IPv4 NLRI with IPv6 Next Hop Use Cases
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draft-mishra-bess-ipv4nlri-ipv6nh-use-cases-08
BESS Working Group G. Mishra
Internet-Draft Verizon Inc.
Intended status: Best Current Practice M. Mishra
Expires: August 26, 2021 Cisco Systems
J. Tantsura
Apstra, Inc.
L. Wang
Juniper Networks, Inc.
Q. Yang
Arista Networks
A. Simpson
Nokia
S. Chen
Huawei Technologies
February 22, 2021
IPv4 NLRI with IPv6 Next Hop Use Cases
draft-mishra-bess-ipv4nlri-ipv6nh-use-cases-08
Abstract
As Enterprises and Service Providers upgrade their brown field or
green field MPLS/SR core to an IPv6 transport such as MPLS LDPv6, SR-
MPLSv6 or SRv6, Multiprotocol BGP (MP-BGP)now plays an important role
in the transition of the core from IPv4 to IPv6 being able to
continue to support legacy IPv4, VPN-IPv4, and Multicast VPN IPv4
customers.
This document describes the critical use case and OPEX savings of
being able to leverage the MP-BGP capability exchange usage as a pure
transport allowing both IPv4 and IPv6 to be carried over the same BGP
TCP session. By doing so, allows for the elimination of Dual
Stacking on the PE-CE connections making the peering IPv6-ONLY to now
carry both IPv4 and IPv6 Network Layer Reachability Information
(NLRI). This document now provides a solution for IXPs (Internet
Exchange points) that are facing IPv4 address depletion at these
peering points to use BGP-MP capability exchange defined in [RFC5549]
to carry IPv4 (Network Layer Reachability Information) NLRI in an
IPv6 next hop using the [RFC5565] softwire mesh framework.
Status of This Memo
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3. eBGP PE-CE IPv4 and IPv6 NLRI over IPv6 Next Hop Peer Use
Case Interop Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. RFC 8950 updates to RFC 5549 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. Operational Improvements with Single IPv6 transport peer . . 8
6. Operational Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
9. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Appendix A. IPv4 NLRI IPv6 Next Hop Vendor Testing . . . . . . . 12
A.1. Router and Switch Vendors Support and Quality Assurance
Engineering Lab Results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
A.2. Router and Switch Vendors Interoperability Lab Results. . 12
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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1. Introduction
As Enterprises and Service Providers upgrade their brown field or
green field MPLS/SR core to an IPv6 transport such as MPLS LDPv6, SR-
MPLSv6 or SRv6, Multiprotocol BGP (MP-BGP)now plays an important role
in the transition of the core from IPv4 to IPv6, and being able to
continue to support legacy IPv4, VPN-IPv4, and Multicast VPN IPv4
customers.
IXPs (Internet Exchange points) are also facing IPv4 address
depletion at their peering points, which are large Layer 2 transit
backbones that service providers peer and exchange IPv4 and IPv6
(Network Layer Reachability Information) NLRI. Today these transit
exchange points are dual stacked. One proposal to solve this issue
is to use [RFC5549] to carry IPv4 (Network Layer Reachability
Information) NLRI in an IPv6 next hop and eliminate the IPv4 peering
completely using the concept of [RFC5565] softwire mesh framework.
So now with the MP-BGP reach capability exchanged over IPv4 AFI over
IPv6 next hop peer we can now advertise IPv4(Network Layer
Reachability Information) NLRI over IPv6 peering using the [RFC5565]
softwire mesh framework.
