Network Working Group P. Psenak
Request for Comments: 4915 Cisco Systems
Category: Standards Track S. Mirtorabi
Force10 Networks
A. Roy
L. Nguyen
P. Pillay-Esnault
Cisco Systems
June 2007
Multi-Topology (MT) Routing in OSPF
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Abstract
This document describes an extension to Open Shortest Path First
(OSPF) in order to define independent IP topologies called Multi-
Topologies (MTs). The Multi-Topologies extension can be used for
computing different paths for unicast traffic, multicast traffic,
different classes of service based on flexible criteria, or an in-
band network management topology.
An optional extension to exclude selected links from the default
topology is also described.
Psenak, et al. Standards Track [Page 1]
RFC 4915 Multi-Topology (MT) Routing in OSPF June 2007
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Differences between Multi-Topology and TOS-Based
Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Requirements Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2. Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Base MT Functional Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. MT Area Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2. Adjacency for MTs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.3. Sending OSPF Control Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.4. Advertising MT Adjacencies and the Corresponding IP
Prefixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.4.1. Inter-Area and External Routing . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.5. Flushing MT Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.6. MT SPF Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.7. MT-ID Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.8. Forwarding in MT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. Default Topology Link Exclusion Functional Specifications . . 7
4.1. Exclusion of Links in the Default Topology . . . . . . . . 7
4.2. New Area Data Structure Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.3. Adjacency Formation with Link Exclusion Capability . . . . 8
4.4. OSPF Control Packets Transmission over Excluded Links . . 9
4.5. OSPF LSA Advertisement and SPF Computation for
Excluded Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5. Interoperability between MT-Capable and Non-MT-Capable
Routers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.1. Demand Circuit Compatibility Considerations . . . . . . . 10
6. Migration from Non-MT-Area to MT-Area . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7. MT Network Management Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.1. Create Dedicated Management Topology to Include All
the Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.2. Extend the Default Topology to All the Nodes . . . . . . . 11
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Appendix A. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Appendix B. OSPF Data Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
B.1. Router-LSAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
B.2. Network-LSAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
B.3. Summary-LSAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
B.4. AS-external-LSAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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