Functional Requirements for Broadband Residential Gateway Devices

Guidelines and profiles for development and RFPs of broadband gateways and Wi-Fi routers

TR-124 Issue 8

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Cover Page | Executive Summary | 1 Purpose and Scope | 2 References and Terminology | 3 Technical Report Impact | 4 Residential Gateway Requirements | 4.1 GEN – General Device Requirements | 4.2 WAN – Wide Area Networking | 4.3 LAN – Local Area Networking | 4.4 MGMT – Management & Diagnostics | 4.5 IF – Interface Modules | 4.6 SEC – Security | 4.7 RGSMART – Smart Residential Gateway | 4.8 REGIONAL – Regional Annexes | 4.9 5G-WWC – General 5G WWC | Annex A: IPv6 Flow Diagrams | Appendix I: Application Level Gateway (ALG) and Port Forwarding List | Appendix II: Example Queuing for an RG | Appendix III: Routed Architecture – Examples of Potential Configurations | Appendix IV: Bridged Architecture – Examples of Potential Configurations | Appendix V: Sealing Current References | Appendix VI: Product Profile Template | Footnotes

Cover Page
1 Purpose and Scope

1.1 Purpose
1.2 Scope

2 References and Terminology

2.1 Conventions
2.2 References
2.3 Definitions
2.4 Abbreviations

3 Technical Report Impact

3.1 Energy Efficiency
3.2 IPv6
3.3 Security
3.4 Privacy

4 Residential Gateway Requirements

4.1 GEN – General Device Requirements

4.1.1 GEN.DESIGN – Design
4.1.2 GEN.OPS – Device Operation
4.1.3 GEN.NET – Networking Protocols
4.1.4 GEN.NETv6 – IPv6 Networking Protocols

4.2 WAN – Wide Area Networking

4.2.1 WAN.ATM – WAN.ATM
4.2.2 WAN.CONNECT – Connection Establishment
4.2.3 WAN.ETHOAM – Ethernet OAM
4.2.4 WAN.BRIDGE – Bridging
4.2.5 WAN.DHCPC – DHCP Client (DHCPv4)
4.2.6 WAN.DHCPv4 – DHCP Client (DHCPv4)
4.2.7 WAN.DHCPv6 – DHCP Client (DHCPv6)
4.2.8 WAN.IPv6 – IPv6 WAN Connection
4.2.9 WAN.TRANS – Transitional IPv6 WAN Connection
4.2.10 WAN.PPP – PPP Client
4.2.11 WAN.dot1x – 802.1X Client
4.2.12 WAN.DoS – Denial of Service Prevention
4.2.13 WAN.QoS – Quality of Service
4.2.14 WAN.IPsecClient – IPsec VPN peer to peer
4.2.15 WAN.L2tpClient – L2tp VPN Remote Access
4.2.16 WAN.PCP – Port Control Protocol
4.2.17 WAN.TUN – WAN Tunnel

4.3 LAN – Local Area Networking

4.3.1 LAN.GEN – General LAN Protocols
4.3.2 LAN.ADDRESS – Private IPv4 Addressing
4.3.3 LAN.ADDRESSv6 – LAN.ADDRESSv6- LAN IPv6 Addressing
4.3.4 LAN.DHCPS – DHCPv4 Server
4.3.5 LAN.DHCPv6S – DHCPv6 Server
4.3.6 LAN.DNS – Naming Services (IPv4 and general requirements)
4.3.7 LAN.DNSv6 – LAN.DNSv6- Naming Services (IPv6)
4.3.8 LAN.NAT – LAN.NAT- NAT/NAPT
4.3.9 LAN.PFWD – Port Forwarding (IPv4)
4.3.10 LAN.PFWDv6 – LAN.PFWDv6- Port Forwarding (IPv6)
4.3.11 LAN.ALG – ALG Functions (IPv4)
4.3.12 LAN.FWD – Connection Forwarding
4.3.13 LAN.IGMP – IGMP
4.3.14 LAN.MLD – Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)
4.3.15 LAN.FW – Firewall (Basic)
4.3.16 LAN.FILTER – Filtering
4.3.17 LAN.DIAGNOSTICS – Automated User Diagnostics
4.3.18 LAN.CAPTIVE – Captive Portal with Web Redirection
4.3.19 LAN.QoS – LAN quality of service requirements
4.3.20 LAN.SIPserver – SIP Server
4.3.21 LAN.SIPmixer – SIP Mixer
4.3.22 LAN.Interworking – 3GPP Interworking

