Hi,
Here is the review I did while preparing the shepherd write-up for
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-etree .
There is one thing that stands out: the document uses the most
significant bit of the "PMSI Tunnel Attribute" Tunnel Type field, which
cant't be done I think without updating the structure of the
corresponding registry (RFC7385). I suggest how that can be done at the
end of this review (a few people Cc'd for this reason).
Please find my comments below...
[...]
2 E-Tree Scenarios and EVPN / PBB-EVPN Support
In this section, we will categorize support for E-Tree into three
different scenarios, depending on the nature of the site association
(Root/Leaf) per PE or per Ethernet Segment:
- Leaf OR Root site(s) per PE
- Leaf OR Root site(s) per AC
- Leaf OR Root site(s) per MAC
2.1 Scenario 1: Leaf OR Root site(s) per PE
In this scenario, a PE may receive traffic from either Root sites OR
Leaf sites for a given MAC-VRF/bridge table, but not both
concurrently. In other words, a given EVI on a PE is either
associated with a root or leaf.
s/with a root or leaf/with roots or leaves/ ?
The PE may have both Root and Leaf
s/both Root and Leaf/both Roots and Leaves/ ?
sites albeit for different EVIs.
+---------+ +---------+
| PE1 | | PE2 |
+---+ | +---+ | +------+ | +---+ | +---+
|CE1+---ES1----+--+ | | | MPLS | | | +--+----ES2-----+CE2|
+---+ (Root) | |MAC| | | /IP | | |MAC| | (Leaf) +---+
| |VRF| | | | | |VRF| |
| | | | | | | | | | +---+
| | | | | | | | +--+----ES3-----+CE3|
| +---+ | +------+ | +---+ | (Leaf) +---+
+---------+ +---------+
Figure 1: Scenario 1
In such scenario, an EVPN PE implementation MAY provide E-TREE
service using topology constraint among the PEs belonging to the same
"topology constraint" is a bit opaque as a term, perhaps "using tailored
BGP RT import/export policies" would be more descriptive (assuming I
understood your intent)
EVI. The purpose of this topology constraint is to avoid having PEs
with only Leaf sites importing and processing BGP MAC routes from
each other. To support such topology constrain in EVPN, two BGP
Route-Targets (RTs) are used for every EVPN Instance (EVI): one RT is
associated with the Root sites and the other is associated with the
Leaf sites. On a per EVI basis, every PE exports the single RT
associated with its type of site(s). Furthermore, a PE with Root
site(s) imports both Root and Leaf RTs, whereas a PE with Leaf
site(s) only imports the Root RT.
The text seems to imply that the above is sufficient to deliver the
service, but I fail to see what would prevent Leaf-to-Leaf traffic
between Leaves bound to the same MAC-VRF (ES2 and ES3 in firgure1).
Shouldn't the text mention the use of a split-horizon in Leaf MAC-VRFs ?
(assuming the previous point is resolved:)
With this mechanism above, isn't it possible to have on a given PE, for
a single E-TREE EVI, both Leaves and Roots, as long as distinct MAC-VRFs
are used (one for Leaves and one for Roots) ? (it seems to me that the
assymetric import/export RT would do what is needed to build an E-TREE,
we would just have a particular case where a Leaf MAC-VRF and a Root
MAC-VRF for a given E-TREE end up on a single PE)
If this is not possible, I think the text should explain why.
If the number of EVIs is very large
(e.g., more than 64K), then RT type 0 as defined in [RFC4360] SHOULD
be used; otherwise, RT type 2 is sufficient [RFC7153].
This is not specific to E-VPN E-TREE, or even to E-VPN, why mention that ?
2.2 Scenario 2: Leaf OR Root site(s) per AC
In this scenario, a PE receives traffic from either Root OR Leaf
sites (but not both) on a given Attachment Circuit (AC) of an EVI. In
other words, an AC (ES or ES/VLAN) is either associated with a Root
or Leaf (but not both).
s/with a Root or Leaf/with Roots or Leaves/ ?
