rfc-5498

IANA Allocations for Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) Protocols

I. Chakeres

date2009-03 streamIETF areartg wgmanet statusPROPOSED STANDARD pages5 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5498 doi10.17487/RFC5498 errataview

This document enumerates several common IANA allocations for use by Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) protocols. The following well-known numbers are required: a UDP port number, an IP protocol number, and a link-local multicast group address. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

Extracted elements (11)

design-rationale §1

A single set of well-known IANA allocations (UDP port, IP protocol number, link-local multicast addresses) is shared across multiple MANET protocols that conform to RFC 5444, which provides a common packet/message format to disambiguate protocol usage of these shared identifiers.

routing, registry

normative-requirement §1 MUST

All interoperable protocols running on the well-known IANA allocations defined in this document MUST conform to RFC 5444, which provides a common format enabling multiple protocols to share these allocations unambiguously.

routing, registry

normative-requirement §7 MUST

The security issues associated with possibly operating multiple cooperating protocols using the same IANA assignments (e.g., the same UDP port) MUST be addressed in each protocol's own specification.

security, routing, registry

protocol-element §4

MANET routers use IP protocol number 138 ('manet') to send and receive MANET routing protocol packets.

routing, ip

protocol-element §5

MANET routers use link-local multicast addresses to send and receive routing protocol packets: 224.0.0.109 for IPv4 and FF02:0:0:0:0:0:0:6D for IPv6, both named 'LL-MANET-Routers'.

routing, multicast, ip

protocol-element §3

MANET routers use the well-known UDP port 269 ('manet') to send and receive MANET routing protocol packets.

routing, udp

registry §4

IANA has assigned IP protocol number 138 with the keyword 'manet' in the PROTOCOL NUMBERS registry for use by MANET routing protocol packets.

registry, routing, ip

registry §5

IANA has assigned the IPv4 link-local multicast address 224.0.0.109 as 'LL-MANET-Routers' in the Local Network Control Block (224.0.0/24) for MANET routers to send and receive routing protocol packets.

registry, routing, multicast, ip

registry §5

IANA has assigned the IPv6 link-local scope multicast address FF02:0:0:0:0:0:0:6D as 'LL-MANET-Routers' in the Fixed Scope Multicast Addresses Link-Local Scope registry for MANET routers.

registry, routing, multicast, ip, v6ops

registry §3

IANA has assigned UDP port 269 with the keyword 'manet' in the WELL KNOWN PORT NUMBERS registry for use by MANET protocols conforming to RFC 5444.

registry, routing, udp

security-consideration §7

This document specifies only well-known numbers and does not define the protocols that carry information across the network; each protocol using these allocations may have its own security issues that are not affected by the IANA assignments themselves.

security, routing