BIER Ping and Trace
draft-ietf-bier-ping-01
Network Work group N. Kumar
Internet-Draft C. Pignataro
Intended status: Standards Track Cisco Systems, Inc.
Expires: July 21, 2017 N. Akiya
Big Switch Networks
L. Zheng
M. Chen
Huawei Technologies
G. Mirsky
Ericsson
January 17, 2017
BIER Ping and Trace
draft-ietf-bier-ping-01
Abstract
Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) is an architecture that
provides optimal multicast forwarding through a "BIER domain" without
requiring intermediate routers to maintain any multicast related per-
flow state. BIER also does not require any explicit tree-building
protocol for its operation. A multicast data packet enters a BIER
domain at a "Bit-Forwarding Ingress Router" (BFIR), and leaves the
BIER domain at one or more "Bit-Forwarding Egress Routers" (BFERs).
The BFIR router adds a BIER header to the packet. The BIER header
contains a bit-string in which each bit represents exactly one BFER
to forward the packet to. The set of BFERs to which the multicast
packet needs to be forwarded is expressed by setting the bits that
correspond to those routers in the BIER header.
This document describes the mechanism and basic BIER OAM packet
format that can be used to perform failure detection and isolation on
BIER data plane.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Conventions used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2. Requirements notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. BIER OAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. BIER OAM message format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2. Return Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.3. BIER OAM TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.3.1. Original SI-BitString TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.3.2. Target SI-BitString TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.3.3. Incoming SI-BitString TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.3.4. Downstream Mapping TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.3.5. Responder BFER TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.3.6. Responder BFR TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.3.7. Upstream Interface TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.3.8. Reply-To TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4. Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.1. BIER OAM Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.2. Per BFER ECMP Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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