*Cost of best path to destination system *) adjacencies: ARRAY[1..max
i
mum
Path
Splits]
OF POINTER TO Adjacency;
(*Pointer to adjacency for forwarding to system adr
*)
END;
C.1.6 Level 2 Shortest Paths Database
This database is kept by Level 2 Intermediate Systems. It is
computed by the Level 2 Decision Process, using the
Level 2 Link State Database. The Level 2 Forwarding Data
base is a subset of this database.
RECORD
adr: AddressPrefix; (*destination prefix *)
cost: [1..MaxPathMetric];
(*Cost of best path to destination prefix *)
adjacencies: ARRAY[1..max
i
mum
Path
Splits] OF POINTER TO Adjacency; (*Pointer to adjacency for forwarding to prefix adr *) END; C.1.7 Level 1 Forwarding Database This database is kept by Level 1 and Level 2 Intermediate Systems (unless each circuit is Level 2 Only). It is used to determine where to forward a data NPDU with destina tion within this system's area. It is also used to determine how to reach a Level 2 Intermediate System within the area, for data PDUs with destinations outside this system's area. RECORD adr:systemId; (*6 octet ID of destination system. Destination 0 is special, meaningnearest level 2 Intermediate system *) splits: [0..max
i
mum
Path
Splits]; (* Number of valid output adj's for reachingadr (0 indicates it is unreachable) *) nextHop: ARRAY[1..max
i
mum
Path
Splits] OF
POINTER TO adjacency;
(*Pointer to adjacency for forwarding to destination
system *)
END;
C.1.8 Level 2 Forwarding Database
This database is kept by Level 2 Intermediate systems. It is
used to determine where to forward a data NPDU with des
tination outside this system's area.
RECORD
adr: AddressPrefix; (*address of destination area.
*)
splits: [0..max
i
mum
Path
Splits]; (*Number of valid output adj's for reaching adr (0 indicates it is unreachable) *) nextHop: ARRAY[1..max
i
mum
Path
Splits] OF POINTER TO adjacency; (*Pointer to adjacency for forwarding to destination area. *) END; C.2 SPF Algorithm for Computing Equal Cost Paths An algorithm invented by Dijkstra (see references) known as shortest path first (SPF), is used as the basis for the route calculation. It has a computational complexity of the square of the number of nodes, which can be decreased to the number of links in the domain times the log of the num ber of nodes for sparse networks (networks which are not highly connected). A number of additional optimisations are possible: a)If the routeing metric is defined over a small finite field (as in this International Standard), the factor of log n may be removed by using data structures which maintain a separate list of systems for each value of the metric rather than sorting the systems by logical distance. b)Updates can be performed incrementally without re quiring a complete recalculation. However, a full up date must be done periodically to recover from data corruption, and studies suggest that with a very small number of link changes (perhaps 2) the expected com putation complexity of the incremental update exceeds the complete recalculation. Thus, this International Standard specifies the algorithm only for the full up date. c)If only End system LSP information has changed, it is not necessary to re-compute the entire Dijkstra tree for the IS. If the proper data structures exist, End Systems may be attached and detached as leaves of the tree and their forwarding information base entries altered as appropriate The original SPF algorithm does not support load splitting over multiple paths. The algorithm in this International Standard does permit load splitting by identifying a set of equal cost paths to each destination rather than a single least cost path. C.2.1 Databases PATHS This represents an a
cyclic directed graph of
shortest paths from the system S performing the cal
culation. It is stored as a set of triples of the form
aN,d(N),{Adj(N)}q, where:
N is a system Identifier. In the level 1 algorithm, N is
a 7 octet ID. For a non-pseudonode it is the 6 octet
system ID, with a 0 appended octet. For a
pseudonode it is a true 7 octet quantity, comprised of
the 6 octet Designated Intermediate System ID and
the extra octet assigned by the Designated Interme
diate System. In the level 2 algorithm it is either a
7 octet Intermediate System or pseudonode ID (as in
the level 1 algorithm), or it is a variable length ad
dress prefix (which will always be a leaf, i.e. End
system, in PATHS).
d(N) is N's distance from S (i.e. the total metric
value from N to S).
