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authorFrancois Clad <fclad@cisco.com>2018-03-13 19:03:44 +0100
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## Overview
-The "Endpoint to SR-unaware appliance via dynamic proxy" (End.AD) is a two-parts
-proxy function for processing SRv6 encapsulated traffic on behalf of an
-SR-unaware appliance. The first part decapsulates the incoming traffic and sends
-it towards an appliance on a specific interface, while the second
-re-encapsulates the traffic coming back from the appliance.
-
-In this scenario, there are no restrictions on the operations that can be
-performed by the appliance on the stream of packets. It may operate at all
-protocol layers, terminate transport layer connections, generate new packets and
-initiate transport layer connections. This function may also be used to
-integrate an IPv4-only appliance into an SRv6 policy.
-
-The End.AD function relies on a local caching mechanism to learn and
-re-encapsulate the traffic with the same headers that were removed.
-This cache is used to store the IPv6 header and its
-extension headers while the appliance processes the inner packet. In the
-following, we refer to an entry in this cache as C(type,iface), where type is
-either IPv4 or IPv6 and iface is the receiving interface on the SRv6 proxy
-(IFACE-IN).
+The dynamic proxy is an improvement over the static proxy (@ref srv6_as_plugin_doc)
+that dynamically learns the SR information before removing it from the incoming
+traffic. The same information can then be re-attached to the traffic returning
+from the SF. As opposed to the static SR proxy, no CACHE information needs to be
+configured. Instead, the dynamic SR proxy relies on a local caching mechanism on
+the node instantiating this segment. Therefore, a dynamic proxy segment cannot
+be the last segment in an SR SC policy. A different SR behavior should thus be
+used if the SF is meant to be the final destination of an SR SC policy.
+
+Upon receiving a packet whose active segment matches a dynamic SR proxy
+function, the proxy node pops the top MPLS label or applies the SRv6 End
+behavior, then compares the updated SR information with the cache entry for the
+current segment. If the cache is empty or different, it is updated with the new
+SR information. The SR information is then removed and the inner packet is sent
+towards the SF.
+
+The cache entry is not mapped to any particular packet, but instead to an SR SC
+policy identified by the receiving interface (IFACE-IN). Any non-link-local IP
+packet or non-local Ethernet frame received on that interface will be
+re-encapsulated with the cached headers as described in @ref srv6_as_plugin_doc. The
+SF may thus drop, modify or generate new packets without affecting the proxy.
+
+For more information, please see
+[draft-xuclad-spring-sr-service-chaining](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-xuclad-spring-sr-service-chaining/).
+
+## CLI configuration
+
+The following command instantiates a new End.AD segment that sends the inner
+packets on interface `IFACE-OUT` towards an appliance at address `S-ADDR` and
+restores the encapsulation headers of the packets coming back on interface
+`IFACE-IN`.
+
+```
+sr localsid address SID behavior end.ad nh S-ADDR oif IFACE-OUT iif IFACE-IN
+```
+
+For example, the below command configures the SID `1::A1` with an End.AD
+function for sending traffic on interface `GigabitEthernet0/8/0` to the
+appliance at address `A1::`, and receiving it back on interface
+`GigabitEthernet0/9/0`.
+
+```
+sr localsid address 1::A1 behavior end.ad nh A1:: oif GigabitEthernet0/8/0 iif GigabitEthernet0/9/0
+```
+
+## Pseudocode
+
+The dynamic proxy SRv6 pseudocode is obtained by inserting the following
+instructions between lines 1 and 2 of the static proxy SRv6 pseudocode.
+
+```
+IF NH=SRH & SL > 0 THEN
+ Decrement SL and update the IPv6 DA with SRH[SL]
+ IF C(IFACE-IN) different from IPv6 encaps THEN ;; Ref1
+ Copy the IPv6 encaps into C(IFACE-IN) ;; Ref2
+ELSE
+ Drop the packet
+```
+
+**Ref1:** "IPv6 encaps" represents the IPv6 header and any attached extension
+header.
+
+**Ref2:** C(IFACE-IN) represents the cache entry associated to the dynamic SR proxy
+segment. It is identified with IFACE-IN in order to efficiently retrieve the
+right SR information when a packet arrives on this interface.
+
+In addition, the inbound policy should check that C(IFACE-IN) has been defined
+before attempting to restore the IPv6 encapsulation, and drop the packet
+otherwise.