MPLS Working Group Dave Allan, Ed.
Internet Draft Ericsson
Intended status: Standards Track
Expires: January 2011 George Swallow Ed.
Cisco Systems, Inc
John Drake Ed.
Juniper
July 12, 2010
Proactive Connection Verification, Continuity Check and Remote
Defect indication for MPLS Transport Profile
draft-ietf-mpls-tp-cc-cv-rdi-01
Abstract
Continuity Check (CC), Proactive Connectivity Verification (CV) and
Remote Defect Indication (RDI) functionalities required for are MPLS-
TP OAM.
Continuity Check monitors the integrity of the continuity of the path
for any loss of continuity defect. Connectivity verification monitors
the integrity of the routing of the path between sink and source for
any connectivity issues. RDI enables an End Point to report, to its
associated End Point, a fault or defect condition that it detects on
a PW, LSP or Section.
This document specifies methods for proactive CV, CC, and RDI for
MPLS-TP Label Switched Path (LSP), PWs and Sections using
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD).
Requirements Language
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC2119 [1].
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction...................................................3
1.1. Authors......................................................4
2. Conventions used in this document..............................4
2.1. Terminology..................................................4
2.2. Issues for discussion........................................4
3. MPLS CC, proactive CV and RDI Mechanism using BFD..............5
3.1. ACH code points for CC and proactive CV......................5
3.2. MPLS BFD CC Message format...................................6
3.3. MPLS BFD proactive CV Message format.........................6
3.4. BFD Session in MPLS-TP terminology...........................7
3.5. BFD Profile for MPLS-TP......................................7
3.5.1. Session initiation.........................................8
3.5.2. Defect entry criteria......................................8
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3.5.3. Defect entry consequent action............................10
3.5.4. Defect exit criteria......................................10
3.5.5. State machines............................................10
3.5.6. Configuration of MPLS-TP BFD sessions.....................13
3.5.7. Discriminator values......................................13
4. Acknowledgments...............................................13
5. IANA Considerations...........................................14
6. Security Considerations.......................................14
7. References....................................................14
7.1. Normative References........................................14
7.2. Informative References......................................15
1. Introduction
In traditional transport networks, circuits are provisioned on two or
more switches. Service Providers (SP) need OAM tools to detect mis-
connectivity and loss of continuity of transport circuits. Both PWs
and MPLS-TP LSPs [7] emulating traditional transport circuits need to
provide the same CC and proactive CV capabilities as required in
draft-ietf-mpls-tp-oam-requirements[3]. This document describes the
use of BFD for CC, proactive CV, and RDI of a PW, LSP or PST between
two Maintenance Entity Group End Points (MEPs).
As described in [9], Continuity Check (CC) and Proactive Connectivity
Verification (CV) functions are used to detect loss of continuity
(LOC), and unintended connectivity between two MEPs (e.g. mismerging
or misconnection or unexpected MEP).
The Remote Defect Indication (RDI) is an indicator that is
transmitted by a MEP to communicate to its peer MEP that a signal
fail condition exists. RDI is only used for bidirectional connections
and is associated with proactive CC & CV packet generation.
This document specifies the BFD extension and behavior to satisfy the
CC, proactive CV monitoring and the RDI functional requirements for
bi-directional paths. Procedures for uni-directional paths are for
further study.
The mechanisms specified in this document are restricted to BFD
asynchronous mode.
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1.1. Authors
David Allan, John Drake, George Swallow, Annamaria Fulignoli, Sami
Boutros, Siva Sivabalan, David Ward, Martin Vigoureux.
2. Conventions used in this document
2.1. Terminology
ACH: Associated Channel Header
BFD: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
CV: Connection Verification
GAL: Generalized Alert Label
LSR: Label Switching Router
MEG: Maintenance Entity Group
MEP: Maintenance Entity Group End Point
MIP: Maintenance Entity Group Intermediate Point
MPLS-OAM: MPLS Operations, Administration and Maintenance
MPLS-TP: MPLS Transport Profile
MPLS-TP LSP: Uni-directional or Bidirectional Label Switch Path
representing a circuit
MS-PW: Multi-Segment PseudoWire
NMS: Network Management System
PW: Pseudo Wire
RDI: Remote Defect Indication.
TTL: Time To Live
TLV: Type Length Value
2.2. Issues for discussion
1) Requirement for additional BFD diagnostic codes?
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1. When periodicity of CV cannot be supported
3. MPLS CC, proactive CV and RDI Mechanism using BFD
This document proposes distinct encapsulations and code points for
BFD depending on whether the mode of operation is CC or CV:
o CC mode: defines a new code point in the Associated Channel Header
(ACH) described in [2].In this mode Continuity Check and RDI
functionalities are supported.
o CV mode: defines a new code point in the Associated Channel Header
(ACH) described in [2]. Under MPLS label stack, the ACH with "MPLS
Proactive CV" code point indicates that the message is an MPLS BFD
proactive CV and CC message.
o RDI: is communicated via the BFD state field in BFD CC and CV
messages. It is not a distinct PDU.
