BFD Multipoint Active Tails.
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Internet Engineering Task Force D. Katz
Internet-Draft Juniper Networks
Intended status: Standards Track D. Ward
Expires: June 22, 2018 Cisco Systems
S. Pallagatti, Ed.
Individual Contributor
G. Mirsky, Ed.
ZTE Corp.
December 19, 2017
BFD Multipoint Active Tails.
draft-ietf-bfd-multipoint-active-tail-06
Abstract
This document describes active tail extensions to the Bidirectional
Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol for multipoint and multicast
networks.
Requirements Language
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "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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provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79.
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Katz, et al. Expires June 22, 2018 [Page 1]
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Protocol Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Multipoint Client Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2. Multipoint Client Session Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.3. State Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.3.1. New State Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.3.2. State Variable Initialization and Maintenance . . . . 6
3.4. Controlling Multipoint BFD Options . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.5. State Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.6. Session Establishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.7. Discriminators and Packet Demultiplexing . . . . . . . . 8
3.8. Controlling Tail Packet Transmission . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.9. Soliciting the Tails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.10. Verifying Connectivity to Specific Tails . . . . . . . . 9
3.11. Detection Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.12. MultipointClient Down/AdminDown Sessions . . . . . . . . 11
3.13. Base BFD Specification Text Replacement . . . . . . . . . 11
3.13.1. Reception of BFD Control Packets . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.13.2. Demultiplexing BFD Control Packets . . . . . . . . . 12
3.13.3. Transmitting BFD Control Packets . . . . . . . . . . 12
4. Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5. Operational Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.1. No Head Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.2. Unreliable Head Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.3. Semi-reliable Head Notification and Tail Solicitation . . 14
5.4. Reliable Head Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
8. Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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