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IGP Extensions for Link MTU
draft-hu-lsr-igp-link-mtu-03

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draft-hu-lsr-igp-link-mtu-03
Network Working Group                                              Z. Hu
Internet-Draft                                                   S. Peng
Intended status: Standards Track                                   X. Xi
Expires: 1 February 2025                                          Huawei
                                                            31 July 2024

                      IGP Extensions for Link MTU
                      draft-hu-lsr-igp-link-mtu-03

Abstract

   Segment routing (SR) leverages the source routing mechanism.  It
   allows for a flexible definition of end-to-end paths within IGP
   topologies by encoding paths as sequences of topological sub-paths
   which are called segments.  These segments are advertised by the
   link-state routing protocols (IS-IS and OSPF).  Unlike the MPLS, SR
   does not have the specific path construction signaling so that it
   cannot support the Path MTU.  This draft provides the necessary IS-IS
   and OSPF extensions about the Path MTU that need to be used on SR.
   Here, the term "OSPF" means both OSPFv2 and OSPFv3.

Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119]
   [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown
   here.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Link MTU Application Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.1.  Link MTU for SR Policy Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.2.  Link MTU for SR Best Effort Scenario  . . . . . . . . . .   5
   4.  IGP Extensions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     4.1.  IS-IS Extensions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     4.2.  OSPF Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   5.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   6.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   7.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   8.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10

1.  Introduction

   Segment routing (SR) leverages the source routing mechanism.  SR
   allows for a flexible definition of end-to-end paths within IGP
   topologies by encoding paths as sequences of topological sub-paths
   which are called segments.  These segments are advertised by the
   link-state routing protocols (IS-IS and OSPF).  The SR architecture
   as well as the routing policy is proposed in [RFC8402] and
   [I-D.ietf-spring-segment-routing-policy].  Two types of segments are
   defined, Prefix segments and Adjacency segments.  Prefix segments
   represent an ECMP-aware shortest path to a prefix (or a node), as per
   the state of the IGP topology.  Adjacency segments represent a hop
   over a specific adjacency between two nodes in the IGP.  A prefix
   segment is typically a multi-hop path while an adjacency segment, in
   most of the cases, is a one-hop path.  SR can compute the paths from
   end to end and without requiring any LDP or RSVP-TE signaling.  SR
   supports per-flow explicit routing while just maintaining per-flow
   state only at the source node.

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   SR architecture supports the distributed scenario and the centralized
   scenario.  In the distributed scenario, the segments are allocated
   and signaled by IGP or BGP and a node needs to compute the source-
   routed policy.  Some necessary IS-IS and OSPF extensions for SR are
   proposed in [RFC8665] [RFC8666] [RFC8667].  In a centralized
   scenario, the SR controller decides which nodes need to steer which
   packets on which source-routed policies.  However, in both
   conditions, the MTU is not included in the SR policy.  As the SR may
   push more MPLS labels or SRv6 SIDs in the packet header, the packets
   are more likely to be larger than the minimum MTU in the path
   compared to the traditional MPLS forwarding process.  Unfortunately,
   with the current mechanisms in SR, the path MTU information cannot be
   obtained in advance.  Therefore it cannot be ensured that the packet
   size is less than the path MTU which is the minimum link MTU of all
   the links in a path between a source node and a destination node.
   The definition of the path MTU is discussed in [RFC1191] [RFC8201].

   This draft describes the necessary IS-IS and OSPF extensions for
   obtaining the path MTU to be used on SR.  New sub-TLVs are introduced
   for both the IS-IS and OSPF protocols.  With the IGP flooding process
   in the distributed scenario or the BGP transmission to the
   controller, the ingress node or the controller is able to compute the
   path MTU for the SR policy.

2.  Terminology

   Router: A node that forwards IP packets not explicitly addressed to
   itself.

   Interface: A node's attachment to a link.

   Segment: An instruction a node executes on the incoming packet.  For
   example, forward packet according to shortest path to destination or
   a specific interface, etc..

   SR Policy: An ordered list of segments.

   MTU: Maximum Transmission Unit, the size in bytes of the largest IP
   packet, including the IP header and payload, that can be transmitted
   on a link or path.  Note that this could more properly be called the
   IP MTU, to be consistent with how other standards organizations use
   the acronym MTU.

   Link MTU: The maximum transmission unit, i.e., maximum IP packet size
   in bytes, that can be conveyed in one piece over a link.  Be aware
   that this definition is different from the definition used by other
   standards organizations.

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   For IETF documents, link MTU is uniformly defined as the IP MTU over
   the link.  This includes the IP header, but excludes link layer
   headers and other framing that is not part of IP or the IP payload.

   Be aware that other standards organizations generally define link MTU
   to include the link layer headers.

   For the MPLS data plane, this size includes the IP header and data
   (or other payload) and the label stack but does not include any
   lower-layer headers.  A link may be an interface (such as Ethernet or
   Packet-over- SONET), a tunnel (such as GRE or IPsec), or an LSP.

   Path: The set of links traversed by a packet between a source node
   and a destination node

   Path MTU: The minimum link MTU of all the links in a path between a
   source node and a destination node.

