BGP Neighbor Autodiscovery
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Network Working Group X. Xu
Internet-Draft Alibaba Inc
Intended status: Standards Track K. Bi
Expires: October 24, 2018 Huawei
J. Tantsura
Nuage Networks
N. Triantafillis
LinkedIn
K. Talaulikar
Cisco
April 22, 2018
BGP Neighbor Autodiscovery
draft-xu-idr-neighbor-autodiscovery-06
Abstract
BGP has been used as the underlay routing protocol in many hyper-
scale data centers. This document proposes a BGP neighbor
autodiscovery mechanism that greatly simplifies BGP deployments.
This mechanism is very useful for those hyper-scale data centers
where BGP is used as the underlay routing protocol.
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"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. BGP Hello Message Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Hello Message Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.1. BGP Hello Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.2. TLVs of BGP Hello Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1. Introduction
BGP has been used as the underlay routing protocol instead of IGP in
many hyper-scale data centers [RFC7938]. Furthermore, there is an
ongoing effort to leverage BGP link-state distribution mechanism to
achieve BGP-SPF [I-D.keyupate-lsvr-bgp-spf]. However, BGP is not
good as an IGP from the perspective of deployment automation and
simplicity. For instance, the IP address and the Autonomous System
Number (ASN) of each and every BGP neighbor have to be manually
configured on BGP routers although these BGP peers are directly
connected. Furthermore, for those BGP routers with multiple physical
links being connected, it's usually not ideal to establish BGP
sessions over their directly connected interface addresses because
the BGP update volume would be unnecessarily increased, meanwhile, it
may not be suitable to configure those links as a Link Aggregation
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