Hi, Jeff:

 

Using the solution that similar with Inter-AS-TE-v2 
LSA(https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5392#section-3.1.1) is straightforward but 
has the following constraints:

1.     It requires the configuration of the remote-as/remote ASBR ID on border 
router, and requires the advertisement of the redundant information on every 
Link TLV that included in such LSA.

2.     It requires the configuration of the remote interface address on every 
inter-as link, which is tedious work.

3.     It requires the proxy of remote neighbor information on every inter-as 
link, as that described in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5392#section-4.1

 

Such solution is obvious not as concise as deducting the IGP domain boundary 
from the passive interface attribute and interconnect them by the PCE. 

And the PCE doesn’t depend solely on such information to reconstruct the 
boundary, it has some algorithm to exclude the extraordinary scenario【for 
example, when the prefix length is 32(IPv4) or 128(IPv6)bit length】 

 

The ASBR just needs to flag the prefix is coming from the passive interface, 
nothing more. Such flag mechanism is not defeat the purpose of IETF document.

 

And Acee:

Please see inline for your concerns.

 

 

Best Regards

 

Aijun Wang

China Telecom

 

From: Jeff Tantsura [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 5:22 AM
To: Gyan Mishra <[email protected]>; Acee Lindem (acee) 
<[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]; Aijun Wang <[email protected]>; Aijun Wang 
<[email protected]>; Peter Psenak (ppsenak) <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Lsr] FW: New Version Notification for 
draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-attribute-04.txt

 

I’m with Acee here, the presence of a passive interface in a topology is in no 
way unambiguously signaling domain boundaries. You could “hack around” though, 
but that would defeat the purpose of an IETF document.


Keeping it to OSPFv2 (other protocols have similar ways of doing that), I’d 
say, using a technique similar to that, defined for Inter-AS-TE-v2 LSA provides 
you exactly that.

 

Cheers, 

Jeff

On Oct 12, 2020, 11:06 AM -0700, Acee Lindem (acee) 
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, 
wrote:



Speaking WG member:

 

Hi Gyan, Aijun,

 

Even if I agreed with your use case assuming a passive interface denotes the 
boundary between two domains as shown in figure 1 in your draft (which I 
don’t), you still should not be trying to hack the prefixes with what is 
inherently link attribute.

[WAJ] There is no space now within the IGP protocol to describe the 
stub/passive link attribute. When we talk link, we often refer to the link that 
connects two IGP neighbors.

And, using the prefix passive flag to position the IGP boundary, is the 
reasonable deduction, not hack. 

 Can I state this anymore simply or are you are just going to restate your 
requirements again???

[WAJ] Just want to emphasize the potential usage of such information, and be 
clear also for other experts.

 

Acee

 

From: Gyan Mishra <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Date: Sunday, October 11, 2020 at 3:19 PM
To: Acee Lindem <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Cc: Aijun Wang <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, 
Aijun Wang <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "Peter 
Psenak (ppsenak)" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, 
"[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> " <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Subject: Re: [Lsr] FW: New Version Notification for 
draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-attribute-04.txt

 

 

Hi Acee

 

I believe what Aijun is trying to explain is that the primary purpose of PCE 
for active or passive path computation is for inter-as RSVP-TE PCALC path 
computation or SR-TE path computation.  So PCE is solving a well known PCALC 
bin packing problem due to pcalc over subscribing RSVP tunnel bandwidth which 
is inherent an RSVP issue, but a bigger problematic issue is with being able to 
build an inter-as TE path with a single or multiple PCE controllers that can 
take the LSDB link attributes in the TEDs dB opaque LSAs in the ospf case and 
ISIS TE TLVs and rebuild the topology topology from each TE domain to be able 
to build a congruent end to end RSVP TE or SR-TE traffic steered path 
instantiation.

 

Without the use of PCE controllers as the LSDB link attribute information is 
not known as RSVP loose ERO static lsp is built or SR SR-TE prefix sid loose 
path is built, failover due to crank back is impacted for reroute, due to not 
having a complete depiction of the other AS Link state topology by the head end 
or SR source node.

 

So to build that entire end to end inter-as path for that end to end RSVP TE or 
SR-TE path instantiation it is critical to indentify the inter-as link eBGP tie 
link that may have static routes or BGP LU for RSVP head end to tail end 
reachability and SR-TE reachability to build out the end to end path 
instantiation.  So the BGP-LS task to  rebuild the lsdb topology of each inter 
connected AS that the RSVP TE or SR-TE steered path traverses, we need the 
accurate depiction and that includes the Identification of the  critical 
inter-as tie link eBGP peering link that is passive for the PCE path 
computation logic for the end to end inter-as path instantiation.  

 

As for other interfaces using passive in the context of a operator service 
provider or enterprise core P and PE routers all links are transit with 
neighbors except the inter-as tie so having this new IGP TLV will help to that 
end.  In the operator “core” network if there are other  interfaces that don’t 
need to be advertised as stub, they can easily be excluded from being added 
into IGP.  

