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Network Working Group                                        N. Brownlee
Request for Comments: 2723                    The University of Auckland
Category: Informational                                     October 1999


            SRL: A Language for Describing Traffic Flows and
                   Specifying Actions for Flow Groups

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document describes a language for specifying rulesets, i.e.
   configuration files which may be loaded into a traffic flow meter so
   as to specify which traffic flows are measured by the meter, and the
   information it will store for each flow.

Table of Contents

   1  Purpose and Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    2
      1.1 RTFM Meters and Traffic Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    2
      1.2 SRL Overview  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    3
   2  SRL Language Description  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    4
      2.1 Define Directive  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    4
      2.2 Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    5
      2.3 Declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    5
   3  Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    5
      3.1 IF_statement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    6
          3.1.1 expression  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    6
          3.1.2 term  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    6
          3.1.3 factor  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    6
          3.1.4 operand_list  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    6
          3.1.5 operand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    6
          3.1.6 Test Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    7
          3.1.7 Action Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    8
          3.1.8 ELSE Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    8
      3.2 Compound_statement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    8
      3.3 Imperative_statement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    9
          3.3.1 SAVE Statement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    9
          3.3.2 COUNT Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   10



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          3.3.3 EXIT Statement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   10
          3.3.4 IGNORE Statement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   10
          3.3.5 NOMATCH Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   10
          3.3.6 STORE Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   11
          3.3.7 RETURN Statement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   11
      3.4 Subroutine_declaration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   11
      3.5 CALL_statement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   12
   4  Example Programs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   13
      4.1 Classify IP Port Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   13
      4.2 Classify Traffic into Groups of Networks  . . . . . . . .   14
   5  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   15
   6  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   15
   7  APPENDICES  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   16
      7.1 Appendix A: SRL Syntax in BNF . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   16
      7.2 Appendix B: Syntax for Values and Masks . . . . . . . . .   18
      7.3 Appendix C: RTFM Attribute Information  . . . . . . . . .   19
   8  Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   20
   9  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   20
   10 Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   21
   11 Full Copyright Statement  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   22

1  Purpose and Scope

   A ruleset for an RTFM Meter is a sequence of instructions to be
   executed by the meter's Pattern Matching Engine (PME).  The form of
   these instructions is described in detail in the 'RTFM Architecture'
   and 'RTFM Meter MIB' documents [RTFM-ARC, RTFM-MIB], but most users -
   at least initially - find them confusing and difficult to write,
   mainly because the effect of each instruction is strongly dependent
   on the state of the meter's Packet Matching Engine at the moment of
   its execution.

   SRL (the Simple Ruleset Language) is a procedural language for
   creating RTFM rulesets.  It has been designed to be simple for people
   to understand, using statements which help to clarify the execution
   context in which they operate.  SRL programs will be compiled into
   rulesets which can then be downloaded to RTFM meters.

   An SRL compiler is available as part of NeTraMet (a free-software
   implementation of the RTFM meter and manager), version 4.2
   [NETRAMET].

1.1  RTFM Meters and Traffic Flows

   The RTFM Architecture [RTFM-ARC] defines a set of 'attributes' which
   apply to network traffic.  Among the attributes are 'address
   attributes,' such as PeerType, PeerAddress, TransType and
   TransAddress, which have meaning for many protocols, e.g. for IPv4



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   traffic (PeerType == 1) PeerAddress is an IP address, TransType is
   TCP(6), UDP(17), ICMP(1), etc., and TransAddress is usually an IP
   port number.

   An 'RTFM Traffic Flow' is simply a stream of packets observed by a
   meter as they pass across a network between two end points (or
   to/from a single end point).  Each 'end point' of a flow is specified
   by the set of values of its address attributes.

   An 'RTFM Meter' is a measuring device - e.g. a program running on a
   Unix or PC host - which observes passing packets and builds 'Flow
   Data Records' for the flows of interest.

   RTFM traffic flows have another important property - they are bi-
   directional.  This means that each flow data record in the meter has
   two sets of counters, one for packets travelling from source to
   destination, the other for returning packets.  Within the RTFM
   architecture such counters appear as further attributes of the flow.