3.1. ACH code points for CC and proactive CV
0 1 2 3
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|0 0 0 1|Version| Flags |0xHH BFD CC/CV Code Point |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 1: ACH Indication of MPLS-TP Connection Verification
The first nibble (0001b) indicates the ACH.
The version and the flags are set to 0 as specified in [2].
The code point is either
- BFD CC code point = 0xHH. [HH to be assigned by IANA from the PW
Associated Channel Type registry.] or,
- BFD proactive CV code point = 0xHH. [HH to be assigned by IANA from
the PW Associated Channel Type registry.]
Both CC and CV modes apply to PWs, MPLS LSPs (including tandem
connection monitoring), and Sections.
It's possible to run BFD in CC mode on some transport paths and BFD
in CV mode on other transport paths. For a given Maintenance Entity
Group (MEG) only one mode can be used. A MEP that is configured to
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support CC mode and receives CV BFD packets, or vice versa, MUST
consider them as an unexpected packet, i.e. detect a mis-connectivity
defect.
3.2. MPLS BFD CC Message format
The format of an MPLS CC Message format is shown below.
0 1 2 3
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|0 0 0 1|Version| Flags | 0xHH BFD CC Code point |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
~ BFD Control Packet ~
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 2: MPLS CC Message
3.3. MPLS BFD proactive CV Message format
The format of an MPLS CV Message format is shown below, ACH TLVs [5]
MUST precede the BFD control packet.
0 1 2 3
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|0 0 0 1|Version| Flags | 0xHH BFD CV Code Point |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ACH TLV Header |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
~ Unique MEP-ID of source of the BFD packet ~
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
~ BFD Control Packet ~
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 3: MPLS CV Message
As shown in Figure 3, BFD Control packet as defined in [4] is
transmitted as MPLS labeled packets along with ACH, ACH TLV Header
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defined in Section 3 of RFC 5586 and one ACH TLV object carrying the
unique MEP Identifier of the source of the BFD packet defined in [8].
When GAL label is used, the TTL field of the GAL MUST be set to at
least 1, and the GAL will be the end of stack label (S=1).
3.4. BFD Session in MPLS-TP terminology
A BFD session corresponds to a CC or a proactive CV OAM instance in
MPLS-TP terminology.
A BFD session is enabled when the CC or proactive CV functionality is
enabled on a configured Maintenance Entity (ME) or in the case of an
associated bi-directional path, pair of Maintenance Entities.
On a Sink MEP, a BFD session can be in DOWN, INIT or UP state as
detailed in [4].
When on a ME the CC or proactive CV functionality is disabled, the
BFD session transitions to the ADMIN DOWN State and the BFD session
ends.
A new BFD session is initiated when the operator enables or re-
enables the CC or CV functionality on the same ME.
3.5. BFD Profile for MPLS-TP
BFD MUST operate in asynchronous mode. In this mode, the BFD Control
packets are periodically sent at configurable time rate. This rate is
typically a fixed value for the lifetime of the session. In the rare
circumstance where an operator has a reason to change session
parameters, poll/final discipline is used.
The transport profile is designed to operate independent of the
control plane; hence the C bit SHOULD be set.
This document specifies bi-directional BFD for p2p transport paths,
hence the M bit MUST be clear.
There are two modes of operation for bi-directional paths. One in
which the session state of both directions of the path is coordinated
and one constructed from BFD sessions in such a way that the two
directions operate independently. A single bi-directional BFD session
is used for coordinated operation. Two independent BFD sessions are
used for independent operation.
Coordinated operation is as described in [4]. Independent operation
requires clarification of two aspects of [4]. Independent operation
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is characterized by the setting of MinRxInterval to zero by the MEP
that is typically the session originator (referred to as the source
MEP), and there will be a session originator at either end of the bi-
directional path. Each source MEP will have a corresponding sink MEP
that has been configured to a Tx interval of zero.
The base spec is unclear on aspects of how a MEP with a BFD transmit
rate set to zero behaves. One interpretation is that no periodic
messages originate with that MEP, it will only originate messages on
a state change.
The first clarification is that when a state change occurs a MEP set
to a transmit rate of zero sends BFD control messages with a one
second period until such time that the state change is confirmed by
the session peer. At this point the MEP set to a transmit rate of
zero can resume quiescent behavior. This adds robustness to all state
transitions in the RxInterval=0 case.
