Ramon Casellas <[email protected]> 
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2011-08-02 17:52

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"Margaria, Cyril (NSN - DE/Munich)" <[email protected]>
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Re: [Pce] request timeslot for draft-wang-pce-inter-as-extentions-01






El 02/08/2011 10:46, Margaria, Cyril (NSN - DE/Munich) escribió: 
Hi Ramon, 
 
From: ext Ramon Casellas [mailto:[email protected]] 

This should solve the problem mentioned except in the case the algorithm 
require to know the link properties in both direction at the same time, 
but the draft does not address this problem either.
 
Indeed, the problem is _bidirectional_ LSPs. The draft does address this 
by "embedding" the upstream link in the BRPC response. For unidirectional 
LSPs, the existing method works out of the box. In this sense, if PCE(i) 
just constructs a generic graph parsing both opaque types, it can just 
apply BRPC as in a multi-area, since its "TED" would include the InterAs 
links anyway.


[Cyril] If one follow strictly the rfc, yes, but the text could be 
extended (via errata for example)

[Cyril]  : well, for bidirectional LSP you need to check the properties in 
both direction, but both direction are not required to be checked at the 
same time : PCE (i+1) check the inter-AS link in direction i+1->i (one 
direction); PCE (i) check the inter-AS link in direction i->(i+1).
     [Xuerong Wang]:If every ASBR only connect to one ASBR, PCE(i+1)and 
PCE(i) can check the inter-AS link seprately.But consider following 
scenario,there are two inter-AS bi-direction links connect to 
ASBR4(i.e.,link A and link B),PCE2 must let PCE1 know which of them 
satisfy the constraints in direction i+1->i.  Similar situation is the 
inter-AS bi-direction links connect to ASBR5 (There are two inter-AS 
bi-direction links connect to ASBR5,i.e.,link C and link D).
 
 
[Ramon] Yes,  good point. I was sticking/assuming  BRPC as in current 
RFC5441 (narrow minded :) ?) . As you stated BRPC would need to be 
extended / clarified to allow this use case, and as far as I understood, 
draft-wang covers this, where the TE links that have been 
included/excluded by PCE(i+1) should be notifed to PCE(i) as the draft 
proposes, shouldn't they?

In case the algorithm really need to consider both te-properties (upstream 
and downstream)  you would need the TE-properties to be known by PCE(i). I 
Currently doubt that such requirement from an algorithm exist, if there is 
a example of an algorithm that really requires it (with BRPC and Dijkstra 
I think not), its welcomed.
[Ramon] Good point too. Even in intra-domain case, without extra 
assumptions such as both TE metrics are equal in both directions, it is 
not straightforward to compute the shortest bidirectional path. CSPF can 
check both directions of the TE link at the same time to insure that 
(asymmetric) unreserved bandwidth for that priority is enough when 
considering a link for relaxation. In any case, since only single InterAS 
links are to be considered, I agree such requirement is not clear.

The draft does include the inter-as link identifiers (which are known) but 
not their TE-properties, so in this regard the draft is not solving the 
problem.

[Xuerong Wang]:I think PCE(i+1) need not to include TE-properties of 
inter-AS links, because the selected inter-AS links already satisfy the 
required constraints,such as bandwith. Perhaps the only TE-property need 
to carry is TE metrics. But in the case of co-routed bidirectional LSP 
computation,maybe TE metrics need to be equeal in both directions? Or if 
there is indeed exist such requirement,the metric can carry in the PCRep 
too.

So, to get the whole picture, let's try to summarize:

a) If a single entity (PCE(i)) is able to know TE atts for both 
directions, current BRPC is ok. RFC5392 does not solve how, and other 
routing extensions would be needed, or TE attributes manually provisioned

[Xuerong Wang]:At first,in the case of bidirectional LSP computation,there 
indeed exist some problem as discussed in the maillist.And RFC5392 also 
point out the problem.Secondly,inter-AS computation is the very important 
scenario of PCE application,so we need to solve the problem.RFC5392 
introduces a method of IGP proxy,but how to do it is not clear. Proxy 
method should not be a local mechanism because it is related to the 
co-operate among different carrier.So at last,how to solve the prolem must 
be standalized. The method in draft-wang is very simple and valid. 
b) Otherwise, both directions of InterAS links should be checked 
independently, but this requires extending RFC5441, PCE(i+1) notifying of 
excluded / included links and draft-wang-pce-inter-as-extentions-01 
addresses this.

I guess my point, probably not well explained in previous mails, is that I 
would slightly prefer a) provided a good solution allows the upstream 
InterAS links to be known although I would not object to b) since no such 
good solution exists?.

Finally, I am a bit confused by your last statement. If b) is considered 
(i.e. independent checking, and link exclusion) what problem is left to 
solve? sorry for being dense.

[Xuerong Wang]:There are some cases that can not check the both directions 
of InterAS links independently. I'v described the scenario above in this 
mail. 


Thanks 
R.
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