Multiprotocol BGP (MP-BGP) specifies that the set of usable next-hop
address families is determined by the Address Family Identifier (AFI)
and the Subsequent Address Family Identifier (SAFI). Historically
the AFI/SAFI definitions for the IPv4 address family only have
provisions for advertising a Next Hop address that belongs to the
IPv4 protocol when advertising IPv4 or VPN-IPv4 Network Layer
Reachability Information (NLRI). [RFC5549] specifies the extensions
necessary to allow advertising IPv4 NLRI or VPN-IPv4 NLRI with a Next
Hop address that belongs to the IPv6 protocol. This comprises an
extension of the AFI/SAFI definitions to allow the address of the
Next Hop for IPv4 NLRI or VPN-IPv4 NLRI to also belong to the IPv6
Protocol. [RFC5549] defines the encoding of the Next Hop to
determine which of the protocols the address actually belongs to, and
a new BGP Capability allowing MP-BGP Peers to dynamically discover
whether they can exchange IPv4 NLRI and VPN-IPv4 NLRI with an IPv6
Next Hop.
With this new MP-BGP capability exchange allows the BGP peering
session to act as a pure transport to allow the session to carry
Address Family Identifier (AFI) and the Subsequent Address Family
Identifier (SAFI) for both IPv4 and IPv6.
Furthermore, a number of these existing AFI/SAFIs allow the Next Hop
to belong to either the IPv4 Network Layer Protocol or the IPv6
Network Layer Protocol, and specify the encoding of the Next Hop
information to determine which of the protocols the address actually
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belongs to. For example, [RFC4684] allows the Next Hop address to be
either IPv4 or IPv6 and states that the Next Hop field address shall
be interpreted as an IPv4 address whenever the length of Next Hop
address is 4 octets, and as an IPv6 address whenever the length of
the Next Hop address is 16 octets.
For example, the AFI/SAFI <25/65> used (as per [RFC6074]) to perform
L2VPN auto-discovery, allows advertising NLRI that contains the
identifier of a Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) instance or that
identifies a particular pool of attachment circuits at a given
Provider Edge (PE), while the Next Hop field contains the loopback
address of a PE. Similarly, the AFI/SAFI <1/132> (defined in
[RFC4684]) to advertise Route Target (RT) membership information,
allows advertising NLRI that contains such RT membership information,
while the Next Hop field contains the address of the advertising
router.
There are situations such as those described in [RFC4925] and in
[RFC5565] where carriers (or large enterprise networks acting as
carrier for their internal resources) may be required to establish
connectivity between 'islands' of networks of one address family type
across a transit core of a differing address family type. This
includes both the case of IPv6 islands across an IPv4 core and the
case of IPv4 islands across an IPv6 core. Where Multiprotocol BGP
(MP-BGP) is used to advertise the corresponding reachability
information, this translates into the requirement for a BGP speaker
to advertise Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) of a given
address family via a Next Hop of a different address family (i.e.,
IPv6 NLRI with IPv4 Next Hop and IPv4 NLRI with IPv6 Next Hop).
The current AFI/SAFI definitions for the IPv6 address family assume
that the Next Hop address belongs to the IPv6 address family type.
Specifically, as per [RFC2545] and [RFC8277], when the <AFI/SAFI> is
<2/1>, <2/2>, or <2/4>, the Next Hop address is assumed to be of IPv6
type. As per [RFC4659], when the <AFI/SAFI> is <2/128>, the Next Hop
address is assumed to be of IPv6-VPN type.
However, [RFC4798] and [RFC4659] specify how an IPv4 address can be
encoded inside the Next Hop IPv6 address field when IPv6 NLRI needs
to be advertised with an IPv4 Next Hop. [RFC4798] defines how the
IPv4-mapped IPv6 address format specified in the IPv6 addressing
architecture ([RFC4291]) can be used for that purpose when the <AFI/
SAFI> is <2/1>, <2/2>, or <2/4>. [RFC4659] defines how the IPv4-
mapped IPv6 address format as well as a null Route Distinguisher can
be used for that purpose when the <AFI/SAFI> is <2/128>. Thus, there
are existing solutions for the advertisement of IPv6 NLRI with an
IPv4 Next Hop.
