Please see zzh> below.

From: Gyan Mishra <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2020 1:25 PM
To: Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang <[email protected]>
Cc: Lenny Giuliano <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]; 
[email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [bess] WG adoption and IPR poll for 
draft-zzhang-bess-bgp-multicast-03



On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 12:41 PM Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Gyan,

What embedded RP gives you is that you don't need to configure RP addresses. 
Once the RP is known for a group (however it is done - static config in case of 
IPv4/IPv6, dynamic learning via BSR/Auto-RP in case of v4, or embedded RP in 
case of IPv6), the rest is all the same: source sends register towards the RP 
and LHRs sends (*,g) join towards the RP. In case a set of RPs are used for a 
single group, the RPs learn the sources from each other either via MSDP (IPv4 
only) or via PIM registers sent among themselves.

Once the traffic arrives at the LHR routers they learn the sources and can send 
(s,g) joins. When we say network-based source discovery we refer to the 
learning of sources by the LHRs (so that they can send (s,g) joins).

Gyan> I understand the IPv4 scenario.  I was referring to the IPv6 scenario 
that the embedded RP provides the RP address to build the group RP map which is 
fine but you still need a LHR mechanism to discover the source which does not 
exist with SSM.  There are reasons for that and I am drafting reply to the 
other thread I will explain.

Zzh> That’s why the draft has relevant text: 1) SSM needs source discovery and 
will not totally succeed unless the source discovery problem is solved 2) this 
draft provides a BGP based source discovery mechanism (in addition to BGP based 
join/prune).


> via BGP multicast NLRI AFI 1 and 2 for v4 v6 with SAFI 2 to propagate the 
> source information

That is not for source learning. It is for learning of the non-congruent routes 
to the sources. In many cases you only need to originate a few routes (in 
extreme cases a default route is enough), and it has no group information.

  Gyan> I understand that non congruent routes is one use case for multicast 
NLRI ; If the LHR was BGP connected and its RPF path to the source was now  via 
BGP multicast NLRI you could use this method to discover all SSM sources via 
the network.   Imagine if you decided you wanted to augment you SSM 
infrastructure with a multicast NLRI for source propagation you could do this 
on your source FHR and receiver LHR and with all intermediate hops including 
the core now providing congruent reach ability to the SSM multicast sources ; 
you now have solved the SSM gap mentioned related to LHR network based source 
discovery.  I don’t think their is a draft on this but I think it’s a 
worthwhile I-D.

Zzh> Source discovery is about (s,g), and SAFI 2 does not have group 
information.
Zzh> Jeffrey


Jeffrey

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From: Lenny Giuliano <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
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Subject: Re: [bess] WG adoption and IPR poll for 
draft-zzhang-bess-bgp-multicast-03


On Thu, 9 Jan 2020, Gyan Mishra wrote:

<trimmed>

|
|       Actually, Embedded RP provides interdomain ASM for IPv6 and is the 
reason
|       there is no need for MSDP in IPv6.
|
|
|   Gyan> With embedded RP how is the “source” SA propagated as is done
| by MSDP with IPv4 accomplished with IPv6.  The only alternative and is a way 
that SSM for both IPv4 and IPv6 can provide network discovery that I know of 
and not have to rely on app based discovery ; is via BGP multicast NLRI AFI 1 
and 2 for v4 v6 with SAFI 2 to propagate the source information.
| This is also used when migration from ASM to SSM and want to maintain inter 
domain boundaries you can use SAFI 2 for multicast NLRI source propagation.

With Embedded RP, the address of the RP is "embedded" in the group address, so 
just by looking at the group address, routers can derive the RP address and 
know where to send their (*,g) joins.  Hence there is no need for RPs to "talk" 
to one another as they do in IPv4 with MSDP.  See RFC 3956 for more details.

|
|
|       No one would disagree that SSM is simpler and the ideal way to go, hence
|       draft-ietf-mboned-deprecate-interdomain-asm recommends SSM-only for
|       interdomain deployments.  Unfortunately, for various (and sometimes
|       somewhat valid) reasons, ASM lives on, at least in intradomain
|       deployments.  Hence, BGP would still need to cover ASM scenarios, at
|       least for these intradomain deployments that still rely on ASM to work.
|
|
|   Gyan> Agreed ASM must be supported for intra domain

Then I suspect we are all in violent agreement.
--
Gyan  Mishra
Network Engineering & Technology
Verizon
Silver Spring, MD 20904
Phone: 301 502-1347
Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>


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