3.  Link MTU Application Examples

   This section uses the SR Policy and SR Best Effort scenarios as
   examples to describe the applications of link MTU.

3.1.  Link MTU for SR Policy Scenario

   Figure 1 shows an example of the Link MTU application for the SR
   Policy scenario.  In the SR Policy scenario, the link MTU application
   procedure is as follows:

   Step 1: Collect Link MTUs on the entire network through IGP.

   Step 2: BGP-LS reports the link MTU to the controller.

   Step 3: After the controller calculating the SR Policy path, record
   the minimum link MTU of all the links in the path as the Min Link
   MTU.  Consider the SRv6 encapsulation length as X.  Then Path MTU =
   Min Link MTU - X.

   Step 4: The Path MTU is delivered to the SR Policy headend through
   BGP SR policy / PCEP.  Headend fragments Packets Based on the Path
   MTU.

   In the case of a Topology Independent Loop-Free Alternate (TI-LFA) in
   P routers with encapsulation, It will re-encapsulate a new IPv6
   header and fragments Packets with the Path MTU of the ti-lfa path.

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               |--------------[ Controller ]-------------|
               |                                         |
               |                                         |
             [ P1 ]--1500--[ P2 ]--1500--[ P3 ]--1200--[ P4 ]
               |             |             |             |
               |             |             |             |
             1400          1400          1400           1400
               |             |             |             |
               |             |             |             |
             [ P5 ]--1500--[ P6 ]--1500--[ P7 ]--1200--[ P8 ]

            Figure 1: Figure 1: Link MTU for SR Policy Scenario

3.2.  Link MTU for SR Best Effort Scenario

   Figure 2 shows an example of the link MTU application for the SR Best
   Effort scenario.  The IGP calculates the Path MTU of per destination
   address.  For per destination address, record the minimum link MTU of
   all the links in the IGP SPF path as the Min Link MTU.  In the case
   of a Topology Independent Loop-Free Alternate (TI-LFA) in P routers
   with encapsulation, It will re-encapsulate a new IPv6 header and
   fragments Packets with the Path MTU of the ti-lfa path.

             [ P1 ]--1500--[ P2 ]--1500--[ P3 ]--1200--[ P4 ]
               |             |             |             |
               |             |             |             |
             1400          1400          1400           1400
               |             |             |             |
               |             |             |             |
             [ P5 ]--1500--[ P6 ]--1500--[ P7 ]--1200--[ P8 ]

          Figure 2: Figure 2: Link MTU for SR Best Effort Scenario

4.  IGP Extensions

   This document describes IS-IS and OSPF extensions to flood the router
   interface MTU to each node within an IGP domain.  Then the controller
   or the original node collects all the link MTUs from the routers.  So
   the original node can compute the minimum link MTU of all the links
   in the path.  The source node can limit the packet size less than the
   path MTU.

4.1.  IS-IS Extensions

   A new sub-TLV called link MTU sub-TLV is defined for TLVs 22, 23, 25,
   141, 222, 223 in the Router Information LSP to carry the MTU of the
   interface associated with the link . Each sub-TLV is encoded as shown
   in Figure 3.

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   Type: MTU, 1 byte, TBD.

   Length: # of octets in the value field, 1 byte.

   Value: The value is the MTU size of a link, 2 bytes.

                      0                   1
                      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
                     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
                     |   Type = MTU  |     Length    |
                     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
                     |            MTU-Value          |
                     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

        Figure 3: Figure 3: Link MTU Sub-TLV for the IS-IS extension

   The use and meaning of these fields are as follows:

   Type - A single octet encoding the sub-TLV type.  Here the type is 1
   octet.

   Length - A single octet encoding the total length of the value field
   of the sub-TLV in octets.

   MTU-Value - Two octets encoding the MTU size of the sub-TLV.  This
   field identifies the size of the router interfaces.

   This sub-TLV is optional.

   This document defines a link MTU sub-TLV for IS-IS extension.  The
   codepoints need to be determined by the IANA.

4.2.  OSPF Extensions

   A new sub-TLV called link MTU sub-TLV is defined in the corresponding
   LSA as specified for OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 to carry the MTU of the
   interface associated with the link.  Each sub-TLV is encoded as shown
   in Figure 4.

   Type: MTU, 2 bytes, TBD.

   Length: # of octets in the value field, 2 bytes.

   Value: The value is the MTU size of a link, 2 bytes.

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                      0                   1
                      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
                     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
                     |           Type = MTU          |
                     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
                     |            Length             |
                     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
                     |           MTU-Value           |
                     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

        Figure 4: Figure 4: Link MTU Sub-TLV for the OSPF extension

   The use and meaning of these fields are as follows:

   Type - Two octets encoding the TLV type.  Here the type is 2 octets.

   For OSPFv2, the link MTU is advertised as an optional sub-TLV of the
   OSPFv2 Extended Link TLV in the OSPFv2 Extended Link Opaque LSA as
   defined in [RFC7684] and the codepoints need to be determined by the
   IANA.

