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- IEN # 9 Radia Perlman
- Supercedes: None BBN
- Replaces: None 26 August 1977
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- Section: 2.2.2.5
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- The Host Simp Protocol Module
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- A rough design specification
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- Radia Perlman
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- HOSIMP, the host SIMP protocol module, is basically a
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- multiplexor, allowing fake hosts and a gateway to all talk to the
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- same SIMP. In addition it can, if desired, do some functions that
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- otherwise would have to be duplicated by all processes using it,
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- such as recognizing a restart condition or resending packets
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- which were refused.
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- A fake host will communicate with HOSIMP by first
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- executing an EMT which HOSIMP will define, passing parameters
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- identifying the fake host, and possibly some flags telling HOSIMP
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- how to treat that host, and HOSIMP will return IPP numbers over
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- which the host can send and receive data to and from HOSIMP. A
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- read on the IPP from HOSIMP to the fake host will complete when
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- the SIMP sends data addressed to that host, either a packet or
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- information about one of the host's previous packets. A packet
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- written on the IPP port from the fake host to HOSIMP will be sent
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- on to the SIMP, after HOSIMP assigns the next sequential host
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- reference number in place of the 7 bit reference number assigned
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- by the host. When HOSIMP receives an accepted message, HOSIMP
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- will translate the host reference number into the 7 bit number
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- originally assigned by the host. Other than that HOSIMP could
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- conceivably just send everything through to the host.
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- The Gateway/HOSIMP interface
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- HOSIMP receives and queues packets from the gateway and
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- sends them on to the SIMP after substituting the next sequential
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- host reference number for the number supplied by the gateway.
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- Refused packets are placed back in the queue of packets to be
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- sent, whereas accepted packets are discarded. HOSIMP does not
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- send any control information back to the gateway. The gateway is
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- not concerned with restarts, it does not use any of the options
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- that return control information (like SENT messages), and HOSIMP
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- drops any packet for which it receives any REFUSED message (other
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- than resources busy).
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- Fake Host/HOSIMP interface--option 1
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- In this option HOSIMP behaves as it does with the
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- gateway, but it passes all control messages (except for
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- REFUSED--resources busy) back to the fake host.
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- Fake Host/HOSIMP interface--option 2
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- In this option HOSIMP does not requeue refused
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- messages. HOSIMP, except for substituting a different host
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- reference number, merely passes packets and control information
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- through. The fake host maintains its own queue of packets.
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- However, the packet it sends to HOSIMP does get queued, because
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- it must compete with other traffic sources and the packets HOSIMP
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- has queued for retransmission.
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- The fake host chooses which option it wants by passing
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- a parameter in the original EMT it executes.
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- Queuing algorithm
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- The method of ordering queued packets has yet to be
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- resolved. One method is giving gateway traffic the highest
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- priority. Another is to send packets in the order they are
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- received. Another would be to simulate as closely as possible the
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- algorithm the SIMP uses for ordering packets.
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