 

Kind Regards 

 

Gyan

 

On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 6:29 AM Acee Lindem (acee) 
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

Hi Aijun,

 

From: Aijun Wang <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Date: Friday, October 9, 2020 at 9:58 PM
To: Acee Lindem <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "Peter Psenak 
(ppsenak)" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, 'Aijun Wang' 
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Cc: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> " <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Subject: RE: [Lsr] FW: New Version Notification for 
draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-attribute-04.txt

 

Hi, Acee:

 

From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  
[mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Acee 
Lindem (acee)
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2020 3:48 AM
To: Aijun Wang <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; 
Peter Psenak (ppsenak) <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; 'Aijun 
Wang' <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Cc: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: Re: [Lsr] FW: New Version Notification for 
draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-attribute-04.txt

 

Speaking as WG member:

 

Hi Aijun,

 

From: Aijun Wang <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Date: Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 11:09 PM
To: Acee Lindem <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, "Peter Psenak 
(ppsenak)" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >, 'Aijun Wang' 
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Cc: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> " <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Subject: RE: [Lsr] FW: New Version Notification for 
draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-attribute-04.txt

 

Hi, Acee:

Sorry for the previous pruned mail. Let's reply you again along your original 
question.

Please see inline.[WAJ]

 

-----Original Message-----                                                      
                                                                                
       
From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Acee Lindem (acee)
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 7:47 PM
To: Aijun Wang <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; 
Peter Psenak (ppsenak) <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >; 'Aijun 
Wang' <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
Cc: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: Re: [Lsr] FW: New Version Notification for 
draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-attribute-04.txt

 

Hi Aijun,

Other than your ill-conceived topology discovery heuristic

[WAJ] The topology discovery heuristic is not suitable for the corner use case 
when the unnumbered interface is used, as explained in 
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-lsr-ospf-prefix-originator-06#appendix-B.
  If you don’t agree, would you like to illustrate other non-applicable 
scenarios?

 

Right – and nobody other than yourself believes the IGPs should be modified to 
expose the abstracted topology of an area outside that area.

[WAJ]  The modification doesn’t change the way and complexity of route 
calculation within IGP. It just piggyback some extra information, the bulk of 
the reconstruction work is done by the controller.  Such extra information can 
also have other usage, as described in 
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-lsr-ospf-prefix-originator-06#section-1

And, the proposal described in 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-attribute-04
 is different with the problem you concerned.  It has no relation with the 
abstracted topology of an area.  Maybe you are confused by these two drafts?

 

It is a similar problem. You are still trying to overload the prefix 
advertisements with a link attribute (passive interface) so that it can be 
conveyed outside the domain. We certainly wouldn’t waste a limited prefix flag 
on this parochial application.

 

 

You can solve the problem with BGP-LS session(s) between the router with a 
BGP-LS session to the controller and a router in each area w/o  a router with a 
BGP-LS session to the controller.

[WAJ] This is possible, but not efficient. For operation, we must also consider 
the configuration/administration overhead.  BGP-LS is designed mainly for the 
northbound protocol, not east-west protocol.

 

what other possible reason would there be for associating the passive attribute 
with a prefix?

[WAJ] To know the boundary of the IGP domain. After knowing the boundary, the 
controller can safely apply and check the network security policy, the inbound 
traffic control policy etc.

 

It really isn’t relevant, but I have to ask…. How does the presence of a prefix 
associated with a passive interface allow you to make this deduction?

[WAJ] Passive interfaces are deployed mainly at the boundary of IGP domain.  Is 
there any other exception?

While passive interfaces are not standardized, there is nothing that limits 
their usage to an IGP boundary. They can and are deployed on any interface 
where adjacencies are not to be formed (e.g., a stub subnet containing hosts).

 

Thanks,
Acee

 

Thanks,

Acee

 

Thanks,

Acee

 

On 9/29/20, 10:39 PM, "Aijun Wang" < <mailto:[email protected]> 
[email protected]> wrote:

 

    Hi, Acee and Peter:

    Passive interface is mainly used at the edge of the network, where the 
unnumbered interface will not be used.

    And the information to flag the passive interfaces is for positioning the 
area boundary, not conflict with the abstract capabilities of the area inside.

 

 

    Best Regards

 

    Aijun Wang

    China Telecom

 

    -----Original Message-----

    From:  <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] [ 
<mailto:[email protected]> mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Acee 
Lindem (acee)

    Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 9:16 PM

    To: Peter Psenak < <mailto:[email protected]> 
[email protected]>; Aijun Wang < 
<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]>; 'Aijun Wang' < 
<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]>

    Cc:  <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]

    Subject: Re: [Lsr] FW: New Version Notification for 
draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-attribute-04.txt

 

    Speaking as WG member:

 

    Hi Aijun, Peter,

    I agree with Peter - one of the main motivations for having areas is to 
abstract the topology within the area. Now you're trying to supplant this  - 
one topological detail at a time with ill-conceived IGP features.

