Hi Acee

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 9:40 PM Acee Lindem (acee) <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Gyan,
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> *From: *Gyan Mishra <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Thursday, July 29, 2021 at 9:13 PM
> *To: *Acee Lindem <[email protected]>
> *Cc: *"[email protected]" <
> [email protected]>, "[email protected]" <
> [email protected]>
> *Subject: *Re: [Lsr] Comments on "Prefix Unreachable Announcement" -
> draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement
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> Hi Acee
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> Answers in-line
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> On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 7:02 PM Acee Lindem (acee) <acee=
> [email protected]> wrote:
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> Speaking as WG member:
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> Authors,
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> I have comments and questions on the draft – many of them that I have
> raised before.
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> 1.   If you use the standard advertisements and overload the
> prefix-originator information, all the routers in the domain will need to
> support it and you will have a fork lift upgrade. Otherwise, the ABRs which
> don’t advertise a prefix unreachable will actually attract traffic from
> down level routers. I’ve raised this several times in the past.
>
>        Gyan> Yes to use the PUA feature all nodes must be upgraded.
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> Section 7 has been updated to reflect.
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> *7 
> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement-06#section-7>.
>   Deployment Considerations*
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>    To support the PUA advertisement, the ABRs should be upgraded
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>    according to the procedures described in Section 4 
> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement-06#section-4>.
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> This just says the ABRs need to be upgraded. I’m saying all the routers need 
> to be upgraded since any router in the path misinterpreting the PUA and 
> actually installing it as a positive route could result in a blackhole or 
> worse, a loop.
>
>
    Gyan> Good catch & you are correct all devices need to be upgraded.
Will update the draft.

>
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> 1.
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> 2.   How do you know what prefixes to protect with this PUA mechanism? Is
> it any prefix you’ve seen in the past? What if the prefix is actually taken
> out of service? What if it was a misconfiguration? What if the prefix is
> unreachable when the ABR IGP is started?
>
> So the main scenario this is used for is RFC 5283  inter area LDP
> extension for LPM match instead for MPLS standard exact match for FEC.  For
> this MPLS scenario where the operators had carved core AS into multiple
> areas or levels.  So the BGP next hop attribute update source loop0 is what
> we are tracking that is summarized so when the egress PE goes down the LSP
> now does not black hole on the ABR and the control plane convergence occurs
> with the PUA mechanism and forces the LSP to get built to the alternate
> PE.  In this scenario and maybe even others the PUA is being used to track
> the next hop and force the failover. This solution can apply as well to non
> MPLS, IP based scenario BGP next hop convergence to trigger the control
> plane convergence with PUA negative advertisement so can also apply to SRv6.
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> So how would the ABRs know which prefixes these are? Is it any summary
> component or are they configured?
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> Gyan> So it could be any prefix within the summary range that could have
> the PUA action occur, but the most important one is the BGP next hop
> attribute loop to be tracked.
>
   We will add text around that we can have an ACL to match only
interesting prefixes which in this case the only one is the next hop
attribute.

> 1.
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> 2.   The forwarding plane behavior is non-standard? How does it work?
> This is clearly under specified
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> There is no change to the data plane forwarding
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>  behavior.  The change is with the control plane to set the next hop
> loopback from the down PE that no longer in the RIB/FIB to null so the
> control plane converges on the alternate next hop.  When the control plane
> convergence occurs based on the PUA negative advertisement the data plane
> follows and the RIB/FIB get programmed as they would normally.
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>
> Ahh… I was about to ask this same question on the “IS-IS and OSPF
> Extension for Event Notification” draft. So while both these drafts claim
> to not upgrade the route table, both do but indirectly when next-hop for
> the BGP loopback is removed
>
 Gyan> It does but the IGP control plane perspective but does  not in any
> way change the data plane behavior which of course automatically follows
> the control plane.
>
> 1.   .
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> 2.   This is somewhat minor compared to the other
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> 1.   comments, in section 6 both conditions 1 and 2 can be true at the
> same time. In the event the other comments are resolved, this section needs
> some work.
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>  We would make #1 less then or equal to do both conditions can never be
> true simultaneously in the next update.
>
> Ok – this needs to be clarified as well as whether one stops as soon as a
> condition is satisfied, i.e., an implied “else” between conditions.
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>
       Gyan>Yes  Will do

    Thanks Acee!!

> Thanks,
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> Acee
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> Thanks,
> Acee
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