Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) E. Rosen, Ed.
Request for Comments: 6625 Cisco Systems, Inc.
Updates: 6514 Y. Rekhter, Ed.
Category: Standards Track Juniper Networks, Inc.
ISSN: 2070-1721 W. Henderickx
Alcatel-Lucent
R. Qiu
Huawei
May 2012
Wildcards in Multicast VPN Auto-Discovery Routes
Abstract
In Multicast Virtual Private Networks (MVPNs), customer multicast
flows are carried in "tunnels" through a service provider's network.
The base specifications for MVPN define BGP multicast VPN "auto-
discovery routes" and specify how to use an auto-discovery route to
advertise the fact that an individual customer multicast flow is
being carried in a particular tunnel. However, those specifications
do not provide a way to specify, in a single such route, that
multiple customer flows are being carried in a single tunnel. Those
specifications also do not provide a way to advertise that a
particular tunnel is to be used by default to carry all customer
flows, except in the case where that tunnel is joined by all the
provider edge routers of the MVPN. This document eliminates these
restrictions by specifying the use of "wildcard" elements in the
customer flow identifiers. With wildcard elements, a single auto-
discovery route can refer to multiple customer flows or even to all
customer flows.
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Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................3
1.1. Terminology ................................................3
1.2. Wildcards in S-PMSI A-D Routes .............................5
1.3. Use Cases ..................................................5
2. Encoding of Wildcards ...........................................7
3. Finding the Matching S-PMSI A-D Route ...........................8
3.1. Finding the Match for Data Transmission ....................8
3.2. Finding the Match for Data Reception .......................9
3.2.1. Finding the Match for (C-S,C-G) .....................9
3.2.2. Finding the Wildcard Match for (C-*,C-G) ............9
4. Procedures for S-PMSI A-D Routes with Wildcards ................10
4.1. Procedures for All Kinds of Wildcards .....................10
4.2. Procedures for (C-*,C-G) S-PMSI A-D Routes ................11
4.3. Procedures for (C-S,C-*) S-PMSI A-D Routes ................12
4.4. Procedures for (C-*,C-*) S-PMSI A-D Routes ................13
5. Security Considerations ........................................15
6. Acknowledgments ................................................15
7. Normative References ...........................................15
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1. Introduction
In Multicast Virtual Private Networks (MVPNs), customer multicast
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