   An RTFM meter must be configured by the user, which means creating a
   'Ruleset' so as to specify which flows are to be measured, and how
   much information (i.e. which attributes) should be stored for each of
   them.  A ruleset is effectively a program for a minimal virtual
   machine, the 'Packet Matching Engine (PME),' which is described in
   detail in [RTFM-ARC]. An RTFM meter may run multiple rule sets, with
   every passing packet being processed by each of the rulesets.  The
   rule 'actions' in this document are described as though only a single
   ruleset were running.

   In the past creating a ruleset has meant writing machine code for the
   PME, which has proved rather difficult to do.  SRL provides a high-
   level language which should enable users to create effective rulesets
   without having to understand the details of the PME.

   The language may be useful in other applications, being suitable for
   any application area which involves selecting traffic flows from a
   stream of packets.

1.2  SRL Overview

   An SRL program is executed from the beginning for each new packet
   arriving at the meter.  It has two essential goals.

   (a) Decide whether the current packet is part of a flow which is of
       interest and, if necessary, determine its direction (i.e. decide
       which of its end-points is considered to be its source).  Other
       packets will be ignored.




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   (b) SAVE whatever information is required to identify the flow and
       accumulate (COUNT) quantitative information for that flow.

   At execution, the meter's Packet Matching Engine (PME) begins by
   using source and destination attributes as they appear 'on the wire.'
   If the attributes do not match those of a flow to be recorded, the
   PME will normally execute the program again, this time with the
   source and destination addresses interchanged.  Because of this bi-
   directional matching, an RTFM meter is able to build up tables of
   flows with two sets of counters - one for forward packets, the other
   for backward packets.  The programmer can, if required, suppress the
   reverse-direction matching and assign 'forward' and 'backward'
   directions which conform to the conventions of the external context.

   Goal (a) is achieved using IF statements which perform comparisons on
   information from the packet or from SRL variables.  Goal (b) is
   achieved using one or more SAVE statements to store the flow's
   identification attributes; a COUNT statement then increments the
   statistical data accumulating for it.

2  SRL Language Description

   The SRL language is explained below using 'railway diagrams' to
   describe the syntax.  Flow through a diagram is from left to right.
   The only exception to this is that lines carrying a left arrow may
   only be traversed right to left.  In the diagrams, keywords are
   written in capital letters; in practice an SRL compiler must be
   insensitive to case.  Lower-case identifiers are explained in the
   text, or they refer to another diagram.

   The tokens of an SRL program obey the following rules:

   -  Comments may appear on any line of an SRL program, following a #
   -  White space is used to separate tokens
   -  Semicolon is used as the terminator for most statements
   -  Identifiers (e.g. for defines and labels) must start with a letter
   -  Identifiers may contain letters, digits and underscores
   -  The case of letters is not significant
   -  Reserved words (shown in upper case in this document) may not be
      used as identifiers

2.1  Define Directive

   --- DEFINE -- defname ---- = ---- defined_text ------------------ ;

   Simple parameterless defines are supported via the syntax above.  The
   define name, defname, is an identifier.  The defined text starts
   after the equal sign, and continues up to (but not including) the



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   closing semicolon.  If a semicolon is required within the defined
   text it must be preceded by a backslash, i.e. \; in an SRL define
   produces ; in the text.

   Wherever defname appears elsewhere in the program, it will be
   replaced by the defined text.

   For example,

   DEFINE ftp = (20, 21);  # Well-known Port numbers from [ASG-NBR]
   DEFINE telnet = 23;
   DEFINE www = 80;

2.2  Program

   ------------+-------+-------- Statement -------+-------+-----------
               |       |                          |       |
               |       +------- Declaration ------+       |
               |                                          |
               +---------------------<--------------------+

   An SRL program is a sequence of statements or declarations.  It does
   not have any special enclosing symbols.  Statements and declarations
   terminate with a semicolon, except for compound statements, which
   terminate with a right brace.

