That makes sense to me, Reshad, Thanks,

— Carlos.

> On Nov 4, 2015, at 9:48 AM, Reshad Rahman (rrahman) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> <Speaking as individual contributor>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks Alex and Carlos. Since RFC5883 doesn’t preclude having multiple BFD 
> sessions for MH, I think that the operational model for BFD IP MH should 
> allow for multiple sessions between 2 endpoints (same src/dst/vrf). To 
> support this, we could e.g. add local discriminator to the key.
> 
> Note that I am not pushing for another OOB mechanism.
> 
> Regards,
> Reshad.
> 
> From: Alexander Vainshtein <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 9:38 AM
> To: "Carlos Pignataro (cpignata)" <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>, Reshad <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Cc: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: RE: Multiple BFD sessions between the same pair of end-points
> 
> Hi all,
> I concur with Carlos, only wanted to add that in the case of BFD in MPLS LSP 
> ability for in-band initialization does not exist (e.g. in the case of PHP, 
> see Section 5 in RFC 5884), and so an OOB initialization procedure was 
> unavoidable.
> 
> I’d say we need a very strong use case for multiple BFD sessions between the 
> same pair of endpoints to justify introduction of yet another OOB 
> initialization procedure.
> 
> My 2,
> Sasha
> 
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> From: Rtg-bfd [mailto:[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Carlos Pignataro (cpignata)
> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 3:16 PM
> To: Reshad Rahman (rrahman)
> Cc: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Multiple BFD sessions between the same pair of end-points
> 
> Hi Reshad,
> 
> It really depends on what is considered a “path” over which BFD detects 
> faults, and how the initial demux can be done vs. bootstrapped out-of-band.
> 
> RFC 5881 has the text quoted by Greg, because in that case single-hop 
> initialization procedures can be done (by binding the interface to BFD 
> context) and not require out-of-band discriminator bootstrapping.
> 
> However, on a single interface between two forwarding endpoints, there could 
> be multiple sessions in a generic application. The simplest example is what 
> is described in the second paragraph of 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5882#section-6 
> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5882#section-6>. In that case, a path is a 
> specific diffserv code point over IPv4 between two endpoints, and that is the 
> context used for initialization using single-hop procedures. In RFC5885 we 
> chose to allow only one, to use single-hop initialization for example within 
> a tunnel (PW) context.
> 
> For the multi-hop case, there could also be multiple sessions between 
> endpoints. If there is only one session, then the initialization can be done 
> using single-hop procedures binding source/dst addresses. However, is there 
> are multiple sessions, as e.g., if there is some ECMP-awareness, then some 
> different and additional mechanism (e.g., out-of-band bootstrapping) is 
> needed. This is described in the second paragraph of 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5883#section-3 
> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5883#section-3>. In fact, these two options 
> are covered in S4.1 (limit to one session and use src/dst) and S4.2 (allow 
> multiple sessions and use an OOB bootstrapping).
> 
> As far as the YANG models, I’d think that single session for both single- and 
> multi-hop covers vast majority of real cases, being pragmatic. If someone 
> wants to have for example multiple sessions between a pair of endpoint 
> addresses in multi-hop, then an OOB mechanism is needed, and I do not believe 
> there is a spec’ed one other than for MPLS.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> — Carlos.
> 
>> On Nov 3, 2015, at 4:00 PM, Reshad Rahman (rrahman) <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Sam,
>> 
>> Typo in my email indeed. What I meant is that there could be vendor specific 
>> extensions if needed.
>> 
>> Also looks like there was confusion in the design team (seemingly caused by 
>> my misinterpretation of what was said), there is no known implementation 
>> which supports multiple BFD single-hop sessions for the same pair of 
>> endpoints (right Santosh?). For MH it’s a different story because of 
>> multiple-paths.
>> 
>> The DT will get together to clarify and apologies for the confusion.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Reshad.
>> 
>> From: Sam Aldrin <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 2:48 AM
>> To: Reshad <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> Cc: Santosh P K <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>, 
>> Gregory Mirsky <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>, "[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> Subject: Re: Multiple BFD sessions between the same pair of end-points
>> 
>> Reshad,
>> 
>>> On Nov 2, 2015, at 9:29 PM, Reshad Rahman (rrahman) <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Santosh,
>>> 
>>> Even for single-hop we had discussions about implementations which support 
>>> the option of having multiple BFD single-hop sessions on 1 interface 
>>> between 2  endpoints. That was an argument for having the BFD config in 
>>> routing applications. This is what was discussed today in the WG. And I 
>>> think Greg’s point is that we don’t have to support this in the base model, 
>>> but implementations are have vendor specific model which supports this 
>>> behavior.
>> Are there already vendor specific models/implementations in the single hop 
>> case? OR did you mean, there could be vendor specific extensions?
>> 
>> -sam
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Reshad.
>> 
>> 
>> From: Rtg-bfd <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
>> on behalf of Santosh P K <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 1:25 AM
>> To: Gregory Mirsky <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>, "[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> Subject: RE: Multiple BFD sessions between the same pair of end-points
>> 
>> This is form RFC 5881 section 3.
>> 
>> In this application, there will be only a single BFD session between
>>    two systems over a given interface (logical or physical) for a
>>    particular protocol.  The BFD session must be bound to this
>>    interface.
>> 
>> Which says for singlehop you will have only single BFD session for an 
>> interface.  The case where we are struggling in Yang is for multihop BFD 
>> session.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Santosh P K
>> 
>> 
>> From: Rtg-bfd [mailto:[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Gregory Mirsky
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 7:57 AM
>> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> Subject: Multiple BFD sessions between the same pair of end-points
>> 
>> Dear All,
>> I think that this paragraph from Section 2 of RFC 5881 prohibits multiple 
>> single-hop BFD sessions between the same pair of end points:
>>    Each BFD session between a pair of systems MUST traverse a separate
>>    network-layer path in both directions.  This is necessary for
>>    demultiplexing to work properly, and also because (by definition)
>>    multiple sessions would otherwise be protecting the same path.
>> 
>>                 Regards,
>>                                 Greg

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