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Similarly, the current AFI/SAFI definitions for advertisement of IPv4
NLRI or VPN-IPv4 NLRI assume that the Next Hop address belongs to the
IPv4 address family type. Specifically, as per [RFC4760] and
[RFC8277], when the <AFI/SAFI> is <1/1>, <1/2>, or <1/4>, the Next
Hop address is assumed to be of IPv4 type. As per [RFC4364], when
the <AFI/SAFI> is <1/128>, the Next Hop address is assumed to be of
VPN-IPv4 type. As per [RFC6513] and [RFC6514], when the <AFI/SAFI>
is <1/129>, the Next Hop address is assumed to be of VPN-IPv4 type.
There is clearly no generally applicable method for encoding an IPv6
address inside the IPv4 address field of the Next Hop. Hence, there
is currently no specified solution for advertising IPv4 or VPN-IPv4
NLRI with an IPv6 Next Hop.
A new specification for carrying IPv4 Network Layer Reachability
Information (NLRI) of a given address family via a Next Hop of a
different address family is now defined in [RFC5549], and specifies
the extensions necessary to do so. This comprises an extension of
the AFI/SAFI definitions to allow the address of the Next Hop for
IPv4 NLRI or VPN-IPv4 NLRI to belong to either the IPv4 or the IPv6
protocol, the encoding of the Next Hop information to determine which
of the protocols the address actually belongs to, and a new BGP
Capability allowing MP-BGP peers to dynamically discover whether they
can exchange IPv4 NLRI and VPN- IPv4 NLRI with an IPv6 Next Hop.
With the new extensions defined in [RFC5549] supporting Network Layer
Reachability Information (NLRI) and next hop address family mismatch,
the BGP peer session can now be treated as a pure transport and carry
both IPv4 and IPv6 NLRI at the PE-CE edge over a single IPv6 TCP
session. This allows for the elimination of dual stack from the PE-
CE peering point, and now allow the peering to be IPv6-ONLY. The
elimination of IPv4 on the PE-CE peering points translates into OPEX
expenditure savings of point-to-point infrastructure links as well as
/31 address space savings and administration and network management
of both IPv4 and IPv6 BGP peers. This reduction decreases the number
of PE-CE BGP peers by fifty percent, which is a tremendous cost
savings for all Enterprises and Service Providers.
While the savings exists at the PE-CE edge, on the core side PE to
Route Reflector peering carrying <AFI/SAFI> IPv4 <1/1>, VPN-IPV4
<1/128>, and Multicasat VPN <1/129>, the cost savings nets to a break
even to be the same as with an IPV4 Core carrying IPv6 NLRI IPV6
<2/1>, VPN-IPV6 <2/128>, and Multicasat VPN <2/129>. This document
also provides a possible solution for IXPs (Internet Exchange points)
that are facing IPv4 address depletion at these peering points to use
BGP-MP capability exchange defined in [RFC5549] to carry IPv4
(Network Layer Reachability Information) NLRI in an IPv6 next hop
using the [RFC5565] softwire mesh framework.
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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.
3. eBGP PE-CE IPv4 and IPv6 NLRI over IPv6 Next Hop Peer Use Case
Interop Testing
This particualr use case for external BGP PE-CE edge peering
interoperability testing defined in this draft utilizing [RFC8950]
next hop encoding to carry both IPv4 and IPv6 NLRI over an IPv6 Next
hop encoded peer. Today the IPv4 NLRI and IPv6 NLRI are carried over
separate BGP sessions based on the address family of the NLRI being
transported. With this drafts use case, the IPv6 NLRI Unicast SAFI
along with now the IPv4 NLRI Unicast SAFI, is now being carried by
the sinlge transport style IPv6 next hop peer.
This document describes the use case of advertising with IPv4 NLRI
over IPv6 Next hop with MP_REACH_NLRI with:
o AFI = 1
o SAFI = 1
o Length of Next Hop Address = 16 or 32
o Next Hop Address = IPv6 address of next hop (potentially followed
by the link-local IPv6 address of the next hop). This field is to
be constructed as per Section 3 of [RFC2545].
The BGP speaker receiving the advertisement MUST use the Length of
Next Hop Address field to determine which network-layer protocol the
next hop address belongs to.
