Hi Ahmed,

Thanks for your comment & agree on the importance of having these captured.

I think Path Marking and REL are the places where these markings / events would be appropriately reported for. Also, being REL definition only at its beginning, we can adjust to fit any additional use-case.

Should i properly decode your underlying ask, i may read a couple of things:

1) if some withdraws are issued, like for cases #2 and #3, we should have the code-points in draft-ietf-grow-bmp-path-marking-tlv

2) Probably the structure of the REL message should be made more flexible: it now requires a BGP PDU TLV for every event whereas maybe for certain events that would fall more under the feedback-loop use-case than the insight one (like #1 and #4), a BGP PDU may not be required

Thoughts?

Paolo


On 12/01/2024 14:57, [email protected] wrote:
Hello all,

I’ve been going over draft-ietf-grow-bmp-rel and it does provide an excellent way to provide additional visibility into the BGP process.

However, I noticed it doesn’t cover the cases in RFC 7606. RFC 7606 refines that update error handling in RFC 4271 and classifies update errors handling approaches into 4 categories:

 1. Session Reset (as original in RFC 4271 and that will be caught in
    BMP using the BGP Notification message)
 2. AFI/SAFI disable
 3. Treat-as-withdraw
 4. Attribute-discard

My guess for cases 2 and 3, if local rib monitoring is enabled BMP will report a withdraw, without a reason of why. For case 4, not sure if that will be reported in BMP.

Probably these events need to be monitored by BMP, since they impact the routing and can be silent (except vendor specific logging). I’m not sure if draft-ietf-grow-bmp-rel is the best place or we need an additional document to expand further the list of supported events, any feedback is welcome.

Best,

-Ahmed


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