The second is that the originating MEP (the one with a non-zero
TxInterval) will ignore a DOWN state received from a zero interval
peer. This means that the zero interval peer will continue to send
DOWN state messages as the state change is never confirmed. This adds
robustness to the exchange of RDI indication on a uni-directional
failure (for both session types DOWN with a diagnostic of control
detection period expired offering RDI functionality).
A further extension to the base specification is that there are
additional OAM protocol exchanges that act as inputs to the BFD state
machine; these are the Link Down Indication [6] and the Lock
Instruct/Lock Report transactions.
3.5.1. Session initiation
In all scenarios a BFD session starts with both ends in the DOWN
state. DOWN state messages exchanged include the desired Tx and Rx
rates for the session. If a node cannot support the Min Tx rate
desired by a peer MEP it does not transition from down to the INIT
state and sends a diagnostic code (TBD) indicating that the requested
Tx rate cannot be supported.
Otherwise once a transition from DOWN to INIT has occurred, the
session progresses as per [4].
3.5.2. Defect entry criteria
There are further defect criteria beyond that defined in [4] to
consider given the possibility of mis-connectivity and mis-
configuration defects. The result is the criteria for a path
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direction to transition from the defect free state to a defect state
is a superset of that in the BFD base specification [4].
The following conditions cause a MEP to enter the defect state for CC
of CV:
1. BFD session times out (Loss of Continuity defect),
2. Receipt of a link down indication.
3. Receipt of an unexpected M bit (Session Mis-configuration
defect),
And the following will cause the MEP to enter the defect state for CV
operation
1. BFD control packets are received with an unexpected
encapsulation (Mis-connectivity defect), these include
- a PW receiving a packet with a GAL
- an LSP receiving an IP header instead of a GAL
(note there are other possibilities but these can also alias
2. Receipt of an unexpected globally unique Source MEP identifier
(Mis-connectivity defect),
3. Receipt of an unexpected session discriminator in the your
discriminator field (Mis-connectivity defect),
4. Receipt of an expected session discriminator with an unexpected
label (mis-connectivity defect),
The effective defect hierarchy (order of checking) is
1. Receiving nothing
2. Receiving link down indication
3. Receiving from an incorrect source (determined by whatever
means)
4. Receiving from a correct source (as near as can be determined),
but with incorrect session information)
5. Receiving control packets in all discernable ways correct.
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3.5.3. Defect entry consequent action
Upon defect entry a sink MEP will assert signal fail into any client
(sub-)layers. It will also communicate session DOWN to its session
peer.
The blocking of traffic as consequent action MUST be driven only by a
defect's consequent action as specified in draft-ietf-mpls-tp-oam-
framework [9] section 5.1.1.2.
When the defect is mis-branching, the transport path termination will
silently discard all non-oam traffic received.
3.5.4. Defect exit criteria
Exit from a Loss of continuity defect
For a coordinated session, exit from a loss of connectivity defect is
as described in figure 4 which updates [4].
For an independent session, exit from a loss of connectivity defect
occurs upon receipt of a well formed control packet from the peer MEP
as described in figures 5 and 6.
Exit from a session mis-configuration defect
[editors: for a future version of the document]
Exit from a mis-connectivity defect
The exit criteria for a mis-connectivity defect is determined by the
maximum of the set of min Rx session time times the multiplier that
have been received. A session can transition from DOWN to UP
(independent mode) or DOWN to INIT (coordinated mode) when both
correctly formed control packets are being exchanged, and no mis-
connected control packets have been received in the specified
interval.
3.5.5. State machines
The following state machines update [4]. They have been modified to
include LDI and LKI as inputs to the state machine and to clarify the
behavior for independent mode.
The coordinated session state machine has been augmented to indicate
LDI and LKR as inputs to the state machine. For a session that is in
the UP state, receipt of LDI or LKR will transition the session into
the DOWN state.
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[Dave: I have to think that we do not need to consider LDI/LKR for
transition from DOWN to INIT, I have to receive a BFD control packet
to do that which means the condition is cleared, only funky case is
when I'm getting both UP messages and LDI/LKR]
+--+
| | UP, ADMIN DOWN, TIMER, LDI/LKR
| V
DOWN +------+ INIT
+------------| |------------+
| | DOWN | |
| +-------->| |<--------+ |
| | +------+ | |
| | | |
| | ADMIN DOWN,| |
| |ADMIN DOWN, DOWN,| |
| |TIMER TIMER,| |
V |LDI/LKR LDI/LKR | V
+------+ +------+
+----| | | |----+
DOWN| | INIT |--------------------->| UP | |INIT, UP
+--->| | INIT, UP | |<---+
+------+ +------+
Figure 4: State machine for coordinated session operation
For independent mode, there are two state machines. One for the
source MEP (who requested MinRxInterval=0) and the sink MEP (who
agreed to MinRxInterval=0).
