LSP-Ping Mechanisms for EVPN and PBB-EVPN
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BESS Workgroup                                              P. Jain, Ed.
Internet-Draft                                                  S. Salam
Intended status: Standards Track                              A. Sajassi
Expires: July 7, 2018                                Cisco Systems, Inc.
                                                              S. Boutros
                                                            VmWare, Inc.
                                                               G. Mirsky
                                                        ZTE Corporation.
                                                         January 3, 2018

               LSP-Ping Mechanisms for EVPN and PBB-EVPN
                    draft-jain-bess-evpn-lsp-ping-06

Abstract

   LSP-Ping is a widely deployed Operation, Administration, and
   Maintenance (OAM) mechanism in MPLS networks.  This document
   describes mechanisms for detecting data-plane failures using LSP Ping
   in MPLS based EVPN and PBB-EVPN networks.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Specification of Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Proposed Target FEC Stack Sub-TLVs  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     4.1.  EVPN MAC Sub-TLV  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     4.2.  EVPN Inclusive Multicast Sub-TLV  . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     4.3.  EVPN Auto-Discovery Sub-TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     4.4.  EVPN IP Prefix Sub-TLV  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   5.  Encapsulation of OAM Ping Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   6.  Operations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     6.1.  Unicast Data-plane connectivity checks  . . . . . . . . .   7
     6.2.  Inclusive Multicast Data-plane Connectivity Checks  . . .   9
       6.2.1.  Ingress Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
       6.2.2.  Using P2MP P-tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
       6.2.3.  Controlling Echo Responses when using P2MP P-tree . .  11
     6.3.  EVPN Aliasing Data-plane connectivity check . . . . . . .  11
     6.4.  EVPN IP Prefix (RT-5) Data-plane connectivity check . . .  11
   7.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   8.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     8.1.  Sub-TLV Type  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     8.2.  Proposed new Return Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   9.  Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   10. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
     10.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
     10.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14

1.  Introduction

   [RFC7432] describes MPLS based Ethernet VPN (EVPN) technology.  An
   EVPN comprises CE(s) connected to PE(s).  The PEs provide layer 2
   EVPN among the CE(s) over the MPLS core infrastructure.  In EVPN
   networks, PEs advertise the MAC addresses learned from the locally
   connected CE(s), along with MPLS Label, to remote PE(s) in the
   control plane using multi-protocol BGP.  EVPN enables multi-homing of
   CE(s) connected to multiple PEs and load balancing of traffic to and