Hi,
----- On Feb 20, 2017, at 5:15 PM, laforge laforge@gnumonks.org wrote:
Hi Andreas,
this is not really about the documentation, but it still makes sense to discuss here as the issue is best described:
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 04:36:17PM +0100, Andreas Schultz wrote:
+Local GTP-U entity and tunnel identification +--------------------------------------------
+GTP-U uses UDP for transporting PDU's. The receiving UDP port is 2152 for +GTPv1-U and 3386 for GTPv0-U.
+There is only one GTP-U entity (and therefor SGSN/GGSN/S-GW/PDN-GW instance) +per IP address. Tunnel Endpoint Identifier (TEID) are unique per GTP-U entity.
+A specific tunnel is only defined by the destination entity. Since the +destination port is constant, only the destination IP and TEID define +a tunnel. The source IP and Port have no meaning for the tunnel.
Are you absolutely sure about this?
Yes. It took me a while to realize this. The crux is this statement in TS 29.060, Section 7.3.1:
The SGSN shall include an SGSN Address for control plane and an SGSN address for user traffic, which may differ from that provided by the underlying network service (e.g. IP). The GGSN shall store these SGSN Addresses and use them when sending control plane on this GTP tunnel or G-PDUs to the SGSN for the MS.
IMHO, this implies that the source IP of GTP-U and GTP-C frames does not have to match the GSN address specified by a Create PDP Context Request.
For GTPv2-C there is no such clear statement. However, GTPv2-C makes it clear that a TEID describes the local tunnel ENDPOINT, there nothing that defines the tunnel *source* (the same is true for GTPv1-C, except that is not so explicit).
TS 29.274, Section 4.2.2.1, Initial Messages:
During the establishment of the GTP tunnel, the GTPv2 entity selects and communicates to the peer GTPv2 entity the IP Destination Address at which it expects to receive subsequent control plane Initial messages related to that GTP tunnel via .....
TS 23.401, Annex D, Sect. D.3.3. makes is clear beyond doubt that we have to accept packet for a valid TEID from virtually any IP. If you look at figure D.3.3-1, step 16, you will see that only the new SGSN is contacting the P-GW. There is no prior advertisement of the change from the old SGSN.
Step 16 would therefor not work if we limited the tunnel to a specific source IP.
The same applies to figure D.3.4-1, step 18.
+[3GPP TS 29.281] Section 4.3.0 defines this so:
+> The TEID in the GTP-U header is used to de-multiplex traffic incoming from +> remote tunnel endpoints so that it is delivered to the User plane entities +> in a way that allows multiplexing of different users, different packet +> protocols and different QoS levels. Therefore no two remote GTP-U endpoints +> shall send traffic to a GTP-U protocol entity using the same TEID value except +> for data forwarding as part of mobility procedures.
+The definition above only defines that two remote GTP-U endpoints *should not* +send to the same TEID, it *does not* forbid or exclude such a scenario. In +fact, the mentioned mobility procedures make it necessary that the GTP-U entity +accepts traffic for TEID's from multiple or unknown peers.
I so far always assumed that you use GTP-C "MODIFY PDP CONTEXT" in case of such mobility situations, i.e. the control plane explicitly notifies the GTP-U entity of a change in the SGSN/S-GW address.
Yes, it does. But that notification only applies to the tunnel endpoint at the SGSN/S-GW in the GGSN/P-GW to SGSN/S-GW direction.
At least for 3G this seems to be the case, and my assumption appears to be confirmed with sources such as e.g. page 15 of http://www.nwadmin.de/presentation_mobility_manag ement_in_UMTS.pdf
Also, for LTE, it seems that there's a GTPv2-C "Modify Bearer Request/Response" involved in relocation from one S-GW to another S-GW: http://www.lteandbeyond.com/2012/03/x2-based-handover-with-sgw-relocation.ht...
I think this affirms my argument, Step 3a is sending GTP packets from a source IP that is know to the P-GW before. The fact that this is only used for GTP-C does IMHO not mean that the same should not apply to GTP-U.
Step 3. The target Serving GW assigns addresses and TEIDs (one per bearer) for downlink traffic from the PDN GW. The Serving GW allocates DL TEIDs on S5/S8 even for non-accepted bearers. It sends a Modify Bearer Request (Serving GW addresses for user plane and TEID(s)) message per PDN connection to the PDN GW(s). The SGW also includes User Location Information IE and/or UE Time Zone IE if it is present in step 2. The PDN GW updates its context field and returns a Modify Bearer Response (Charging Id, MSISDN, etc.) message to the Serving GW. The MSISDN is included if the PDN GW has it stored in its UE context. The PDN GW starts sending downlink packets to the target GW using the newly received address and TEIDs. These downlink packets will use the new downlink path via the target Serving GW to the target eNodeB. The Serving GW shall allocate TEIDs for the failed bearers and inform to the MME.
Section 5.5.1.1.3 of TS 23.401 agrees with the GTPv2C signalling during relocation, AFAICT.
Again, there is nothing in there that defines a IP *source*, a F-TEID is a tunnel ENDPOINT id not a tunnel SOURCE id.
+Therefor the receiving side only identifies tunnels based on TEID's, not based +on the source IP.
I'm wondering if this really is neccesary. Do you have actual protocol traces, specs or any other literature confirming this?
So far I have only seen symmetric GTP-U tunnels. However I believe there is nothing that would stop a SGSN/S-GW from switching GPT-U tunnel source transparently across IP's (for example a system with multiple shelves might use different shelve in DL/UL direction and have therefore multiple IP's.
I find it somewhat surprising, given how much this opens the door for arbitrary spoofing from anyone (with access to the respective private network such as GRX).
Yes it is, but it is mandated without a doubt by the specification for GTP-C. For the reasons outline before, I think that this applies to GTP-U as well.
So in which situations specifically will thre be a S-GW side Address change without associated GTP-C signaling informing the P-GW about the new S-GW side Address + TEID?
As above, multi shelve systems with asymmetric UL/DL path.
Regards, Andreas
Regards, Harald --
- Harald Welte laforge@gnumonks.org http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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