Assignment 3: ARP, ICMP, and RIP
CS640 Fall 19
For this assignment, you will modify your virtual router to: (1) generate Internet Control Messaging Protocol (ICMP) messages when error conditions occur; (2) populate the ARP cache by generating and consuming Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) messages; and (3) build a routing table using distance vector routing. With these changes, your virtual router will no longer depend on a static ARP cache or static route table, and it will be pingable and traceable.
Part 4: Implement RIP
Submission Instructions
After completing this assignment, students should be able to:
You will use the same environment and code base as Assignment 2. You should create a copy of your entire assign2 and name it assign3:
cp -r ~/assign2 ~/assign3
You can use the version of Router.java , RouteTable.java and Switch.java you wrote for Assignment 2, or you can download our solutions for these files:
cd ~/assign3/src/edu/wisc/cs/sdn/vnet/rt/
wget http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~akella/CS640/F19/assignment3/Router.java
wget http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~akella/CS640/F19/assignment3/RouteTable.java
cd ~/assign3/src/edu/wisc/cs/sdn/vnet/sw/
wget http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~akella/CS640/F19/assignment3/Switch.java
wget http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~akella/CS640/F19/assignment3/MACTable.java
wget http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~akella/CS640/F19/assignment3/MACTableEntry.java
If you’ve forgotten the commands to start Mininet, POX, or your virtual router, you should refer back to Assignment 2.
As you complete this assignment, you may want to use tcpdump to examine the headers of packets sent/received by hosts. To run tcpdump on a specific host, open an xterm window:
mininet> xterm h1
Then start tcpdump in that xterm:
sudo tcpdump -n -vv -e -i h1-eth0
You’ll need to change the host number included in the interface (-i) argument to match the host on which you’re running tcpdump.
For this part of the assignment, you will add support for generating and responding to Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) messages. Details on the ICMP protocol are available from Network Sorcery's RFC Sourcebook (if the Network Sorcery website is unavailable, you can access our mirror of the relevant pages). There are five different ICMP messages you need to generate.
A time exceeded message must be sent whenever your virtual router discards a packet because the TTL field is 0. Your router should already have code that decrements the TTL field by 1 and checks if the field (after decrement) equals 0. You should update this portion of the code to generate an ICMP time exceeded message prior to dropping the packet whose TTL field is 0.
When the router generates ICMP messages for time exceeded (type 11, code 0), the packet must contain an an Ethernet header, IP header, ICMP header, and ICMP payload. You can construct these headers, by creating Ethernet, IPv4, ICMP, and Data objects using the classes in the net.floodlightcontroller.packet package. To link the headers together, you should call the setPayload(..) method defined in the BasePacket class, which is the superclass for all of the header classes. Below is a snippet of code to get you started:
Ethernet ether = new Ethernet();
IPv4 ip = new IPv4();
ICMP icmp = new ICMP();
Data data = new Data();
ether.setPayload(ip);
ip.setPayload(icmp);
icmp.setPayload(data);
In the Ethernet header, you must populate the following fields:
In the IP header, you must populate the following fields:
In the ICMP header you must populate the following fields:
The payload that follows the ICMP header must contain: (1) 4 bytes of padding, (2) the original IP header from the packet that triggered the error message, and (3) the 8 bytes following the IP header in the original packet. This is illustrated in the figure below:
Once the ICMP packet is fully constructed, you should send it on the interface that is obtained from the longest prefix match in the route table for the source IP of original packet (invariably this will be the interface on which the original packet arrived). You should drop the original packet after sending the time exceeded message.
You can verify you have implemented this correctly by running the traceroute command. You should traceroute from one host to another, and each router on the path between the hosts should show up in the traceroute once. Include the “-n” argument when you run traceroute, otherwise traceroute will try to convert IPs to hostnames using DNS which will generate spurious traffic and make traceroute slow. Below is example output produced using the single_rt topology:
mininet> h1 traceroute -n 10.0.2.102
traceroute to 10.0.2.102 (10.0.2.102), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 10.0.1.1 153.720 ms 229.000 ms 228.789 ms
2 10.0.2.102 427.040 ms 426.764 ms 426.554 ms
This message must be sent if there is no matching entry in the route table when forwarding an IP packet. Your router should already have code that drops a packet if there is no matching route entry. You should update this portion of the code to generate an ICMP destination net unreachable message prior to dropping the packet.
The destination net unreachable message should be constructed similar to the time exceeded message. However, in the ICMP header the type field should be 3 and the code field should be 0. You should drop the original packet after sending the destination net unreachable message.
