Network Working Group C. Cardona
Internet-Draft P. Lucente
Intended status: Standards Track NTT
Expires: May 3, 2020 P. Francois
INSA
Y. Gu
Huawei
T. Graf
Swisscom
October 31, 2019
BMP Extension for Path Marking TLV
draft-cppy-grow-bmp-path-marking-tlv-01
Abstract
The BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) provides an interface for obtaining
BGP Path information. BGP Path Information is conveyed within BMP
Route Monitoring (RM) messages. This document proposes an extension
to BMP to convey the status of a BGP path after being processed by
the BGP best-path selection algorithm. This extension makes use of
the TLV mechanims described in draft-lucente-bmp-tlv
[I-D.lucente-bmp-tlv].
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 RFC 2119 [RFC2119] RFC 8174 [RFC8174] when, and only when, they
appear in all capitals, as shown here.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Path Marking TLV for the RM Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Path Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. Reason String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1. Path Marking TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. Path Marking TLV Reason String . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1. Introduction
For a given prefix, multiple paths with different path status, e.g.,
the "best-path", "back-up path" and so on, may co-exist in the BGP
RIB after being processed by the local policy and the BGP decision
process. The path status information is currently not carried in the
BGP Update Message RFC4271 [RFC4271] or in the BMP Update Message
RFC7854 [RFC7854].
External systems can use the path status for various applications.
The path status is commonly checked by operators when performing
troubleshooting. Having such status stored in a centralized system
can enable the development of tools facilitating this process.
Optimisation systems can include the path status in their process,
and also use the status as a validation source (since it can compare
the calculated state to the actual outcome of the network, such as
primary and backup path). As a final example, path status
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information can complement other centralized sources of data, for
example, flow collectors.
This document defines a so-called Path Marking TLV to convey the BGP
path status information to the BMP server. The BMP Path Marking is
defined to be prepended in the BMP Route Monitoring (RM) Message.
2. Path Marking TLV for the RM Message
As per RFC4271 [RFC4271], the BMP RM Message consists of the Common
Header, Per-Peer Header, and the BGP Update PDU. According to draft-
lucente-bmp-tlv [I-D.lucente-bmp-tlv] , optional trailing data in TLV
format is allowed in the BMP RM Message to convey characteristics of
transported NLRIs (i.e. to help stateless parsing) or vendor-specific
data. Such TLV types are to be defined for each application.
To include the path status along with each BGP path, we define the
Path Marking TLV, shown as follows.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| Type (2 octets) | Length (2 octets) |
+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| Path Type(4 octets) |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| Reason String(Variable) |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
Figure 1: Path Marking TLV
o Type = TBD1 (2 Octets): Path Marking.
o Length (2 Octets): indicates the length of the value field of the
Path Marking TLV. The value field further consists of the Path-
Status field and Reason String field.
o Path-Status (4 Octets): indicates the path status of the BGP
Update PDU encapsulated in the RM Message. Currently 8 types of
path status are defined, as shown in Table 1.
o Reason String (Variable): indicates the reasons/explanations of
the path status indicated in the Path Type field. The detailed
Reason String format is defined in Figure 2.
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2.1. Path Type
+--------+----------------------+
| Value | Path type |
+-------------------------------+
| 0x0000 | Unknown |
| 0x0001 | Best path |
| 0x0002 | Best external path |
| 0x0004 | Primary path |
| 0x0008 | Backup path |
| 0x0010 | Non-installed path |
| 0x0020 | Unreachable next-hop |
+--------+----------------------+
Table 1: Path Type
The Path type field contains a bitfield where each bit encodes a
specific role of the path. Multiple bits may be set when a path is
used in multiple roles.
The best-path is defined in RFC4271 [RFC4271] and the best-external
path is defined in draft-ietf-idr-best-external
[I-D.ietf-idr-best-external].
A primary path is a recursive or non-recursive path that can be used
all the time as long as a walk starting from this path can end to an
adjacency draft-ietf-rtgwg-bgp-pic [I-D.ietf-rtgwg-bgp-pic]. A
prefix can have more than one primary path if multipath is configured
draft-lapukhov-bgp-ecmp-considerations
[I-D.lapukhov-bgp-ecmp-considerations]. A best-path is also
considered as a primary path.