    Thanks,

    Acee

 

    On 9/29/20, 5:15 AM, "Lsr on behalf of Peter Psenak" < 
<mailto:[email protected]%20on%20behalf%20of%[email protected]>
 [email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:

 

        Hi Aijun,

 

        On 29/09/2020 11:07, Aijun Wang wrote:

        > Hi, Peter:

        >

        > Thanks for your comments.

        > 1. For BGP-LS deployment, there normally only be one router that 
within the

        > IGP domain to report the topology information, this router should 
know such

        > passive links which exists mainly on other border routers via the IGP

        > protocol. This is main reason to extension the IGP protocol. > 2. For 
the solution, normally, the link within the IGP connect two

        ends, but

        > passive interface is special and not fall in this space. We have 
studied the

        > current TLVs that for link, and find no suitable container to append 
this

        > information. This is the reason that we select the TLVs that 
associated with

        > Prefix.

 

        if the link is unnumbered, your solution does not work. As I said, if

        you need a knowledge about the link, you can not advertise it as a 
prefix.

 

        thanks,

        Peter

 

 

        >

        >>From other POV, the OSPFv3 defines now the "Intra-Area-Prefix LSA", 
which

        > isolate the prefix information that associated with link into this

        > container, contains the stub link, local interface information etc. 
Put such

        > attribute along with the prefix is then acceptable?

        >

        >

        > Best Regards

        >

        > Aijun Wang

        > China Telecom

        >

        > -----Original Message-----

        > From:  <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] [ 
<mailto:[email protected]> mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter

        > Psenak

        > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 4:29 PM

        > To: Aijun Wang < <mailto:[email protected]> 
[email protected]>

        > Cc:  <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]

        > Subject: Re: [Lsr] FW: New Version Notification for

        > draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-attribute-04.txt

        >

        > Hi Aijun,

        >

        > here's my comments:

        >

        > The purpose of this draft is to advertise passive links.

        >

        > 1. I'm not sure the problem needs to be solved by IGPs. I tend to 
believe

        > ietf-idr-bgpls-inter-as-topology-ext is sufficient.

        >

        > 2. the solution that you proposed is wrong. You are trying to derive

        > topological data about the passive links from the prefix 
advertisement.

        > This is semantically incorrect and only works under very specific 
condition.

        > If you need to advertise a link, advertise it as a "special"

        > link, not as a "special" prefix.

        >

        > thanks,

        > Peter

        >

        > On 29/09/2020 03:17, Aijun Wang wrote:

        >> Hi, Peter:

        >>

        >> Would you like to review and give comments on the updates version of 
this

        > draft?

        >> We have also added the protocol extension proposal for OSPFv3.

        >>

        >> The update version of this draft can refer to

        >>  
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface> 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface

        >> -attribute

        >> Thanks in advance.

        >>

        >>

        >> Best Regards

        >>

        >> Aijun Wang

        >> China Telecom

        >>

        >>> -----Original Message-----

        >>> From:  <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] [ 
<mailto:[email protected]> mailto:[email protected]]

        >>> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2020 3:17 PM

        >>> To: Zhibo Hu < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]>; 
Gyan Mishra

        >>> < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]>; 
Aijun Wang < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]>;

        >>> Gyan S. Mishra < <mailto:[email protected]> 
[email protected]>

        >>> Subject: New Version Notification for

        >>> draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-attribute-04.txt

        >>>

        >>>

        >>> A new version of I-D,

        >>> draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-attribute-04.txt

        >>> has been successfully submitted by Aijun Wang and posted to the IETF

        >>> repository.

        >>>

        >>> Name:               draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-attribute

        >>> Revision:   04

        >>> Title:         Passive Interface Attribute

        >>> Document date:       2020-09-28

        >>> Group:               Individual Submission

        >>> Pages:               7

        >>> URL:

        >>>  
<https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-attribute-04> 
https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-attribute-04.

        >>> txt

        >>> Status:

        >>>  
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-att> 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-att

        >>> r

        >>> ibute/

        >>> Htmlized:

        >>>  
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-wang-lsr-passive-interfac> 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-wang-lsr-passive-interfac

        >>> e

        >>> -attribut

        >>> e

        >>> Htmlized:

        >>>  
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-attribut> 
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-attribut

        >>> e

        >>> -04

        >>> Diff:

        >>>  
<https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-at> 
https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-at

        >>> t

        >>> ribute-04

        >>>

        >>> Abstract:

        >>>      This document describes the mechanism that can be used to

        >>>      differentiate the passive interfaces from the normal interfaces

        >>>      within ISIS or OSPF domain.

        >>>

        >>>

        >>>

        >>>

        >>> Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of

        >>> submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at

        > tools.ietf.org <http://tools.ietf.org> .

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        >>>

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        >>

        >>

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