2.3  Declaration

   ---------------------- Subroutine_declaration ---------------------

   SRL's only explicit declaration is the subroutine declaration.  Other
   implicit declarations are labels (declared where they appear in front
   of a statement) and subroutine parameters (declared in the subroutine
   header).

3  Statement

   ----------------+---- IF_statement ----------------+---------------
                   |                                  |
                   +---- Compound_statement ----------+
                   |                                  |
                   +---- Imperative_statement --------+
                   |                                  |
                   +---- CALL_statement --------------+

   An SRL program is a sequence of SRL statements.  There are four kinds
   of statements, as follows.




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3.1  IF_statement

               Test Part                Action Part
             .............            ...............

   --- IF --- expression ---+------------+---- Statement ----+--->
                            |            |                   |
                            +-- SAVE , --+                   |
                            |                                |
                            +-- SAVE ; ----------------------+

          >-----------+-----------------------------+-----------------
                      |                             |
                      +-----ELSE --- Statement -----+

3.1.1  expression

   -------- term --------+------------------------+-------------------
                         |                        |
                         +--<-- term ----- || ----+    logical OR

3.1.2  term

   ------- factor -------+------------------------+-------------------
                         |                        |
                         +--<-- factor --- && ----+    logical AND

3.1.3  factor

   ------------+-------- attrib  ==  operand_list --------+-----------
               |                                          |
               +------------ ( expression ) --------------+

3.1.4  operand_list

   ----------+------------------ operand -----------------+-----------
             |                                            |
             +-- ( operand ---+-------------------+-- ) --+
                              |                   |
                              +-<-- operand  , ---+

3.1.5  operand

   ------------- value ---------+----------------------+--------------
                                |                      |
                                +------- / width ------+
                                |                      |
                                +------- & mask -------+



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3.1.6  Test Part

   The IF statement evaluates a logical expression.  If the expression
   value is TRUE, the action indicated in the 'Action Part' of the
   diagram is executed.  If the value is FALSE and the IF has an ELSE
   clause, that ELSE clause is executed (see below).

   The simplest form of expression is a test for equality (== operator);
   in this an RTFM attribute value (from the packet or from an SRL
   variable) is ANDed with a mask and compared with a value.  A list of
   RTFM attributes is given in Appendix C. More complicated expressions
   may be built up using parentheses and the && (logical AND) and ||
   (logical OR) operators.

   Operand values may be specified as dotted decimal, hexadecimal or as
   a character constant (enclosed in apostrophes).  The syntax for
   operand values is given in Appendix B.

   Masks may be specified as numbers,
           dotted decimal  e.g. &255.255
        or hexadecimal     e.g. &FF-FF
   or as a width in bits   e.g. /16

   If a mask is not specified, an all-ones mask is used.

   In SRL a value is always combined with a mask; this combination is
   referred to as an operand.  For example, if we were interested in
   flows originating from IP network 130.216, we might write:

      IF SourcePeerAddress == 130.216.0.0 & 255.255.0.0  SAVE;

   or equivalently

      IF SourcePeerAddress == 130.216/16  SAVE;

   A list of values enclosed in parentheses may also be specified; the
   test succeeds if the masked attribute equals any of the values in the
   list.  For example:

      IF SourcePeerAddress == ( 130.216.7/24, 130.216.34/24 ) SAVE;

   As this last example indicates, values are right-padded with zeroes,
   i.e. the given numbers specify the leading bytes of masks and values.

   The operand values and masks used in an IF statement must be
   consistent with the attribute being tested.  For example, a four-byte
   value is acceptable as a peer address, but would not be accepted as a
   transport address (which may not be longer than two bytes).



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3.1.7  Action Part

   A SAVE action (i.e. SAVE , or SAVE ;) saves attribute(s), mask(s) and
   value(s) as given in the statement.  If the IF expression tests more
   than one attribute, the masks and values are saved for all the
   matched attributes.  For each value_list in the statement the value
   saved is the one which the packet actually matched.  See below for
   further description of SAVE statements.

   Other actions are described in detail under "Imperative statements"
   below.  Note that the RETURN action is valid only within subroutines.

3.1.8  ELSE Clause