{Adj(N)} is a set of valid adjacencies that S may use
for forwarding to N.
When a system is placed on PATHS, the path(s)
designated by its position in the graph is guaranteed
to be a shortest path.
TENT This is a list of triples of the form
aN,d(N),{Adj(N)}q, where N, d(N) and {Adj(N)} are
as defined above for PATHS.
TENT can intuitively be thought of as a tentative
placement of a system in PATHS. In other words,
the triple aN,x,{A}q in TENT means that if N were
placed in PATHS, d(N) would be x, but N cannot be
placed on PATHS until it is guaranteed that no path
shorter than x exists.
The triple aN,x,{A,B}q in TENT means that if N
were placed in PATHS, d(N) would be x via either
adjacency A or B
NOTE - As described above, (see 7.2.6), it is suggested that
the implementation keep the database TENT as a set of lists
of triples of the form a*,Dist,*q, for each possible distance
Dist. In addition it is necessary to be able to process those
systems which are pseudonodes before any non-
pseudonodes at the same distance Dist.
C.2.2 Use of Metrics in the SPF Calculation
Internal metrics are not comparable to external metrics.
Therefore, the cost of the path from N to S for external
routes (routes to destinations outside of the routing domain)
may include both internal and external metrics. The cost of
the path from N to S (called d(N) below in database
PATHS) may therefore be maintained as a two-
dimensioned vector quantity (specifying internal and exter
nal metric values). In incrementing d(N) by 1, if the internal
metric value is less than the maximum value
MaxPathMetric, then the internal metric value is incre
mented by one and the external metric value left un
changed; if the internal metric value is equal to the maxi
mum value MaxPathMetric, then the internal metric value
is set to 0 and the external metric value is incremented by 1.
Note that this can be implemented in a straightforward
manner by maintaining the external metric as the high order
bits of the distance.
NOTE - In the code of the algorithm below, the current path
length is held in a variable tentlength. This variable is a
two-dimensional quantity tentlength=(internal,external)
and is used for comparing the current path length with d(N)
as described above.
C.2.3 Overview of the Algorithm
The basic algorithm, which builds PATHS from scratch,
starts out by putting the system doing the computation on
PATHS (no shorter path to SELF can possibly exist).
TENT is then pre-loaded from the local adjacency data
base.
Note that a system is not placed in PATHS unless no
shorter path to that system exists. When a system N is
placed in PATHS, the path to each neighbour M of N,
through N, is examined, as the path to N plus the link from
N to M. If aM,*,*q is in PATHS, this new path will be
longer, and thus ignored.
If aM,*,*q is in TENT, and the new path is shorter, the old
entry is removed from TENT and the new path is placed in
TENT. If the new path is the same length as the one in
TENT, then the set of potential adjacencies {adj(M)} is set
to the union of the old set (in TENT) and the new set
{adj(N)}. If M is not in TENT, then the path is added to
TENT.
Next the algorithm finds the triple aN,x,{Adj(N)}q in
TENT, with minimal x.
NOTE - This is done efficiently because of the optimisation
described above. When the list of triples for distance Dist is
exhausted, the algorithm then increments Dist until it finds a
list with a triple of the form a*,Dist,*q.
N is placed in PATHS. We know that no path to N can be
shorter than x at this point because all paths through sys
tems already in PATHS have already been considered, and
paths through systems in TENT will have to be greater than
x because x is minimal in TENT.
When TENT is empty, PATHS is complete.
C.2.4 The Algorithm
The Decison Process Algorithm must be run once for each
supported routeing metric. A Level 1 Intermediate System
runs the algorithm using the Level 1 LSP database to com
pute Level 1 paths. In addition a Level 2 Intermediate Sys
tem runs the algorithm using the Level 2 LSP database to
compute Level 2 paths.
