Hi Guys,

I thought this may be of interest in light of discussions around deployments 
and running code - because one of the things we've been testing is inter-domain 
traffic steering with CRH on both our DPDK implementation and another 
implementation.

So - the setup we used last night:

6 systems in a lab - one of which linked to the open internet.  Call these S1 
-> S6
3 systems in a lab on the other side of the world - no peering between the 
networks in question.  Call these R1 -> R3

We applied a SID list on S1, that steered S1 -> S2 -> S3 -> S6 -> R1 -> R3, 
with the relevant mappings from the CRH SID's to the underlying addressing (S2 
had a mapping for the SID for S3, S3 had a mapping for the SID corresponding to 
S6, S6 had a mapping for the SID corresponding to R1 etc)

Then we sent some packets - and the test was entirely successful.  

What this effectively means is that if two providers agree to share the SID 
mappings - it is possible to steer across one network, out over an open path, 
and across a remote network.  Obviously this relies on the fact that EH's 
aren't being dropped by intermediate providers, but this isn't something we're 
seeing.

Combine this with the BGP signaling draft - and the SID's can then be signaled 
between the providers - work still going on with regards to this for testing 
purposes.  Just as a note - there would be no requirement to share the full SID 
mapping or topologies when doing this with BGP - the requirement would be only 
to share the relevant SID's necessary for the steering. 

I can say from our side - with various other providers - this is something that 
we see *immense* use case for - for a whole host of reasons.

Thanks

Andrew




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