+---------+ +---------+
| PE1 | | PE2 |
+---+ | +---+ | +------+ | +---+ | +---+
|CE1+-----ES1----+--+ | | | | | | +--+---ES2/AC1--+CE2|
+---+ (Leaf) | |MAC| | | MPLS | | |MAC| | (Leaf) +---+
| |VRF| | | /IP | | |VRF| |
| | | | | | | | | | +---+
| | | | | | | | +--+---ES2/AC2--+CE3|
| +---+ | +------+ | +---+ | (Root) +---+
+---------+ +---------+
Figure 2: Scenario 2
In this scenario, if there are PEs with only root (or leaf) sites per
EVI, then the RT constrain procedures described in section 2.1 can
also be used here. However, when a Root site is added to a Leaf PE,
then that PE needs to process MAC routes from all other Leaf PEs and
add them to its forwarding table.
This is the case in 2.1 as well, isn't it ?
For this scenario, if for a given
EVI, the majority of PEs will eventually have both Leaf and Root
sites attached, even though they may start as Root-only or Leaf-only
PEs, then it is recommended to use a single RT per EVI and avoid
additional configuration and operational overhead.
Why this recommendation ?
Even with a majority of PEs having both Leaves and Roots, there can
remain (up to 49% of) PEs having only Leaves, which will uselessly have
all routes to other Leaves.
So "it is recommended" above, deserves to be explained more, I think.
2.3 Scenario 3: Leaf OR Root site(s) per MAC
In this scenario, a PE may receive traffic from both Root AND Leaf
sites on a given Attachment Circuit (AC) of an EVI. Since an
Attachment Circuit (ES or ES/VLAN) carries traffic from both Root and
Leaf sites, the granularity at which Root or Leaf sites are
identifies
s/identifies/identified/
is on a per MAC address. This scenario is considered in
this draft for EVPN service with only known unicast traffic - i.e.,
there is no BUM traffic.
"there is no BUM" is quite a bold claim ! :=
Maybe the text should say "no BUM traffic is supported (BUM traffic will
be dropped)" ?
(possibly "BUM traffic from Leaves will be dropped" would be sufficient ?)
+---------+ +---------+
| PE1 | | PE2 |
+---+ | +---+ | +------+ | +---+ | +---+
|CE1+-----ES1----+--+ | | | | | | +--+---ES2/AC1--+CE2|
+---+ (Root) | | E | | | MPLS | | | E | | (Leaf/Root)+---+
| | V | | | /IP | | | V | |
| | I | | | | | | I | | +---+
| | | | | | | | +--+---ES2/AC2--+CE3|
| +---+ | +------+ | +---+ | (Leaf) +---+
+---------+ +---------+
Figure 3: Scenario 3
3 Operation for EVPN
[RFC7432] defines the notion of ESI MPLS label used for split-horizon
filtering of BUM traffic at the egress PE. Such egress filtering
capabilities can be leveraged in provision of E-TREE services as seen
shortly. In other words, [RFC7432] has inherent capability to support
E-TREE services without defining any new BGP routes but by just
defining a new BGP Extended Community for leaf indication as shown
later in this document.
3.1 Known Unicast Traffic
Since in EVPN, MAC learning is performed in control plane via
advertisement of BGP routes, the filtering needed by E-TREE service
for known unicast traffic can be performed at the ingress PE, thus
providing very efficient filtering and avoiding sending known unicast
traffic over MPLS/IP core to be filtered at the egress PE as done in
traditional E-TREE solutions (e.g., E-TREE for VPLS).
To provide such ingress filtering for known unicast traffic, a PE
MUST indicate to other PEs what kind of sites (root or leaf) its MAC
addresses are associated with by advertising a leaf indication flag
(via an Extended Community) along with each of its MAC/IP
Advertisement route. The lack of such flag indicates that the MAC
address is associated with a root site.
This scheme applies to all
scenarios described in section 2.