If this system is a Level 2 Intermediate System which sup
ports the partition repair optional function the Decision
Process algorithm for computing Level 1 paths must be run
twice for the default metric. The first execution is done to
determine which of the area's manual
Area
Addresses
are reachable in this partition, and elect a Partition Desig
nated Level 2 Intermediate System for the partition. The
Partition Designated Level 2 Intermediate System will de
termine if the area is partitioned and will create virtual
Level 1 links to the other Partition Designated Level 2 In
termediate Systems in the area in order to repair the Level 1
partition. This is further described in 7.2.10.
Step 0: Initialise TENT and PATHS to empty. Initialise
tentlength to (0,0).
(tentlength is the pathlength of elements in TENT
we are examining.)
a)Add aSELF, 0, Wq to PATHS, where W is a special
value indicating traffic to SELF is passed up to Trans
port (rather than forwarded).
b)Now pre-load TENT with the local adjacency data
base. (Each entry made to TENT must be marked as
being either an End system or an Intermediate System
to enable the check at the end of Step 2 to be made
correctly.) For each adjacency Adj(N), (including
Manual Adjacencies, or for Level 2 enabled Reach
able Addresses) on enabled circuits, to system N of
SELF in state Up, compute
d(N) = cost of the parent circuit of the adjacency
(N), obtained from metrick, where k = one of de
fault metric, delay metric, monetary metric, er
ror metric.
Adj(N) = the adjacency number of the adjacency
to N
c)If a triple aN,x,{Adj(M)}q is in TENT, then:
If x = d(N), then Adj(M) , {Adj(M)} H Adj(N).
d)If there are now more adjacencies in {Adj(M)} than
max
i
mum
Path
Splits, then remove excess adjacen
cies as described in 7.2.7.
e)If x < d(N), do nothing.
f)If x > d(N), remove aN,x,{Adj(M)}q from TENT and
add the triple aN,d(N),Adj(N)q.
g)If no triple aN, x,{Adj(M)}q is in TENT, then add aN,
d(N),Adj(N)q to TENT.
h)Now add any systems to which the local Intermediate
system does not have adjacencies, but which are men
tioned in neighbouring pseudonode LSPs. The adja
cency for such systems is set to that of the Designated
Intermediate System.
i)For all broadcast circuits in state On, find the LSP
with LSP number zero and with the first 7 octets of
LSPID equal to the LnCircuitID for that circuit (i.e.
pseudonode LSP for that circuit). If it is present, for
all the neighbours N reported in all the LSPs of this
pseudonode which do not exist in TENT add an entry
aN,d(N),Adj(N)q to TENT, where
d(N) = metrick of the circuit.
Adj(N) = the adjacency number of the adjacency to the
DR.
j)Go to Step 2.
Step 1: Examine the zeroth Link State PDU of P, the sys
tem just placed on PATHS (i.e. the Link State PDU with
the same first 7 octets of LSPID as P, and LSP number
zero).
a)If this LSP is present, and the LSP Database Over
load bit is clear, then for each LSP of P (i.e. all the
Link State PDUs with the same first 7 octets of LSPID
as P, irrespective of the value of LSP number) com
pute
dist(P,N) = d(P) + metrick(P,N).
for each neighbour N (both Intermediate System and
End system) of the system P. If the LSP Database
Overload bit is set, only consider the End system
neighbours of the system P. d(P) is the second ele
ment of the triple
aP,d(P),{Adj(P)q
and metrick(P,N) is the cost of the link from P to N as
reported in P's Link State PDU
b)If dist(P,N) > MaxPathMetric, then do nothing.
c)If aN,d(N),{Adj(N)}q is in PATHS, then do nothing.
NOTE d(N) must be less than dist(P,N), or else N
would not have been put into PATHS. An additional san
ity check may be done here to ensure d(N) is in fact less
than dist(P,N).
d)If a triple aN,x,{Adj(N)}q is in TENT, then:
1)If x = dist(P,N), then Adj(N) , {Adj(N)} H
Adj(P).