Note that this method of using the Length of the Next Hop Address
field to determine which network-layer protocol the next hop address
belongs to (out of the set of protocols allowed by the AFI/SAFI
definition) is the same as used in [RFC4684] and [RFC6074].
4. RFC 8950 updates to RFC 5549
This section describes the updates to [RFC8950] next hop encoding
from [RFC5549]. In [RFC5549] when AFI/SAFI 1/128 is used, the next-
hop address is encoded as an IPv6 address with a length of 16 or 32
bytes. To accommodate all existing implementations and bring
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consistency with VPNv4oIPv4 and VPNv6oIPv6, this document modifies
how the next-hop address is encoded. The next-hop address is now
encoded as a VPN-IPv6 address with a length of 24 or 48 bytes
[RFC8950] (see Sections 3 and 6.2). This change addresses Erratum ID
5253 (Err5253). As all known and deployed implementations are
interoperable today and use the new proposed encoding, the change
does not break existing interoperability.
[RFC5549] next hop encoding of MP_REACH_NLRI with:
o AFI = 1
o SAFI = 1, 2, or 4
o Length of Next Hop Address = 16 or 32
o Next Hop Address = IPv6 address of next hop (potentially followed
by the link-local IPv6 address of the next hop). This field is to
be constructed as per Section 3 of [RFC2545].
o NLRI= NLRI as per current AFI/SAFI definition
It also allows advertising with [RFC4760] of an MP_REACH_NLRI with:
o AFI = 1
o SAFI = 128 or 129
o Length of Next Hop Address = 16 or 32
o NLRI= NLRI as per current AFI/SAFI definition
[RFC8950] next hop encoding of MP_REACH_NLRI with:
o AFI = 1
o SAFI = 1, 2, or 4
o Length of Next Hop Address = 16 or 32
o Next Hop Address = IPv6 address of next hop (potentially followed
by the link-local IPv6 address of the next hop). This field is to
be constructed as per Section 3 of [RFC2545].
o NLRI= NLRI as per current AFI/SAFI definition
It also allows advertising with [RFC4760] of an MP_REACH_NLRI with:
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o AFI = 1
o SAFI = 128 or 129
o Length of Next Hop Address = 24 or 48
o Next Hop Address = VPN-IPv6 address of next hop with an 8-octet RD
set to zero (potentially followed by the link-local VPN-IPv6
address of the next hop with an 8-octet RD is set to zero).
o NLRI= NLRI as per current AFI/SAFI definition
5. Operational Improvements with Single IPv6 transport peer
As Enterprises and Service Providers migrate their IPv4 core to an
MPLS LDPv6 or SRv6 transport, they must continue to be able to
support legacy IPv4 customers. With the new extensions defined in
[RFC4760], supporting Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI)
and next hop address family mismatch, the BGP peer session can now be
treated as a pure transport and carry both IPv4 and IPv6 NLRI at the
PE-CE edge. This paves the way to now eliminate dual stacking on all
PE-CE peering points to customers making the peering IPv6 only. With
this change all IPv4 and IPv6 Network Layer Reachability Information
(NLRI) will now be carried over a single BGP session. This also
solves the dual stack issue with IXP (Internet Exchange Points)
having to maintain separate peering for both IPv4 and IPv6. From an
operations perspective the PE-CE edge peering will be drastically
simplified with the elimination of IPv4 peers yielding a reduction of
peers by 50 percent. From an operations perspective prior to
elimination of IPv4 peers an audit is recommended to identify and
IPv4 and IPv6 peering incongruencies that may exist and to rectify
prior to elimination of the IPv4 peers. No operational impacts or
issues are expected with this change.
6. Operational Considerations
With a sinlge IPv6 Peer carrying both IPv4 and IPv6 NLRI there are
some operational considerations in terms of what changes and what
does not change.
What does not change with a single IPv6 transport peer carrying IPv4
NLRI and IPv6 NLRI below:
Routing Policy configuration is still separate for IPv4 and IPv6
configured by capability as previously
Layer 1, Layer 2 issues such as 1 way fiber or fiber cut will impact
both IPv4 and IPv6 as previously.