Furthermore, for multi-homing scenario of section 2.2, where an AC is
either root or leaf (but not both), the PE MAY advertise leaf
indication along with the Ethernet A-D per EVI route. This
advertisement is used for sanity checking in control-plane to ensure
that there is no discrepancy in configuration among different PEs of
the same redundancy group. For example, if a leaf site is multi-homed
to PE1 an PE2, and PE1 advertises the Ethernet A-D per EVI
corresponding to this leaf site with the leaf-indication flag but PE2
does not, then the receiving PE notifies the operator of such
discrepancy and ignore the leaf-indication flag on PE1. In other
words, in case of discrepancy, the multi-homing for that pair of PEs
is assumed to be in default "root" mode for that <ESI, EVI> or <ESI,
EVI/VLAN>. The leaf indication flag on Ethernet A-D per EVI route
tells the receiving PEs that all MAC addresses associated with this
<ESI, EVI> or <ESI, EVI/VLAN> are from a leaf site. Therefore, if a
PE receives a leaf indication for an AC via the Ethernet A-D per EVI
route but doesn't receive a leaf indication in the corresponding MAC
route,
"MAC route" --> "MAC/IP Advertisement route" ?
then it notify the operator and ignore the leaf indication on
s/notify/notifies/
the Ethernet A-D per EVI route.
The procedure above should I think be rephrased to provide unambiguous
interpretation in the case where a given MAC is being announced in more
than one MAC/IP advertisement route, possibly carrying a different leaf
indication (and even possibly from different ESes, or from PEs not
advertising Ethernet A-D route).
Tagging MAC addresses with a leaf indication enables remote PEs to
perform ingress filtering for known unicast traffic - i.e., on the
ingress PE, the MAC destination address lookup yields, in addition to
the forwarding adjacency, a flag which indicates whether the target
MAC is associated with a Leaf site or not.
Ditto, more or less: the procedure above should I think be rephrased to
provide unambiguous interpretation in the case where a given MAC is
being announced in more than one MAC/IP advertisement route, possibly
carrying a different leaf indication.
The ingress PE cross-
checks this flag with the status of the originating AC, and if both
are Leafs, then the packet is not forwarded.
To support the above ingress filtering functionality, a new E-TREE
Extended Community with a Leaf indication flag is introduced [section
5.2]. This new Extended Community MUST be advertised with MAC/IP
Advertisement route and MAY be advertised with an Ethernet A-D per
EVI route as described above.
3.2 BUM Traffic
For BUM traffic, it is not possible to perform filtering on the
ingress PE, as is the case with known unicast, because of the multi-
destination nature of the traffic.
Saying "it is not possible" without more explanation is not very useful
(the reader may think about using RPF-like techniques on the egress PE).
It seems to me more reasonable to formulate things in terms of "This
specification does not provide support for filtering BUM traffic on the
ingress PE", and avoid a sentence like the one above.
As such, the solution relies on
egress filtering. In order to apply the proper egress filtering,
which varies based on whether a packet is sent from a Leaf AC or a
root AC, the MPLS-encapsulated frames MUST be tagged with an
indication when they originated from a Leaf AC. In other words, leaf
indication for BUM traffic is done at the granularity of AC. This can
be achieved in EVPN through the use of a MPLS label where it can be
used to either identify the Ethernet segment of origin per [RFC7432]
(i.e., ESI label) or it can be used to indicate that the packet is
originated from a leaf site (Leaf label).
BUM traffic sent over a P2MP LSP or ingress replication, may need to
carry an upstream assigned or downstream assigned MPLS label
(respectively) for the purpose of egress filtering to indicate to the
egress PEs whether this packet is originated from a leaf AC.
The main difference between downstream and upstream assigned MPLS
label is that in case of downstream assigned not all egress PE
devices need to receive the label just like ingress replication
procedures defined in [RFC7432].
There are four scenarios to consider as follow.
s/follow/follows/
In all these
scenarios, the imposition PE imposes the right MPLS label associated
s/the imposition PE imposes/the ingress PE imposes/ ?
with the originated Ethernet Segment (ES) depending on whether the
Ethernet frame originated from a Root or a Leaf site on that Ethernet
Segment (ESI or Leaf label).
The mechanism by which the PE identifies
whether a given frame originated from a Root or a Leaf site on the
segment is based on the Ethernet Tag associated with the frame (e.g.,
whether the frame received on a leaf or a root AC).