4.4 MGMT – Management & Diagnostics

4.4.1 MGMT.GEN – General
4.4.2 MGMT.UPnP – UPnP
4.4.3 MGMT.LOCAL – Local Management
4.4.4 MGMT.REMOTE – Remote Management
4.4.5 MGMT.NTP – Network Time Client
4.4.6 MGMT.TWAMP – Two Way Active Measurement Protocol
4.4.7 MGMT.DATCOL – Data collection Requirements

4.5 IF – Interface Modules

4.5.1 IF.WAN – WAN Interface Modules
4.5.2 IF.LAN – LAN Interface Modules

4.6 SEC – Security

4.6.1 SEC.GEN – General security
4.6.2 SEC.USERINTERFACE – User Interface security
4.6.3 SEC.FIRMWARE – Firmware integrity and security

4.7 RGSMART – Smart Residential Gateway

4.7.1 RGSMART.OPLAT – Open platform Support

4.8 REGIONAL – Regional Annexes

4.8.1 REGIONAL.NA – North American

4.9 5G-WWC – General 5G WWC

4.9.1 5G-WWC.Identifiers – 5G WWC Identifiers
4.9.2 5G-WWC.FWA – 5G WWC Fixed Wireless Access
4.9.3 5G-WWC.WAN – 5G WWC Wide Area Network
4.9.4 5G-WWC.LAN – 5G WWC LAN

Annex A: IPv6 Flow Diagrams

A.1 WAN IPv6 Automated Connection Flow
A.2 Receive Router Advertisement Subroutine Flow

Appendix I: Application Level Gateway (ALG) and Port Forwarding List
Appendix II: Example Queuing for an RG
Appendix III: Routed Architecture – Examples of Potential Configurations

III.1 Introduction
III.2 Basic RG as Router Initiating One or More PPPoE Sessions

III.2.1 No WAN Connection
III.2.2 Router Sets Up PPPoE to an ISP
III.2.3 PC3 Sets Up Its Own PPPoE Session
III.2.4 Router Sets Up a Second PPPoE Session

III.3 “RFC 2684 Bridged” Mode

III.3.1 Router in IP-routed “RFC 2684 Bridged” Mode, Embedded DHCP Server On
III.3.2 Router in Bridged Mode, Embedded DHCP Server On
III.3.3 Router in Bridged Mode, Embedded DHCP Server Off

III.4 Single PC Mode of Operation
III.5 Simultaneous IP and PPPoE WAN Sessions

III.5.1 Router in IP-routed “2684 Bridged” Mode, Embedded DHCP Server On
III.5.2 Router Sets Up IP as a Second Session

III.6 Router Embedded DHCP Server Gives Out Public IP Addresses (from use of IPCP extension)

Appendix IV: Bridged Architecture – Examples of Potential Configurations

IV.1 Introduction
IV.2 Managed Bridge

IV.2.1 Local Management

IV.3 Unmanaged Bridge

IV.3.1 Local Management

Appendix V: Sealing Current References
Appendix VI: Product Profile Template

VI.1 Introduction
VI.2 Instructions for Completing a Product Profile Template
VI.3 Product Profile Template

Footnotes

Footnotes

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Cover Page | Executive Summary | 1 Purpose and Scope | 2 References and Terminology | 3 Technical Report Impact | 4 Residential Gateway Requirements | 4.1 GEN – General Device Requirements | 4.2 WAN – Wide Area Networking | 4.3 LAN – Local Area Networking | 4.4 MGMT – Management & Diagnostics | 4.5 IF – Interface Modules | 4.6 SEC – Security | 4.7 RGSMART – Smart Residential Gateway | 4.8 REGIONAL – Regional Annexes | 4.9 5G-WWC – General 5G WWC | Annex A: IPv6 Flow Diagrams | Appendix I: Application Level Gateway (ALG) and Port Forwarding List | Appendix II: Example Queuing for an RG | Appendix III: Routed Architecture – Examples of Potential Configurations | Appendix IV: Bridged Architecture – Examples of Potential Configurations | Appendix V: Sealing Current References | Appendix VI: Product Profile Template | Footnotes

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