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If the interface is admin down the IPv6 peer would go down and IPv4
NLRI and IPv6 NLRI would be withdrawn as previously.
What does change with a single IPv6 transport peer carrying IPv4 NLRI
and IPv6 NLRI below:
Physical interface is no longer dual stacked. Any change in IPv6
address or DAD state will impact both IPv4 and IPv6 NLRI exchange
Single BFD session for both IPv4 and IPv6 NLRI fate sharing as the
session is now tied to the transport which now is only IPv6 address
family
Both IPv4 and IPv6 peer now exists under the IPv4 address family
configuration
Fate sharing of IPv4 and IPv6 address family from a logical
perspective now carried over a single IPv6 peer
7. IANA Considerations
There are not any IANA considerations.
8. Security Considerations
The extensions defined in this document allow BGP to propagate
reachability information about IPv6 routes over an MPLS IPv4 core
network. As such, no new security issues are raised beyond those
that already exist in BGP-4 and use of MP-BGP for IPv6. The security
features of BGP and corresponding security policy defined in the ISP
domain are applicable. For the inter-AS distribution of IPv6 routes
according to case (a) of Section 4 of this document, no new security
issues are raised beyond those that already exist in the use of eBGP
for IPv6 [RFC2545].
9. Acknowledgments
10. References
10.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
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[RFC2545] Marques, P. and F. Dupont, "Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol
Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing", RFC 2545,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2545, March 1999,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2545>.
[RFC4291] Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "IP Version 6 Addressing
Architecture", RFC 4291, DOI 10.17487/RFC4291, February
2006, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4291>.
[RFC4364] Rosen, E. and Y. Rekhter, "BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private
Networks (VPNs)", RFC 4364, DOI 10.17487/RFC4364, February
2006, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4364>.
[RFC4760] Bates, T., Chandra, R., Katz, D., and Y. Rekhter,
"Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4", RFC 4760,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4760, January 2007,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4760>.
[RFC5492] Scudder, J. and R. Chandra, "Capabilities Advertisement
with BGP-4", RFC 5492, DOI 10.17487/RFC5492, February
2009, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5492>.
[RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.
[RFC8277] Rosen, E., "Using BGP to Bind MPLS Labels to Address
Prefixes", RFC 8277, DOI 10.17487/RFC8277, October 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8277>.
10.2. Informative References
[I-D.ietf-idr-dynamic-cap]
Ramachandra, S. and E. Chen, "Dynamic Capability for BGP-
4", draft-ietf-idr-dynamic-cap-14 (work in progress),
December 2011.
[RFC4659] De Clercq, J., Ooms, D., Carugi, M., and F. Le Faucheur,
"BGP-MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) Extension for
IPv6 VPN", RFC 4659, DOI 10.17487/RFC4659, September 2006,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4659>.
[RFC4684] Marques, P., Bonica, R., Fang, L., Martini, L., Raszuk,
R., Patel, K., and J. Guichard, "Constrained Route
Distribution for Border Gateway Protocol/MultiProtocol
Label Switching (BGP/MPLS) Internet Protocol (IP) Virtual
Private Networks (VPNs)", RFC 4684, DOI 10.17487/RFC4684,
November 2006, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4684>.
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[RFC4798] De Clercq, J., Ooms, D., Prevost, S., and F. Le Faucheur,
"Connecting IPv6 Islands over IPv4 MPLS Using IPv6
Provider Edge Routers (6PE)", RFC 4798,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4798, February 2007,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4798>.
[RFC4925] Li, X., Ed., Dawkins, S., Ed., Ward, D., Ed., and A.
Durand, Ed., "Softwire Problem Statement", RFC 4925,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4925, July 2007,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4925>.
[RFC5549] Le Faucheur, F. and E. Rosen, "Advertising IPv4 Network
Layer Reachability Information with an IPv6 Next Hop",
RFC 5549, DOI 10.17487/RFC5549, May 2009,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5549>.
