Author: wirtz Date: Wed Jan 26 18:21:56 2011 New Revision: 2426 Log: roles definitions Modified: docs/protocol_spec/application.tex Modified: docs/protocol_spec/application.tex ============================================================================== --- docs/protocol_spec/application.tex Wed Jan 26 14:44:58 2011 (r2425) +++ docs/protocol_spec/application.tex Wed Jan 26 18:21:56 2011 (r2426) @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ \pagestyle{plain} \begin{center} -{\large PISA Protocol Specification }\\[1em] +{\large PISA Protocol Specification}\\[1em] \end{center} \section{Scenario Description} @@ -109,9 +109,23 @@ Once the client associates with a new access point, this access point needs to update its NAT mappings, establish tunnels to the services the clients talks to and, by sending a data packet or signaling packet, update the NAT mapping of the communication endpoint. -\item[Service relay] +\item[Service gateway] + +A service gateway allows for private networks and services to be included in the PISA network with only one gateway device that maps the PISA network traffic to traffic and endpoints in the private network. +Examples for usage scenarios are the inclusion of existing services in networks run by companies, the municipality or the university. +Traffic towards the service gateway is tunneled through HIP/IPsec and PISA and is "unwrapped" there. +Between the service gateway and the service (network) a private IP assignment scheme and routing is used, traffic characteristics depend on the internal network structure and design. +The gateway handles NAT mappings and tunnel establishment between services and communication endpoints in the PISA network. + +\item[Trustpoint/Relay] + +A trustpoint serves as the relay to the Internet for \emph{native clients}. +Traffic that is generated by a native client and is intended for the Internet rather than for an endpoint in the PISA network needs to go through this trustpoint. +To this end, a native client's default route (for destinations outside the PISA address space) points to the trustpoint, which is either his own access point at home or +a trustpoint of/for a number of users provided by a company or university. +At the trustpoint, this traffic is "unwrapped" and forwarded over the users own Internet connection to its original destination. + -\item[Trustpoint] \item[Legacy router] -- This is the pisa developer mailing list. Please also subscribe to the main pisa list at: //www.freelists.org/list/pisa