The source MEP will not transition out of the UP state once
initialized except in the case of a forced ADMIN DOWN. Hence LDI/LKR
do not enter into the state machine transition from the UP state, but
do enter into the INIT and DOWN states.
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+--+
| | UP, ADMIN DOWN, TIMER
| V
DOWN +------+ INIT
+------------| |------------+
| | DOWN | |
| +-------->| |<--------+ |
| | +------+ | |
| | | |
| | ADMIN DOWN | |
| |ADMIN DOWN, | |
| |TIMER, | |
V |LDI/LKR | V
+------+ +------+
+----| | | |----+
DOWN| | INIT |--------------------->| UP | | INIT, UP, DOWN,
+--->| | INIT, UP | |<---+ LDI/LKR
+------+ +------+
Figure 5: State machine for source MEP for independent session
operation
The sink MEP state machine (for which the transmit interval has been
set to zero) is modified to:
1) Permit direct transition from DOWN to UP once the session has been
initialized. With the exception of via the ADMIN DOWN state, the
source MEP will never transition from the UP state, hence in normal
unidirectional fault scenarios will never transition to the INIT
state.
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+--+
| | ADMIN DOWN, TIMER, LDI/LKR
| V
DOWN +------+ INIT, UP
+------------| |------------+
| | DOWN | |
| +-------->| |<--------+ |
| | +------+ | |
| | | |
| | ADMIN DOWN,| |
| |ADMIN DOWN, TIMER, | |
| |TIMER, DOWN, | |
V |LDI/LKR LDI/LKR | V
+------+ +------+
+----| | | |----+
DOWN| | INIT |--------------------->| UP | |INIT, UP
+--->| | INIT, UP | |<---+
+------+ +------+
Figure 6: State machine for the sink MEP for independent session
operation
3.5.6. Configuration of MPLS-TP BFD sessions
[Editors note, for a future revision of the document]
3.5.7. Discriminator values
In the BFD control packet the discriminator values have either local
to the sink MEP or no significance (when not known).
My Discriminator field MUST be set to a nonzero value (it can be a
fixed value), the transmitted your discriminator value MUST reflect
back the received value of My discriminator field or be set to 0 if
that value is not known.
Although the BFD base specification permits an implementation to
change the my discriminator field at arbitrary times, this is not
permitted for CV mode in order to avoid race conditions in mis-
connectivity defects.
4. Acknowledgments
To be added in a later version of this document
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5. IANA Considerations
To be added in a later version of this document
6. Security Considerations
The security considerations for the authentication TLV need further
study.
Base BFD foresees an optional authentication section (see [4]
section 6.7); that can be extended also to the tool proposed in
this document.
Authentication methods that require checksum calculation on the
outgoing packet must extend the checksum also on the ME
Identifier Section. This is possible but seems uncorrelated with
the solution proposed in this document: it could be better to
use the simple password authentication method.
7. References
7.1. Normative References
[1] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[2] Bocci, M. et al., " MPLS Generic Associated Channel ", RFC
5586 , June 2009
[3] Vigoureux, M., Betts, M. and D. Ward, "Requirements for
Operations Administration and Maintenance in MPLS
Transport Networks", RFC5860, May 2010
[4] Katz, D. and D. Ward, "Bidirectional Forwarding
Detection", RFC 5880, June 2010
[5] Boutros, S. et al., "Definition of ACH TLV Structure",
draft-ietf-mpls-tp-ach-tlv-02 (work in progress), March
2010
[6] Swallow, G. et al., "MPLS Fault Management OAM", draft-
ietf-mpls-tp-fault-02 (work in progress), July 2010
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7.2. Informative References
[7] Bocci, M., et al., "A Framework for MPLS in Transport
Networks", RFC5921, July 2010
[8] Bocci, M. and G. Swallow, "MPLS-TP Identifiers", draft-
swallow-mpls-tp-identifiers-02 (work in progress), July
2010
[9] Allan, D., Busi, I. and B. Niven-Jenkins, "MPLS-TP OAM
Framework", draft-ietf-mpls-tp-oam-framework-06 (work in
progress), April 2010
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Authors' Addresses
Dave Allan
Ericsson
Email: david.i.allan@ericsson.com
John Drake
Juniper
Email: jdrake@juniper.net
George Swallow
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Email: swallow@cisco.com
Annamaria Fulignoli
Ericsson
Email: annamaria.fulignoli@ericsson.com
Sami Boutros
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Email: sboutros@cisco.com
Martin Vigoureux
Alcatel-Lucent
Email: martin.vigoureux@alcatel-lucent.com
Siva Sivabalan
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Email: msiva@cisco.com
David Ward
Juniper
Email: dward@juniper.net
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