First comment: it seems that the formulation should also support the
case where an AC does not use .1q.
(side comment: doing the identification based on the source MAC address
would seem to allow BUM in the context of 2.3; it is out of the scope of
my review to extend the scope of these specs, but I'm curious why it is
not proposed....)
Other mechanisms
for identifying whether an ingress AC is a root or leaf is beyond the
scope of this document.
3.2.1 BUM traffic originated from a single-homed site on a leaf AC
In this scenario, the ingress PE adds a special MPLS label indicating
a Leaf site. This special Leaf MPLS label, used for single-homing
scenarios, is not on a per ES basis but rather on a per PE basis -
i.e., a single Leaf MPLS label is used for all single-homed ES's on
that PE. This Leaf label is advertised to other PE devices, using a
new EVPN Extended Community called E-TREE Extended Community (section
5.1) along with an Ethernet A-D per ES route with ESI of zero and a
set of Route Targets (RTs) corresponding to all EVIs on the PE with
at least one leaf site per EVI. The set of Ethernet A-D per ES routes
may be needed if the number of Route Targets (RTs) that need to be
sent exceed the limit on a single route per [RFC7432]. The ESI for
the Ethernet A-D per ES route is set to zero to indicate single-homed
sites.
When a PE receives this special Leaf label in the data path, it
blocks the packet if the destination AC is of type Leaf; otherwise,
it forwards the packet.
3.2.2 BUM traffic originated from a single-homed site on a root AC
In this scenario, the ingress PE does not add any ESI or Leaf label
and it operates per [RFC7432] procedures.
3.2.3 BUM traffic originated from a multi-homed site on a leaf AC
In this scenario, it is assumed that While different ACs (VLANs) on
s/While/while/
the same ES could have different root/leaf designation (some being
roots and some being leaves), the same VLAN does have the same
root/leaf designation on all PEs on the same ES. Furthermore, it is
assumed that there is no forwarding among subnets - ie, the service
is EVPN L2 and not EVPN IRB. IRB use case is outside the scope of
this document.
In such scenarios, If a multicast packet is originated from a leaf
s/multicast/multicast or broadcast/ ?
AC, then it only needs to carry Leaf label described in section
3.2.1. This label is sufficient in providing the necessary egress
filtering of BUM traffic from getting sent to leaf ACs including the
leaf AC on the same Ethernet Segment.
3.2.4 BUM traffic originated from a multi-homed site on a root AC
In this scenario, both the ingress and egress PE devices follows the
procedure defined in [RFC7432] for adding and/or processing an ESI
MPLS label.
3.3 E-TREE Traffic Flows for EVPN
Per [RFC7387], a generic E-Tree service supports all of the following
traffic flows:
- Ethernet Unicast from Root to Roots & Leaf
- Ethernet Unicast from Leaf to Root
- Ethernet Broadcast/Multicast from Root to Roots & Leafs
- Ethernet Broadcast/Multicast from Leaf to Roots
A particular E-Tree service may need to support all of the above
types of flows or only a select subset, depending on the target
application. In the case where unicast flows need not be supported,
the L2VPN PEs can avoid performing any MAC learning function.
In the subsections that follow, we will describe the operation of
EVPN to support E-Tree service with and without MAC learning.
3.3.1 E-Tree with MAC Learning
The PEs implementing an E-Tree service must perform MAC learning when
unicast traffic flows must be supported among Root and Leaf sites. In
this case, the PE with Root sites performs MAC learning in the data-
s/the PE with Root sites/the PEs with Root sites/ ?
(or "PE(s)"...)
path over the Ethernet Segments, and advertises reachability in EVPN
MAC Advertisement routes. These routes will be imported by all PEs
for that EVI (i.e., PEs that have Leaf sites as well as PEs that have
Root sites). Similarly, the PEs with Leaf sites perform MAC learning
in the data-path over their Ethernet Segments, and advertise
reachability in EVPN MAC Advertisement routes. For the scenario
described in section 2.1 (or possibly section 2.2), these routes are
imported only by PEs with at least one Root site in the EVI - i.e., a
PE with only Leaf sites will not import these routes. PEs with Root
and/or Leaf sites may use the Ethernet A-D routes for aliasing (in
the case of multi-homed segments) and for mass MAC withdrawal per
[RFC7432].