2)If there are now more adjacencies in {Adj(N)} than
max
i
mum
Path
Splits, then remove excess adja
cencies, as described in 7.2.7.
3)If x < dist(P,N), do nothing.
4)If x > dist(P,N), remove aN,x,{Adj(N)}q from
TENT and add aN,dist(P,N),{Adj(P)}q.
e)If no triple aN, x,{Adj(N)}q is in TENT, then add aN,
dist(P,N),{P}q to TENT.
Step 2: If TENT is empty, stop, else:
a)Find the element aP,x,{Adj(P)}q, with minimal x as
follows:
1)If an element a*,tentlength,*q remains in TENT
in the list for tentlength, choose that element. If
there are more than one elements in the list for
tentlength, choose one of the elements (if any)
for a system which is a pseudonode in preference
to one for a non-pseudonode. If there are no more
elements in the list for tentlength increment ten
tlength and repeat Step 2.
2)Remove aP,tentlength,{Adj(P)}q from TENT.
3)Add aP,d(P),{Adj(P)}q to PATHS.
4)If this is the Level 2 Decision Process running, and
the system just added to PATHS listed itself as
Partition Designated Level 2 Intermediate system,
then additionally add aAREA.P, d(P), {adj(P)}q to
PATHS, where AREA.P is the Network Entity
Title of the other end of the Virtual Link, obtained
by taking the first AREA listed in P's Level 2 LSP
and appending P's ID.
5)If the system just added to PATHS was an End
system, go to Step 2, Else go to Step 1.
NOTE - In the Level 2 context, the End systems are the
set of Reachable Address Prefixes and the set of area ad
dresses with zero cost.
C.3 Forwarding Process
C.3.1 Example pseudo-code for the forwarding
procedure described in 7.4.3
This procedure chooses, from the Level 1 forwarding data
base if level is level1, or from the Level 2 forwarding
database if level is level2, an adjacency on which to for
ward PDUs for destination dest. A pointer to the adjacency
is returned in adj, and the procedure returns the value
True. If no suitable adjacency exists the procedure returns
the value False, in which case a call should be made to
Drop(Destination Address Unreachable, octetNumber).
If queue length values are available to the forwarding proc
ess, the minimal queue length of all candidate circuits is
chosen, otherwise, they are used in round robin fashion.
PROCEDURE Forward(
level: (level1, level2),
dest: NetworkLayerAddress,
VAR adj: POINTER TO adjacency) :
BOOLEAN
VAR
adjArray: ARRAY OF
ForwardingDatabaseRecords;
temp, index, minQueue: CARDINAL;
BEGIN
(*Set adjArray to appropriate database} *)
IF level = level1 THEN
adjArray := level1ForwardingDatabase
ELSE
adjArray := level2ForwardingDatabase
END;
(*Perform appropriate hashing function to obtain an
index into the database *)
IF Hash(level, dest, index) THEN
IF adjArray[index].splits > 0 THEN
(*Find minimum queue size for all equal cost
paths *)
minQueue := MaxUnsigned;
temp := adjArray[index].lastChosen + 1;
(*start off after last time *)
FOR i := 1 TO adjArray[index].splits DO
(*for all equal cost paths to dest *)
IF temp > adjArray[index].splits THEN
(*after end of valid entries, wrap to first
*)
temp := 1
ELSE
temp := temp + 1
END;
IF
QueueSize(adjArray[index].nextHop[temp])
< minQueue THEN
minQueue :=
QueueSize(adjArray[index].nextHop[tem
p]);
adj := adjArray[index].nextHop[temp];
adjArray[index].lastChosen := temp;
END;
Forward := true
END;
ELSE
Forward := false (*There must be at least one
valid output adjacency *)
END
ELSE
Forward := false (*Hash returned destination
unknown *)
END
END forward;
Annex D
Congestion Control and Avoidance
(This annex is informative)
D.1 Congestion Control
The transmit management subroutine handles congestion
control. Transmit management consists of the following
components:
Square root limiter. Reduces buffer occupancy
time per PDU by using a square root limiter algo
rithm. The square root limiter also queues PDUs for
an output circuit, and prevents buffer deadlock by
discarding PDUs when the buffer pool is exhausted.
