Hi peter:

On 30/07/2020 14:28, Aijun Wang wrote:
> Hi, Peter:
> 
> Aijun Wang
> China Telecom
> 
>> On Jul 30, 2020, at 20:00, Peter Psenak <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Aijun,
>>
>>> On 30/07/2020 13:44, Aijun Wang wrote:
>>> Hi, Peter:
>>> Currently, we have the following consideration:
>>> 1. If not all of the ABRs announce the unreachability of the specified 
>>> prefix(the specified prefix is still up), such PUA information will 
>>> continue advertising by the unreachable ABRs.
>>
>> so the behavior of ABR is going to be dependent on the behavior of the the 
>> other ABR(s)? That is a very thin ice you are dancing on.
> 
> [WAJ] it is easy for ABR to get these information and make the judgment. All 
> ABRs locate within the same area.

having that info is not the issue. The cyclic dependency is the one.
> [HZB] The cyclic dependency does not occur. The PUA advertisement behavior of 
> an ABR is not affected by the transient status of other ABRs. The condition 
> for canceling PUA advertisement is that all ABRs advertise the PUA 
> information with a certain prefix for 30 minutes.
> 
>>
>>> 2. If all of the ABRs announce the PUA of the specified prefix, such 
>>> information will be announced for a configurable duration, to make sure 
>>> other protocol(for example BGP) that based on the specified prefix has 
>>> converged.
>>
>> well, the problem is that no mater what is your configured time to advertise 
>> the un-reachability, you have no way of knowing whether the resource that 
>> became unreachable have done so intentionally and whether it will ever come 
>> back. And guessing based on the timer is not going to make it much better 
>> I'm afraid.
>>
> 
> [WAJ] We need not care bout the reason for the unreachability. When ABR get 
> the PUA information from also all other ABRs, it will start one timer to 
> count the duration of following PUA message. After the duration, all ABRs 
> will stop the advertisement.

once you stop advertising the un-reachability, you are back to square one as 
you were with the summary only.
> [HZB] There are two scenarios: First: The node is actually Down. In this 
> case, upper-layer services will be converged 30 minutes earlier. Even if the 
> PUA is canceled, the problem will not occur. Second: If the node is not Down 
> and only an ABR is unreachable, the ABR will continuously advertises PUA.

thanks,
peter

> 
> 
>> thanks,
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>> How about the above consideration and Do you have other thoughts ?
>>> Aijun Wang
>>> China Telecom
>>>>> On Jul 30, 2020, at 17:21, Peter Psenak 
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Ajun,
>>>>
>>>> one additional problem on top of others that have been mentioned is 
>>>> how are you going to get rid of "old" un-reachability 
>>>> announcements/
>>>>
>>>> Let's imagine you have the following prefixes in your area 1:
>>>>
>>>> - 10.10.0.1/32 - 10.0.0.255/32 - used for loopback adresses
>>>> - 10.10.1.0/30 - 10.10.10.252/32 - used for transit links
>>>>
>>>> For simplicity your summary for area 1 is 10.0.0.0/16
>>>>
>>>> 1. Everything is up, you generate 10.0.0.0/16 on the ABR that 
>>>> connects to area 1 to all remaining connected areas
>>>>
>>>> 2. A router in area 1 with loopback 10.10.0.25/32 goes down.
>>>>
>>>> 3. ABR in area 1 generates un-reachable announcement for 
>>>> 10.0.0.25/32 to all other connected areas
>>>>
>>>> 4. When does ABR stop generating the un-reachable announcement for 
>>>> 10.0.0.25/32? In section 6 you mention that "The receiver router should 
>>>> keep the black hole routes for PUA as one configurable time(MAX_T_PUA)", 
>>>> but the draft does not say anything about when the un-reachability 
>>>> announcements should be removed by ABR. We can not rely on 10.10.0.25/32 
>>>> ever coming back, as the user may have simply removed it for good. Keeping 
>>>> the "stale" un-reachability announcements may result in the LSDB growth 
>>>> over the period of time.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 27/07/2020 03:32, Aijun Wang wrote:
>>>>> Hi, LSR experts:
>>>>> We have uploaded the new version of this PUA(Prefix Unreachable 
>>>>> Announcement) draft. The main updates are the followings:
>>>>> 1) Describes the solution that using tunnel to redirect traffic among 
>>>>> ABRs, when all ABRs reaches the PUA limit.
>>>>> 2) Describe fast rerouting to avoid routing black hole.
>>>>> 3) Defining PUA capabilities announcements for OSPFv2/OSPFv3 and ISIS.
>>>>> There are also some arguments about the current solution for PUA, for 
>>>>> example:
>>>>> 1) Is it suitable to set the "Prefix Originator" sub-TLV to NULL to 
>>>>> indicate the prefix is unreachable?
>>>>> 2) if not, what's the consideration? What's the other convincible 
>>>>> solution?
>>>>> Wish to hear comments and suggestions on the above issues. We will also 
>>>>> have the presentation on the coming IETF LSR meeting.
>>>>> Best Regards
>>>>> Aijun Wang
>>>>> China Telecom
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>>> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2020 9:16 AM
>>>>> To: Zhibo Hu <[email protected]>; Aijun Wang 
>>>>> <[email protected]>; Yaqun Xiao <[email protected]>
>>>>> Subject: New Version Notification for 
>>>>> draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement-03.txt
>>>>> A new version of I-D, 
>>>>> draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement-03.txt
>>>>> has been successfully submitted by Aijun Wang and posted to the IETF 
>>>>> repository.
>>>>> Name:        draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement
>>>>> Revision:    03
>>>>> Title:        Prefix Unreachable Announcement
>>>>> Document date:    2020-07-27
>>>>> Group:        Individual Submission
>>>>> Pages:        11
>>>>> URL:            
>>>>> https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement-03.txt
>>>>> Status:         
>>>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement/
>>>>> Htmlized:       
>>>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement-03
>>>>> Htmlized:       
>>>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement
>>>>> Diff:           
>>>>> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement-03
>>>>> Abstract:
>>>>>     This document describes the mechanism that can be used to announce
>>>>>     the unreachable prefixes for service fast convergence.
>>>>>                                                                           
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