A backup path is also installed in the RIB, but it is not used until
some or all primary paths become unreachable. Backup paths are used
for fast convergence in the event of failures.
All other reachable paths are marked as 'Non-installed'.
Lastly, all paths that are considered unreachable are marked as
'Unreachable next-hop'. Unreachable paths may be sent only in some
specific cases.
2.2. Reason String
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| Sub Type 1 (2 octets) | Length (2 octets) |
+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| Non-Best Reason String(Variable) |
+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| Sub Type 2 (2 octets) | Length (2 octets) |
+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| Uninstalled Reason String(Variable) |
+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| Sub Type 3 (2 octets) | Length (2 octets) |
+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| Unreachable Reason String(Variable) |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
Figure 2: Reason String field
The reason string fields include multiple TLVs containing freeform
ASCII encoded messsages containing the reason of a specific path
status.
o Sub Type 1 (2 Octets) = TBD2: Non-Best Reason String.
o Length (2 Octets): indicates the length of the value field of the
Non-Best Reason String.
o Non-Best Reason String (Variable): includes the reason why the
path has a non-best status.
o Sub Type 2 (2 Octets) = TBD3: Uninstalled Reason String.
o Length (2 Octets): indicates the length of the value field of the
Uninstalled Reason String.
o Uninstalled Reason String (Variable): includes the reason why the
path has an uninstalled status.
o Sub Type 3 (2 Octets) = TBD4: Unreachable Reason String.
o Length (2 Octets): indicates the length of the value field of the
Unreachable Reason String.
o Unreachable Reason String (Variable): includes the reason why the
path has an unreachable status.
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3. Acknowledgements
TBD.
4. IANA Considerations
This document requests that IANA assign the following new parameters
to the BMP parameters name space.
4.1. Path Marking TLV
This document defines the Path Marking TLV with Type = TBD1: Path
Marking (Section 2).
4.2. Path Marking TLV Reason String
This document defines three new sub types of the Reason String in the
Path Marking TLV (Section 2.2).
Sub Type 1 = TBD2: Non-Best Reason String.
Sub Type 2 = TBD3: Uninstalled Reason String.
Sub Type 3 = TBD4: Unreachable Reason String.
5. Security Considerations
It is not believed that this document adds any additional security
considerations.
6. Normative References
[I-D.ietf-idr-best-external]
Marques, P., Fernando, R., Chen, E., Mohapatra, P., and H.
Gredler, "Advertisement of the best external route in
BGP", draft-ietf-idr-best-external-05 (work in progress),
January 2012.
[I-D.ietf-rtgwg-bgp-pic]
Bashandy, A., Filsfils, C., and P. Mohapatra, "BGP Prefix
Independent Convergence", draft-ietf-rtgwg-bgp-pic-10
(work in progress), October 2019.
[I-D.lapukhov-bgp-ecmp-considerations]
Lapukhov, P. and J. Tantsura, "Equal-Cost Multipath
Considerations for BGP", draft-lapukhov-bgp-ecmp-
considerations-02 (work in progress), July 2019.
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[I-D.lucente-bmp-tlv]
Lucente, P., Gu, Y., and H. Smit, "TLV support for BMP
Route Monitoring and Peer Down Messages", draft-lucente-
bmp-tlv-00 (work in progress), July 2019.
[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>.
[RFC4271] Rekhter, Y., Ed., Li, T., Ed., and S. Hares, Ed., "A
Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", RFC 4271,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4271, January 2006,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4271>.
[RFC7854] Scudder, J., Ed., Fernando, R., and S. Stuart, "BGP
Monitoring Protocol (BMP)", RFC 7854,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7854, June 2016,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7854>.
[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>.
Authors' Addresses
Camilo Cardona
NTT
164-168, Carrer de Numancia
Barcelona 08029
Spain
Email: camilo@ntt.net
Paolo Lucente
NTT
Siriusdreef 70-72
Hoofddorp, WT 2132
Netherlands
Email: paolo@ntt.net
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Pierre Francois
INSA
Lyon
France
Email: Pierre.Francois@insa-lyon.fr
Yunan Gu
Huawei
Huawei Bld., No.156 Beiqing Rd.
Beijing 100095
China
Email: guyunan@huawei.com
Thomas Graf
Swisscom
Binzring 17
Zurich 8045
Switzerland
Email: thomas.graf@swisscom.com
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