Clause D.1.1 specifies the Square Root Limiter
Process.
Originating PDU limiter. Limits originating NPDU
traffic when necessary to ensure that transit NPDUs
are not rejected. An originating NPDU is an NPDU
resulting from an NSDU from the Transport at this
ES. A transit NPDU is an NPDU from another sys
tem to be relayed to another destination ES.
Flusher. Flushes PDUs queued for an adjacency that
has gone down.
Information for higher layer (Transport) congestion control
procedures is provided by the setting of the congestion ex
perienced bit in the forwarded data NPDUs.
D.1.1 Square Root Limiter
The square root limiter discards a data NPDU by calling the
ISO 8473 discard PDU function with the reason PDU
Discarded due to Congestion when the number of data
NPDUs on the circuit output queue exceeds the discard
threshold, Ud. Ud is given as follows:=
where:
Nb = Number of Routeing Layer buffers
(maximumBuffers) for all output circuits.
Nc = Number of active output circuits (i.e. Circuits in state
On).
The output queue is a queue of buffers containing data
NPDUs which have been output to that circuit by the for
warding process, and which have not yet been transmitted
by the circuit. It does not include NPDUs which are held
by the data link layer for the purpose of retransmission.
Where a data NPDU is to be fragmented by this Intermedi
ate system over this circuit, each fragment shall occupy a
separate buffer and shall be counted as such in the queue
length. If the addition of all the buffers required for the
fragmentation of a single input data NPDU would cause the
discard threshold for that queue to be exceeded, it is recom
mended that all those fragments (including those which
could be added without causing the threshold to be ex
ceeded) be discarded.
D.1.2 Originating PDU Limiter
TEMPORARY NOTE - Strictly this function is an End Sys
tem function. However it is closely coupled to the routeing
function, particularly in the case of real systems which are
performing the functions of both an Intermediate System
and an End System (i.e. systems which can both initiate and
terminate data NPDUs and perform relaying functions).
Therefore, until a more appropriate location for this infor
mation can be determined, this function is described here.
The originating PDU limiter first distinguishes between
originating NPDUs and transit NPDUs. It then imposes a
limit on the number of buffers that originating NPDUs can
occupy on a per circuit basis. In times of heavy load, origi
nating NPDUs may be rejected while transit NPDUs con
tinue to be routed. This is done because originating NPDUs
have a relatively short wait, whereas transit NPDUs, if re
jected, have a long wait a transport retransmission period.
The originating PDU limiter accepts as input:
-An NSDU received from Transport Layer
-A transmit complete signal from the circuit for an ISO
8473 Data PDU.
The originating PDU limiter produces the following as out
put:
-PDU accepted
-PDU rejected
-Modifications to originating PDU counter
There is a counter, N, and an originating PDU limit,
originatingQueueLimit, for each active output circuit.
Each N is initialised to 0. The originatingQueueLimit is
set by management to the number of buffers necessary to
prevent the circuit from idling.
D.1.3 Flusher
The flusher ensures that no NPDU is queued on a circuit
whose state is not ON, or on a non-existent adjacency, or
one whose state is not Up.
D.2 Congestion Avoidance
D.2.1 Buffer Management
The Forwarding Process supplies and manages the buffers
necessary for relaying. PDUs shall be discarded if buffer
thresholds are exceeded. If the average queue length on the
input circuit or the forwarding processor or the output cir
cuit exceeds QueueThreshold, the congestion experi
enced bit shall be set in the QoS maintenance option of the
forwarded data PDU (provided the QoS maintenance option
is present).
Security Considerations
Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
Author's Address
David R. Oran
Digital Equipment Corporation
LKG 1-2/a 19
550 King Street
Littleton, MA 01460
Email: Oran@Oran.enet.dec.com
Phone: (508) 4866-7377
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