Ali and all,
I have a question regarding one of the aspects of RFC 7432, namely operation of
the default Designated Forwarder (DF) election process on an Ethernet Segment
(ES) that operates in the Single-Active Redundancy Mode.
RFC 7432 defines the Single-Active Redundancy Mode in Section 3 as following:
"Only a single PE, among all the PEs attached to an Ethernet segment, is
allowed to forward traffic to/from that Ethernet segment for a given VLAN".
The same RFC in Section 8.5 also specifies that the DF for a specific VLAN on a
multi-homed Ethernet segment (ES) is the only PE attached to this segment that
is responsible for sending BUM traffic for this VLAN to the CE. It also defined
the default DF election procedure that elects a single "live" PE on the
specific ES as the DF for each specific EVI that is represented on this ES.
These two definitions look contradictory to me, because:
1. The default DF election procedure only involves the PEs attached to
the specific ES
2. In the Single-Active Redundancy mode the elected DF for a specific
VLAN must also be the only PE that is allowed to forward traffic received with
this VLAN from the CEs to the peer PEs. It is not clear to me, how this can be
achieved.
a. The RFC mentions MVRP as a possible method to notify the attached CEs
that a specific PE is NOT a DF for a specific VLAN in the case of an ES that
operates in the Single-Active Redundancy Mode. Does this mean that CEs that are
attached to a multi-homed ES operating in Single-Active Redundancy Mode SHOULD
support MVRP?
b. Are there any alternatives to MVRP that can be used for this purpose.
In particular, is it possible to use Ethernet Local Management Interface
(E-LMI) as defined in
MEF-16<http://www.mef.net/resources/technical-specifications/download?id=42&fileid=file1>
for this purpose?
c. The RFC mentions LAG as the method to connect the CE to a multi-homed
ES operating in the All-Active Redundancy Mode. Is it possible to connect a CE
that uses LAG to a multi-homed ES operating in the Single-Active Redundancy
Mode?
Your feedback would be highly appreciated.
Regards, and lots of thanks in advance,
Sasha
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