Release Notes for NBAR2 Protocol Pack 10.0.0

Overview

NBAR2 Protocol Pack 10.0.0 contains the Enhanced Web Classification feature that supports multi-transactions export of URLs. For more information on this feature, see Classifying Network Traffic Using NBAR.

Supported Platforms

Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR) Protocol Pack 10.0.0 is supported on Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers.

New Protocols in NBAR2 Protocol Pack 10.0.0

The following protocols are added to NBAR2 Protocol Pack 10.0.0:

Common Name

Syntax Name

Description

AliWangwang

aliwangwang

AliWangwang is a free instant messenger for Alibaba.com and Taobao.com members. It allows text, voice, and video chat between buyers and sellers who use Alibaba web e-commerce services. The English version of AliWangwang is called TradeManager.

Consumer Cloud Storage

consumer-cloud-storage

The Consumer Cloud Storage protocol gathers the leading websites on the internet that offer cloud storage services, mainly for media consumers, such as PutLocker, Rapidshare, box, and more.

FC2

Fc2

FC2 is a popular Japanese blogging host and the third most popular video hosting service in Japan. Among its other services are also websites tools such as ad-free hosting, analyzer, counters, and more.

Kakao-Talk

kakao-talk

Kakao-Talk is a free mobile messenger application for smartphones with free multimedia messaging and free call features. Kakao-Talk was released by Kakao corporation which is based in Seoul, South Korea. It is available on most common mobile operating systems including IOS, Android, and also available on PC by syncing between the PC and the mobile device.

Kakao-Services

kakao-services

kakao-services is a set of tools and APIs used by Kakao applications such as kakao story, kakao music, kakao website, and so on.

Perfect Dark

perfect-dark

Perfect-Dark is a P2P application being developed in Japan by an anonymous author. It was developed with the intention for it to be the successor to both Winny and Share. The network function has a huge distributed disk called 'Unity' and the minimum requirement is 40GB disk space.

QQ-Games

qq-games

QQ Games is a platform developed by Tencent America LLC which lets users play hundreds of casual multiplayer games with other people through the web. A Chinese version is available as well as an English version.

Updated Protocols in NBAR2 Protocol Pack 10.0.0

The following protocols are updated in NBAR2 Protocol Pack 10.0.0:

Protocol

Updates

airplay

Updated signatures.

cisco-ip-camera

Updated signatures.

edonkey

Updated signatures.

espn-video

Updated signatures.

qq-im

Updated signatures.

real-media

Updated signatures.

rtsp

Updated signatures.

Caveats in NBAR2 Protocol Pack 10.0.0


Note

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Resolved Caveats in NBAR2 Protocol Pack 10.0.0

The following table lists the resolved caveats in NBAR2 Protocol Pack 10.0.0:

Resolved Caveat

Description

CSCug20539

Traffic generated by airplay might be misclassified as unknown

CSCum59732

Traffic generated by qq-im might not be blocked

CSCun48646

Youtube traffic might be misclassified as internet-video-streaming

Known Caveats in NBAR2 Protocol Pack 10.0.0

The following table lists the known caveats in NBAR2 Protocol Pack 10.0.0:

Known Caveat

Description

CSCuh49380

PCoIP session-priority configuration limitation

CSCuh53623

Segmented packets are not classified when using NBAR sub classification

Restrictions and Limitations in NBAR2 Protocol Pack 10.0.0

The following table lists the limitations and restrictions in NBAR2 Protocol Pack 10.0.0:

Protocol

Limitation/Restriction

bittorrent

http traffic generated by the bitcomet bittorrent client might be classified as http

capwap-data

For capwap-data to be classified correctly, capwap-control must also be enabled

cisco-jabber

Encrypted cisco jabber might be classified as unknown.

ftp

During configuring QoS class-map with ftp-data, the ftp protocol must be selected. As an alternative, the ftp application group can be selected.

hulu

Encrypted video streaming generated by hulu might be classified as its underlying protocol rtmpe

logmein

Traffic generated by the logmein android app might be misclassified as ssl

ms-lync

Login and chat traffic generated by the ms-lync client might be misclassified as ssl

pcanywhere

Traffic generated by pcanywhere for mac might be classified as unknown.

perfect-dark

Some perfect-dark sessions might be classified as unknown.

qq-accounts

Login to QQ applications which is not via web may not be classified as qq-accounts

secondlife

Voice traffic generated by secondlife might be misclassified as ssl

Downloading NBAR2 Protocol Packs

NBAR2 Protocol Packs are available for download as Software Type 'NBAR2 Protocol Pack' on cisco.com software download page (http:/​/​www.cisco.com/​cisco/​software/​navigator.html).

Additional References

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