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Enhanced Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
draft-ietf-idr-bgp-enhanced-route-refresh-05

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Authors Keyur Patel , Enke Chen , Balaji Venkatachalapathy
Last updated 2013-12-09
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draft-ietf-idr-bgp-enhanced-route-refresh-05
IDR                                                             K. Patel
Internet-Draft                                                   E. Chen
Intended status: Standards Track                    B. Venkatachalapathy
Expires: June 12, 2014                                     Cisco Systems
                                                        December 9, 2013

              Enhanced Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
            draft-ietf-idr-bgp-enhanced-route-refresh-05.txt

Abstract

   In this document we enhance the existing BGP route refresh mechanisms
   to provide for the demarcation of the beginning and the ending of a
   route refresh.  The enhancement can be used to facilitate correction
   of BGP RIB inconsistencies in a non-disruptive manner.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   3.  Protocol Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     3.1.  Enhanced Route Refresh Capability . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     3.2.  Subtypes for ROUTE-REFRESH Message  . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   5.  Error Handling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   6.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   7.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   8.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   9.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6

1.  Introduction

   It is sometimes necessary to perform routing consistency validations
   such as checking for possible missing withdraws between BGP speakers
   [RFC4271].  Currently such validations typically involve off-line,
   manual operations which can be tedious and time consuming.

   In this document we enhance the existing BGP route refresh mechanisms
   [RFC2918] to provide for the demarcation of the beginning and the
   ending of a route refresh (which refers to the complete re-
   advertisement of the Adj-RIB-Out to a peer, subject to routing
   policies).  The enhancement can be used to facilitate on-line, non-
   disruptive consistency validation of BGP routing updates.

2.  Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" are to
   be interpreted as described in [RFC2119] only when they appear in all
   upper case.  They may also appear in lower or mixed case as English
   words, without any normative meaning.

3.  Protocol Extensions

   The BGP protocol extensions introduced in this document include the
   definition of a new BGP capability, named "Enhanced Route Refresh
   Capability", and the specification of the message subtypes for the
   ROUTE-REFRESH message.

3.1.  Enhanced Route Refresh Capability

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   The "Enhanced Route Refresh Capability" is a new BGP capability
   [RFC5492].  IANA has assigned a Capability Code of 70 for this
   capability . The Capability Length field of this capability is zero.

   By advertising this capability to a peer, a BGP speaker conveys to
   the peer that the speaker supports the message subtypes for the
   ROUTE-REFRESH message and the related procedures described in this
   document.

3.2.  Subtypes for ROUTE-REFRESH Message

   The "Reserved" field of the ROUTE-REFRESH message specified in
   [RFC2918] is re-defined as the "Message Subtype" with the following
   values:

         0 - Normal route refresh request [RFC2918]
                 with/without ORF [RFC5291]
         1 - Demarcation of the beginning of a route refresh operation.
             Also known as a "BoRR message" or just a "BoRR".
         2 - Demarcation of the ending of a route refresh operation.
             Also known as a "EoRR message" or just a "EoRR".

   The remaining values of the message subtypes are reserved for future
   use.  The use of the new message subtypes is described in the
   Operations section.

4.  Operation

   A BGP speaker that supports the message subtypes for the ROUTE-
   REFRESH message and the related procedures SHOULD advertise the
   "Enhanced Route Refresh Capability".

   The following procedures are applicable only if a BGP speaker has
   received the "Enhanced Route Refresh Capability" from a peer.

   Before the speaker starts a route refresh that is either initiated
   locally, or in response to a "normal route refresh request" from the
   peer, the speaker MUST send a BoRR message.  After the speaker
   completes the re-advertisement of the entire Adj-RIB-Out to the peer,
   it MUST send an EoRR message.

   Conceptually the "entire Adj-RIB-Out" for a peer in this section
   refers to all the route entries in the "Adj-RIB-Out" for the peer at
   the start of the route refresh operation.  These route entries
   comprise of both, the reachability as well as unreachability
   information.  When a route entry in the "ADJ-RIB-Out" changes, only
   the modified route entry needs to be advertised.

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   In processing a ROUTE-REFRESH message from a peer, the BGP speaker
   MUST examine the "message subtype" field of the message and take the
   appropriate actions.  The message processing rules for ROUTE-REFRESH
   message with subtype of 0 are described in [RFC2918] and [RFC5291].
   A BGP speaker can receive a BoRR message from a peer at anytime,
   either as a result of a peer responding to a ROUTE-REFESH message, or
   as a result of a peer unilaterally initiating a route refresh.  When
   a BGP speaker receives a BoRR message from a peer, it MUST mark all
   the routes with the given <AFI, SAFI> from that peer as stale.  As it
   receives routes from its peer's subsequent Adj-RIB-Out re-
   advertisement, these replace any corresponding stale routes.  When a
   BGP speaker receives an EoRR message from a peer, it MUST immediately
   remove any routes from the peer that are still marked as stale for
   that <AFI, SAFI>.  Such purged routes MAY be logged for future
   analysis.

