Hi Jeffrey,

On 11/5/15, 7:19 AM, "Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a few questions:
>
>   On the S-PEs, the pseudowires from the Access PEs are terminated onto
>   VRFs, such that all pseudowires within a given redundancy set
>   terminate on a single IP endpoint on the S-PEs. To achieve this, the
>   S-PEs in a given Redundancy Group are configured with the same
>   Anycast IP and MAC addresses on the virtual (sub)interface
>   corresponding to the VRF termination point.
>
>Is the virtual interface (like) an IRB interface?

No IRB interface in this case. This is the virtual interface/sub-interface
address.

>
>   Since the S-PEs are running in EVPN single-active redundancy mode,
>   the S-PEs would advertise an Ethernet AD route per vES with the
>   single-active flag set per [RFC7432]. Since only the DF S-PE has its
>   access pseudowire in Active state, only that device would establish
>   an eBGP session with the CE and receive control and data traffic.
>
>Will the IRB/virtual interface on a non-DF PE be up? I assume it is -
>even though the PW is not active. Would the non-DF PE keeps trying to
>establish the eBGP session with the CE? Would that cause issue to the
>session between CE and the DF PE?

The backup PW will be in stand-by mode (not up) and thus there won¹t be a
eBGP session established between non-DF and the CE. Only when the non-DF
becomes DF, then eBGP session gets established.

>
>   The
>   DF S-PE advertises host prefixes that it receives, from the CE over
>   the eBGP session, to other PEs in the EVI using EVPN route type-5,
>   with the proper ESI set. Remote PEs learn the host prefixes and
>   associate them with the ESI, using the advertising PE as the next-hop
>   for forwarding.
>
>Would he DF S-PE advertise other prefixes received on the eBGP session? I
>assume so but the text only says host prefixes.

That¹s Correct. There will be other prefixes. We¹ll take care of it in the
next rev.

>
>   Other S-PEs in the same Redundancy Group as the advertising PE will
>   receive the same EVPN route type-5 advertisement, and will recognize
>   the associated ESI as a locally attached vES.
>
>What is the RT that limits the routes to be imported only the PEs in the
>same redundancy group? Is it that all PEs in the same EVPN instance will
>import the routes? Or is it that different redundancy groups will have
>different EVPN instances? I assume it's latter (since we need one IRB
>interface for each redundancy group?).

The RT will be the RT associated with the vES/ES.

>
>   The withdrawal of the Ethernet
>   Segment route serves as an indication to the backup S-PE to go active
>   (i.e. act as a backup DF), and activate its pseudowires to the Access
>   PE. The withdrawal of the Ethernet A-D route triggers a "mass
>   withdraw" on the remote PEs: these PEs adjust their next-hop
>   associated with the prefixes that were originally advertised by the
>   failed PE to point to the "backup path" per [RFC7432].
>
>Can you elaborate the procedure for the PEs to adjust their next-hop?

Please refer to sections 8.4 and 14.1.1.

>
>I don't see reference to draft-ietf-bess-evpn-vpws. Is that used at all?

Evpn-vpws is not used but it can be used to reduce the PW provisioning to
only single-side.

Cheers,
Ali

>
>Thanks.
>Jeffrey

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