BFD in Demand Mode over Point-to-Point MPLS LSP
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BFD Working Group G. Mirsky
Internet-Draft ZTE Corp.
Intended status: Standards Track September 9, 2020
Expires: March 13, 2021
BFD in Demand Mode over Point-to-Point MPLS LSP
draft-mirsky-bfd-mpls-demand-08
Abstract
This document describes procedures for using Bidirectional Forwarding
Detection (BFD) in Demand mode to detect data plane failures in
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) point-to-point Label Switched
Paths.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Conventions used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.1. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.2. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3. Use of the BFD Demand Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Appendix A. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1. Introduction
[RFC5884] defined use of the Asynchronous method of Bidirectional
Detection (BFD) [RFC5880] to monitor and detect failures in the data
path of a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Switched Path
(LSP). Use of the Demand mode, also specified in [RFC5880], has not
been defined so far. This document describes procedures for using
the Demand mode of BFD protocol to detect data plane failures in MPLS
point-to-point (p2p) LSPs.
2. Conventions used in this document
2.1. Terminology
MPLS: Multiprotocol Label Switching
LSP: Label Switched Path
LER: Label switching Edge Router
BFD: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
p2p: Point-to-Point
2.2. 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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3. Use of the BFD Demand Mode
[RFC5880] defines that the Demand mode MAY be:
o asymmetric, i.e. used in one direction of a BFD session;
o switched to and from without bringing BFD session to Down state
through using a Poll Sequence.
For the case of BFD over MPLS LSP, ingress Label switching Edge
Router (LER) usually acts as Active BFD peer and egress LER acts as
Passive BFD peer. The Active peer bootstraps the BFD session by
using LSP ping. If the BFD session is configured to use the Demand
mode, once the BFD session is in Up state the ingress LER MUST switch
to the Demand mode as defined in Section 6.6 [RFC5880]. The egress
LER also follows procedures defined in Section 6.6 [RFC5880] and
ceases further transmission of periodic BFD control packets to the
ingress LER.
In this state BFD peers MAY remain as long as the egress LER is in Up
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