To support multicast/broadcast from Root to Leaf sites, either a P2MP
tree rooted at the PE(s) with the Root site(s) or ingress replication
can be used. The multicast tunnels are set up through the exchange of
the EVPN Inclusive Multicast route, as defined in [RFC7432].
To support multicast/broadcast from Leaf to Root sites, ingress
replication should be sufficient for most scenarios where there are
only a few Roots (typically two). Therefore, in a typical scenario, a
root PE needs to support both a P2MP tunnel in transmit direction
from itself to leaf PEs and at the same time it needs to support
ingress-replication tunnels in receive direction from leaf PEs to
itself. In order to signal this efficiently from the root PE, a new
composite tunnel type is defined per section 5.3. This new composite
tunnel type is advertised by the root PE to simultaneously indicate a
P2MP tunnel in transmit direction and an ingress-replication tunnel
in the receive direction for the BUM traffic.
If the number of Roots is large, P2MP tunnels originated at the PEs
with Leaf sites may be used and thus there will be no need to use the
modified PMSI tunnel attribute in section 5.2 for composite tunnel
type.
3.3.2 E-Tree without MAC Learning
The PEs implementing an E-Tree service need not perform MAC learning
when the traffic flows between Root and Leaf sites are only multicast
or broadcast. In this case, the PEs do not exchange EVPN MAC
Advertisement routes. Instead, the Inclusive Multicast Ethernet Tag
(IMET) routes are used to support BUM traffic.
It's nicer to avoid "acronym soup" when possible.
Here the acronym is used only once... Using "Inclusive Multicast
Ethernet Tag route" in these two places is ok I think.
The fields of the IMET route are populated per the procedures defined
in [RFC7432], and the multicast tunnel setup criteria are as
described in the previous section.
Just as in the previous section, if the number of PEs with root sites
are only a few and thus ingress replication is desired from leaf PEs
to these root PEs, then the modified PMSI attribute as defined in
section 5.3 should be used.
4 Operation for PBB-EVPN
In PBB-EVPN, the PE advertises a Root/Leaf indication along with each
B-MAC Advertisement route, to indicate whether the associated B-MAC
address corresponds to a Root or a Leaf site. Just like the EVPN
case, the new E-TREE Extended Community defined in section [5.1] is
advertised with each MAC Advertisement route.
In the case where a multi-homed Ethernet Segment has both Root and
Leaf sites attached, two B-MAC addresses are advertised: one B-MAC
address is per ES as specified in [RFC7623] and implicitly denoting
Root, and the other B-MAC address is per PE and explicitly denoting
Leaf. The former B-MAC address is not advertised with the E-TREE
extended community but the latter B-MAC denoting Leaf is advertised
with the new E-TREE extended community where "Leaf-indication" flag
is set. In such multi-homing scenarios where and Ethernet Segment has
both Root and Leaf ACs, it is assumed that While different ACs
(VLANs) on the same ES could have different root/leaf designation
(some being roots and some being leaves), the same VLAN does have the
same root/leaf designation on all PEs on the same ES. Furthermore, it
is assumed that there is no forwarding among subnets - ie, the
service is L2 and not IRB. IRB use case is outside the scope of this
document.
The ingress PE uses the right B-MAC source address depending on
whether the Ethernet frame originated from the Root or Leaf AC on
that Ethernet Segment. The mechanism by which the PE identifies
whether a given frame originated from a Root or Leaf site on the
segment is based on the Ethernet Tag associated with the frame. Other
mechanisms of identification, beyond the Ethernet Tag, are outside
the scope of this document.
Furthermore, a PE advertises two special global B-MAC addresses: one
for Root and another for Leaf, and tags the Leaf one as such in the
MAC Advertisement route. These B-MAC addresses are used as source
addresses for traffic originating from single-homed segments. The B-
MAC address used for indicating Leaf sites can be the same for both
single-homed and multi-homed segments.
