Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Khaled Omar Internet-Draft The Road Intended status: Experimental L. Camara Expires: April 20, 2021 October 20, 2020Numbering Exchange Protocol (NEP) Specification draft-omar-nep-09
Abstract
This document specifies the Numbering Exchange Protocol (NEP), an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) that combines three metrics: delay, bandwidth and number of hops.
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Internet-Draft Numbering Exchange Protocol (NEP) October 2020
Table of Contents1. Introduction ...................................................1
2. Numbering Exchange Protocol (NEP) ..............................2
2.1. RIDs and their Advertising ...................................4
2.1.1. Advertising Beyond a Router's Neighbours ...................5
2.1.2. Detecting Conflict on RIDs..................................5
2.2. Echo Mechanism ...............................................5
2.2.1. Detecting Routers that Leaved a NEP Network ................5
2.3. Topology Advertisement .......................................6
2.3.1. The NEP Metric .............................................7
3. NEP Loop Prevention ............................................7
4. Subnet Advertisement ...........................................8
4.1. Specification ...............................................10
4.2. Routing Packets within a NEP AS .............................11
5. IANA Considerations ...........................................11
6. Security Considerations .......................................12
7. References ....................................................12
7.1. Normative References ........................................12
7.2. Informative References ......................................12
8. Authors' Addresses ............................................13
Appendix A. NEP Advertisement Format .............................13 A.1. NEP Header ..................................................13 A.2. Topology Advertisement ......................................14 A.3. Subnet Advertisements .......................................14 A.3.1. Mask-Based Subnet Advertisements ..........................15 A.3.2. Prefix-Based Subnet Advertisements ........................15 A.4. Echo Mechanism ..............................................16 A.4.1. Echo Messages .............................................16 A.4.2. Delay Calculated Message ..................................16 A.5. Hello Messages ..............................................16 A.6. Router Left Message .........................................17
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7. References 8. Authors' AddressesKhaled Omar Ibrahim Omar The Road 6th of October City, Giza Egypt
Phone: +2 01003620284 E-mail: eng.khaled.omar@hotmail.com National ID No.: 28611262102992
Luis Camara Portugal E-mail: luis.camara@live.com.pt