You can verify you have implemented this correctly by removing a line from the rtable file specified in the command line arguments when you start your router. If you send ping a host the router does not know how to reach, then ping should say that it received a net unreachable message. Below is example output produced using the single_rt topology after the second line has been removed from rtable.r1:
mininet> h1 ping -c 2 10.0.2.102
PING 10.0.2.102 (10.0.2.102) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.0.1.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Net Unreachable
From 10.0.1.1 icmp_seq=2 Destination Net Unreachable
--- 10.0.2.102 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 0 received, +2 errors, 100% packet loss, time 1001ms
This message should be sent if the MAC address associated with an IP address cannot be resolved using ARP. You’ll implement ARP in the next part of this assignment, but for now you should update the portion of your router that drops a packet if the lookup(...) function in the ARPCache class returns null.
The destination host unreachable message should be constructed similar to the destination net unreachable message, except the code field in the ICMP header should be 1. You should drop the original packet after sending the destination host unreachable message.
You can verify you have implemented this correctly by removing a line for one of the host IPs from the arp_cache file specified in the command line arguments when you start your router. If you send ping to a host whose IP is not in the ARP cache, then ping should say that it received a host unreachable message. Below is example output produced using the single_rt topology after the second line has been removed from arp_cache:
mininet> h1 ping -c 2 10.0.2.102
PING 10.0.2.102 (10.0.2.102) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.0.1.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 10.0.1.1 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
--- 10.0.2.102 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 0 received, +2 errors, 100% packet loss, time 1001ms
This message should be sent if your router receives a TCP or UDP packet destined for one of its interfaces. Your router should already check if an incoming IP packet is destined for one of its interfaces, and drop the packet if this is the case. However, you need to modify this code to check what header comes after the IP header:
You can verify you have implemented this correctly by attempting to wget a file from an IP assigned to one of the router’s interface. Below is example output produced using the single_rt topology:
mininet> h1 wget 10.0.1.1
--2015-03-15 05:55:09-- http://10.0.1.1/
Connecting to 10.0.1.1:80... failed: Connection refused.
This message should be sent when your router receives an ICMP echo request destined for one of its interfaces. You should not send an ICMP echo reply if you receive an echo request whose destination IP address does not match any of the IP addresses assigned to the router’s interfaces; these packets should be forwarded as they were before, since they are destined for hosts (or other routers).
The ICMP echo reply message should be constructed similar to the time exceeded message. However, the source IP in the IP header should be set to the destination IP from the IP header in the echo request. Additionally, the type field in the ICMP header should be set to 0. Lastly, the payload that follows the ICMP header in the echo reply must contain the entire payload that follows the ICMP header in the echo request. This is illustrated in the figure below:
You can verify you have implemented this correctly by pinging the IP assigned to one of the router’s interfaces.
For this part of the assignment, you will implement the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) such that your router does not need to be provided with a static ARP cache. Details on the ARP protocol are available from Network Sorcery's RFC Sourcebook (if the Network Sorcery website is unavailable, you can access our mirror of the relevant pages).
You should first update your router to generate ARP replies in response to received ARP requests. Your router should currently drop all non-IP packets. You need to modify this part of your router’s code to accept ARP packets (i.e., the EtherType field in the Ethernet header equals Ethernet.TYPE_ARP) in addition to IP packets.
If an ARP packet is an ARP request (i.e., the opcode field in the ARP header equals ARP.OP_REQUEST), then your router may need to send an ARP reply. Your router must only respond to ARP requests whose target IP protocol address equals the IP address of the interface on which the ARP request was received. You can obtain the target protocol address from an ARP packet as follows:
ARP arpPacket = (ARP)etherPacket.getPayload();
int targetIp = ByteBuffer.wrap(arpPacket.getTargetProtocolAddress()).getInt();
An ARP reply packet must contain an Ethernet header and an ARP header. You can construct these headers, by creating Ethernet and ARP objects using the classes in the net.floodlightcontroller.packet package. Remember to link the headers together using the setPayload(..) method defined in the BasePacket class.
In the Ethernet header, you must populate the following fields:
In the ARP header, you must populate the following fields:
Once the ARP reply is fully constructed, you should send it on the same interface on which the original packet arrived.
You can verify you have implemented this correctly by excluding the -a argument when you call the run_mininet.py script. You should still specify the -a arp_cache argument when you start your virtual router. If you can successfully ping between hosts, and running arp -n on the hosts after running ping shows some ARP cache entries on the host, then you have successfully implemented ARP replies.
ARP requests are more challenging to implement because your router must queue packets while waiting for a reply. Your router should currently call the lookup(...) function the ARPCache class when forwarding packets, and if no entry is found, generate a destination host unreachable ICMP message and drop the packet. You should modify your router to instead enqueue the packet and generate an ARP request if no matching entry is found in the ARP cache. Also, you should no longer generate a destination host unreachable message when a call to lookup returns null.
You should maintain a separate queue of packets for each IP address for which we are waiting for the corresponding MAC address. All packet headers should be complete, except the destination MAC address in the Ethernet header, before enqueueing the packet.