   An implementation MAY impose a locally configurable upper bound on
   how long it would retain any stale routes.  Once the upper bound is
   reached, the implementation MAY remove any routes from the peer that
   are still marked as stale for that <AFI, SAFI> without waiting for an
   EoRR message.

5.  Error Handling

   This document defines a new NOTIFICATION error code:

        Error Code     Symbolic Name

            TBD        ROUTE-REFRESH Message Error

   The following error subcodes are defined as well:

          Subcode      Symbolic Name

             1         Invalid Message Length

   The error handling specified in this section is applicable only when
   a BGP speaker has received the "Enhanced Route Refresh Capability"
   from a peer.

   When the BGP speaker detects an error while processing a ROUTE-
   REFRESH message with a non-zero "Message Subtype" field, it MUST send
   a NOTIFICATION message with Error Code "ROUTE-REFRESH Message Error".
   The Data field of the NOTIFICATION message MUST contain the complete
   ROUTE-REFRESH message.

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   If the length, excluding the fixed-size message header, of the ROUTE-
   REFRESH message with Message Subtype 1 and 2 is not 4, then the error
   subcode is set to "Invalid Message Length".

   When the BGP speaker receives a ROUTE-REFRESH message with an invalid
   Subtype, it SHOULD log an error and ignore the received ROUTE-REFRESH
   message.

6.  IANA Considerations

   This document defines the Enhanced Route Refresh Capability for BGP.
   The Capability Code 70 has been assigned by the IANA.  This document
   also defines two new subcodes for the Route Refresh message.  They
   need to be registered with the IANA.  We request IANA to create a new
   registry for the Route Refresh message subcodes as follows:

          Under "Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Parameters":
          Registry: "BGP Route Refresh Subcodes"
          Reference: [draft-ietf-idr-bgp-enhanced-refresh-05.txt]
          Registration Procedure(s): Values 0-127 Standards Action, values
          128-254 First Come, First Served, Value 255 reserved

          Value  Code                Reference
          0      Route-Refresh       [RFC2918], [RFC5291]
          1      BoRR                [draft-ietf-idr-bgp-enhanced-refresh-05.txt]
          2      EoRR                [draft-ietf-idr-bgp-enhanced-refresh-05.txt]
          255    Reserved

   In addition, this document defines an NOTIFICATION error code and
   several error subcodes for the ROUTE-REFRESH message.  The
   NOTIFICATION error code need to be registered with the IANA.  We
   request IANA to create a new registry for the error subcodes as
   follows:

          Under "BGP Error Subcodes":
          Registry: "BGP ROUTE-REFRESH Message Error subcodes"
          Reference: [draft-ietf-idr-bgp-enhanced-refresh-05.txt]
          Registration Procedure(s): Values 0-127 Standards Action, values
          128-255 First Come, First Served

          Value  Code                     Reference
          0      Reserved
          1      Invalid Message Length   [draft-ietf-idr-bgp-enhanced-refresh-05.txt]

7.  Security Considerations

   This extension to BGP does not change the underlying security issues.

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8.  Acknowledgements

   The authors would like to thank Pedro Marques, Pradosh Mohapatra,
   Robert Raszuk, Pranav Mehta, and Shyam Sethuram, Bruno Decraene,
   Martin Djernaes, Jeff haas, Ilya Varlashkin, Rob Shakir, Paul Jakma,
   Jie Dong, Qing Zeng, Albert Tian, and Jakob Heitz for their review
   and comments.  The authors would like to thank John Scudder for the
   review and contribution to this document.

9.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC2918]  Chen, E., "Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4", RFC 2918,
              September 2000.

   [RFC4271]  Rekhter, Y., Li, T., and S. Hares, "A Border Gateway
              Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", RFC 4271, January 2006.

   [RFC5291]  Chen, E. and Y. Rekhter, "Outbound Route Filtering
              Capability for BGP-4", RFC 5291, August 2008.

   [RFC5492]  Scudder, J. and R. Chandra, "Capabilities Advertisement
              with BGP-4", RFC 5492, February 2009.

Authors' Addresses

   Keyur Patel
   Cisco Systems
   170 W. Tasman Drive
   San Jose, CA 95124  95134
   USA

   Email: keyupate@cisco.com

   Enke Chen
   Cisco Systems
   170 W. Tasman Drive
   San Jose, CA 95124  95134
   USA

   Email: enkechen@cisco.com

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   Balaji Venkatachalapathy
   Cisco Systems
   170 W. Tasman Drive
   San Jose, CA 95124  95134
   USA

   Email: bvenkata@cisco.com

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