4.1 Known Unicast Traffic
For known unicast traffic, the PEs perform ingress filtering: On the
ingress PE, the C-MAC destination address lookup yields, in addition
to the target B-MAC address and forwarding adjacency, a flag which
indicates whether the target B-MAC is associated with a Root or a
Leaf site. The ingress PE cross-checks this flag with the status of
the originating site, and if both are a Leaf, then the packet is not
forwarded.
4.2 BUM Traffic
For BUM traffic, the PEs must perform egress filtering. When a PE
receives a MAC advertisement route (which will be used as a source B-
MAC), it updates its Ethernet Segment egress filtering function
The "its Ethernet Segment egress filtering function" phrase makes it
sounds like we're talking about a wellknown function defined somewhere.
If this is indeed the case, providing a reference would be in order.
If not, then explaining what this function is would be required.
(Are you talking about doing something similar to what 3.2 specifies for
the non-PBB procedures ?)
(based on the source B-MAC address), as follows:
- If the MAC Advertisement route indicates that the advertised B-MAC
is a Leaf, and the local Ethernet Segment is a Leaf as well, then the
source B-MAC address is added to the B-MAC filtering list.
Implicitly we can guess that this "filtering list" is a list of things
to include, rather than a list of things to include, but the text should
I think be explicit.
- Otherwise, the B-MAC filtering list is not updated.
When the egress PE receives the packet, it examines the B-MAC source
address to check whether it should filter or forward the frame. Note
that this uses the same filtering logic as baseline [RFC7623] and
does not require any additional flags in the data-plane.
The PE places all Leaf Ethernet Segments of a given bridge domain in
a single split-horizon group in order to prevent intra-PE forwarding
among Leaf segments.
As per a previous comment: isn't this something that should be common
between the EVPN and the PBB-EVPN procedures ?
This split-horizon function applies to BUM
traffic.
Does it mean "only" ?
(if yes, please be explicit, and if no, adding "as well" or something
like that would be better)
4.3 E-Tree without MAC Learning
In scenarios where the traffic of interest is only Multicast and/or
broadcast, the PEs implementing an E-Tree service do not need to do
any MAC learning. In such scenarios the filtering must be performed
on egress PEs. For PBB-EVPN, the handling of such traffic is per
section 4.2 without C-MAC learning part of it at both ingress and
egress PEs.
5 BGP Encoding
This document defines two new BGP Extended Community for EVPN.
5.1 E-TREE Extended Community
This Extended Community is a new transitive Extended Community having
a Type field value of 0x06 (EVPN) and the Sub-Type 0x05. It is used
for leaf indication of known unicast and BUM traffic. For BUM
traffic, the Leaf Label field is set to a valid MPLS label and this
EC is advertised along with Ethernet A-D per ES route with an ESI of
zero to enable egress filtering on disposition PEs per section 3.2.1
and 3.2.3. There is no need to send ESI Label Extended Community when
sending Ethernet A-D per ES route with an ESI of zero. For known
unicast traffic, the Leaf flag bit is set to one and this EC is
advertised along with MAC/IP Advertisement route per section 3.1.
The E-TREE Extended Community is encoded as an 8-octet value as
follows:
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type=0x06 | Sub-Type=0x05 | Flags(1 Octet)| Reserved=0 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Reserved=0 | Leaf Label |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
The low-order bit of the Flags octet is defined as the "Leaf-
Indication" bit. A value of one indicates a Leaf AC/Site.
When this EC is advertised along with MAC/IP Advertisement route (for
known unicast traffic), the Leaf-Indication flag MUST be set to one
and Leaf Label is set to zero. The received PE should ignore Leaf
Label and only processes Leaf-Indication flag. A value of zero for
Leaf-Indication flag is invalid when sent along with MAC/IP
advertisement route and an error should be logged.
When this EC is advertised along with Ethernet A-D per ES route (with
ESI of zero) for BUM traffic, the Leaf Label MUST be set to a valid
MPLS label and the Leaf-Indication flag should be set to zero. The
received PE should ignore the Leaf-Indication flag. A non-valid MPLS
label when sent along with the Ethernet A-D per ES route, should be
logged as an error.