   For OSPFv3, the link MTU is advertised as an optional sub-TLV of the
   Router-Link TLV in the OSPFv3 E-Router-LSA as defined in [RFC8362]
   and the codepoints need to be determined by the IANA.

   Length - Two octets encoding the total length of the value field of
   the sub-TLV in octets.

   MTU-Value - Two octets encoding the MTU size of the TLV.  This field
   identifies the size of the router interfaces.

   If the link MTU sub-TLV is advertised for multiple times for the same
   link in different OSPFv2 Extended Link Opaque LSAs or OSPFv3 E-
   Router-LSAs originated by the same OSPF router, the link MTU sub-TLV
   in the OSPFv2 Extended Link Opaque LSA with the smallest Opaque ID or
   in the OSPFv3 E-Router-LSA with the smallest Link State ID MUST be
   used by receiving OSPF routers.

5.  Acknowledgements

   TBD.

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6.  IANA Considerations

   This document requests that IANA allocates a new sub-TLV type as
   defined in Section 3.1 from the "Sub-TLVs for TLVs 22, 23, 25, 141,
   222, and 223 (Extended IS reachability, IS Neighbor Attribute, L2
   Bundle Member Attributes, inter-AS reachability information, MT-ISN,
   and MT IS Neighbor Attribute TLVs)" registry as specified.

   Value                  Description                  Reference
   ---------------------- ---------------------------- --------------
   TBD                    IS-IS Link MTU               This document

                     Figure 5: Figure 3: IS-IS Link MTU

   This document requests that IANA allocates a new sub-TLV type as
   defined in Section 3.2 from the "OSPFv2 Extended Link TLV Sub-TLVs"
   registry.

   Value                  Description                  Reference
   ---------------------- ---------------------------- --------------
   TBD                    OSPFv2 Link MTU              This document

                    Figure 6: Figure 4: OSPFv2 Link MTU

   This document requests that IANA allocates a new sub-TLV type as
   defined in Section 3.2 from the "OSPFv3 Extended LSA Sub-TLVs"
   registry.

   Value                  Description                  Reference
   ---------------------- ---------------------------- --------------
   TBD                    OPSFv3 Link MTU              This document

                    Figure 7: Figure 5: OSPFv3 Link MTU

7.  Security Considerations

   These extensions to IS-IS and OSPF do not add any new security issues
   to the existing IGP.

8.  References

   [I-D.ietf-spring-segment-routing-policy]
              Filsfils, C., Talaulikar, K., Voyer, D., Bogdanov, A., and
              P. Mattes, "Segment Routing Policy Architecture", Work in
              Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-spring-segment-
              routing-policy-22, 22 March 2022,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-spring-
              segment-routing-policy-22>.

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   [RFC1191]  Mogul, J. and S. Deering, "Path MTU discovery", RFC 1191,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC1191, November 1990,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1191>.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC7684]  Psenak, P., Gredler, H., Shakir, R., Henderickx, W.,
              Tantsura, J., and A. Lindem, "OSPFv2 Prefix/Link Attribute
              Advertisement", RFC 7684, DOI 10.17487/RFC7684, November
              2015, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7684>.

   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
              2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
              May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

   [RFC8201]  McCann, J., Deering, S., Mogul, J., and R. Hinden, Ed.,
              "Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6", STD 87, RFC 8201,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8201, July 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8201>.

   [RFC8362]  Lindem, A., Roy, A., Goethals, D., Reddy Vallem, V., and
              F. Baker, "OSPFv3 Link State Advertisement (LSA)
              Extensibility", RFC 8362, DOI 10.17487/RFC8362, April
              2018, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8362>.

   [RFC8402]  Filsfils, C., Ed., Previdi, S., Ed., Ginsberg, L.,
              Decraene, B., Litkowski, S., and R. Shakir, "Segment
              Routing Architecture", RFC 8402, DOI 10.17487/RFC8402,
              July 2018, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8402>.

   [RFC8665]  Psenak, P., Ed., Previdi, S., Ed., Filsfils, C., Gredler,
              H., Shakir, R., Henderickx, W., and J. Tantsura, "OSPF
              Extensions for Segment Routing", RFC 8665,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8665, December 2019,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8665>.

   [RFC8666]  Psenak, P., Ed. and S. Previdi, Ed., "OSPFv3 Extensions
              for Segment Routing", RFC 8666, DOI 10.17487/RFC8666,
              December 2019, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8666>.

   [RFC8667]  Previdi, S., Ed., Ginsberg, L., Ed., Filsfils, C.,
              Bashandy, A., Gredler, H., and B. Decraene, "IS-IS
              Extensions for Segment Routing", RFC 8667,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8667, December 2019,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8667>.

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Authors' Addresses

   Zhibo Hu
   Huawei
   Huawei Bld., No.156 Beiqing Rd.
   Beijing
   100095
   China
   Email: huzhibo@huawei.com

   Shuping Peng
   Huawei
   Huawei Bld., No. 156 Beiqing Rd.
   Beijing
   100095
   China
   Email: pengshuping@huawei.com

   Xing Xi
   Huawei
   Huawei Bld., No. 156 Beiqing Rd.
   Beijing
   100095
   China
   Email: xixing1@huawei.com

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