An ARP request should be construct similar to an ARP reply, except for the following fields:
If a corresponding ARP reply does not arrive within 1 second of issuing the ARP request, then you should send another ARP request that’s exactly the same as the original ARP request. You should continue to send ARP requests every second until your router either receives a corresponding ARP reply or you have sent the same ARP request 3 times. (It’s not important that the 1 second is exact. However, you should send a duplicate ARP request no earlier than 1 second and no later than 2 seconds after the last ARP request was sent.)
If you have sent an ARP request 3 times and no corresponding ARP reply has been received 1 second after sending the third request, then you should drop any packets that were queued waiting for a reply. However, before dropping each packet, you should generate a destination host unreachable message.
If the router wants to forward other IP packets to the same IP that your router is already trying to resolve, you should simply add those packets to the queue for the corresponding IP address.
When your router receives an ARP reply, it should add an entry to the ARP cache (populated from the sender hardware address and sender protocol address fields). It should also dequeue any waiting packets, fill in the correct destination MAC address (from the sender hardware address field on the ARP reply), and send those packets out the interface on which the ARP reply arrived.
You can verify you have implemented ARP requests correctly by excluding the -a arp_cache argument when you start your virtual router. If your unsure if your code for generating ARP replies is working correctly, then you should still specify the -a argument when you call the run_mininet.py script. If you can successfully ping between hosts, and running tcpdump -n -i hN-eth0 on hN (replace N with the number of the host you are pinging) shows some ARP request and reply packets, then you have successfully implemented ARP requests.
You should test that unsuccessful ARP requests are handled correctly by pinging a non-existent IP address in one of the subnets (e.g., ping 10.0.2.105, which is a non-existent IP in the subnet 10.0.2.0/24, from h1).
For the last part of the assignment, you will implement distance vector routing to build, and update, your router’s route table. Specifically, you will implement a simplified version of the Routing Information Protocol v2 (RIPv2). Details on the RIPv2 protocol are available from RFC2453 and Network Sorcery's RFC Sourcebook (if the Network Sorcery website is unavailable, you can access our mirror of the relevant pages). If you’re not sure how distance vector routing works, you should read Section 3.3.2 of the textbook or the lecture slides on distance vector routing.
Your router should only run RIP when a static route table is not provided (via the -r argument when running VirtualNetwork.jar). You should update Main.java and/or Router.java to appropriately start RIP.
When your router starts, you should add entries to the route table for the subnets that are directly reachable via the router’s interfaces. This subnets can be determined based on the IP address and netmask associated with each of the router’s interfaces. These entries should have no gateway.
The RIPv2 and RIPv2Entry classes in the net.floodlightcontroller.packet package define the format for RIPv2 packets. All RIPv2 packets should be encapsulated in UDP packets whose source and destination ports are 520 (defined as a constant RIP_PORT in the UDP class). When sending RIP requests and unsolicited RIP responses, the destination IP address should be the multicast IP address reserved for RIP (224.0.0.9) and the destination Ethernet address should be the broadcast MAC address (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF). When sending a RIP response for a specific RIP request, the destination IP address and destination Ethernet address should be the IP address and MAC address of the router interface that sent the request.
Your router should send a RIP request out all of the router’s interfaces when RIP is initialized. Your router should send an unsolicited RIP response out all of the router’s interfaces every 10 seconds thereafter.
You should update the handlePacket(...) method in the Router class to check if an arriving IP packet has a destination 224.0.0.9, a protocol type of UDP, and a UDP destination port of 520. Packets that match this criteria are RIP requests or responses. Your router should update its route table based on these packets, and send any necessary RIP response packets.
Your router should time out route table entries for which an update has not been received for more than 30 seconds. You should never remove route entries for the subnets that are directly reachable via the router’s interfaces .
Your implementation does not need to be a complete standards-compliant implementation of RIPv2. You should implement basic distance vector routing as discussed in the textbook and in-class, using RIPv2 packets as the format for messages exchanged between routers.
To test your router’s control plane, you will need a topology with more than one router: pair_rt.topo, triangle_rt.topo, triangle_with_sw.topo, or linear5.topo. You should not include the -r argument when starting your routers, since your router should construct its route table using RIP, rather than using a statically provided route table.
You must submit a single tar file of the src directory containing the Java source files for your virtual switch and router. Please submit the entire src directory; do not submit any other files or directories. To create the tar file, run the following command, replacing username1 and username2 with the CS username of each group member:
tar czvf username1_username2.tgz src
Upload the tar file to the Assignment 3 tab on Canvas . Please submit only one tar file per group.
This programming assignment borrows from the Simple Router assignment from Stanford CS144: An Introduction to Computer Networks and Rodrigo Fonseca’s IP Project from Brown University CSCI-1680: Computer Networks.