[RFC5565] Wu, J., Cui, Y., Metz, C., and E. Rosen, "Softwire Mesh
Framework", RFC 5565, DOI 10.17487/RFC5565, June 2009,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5565>.
[RFC6074] Rosen, E., Davie, B., Radoaca, V., and W. Luo,
"Provisioning, Auto-Discovery, and Signaling in Layer 2
Virtual Private Networks (L2VPNs)", RFC 6074,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6074, January 2011,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6074>.
[RFC6513] Rosen, E., Ed. and R. Aggarwal, Ed., "Multicast in MPLS/
BGP IP VPNs", RFC 6513, DOI 10.17487/RFC6513, February
2012, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6513>.
[RFC6514] Aggarwal, R., Rosen, E., Morin, T., and Y. Rekhter, "BGP
Encodings and Procedures for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP
VPNs", RFC 6514, DOI 10.17487/RFC6514, February 2012,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6514>.
[RFC8126] Cotton, M., Leiba, B., and T. Narten, "Guidelines for
Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26,
RFC 8126, DOI 10.17487/RFC8126, June 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8126>.
[RFC8950] Litkowski, S., Agrawal, S., Ananthamurthy, K., and K.
Patel, "Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability
Information (NLRI) with an IPv6 Next Hop", RFC 8950,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8950, November 2020,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8950>.
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Appendix A. IPv4 NLRI IPv6 Next Hop Vendor Testing
IPv4 NLRI with IPv6 Next Hop encoding is supported for all BGP peers
both iBGP and eBGP.
This section details the vendor support QA testing of RFC 8950 Next
Hop Encoding for "PE-CE eBGP" using GUA (Global Unicast Address),
Link Local (LL) peering. This drafts goal is to first ensure that QA
testing of all features and functionality works with "eBGP PE-CE" use
case single peer carrying both IPv4 NLRI and IPv6 NLRI and that the
routing policy features are all still fully functionality do not
change.
A.1. Router and Switch Vendors Support and Quality Assurance
Engineering Lab Results.
+-----------+----------------+---------------+-----------+
| Vendor | PE-CE eBGP GUI | PE-CE eBGP LL | QA Tested |
+-----------+----------------+---------------+-----------+
| Cisco | *** | | |
| Juniper | *** | | |
| Nokia/ALU | *** | | |
| Arista | *** | | |
| Huawei | *** | | |
+-----------+----------------+---------------+-----------+
Table 1: Vendor Support
A.2. Router and Switch Vendors Interoperability Lab Results.
This section details the vendor interoperability testing and support
of RFC5549 that all features and functionality works with "eBGP PE-
CE" use case with having a single peer carrying both IPv4 NLRI and
IPv6 NLRI and that the routing policy features are fully tested for
quality assurance.
+-----------+-------+---------+-----------+--------+--------+
| Vendor | Cisco | Juniper | Nokia/ALU | Arista | Huawei |
+-----------+-------+---------+-----------+--------+--------+
| Cisco | N/A | | | | |
| Juniper | | N/A | | | |
| Nokia/ALU | | | N/A | | |
| Arista | | | | N/A | |
| Huawei | | | | | N/A |
+-----------+-------+---------+-----------+--------+--------+
Table 2: Vendor Interop
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Authors' Addresses
Gyan Mishra
Verizon Inc.
Email: gyan.s.mishra@verizon.com
Mankamana Mishra
Cisco Systems
821 Alder Drive,
MILPITAS CALIFORNIA 95035
Email: mankamis@cisco.com
Jeff Tantsura
Apstra, Inc.
Email: jefftant.ietf@gmail.com
Lili Wang
Juniper Networks, Inc.
10 Technology Park Drive,
Westford MA 01886
US
Email: liliw@juniper.net
Qing Yang
Arista Networks
Email: qyang@arista.com
Adam Simpson
Nokia
Email: adam.1.simpson@nokia.com
Shuanglong Chen
Huawei Technologies
Email: chenshuanglong@huawei.com
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