Jeff,

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From: Jeff Tantsura [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2018 5:36 PM
To: Linda Dunbar <[email protected]>; Robert Raszuk <[email protected]>
Cc: SPRING WG List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [spring] solicit feedback on 
draft-dunbar-sr-sdwan-over-hybrid-networks-02 proposing SD-WAN source node 
using UDP port to indicate to SR ingress node how to map to appropriate Binding 
SID

Hi Linda,

(not speaking as rtgwg chair, where you might want to present the draft)
[Linda] Yes, we have another draft describing the gap of existing protocols to 
address SD-WAN scenarios: 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dm-net2cloud-gap-analysis/, which we 
would like to present to RTGwg as it touches protocols in several WGs.



The scenario we are talking about is really - WAN (underlay/transport) 
controller interworking with SD-WAN (overlay) controller.
[Linda] Yes.

Resource allocation could happen by either WAN controller pre-allocating 
resources and then exposing them to SD-WAN controller for consumption (ala 
carte) or SD-WAN controller asking for a particular set of resources (on 
demand) and WAN controller providing these. In any case – there’s business 
relationship between 2 or more parties, so from functionality prospective a 
node that is transit (not service aware) should forward the traffic based on 
the destination, while node that is service aware (BSID anchor) should pop 
IP/UDP and lookup the BSID/steer the traffic into SR policy, using SPRING lingo.
[Linda] The Resource management are completely within the operator’s domain. 
The draft is only to describe a way to force SD-WAN traffic to the selected 
Ingress PEs (and potentially the desired egress PEs). How those Ingress PEs and 
Egress PEs are selected is completely out of the scope of the draft.
The section 3.3 describes How & Why SR is useful for those use cases.


SRinUDP encap provides ability to traverse non SR /3rd party networks, BSID 
(has to be provided by WAN controller at the resource allocation time) is 
pushed by source SD-WAN node with the FEC that is associated with the 
particular behavior and hence doesn’t require any additional mapping, e.g BSID 
value is the mapping (BSID lookup yields an egress adj/tunnel)

[Linda] SRinUDP is another case (which hasn’t been discussed in the draft yet, 
should be added in the future). The draft currently only covers SD-WAN source 
node encapsulate some “Key” in the tunnel between SD-WAN source node and SR 
Ingress node, so that SR ingress node can map the flow to its desired Binding 
SID.

Hope this makes sense to you

[Linda] Absolutely. Thank you very much for the suggestion.

Cheers,
Jeff

From: spring <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on 
behalf of Linda Dunbar <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Monday, July 2, 2018 at 15:11
To: Robert Raszuk <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: SPRING WG List <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [spring] solicit feedback on 
draft-dunbar-sr-sdwan-over-hybrid-networks-02 proposing SD-WAN source node 
using UDP port to indicate to SR ingress node how to map to appropriate Binding 
SID

Robert,

There are many definitions for SD-WAN in the industry. I used the one from 
ONUG, who claims that “SD-WAN” concept was created by them in 2013: 
https://www.onug.net/software-defined-wide-area-network-sd-wan/.

In terms of real time deployment, there are plenty. For example, here are some 
public available cases & services:
https://youtu.be/JRoTXMSxtCY;
http://www.verizonenterprise.com/products/networking/managed-network-services/managed-sdwan/
http://www.centurylink.com/business/networking/sd-wan.html

It is CPE pooling together paths from different ISPs.   The draft proposes a 
method for Service Provider to attract flows which would otherwise traverse 
public internet, to traverse its own domain.

Linda

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Robert Raszuk
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2018 4:50 PM
To: Linda Dunbar <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: SPRING WG List <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [spring] solicit feedback on 
draft-dunbar-sr-sdwan-over-hybrid-networks-02 proposing SD-WAN source node 
using UDP port to indicate to SR ingress node how to map to appropriate Binding 
SID

Hi Linda,

You mentioned in the document the below quote:

   "SD-WAN, as described by ONUG (Open Network User Group), is about
   pooling WAN bandwidth from n service providers to get better WAN
   bandwidth management, visibility & control."

Can you provide some real life examples listing which service providers allow 
to be externally pooled for their available WAN bandwidth as well as what 
interface is used to get such pooling instantiated in place ?

Once we understand above next natural question would be to ask how accurate is 
such pooling in the light of the observation that due to basic characteristics 
of the service provider's traffic patterns available bandwidth or in other 
words congestion usually have very transient nature ?

If I were writing such document I would give up any pooling and instead use one 
of many available techniques to measure the end to end path quality when making 
at the ingress the decision of the preferred path to be taken. That is in fact 
what number of SD-WANs today already do without any need to  make any attempts 
to enforce anything at the ingress to the transit journey :).

Many thx,
Robert.



On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:33 PM, Linda Dunbar 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dunbar-sr-sdwan-over-hybrid-networks/ 
describes a method for end-to-end (E2E) SD-WAN paths (most likely encrypted) to 
traverse specific list of network segments, some of which are SR enabled and 
others may be IP networks that do not support SR, to achieve the desired 
optimal E2E quality.
In another word, one or both SD-WAN end points are NOT directly attached to SR 
PE nodes.

Under many circumstances the SR's Binding SID can't be exposed to the SD-WAN 
source node (e.g. if the SD-WAN source node belongs to a different 
administrator than the one who manage/own the SR domain).

The draft propose a method for SR Controller to expose a "Key" to the SD-WAN 
source node. The SR Ingress node will map the "Key" carried by the SD-WAN 
traffic/flows to their designated Binding SID.
The "Key" can be carried by GRE key field, or be encoded as UDP Source Port 
used by SD-WAN source node to differentiate flows.

We understand that UDP source port is usually used for Entropy purpose.

We want to hear feedback, flaws or allergic reaction to our proposed method for 
some deployment scenarios like:
  1) only one or two 3rd party hops are between SD-WAN end points and PE and 
those hops may not even use Entropy (like LTE links); or
  2) Grouping Applications by UDP ports may enforce same application traverse 
through same route, which is acceptable by many deployment scenarios).

Thank you very much.

Linda Dunbar

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