Hi Uma,

Inline comments,


-----Message d'origine-----
De : Uma Chunduri [mailto:[email protected]] 
Envoyé : mardi 29 octobre 2013 07:00
À : LITKOWSKI Stephane DTF/DERX; [email protected]; Hannes Gredler
Cc : [email protected]; rogeriomariano; [email protected]
Objet : RE: I-D Action: draft-ietf-rtgwg-remote-lfa-02.txt

IMHO, there is no need for tie-breakers here (or it really *can't* help much).

This is a non-issue for OSPF.

[SLI] OSPF is an old time for me :) so plz correct me if I'm wrong. 
An OSPF router may advertise as an ISIS router many type of prefixes :
- internal
- external
- Stub (Loopback, or non adj network)
- transit (interface)

What is good in OSPF compared to ISIS, is that we know what are the prefixes 
belonging to the node compared to what is "external" (type 3 or type 5 ...).
But whatever, you would need to tiebreak and say, I'm only looking at type 1 
LSA. And in type 1 LSA, I would have multiple infos :
        - OSPF router ID but it may not match the LDP listening IP. Or we have 
to say that LDP listening IP must match the IGP Router ID.
        - Links : Stub, Transit, Virtual ... and in Stub you may have /x and 
/32 ... so you may need to tiebreak ?

Do I miss something ?


For the other IGP, if this is the perceived problem: (plz confirm) - PQ node 
may not accept TLDP session from PLR, if PLR  chooses an incorrect IP  
represented by PQ node (IGP/ISIS database).

[SLI] Right

Because, today there is no document mandates an IP address which effectively 
represents the ISIS node. We can't *fully* rely on TLV 134 because this is not 
mandated for non TE environments. 

[SLI] Right, TLV134 is not available everywhere ....

Instead of inventing a new thing here, the closest and one possible approach is 
to have a document which mandates a reachable prefix (loopback) in TLV 134, 
**regardless of TE present/supported or not**. This is the key and it fully 
solves the issue (it's important to note here - though today it's optional to 
have TLV 134 per 5305, some vendors including Ericsson do emit this regardless 
of TE in the local ISIS LSP). Does it make sense? (Les ?)

[SLI] I'm ok on the principle, but my concern is that this implies that LDP 
listening IP would mandatory need to be configured to match the TLV 134. This 
may cause issue in some networks using multiple loopbacks (one loopback per 
protocol or service ...). Is this critical or not ?
Note that Juniper also always advertise TLV134 based on what I know.
The simpler we can do, the better it would be :)

Advantage of this approach is, lot of vendors need not do any thing for this 
and for the remaining folk who are *not* doing this; should upgrade to have 
this TLV (probably upgrade may be necessary with any other always "workable" 
approach too) to represent reachable loopback IP address of the node always.

Quick replies in-line [Uma]:


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Uma C. 


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Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 6:42 PM
To: [email protected]; Hannes Gredler
Cc: [email protected]; rogeriomariano; [email protected]
Subject: RE: I-D Action: draft-ietf-rtgwg-remote-lfa-02.txt

Hi Stewart,

It sounds good to me, except for the proposed tie breaker mechanism. As you 
know, today there is no existing mechanism for LDP to advertise the TLDP 
listening IP address in the IGP. So in short/mid term rLFA deployment, no IGP 
solution would be available. 

[Uma]: True, only  if a non-TE ISIS node doesn't advertise TLV 134 today.

[SLI] : yes and no ... TLV134 may not represent the LDP listening IP address 
... IGP and LDP are independent and each may have his own configuration.


So the draft must propose a last resort "working" tie breaker. 

[Uma]: If the above is TRUE, I don't think you can do much by defining 
       a "working" tie breaker here. Also, I don't think there is one 
       possible really in that situation.


IMHO, using the lowest numerical value would be a very bad idea ... because 
this has no sense (just tie break, but without any insurance that the chosen 
prefix would be good). In order to bring more insurance, at least, I think the 
the tie breaker must check that the prefix used is an internal one (when 
possible ...) and is a /32. 

[Uma]: /32 is fine but you don't know from the TLV if it is a internal prefix 
or 
       external prefix always 
       (IMO, this could be the blocker for proposing any "working" tie breaker).

[SLI] Right , with TE TLVs in ISIS we are loosing the "external" identification 
that's why I added "when possible ...". But /32 is mandatory.


I don't think we could make something more precise because otherwise we would 
need to address IGP protocol specifities (TLVs, LSAs ... fields to check...). 

[Uma]: I don't think there is any issue for OSPF in this regard (LSA.. as you 
mentioned)
       For ISIS (TLV as you said), yes at times one may quickly lost in TLV 
135s, if one wants 
       to really figure out this /32 (TLV 135) is indeed represents the PQ node.

Thoughts ?


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