5.2 PMSI Tunnel Attribute
[RFC6514] defines PMSI Tunnel attribute which is an optional
transitive attribute with the following format:
+---------------------------------+
| Flags (1 octet) |
+---------------------------------+
| Tunnel Type (1 octets) |
+---------------------------------+
| MPLS Label (3 octets) |
+---------------------------------+
| Tunnel Identifier (variable) |
+---------------------------------+
This draft uses all the fields per existing definition except for the
following modifications to the Tunnel Type and Tunnel Identifier:
When receiver ingress-replication label is needed, the high-order bit
of the tunnel type field (C bit - Composite tunnel bit) is set while
the remaining low-order seven bits indicate the tunnel type as
before. When this C bit is set, the "tunnel identifier" field would
begin with a three-octet label, followed by the actual tunnel
identifier for the transmit tunnel. PEs that don't understand the
new meaning of the high-order bit would treat the tunnel type as an
invalid tunnel type. For the PEs that do understand the new meaning
of the high-order, if ingress replication is desired when sending BUM
traffic, the PE will use the the label in the Tunnel Identifier field
when sending its BUM traffic.
I think we should have some text to unambiguously state that: "Using the
Composite flag for Tunnel Types 0x00 'no tunnel information present' and
0x06 'Ingress Replication' is invalid, and should be treated as an
invalid tunnel type on reception".
Additionally, since RFC7385 has created a registry for PMSI Tunnel
attribute tunnel types, taking the most significant bit from this field
can't be done without a significant change of how this registry is
organized (because now you can't take value in 0x7b-0x7f without
colliding into values which are Experimental or Reserved).
Achieving the above requires an update of RFC7385, so I would suggest
adding an 8.1 section saying this:
---
The "P-Multicast Service Interface Tunnel (PMSI Tunnel) Tunnel Types"
registry in the "Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Parameters" registry
needs to be updated to reflect the use of the most significant bit to
advertise the use of "composite tunnels" (section 5.2).
For this purpose, this document updates RFC7385.
The registry is to be updated, by removing the entries for 0xFB-0xFE and
0x0F, and replacing them by:
- 0x7B-0x7E Reserved for Experimental Use [this document]
- 0x7F Reserved [this document]
- 0x80-0xFF Not Allocatable, corresponds to Composite tunnel types [this
document]
The allocation policy for values 0x00 to 0x7A is IETF Review [RFC5226
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5226>].
The range for experimental use is now 0x7B-0x7E, and value in this range
are not to be assigned.
The status of 0x7F may only be changed through Standards Action [RFC5226
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5226>].
----
Additionally to this section 8.1:
- the document header needs to specify "Updates: RFC7385" .
- the following can be added to the abstract (because reviewer often
want to see in the abstract the explanation for why an RFC is updated):
"This document makes use of the most significant bit of the scope
governed by the IANA registry created by RFC7385, and hence updates that
RFC accordingly."
6 Acknowledgement
We would like to thank Dennis Cai, Antoni Przygienda, and Jeffrey
Zhang for their valuable comments.
7 Security Considerations
Since this draft uses the EVPN constructs of [RFC7432] and [RFC7623],
the same security considerations in these drafts are also applicable
here. Furthermore, this draft provides additional security check by
allowing sites (or ACs) of an EVPN instance to be designated as
"Root" or "Leaf" and preventing any traffic exchange among "Leaf"
sites of that VPN through ingress filtering for known unicast traffic
and egress filtering for BUM traffic.
8 IANA Considerations
This document requests the allocation of value 5 in the "EVPN
Extended Community Sub-Types" registry defined in [RFC7153] and
modification of the registry as follow:
The text above should be reformulated to reflect the fact that IANA has
already allocated the value: "IANA has allocated value 5 in the "EVPN
Extended Community Sub-Types" registry defined in [RFC7153] as follow:"
SUB-TYPE VALUE NAME Reference
0x05 E-TREE Extended Community This document
Thanks,
-Thomas
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