BESS Working Group A. Sajassi
Internet-Draft G. Badoni
Intended Status: Standards Track D. Rao
P. Brissette
Cisco
J. Drake
Juniper
J. Rabadan
Nokia
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Fast Recovery for EVPN DF Election
draft-sajassi-bess-evpn-fast-df-recovery-02
Abstract
Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) solution [RFC 7432] describes
DF election procedures for multi-homing Ethernet Segments. These
procedures are enhanced further in [DF-FRAMEWORK] by applying Highest
Random Weight Algorithm for DF election in order to avoid DF status
unnecessarily upon a failure. This draft makes further improvement to
DF election procedures in [DF-FRAMEWORK] by providing two options for
fast DF election upon recovery of the failed link or node associated
with the multi-homing Ethernet Segment. This fast DF election is
achieved independent of number of EVIs associated with that Ethernet
Segment and it is performed via a simple signaling between the
recovered PE and each PE in the multi-homing group.
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1 Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Challenges with Existing Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1 DF Election Handshake Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1.1 Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1.2 DF candidates Determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1.3 DF Election Handshake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1.4 Node Insertion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.1.5 BGP Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.1.5.1 DF Election Handshake Request Route . . . . . . . . 9
3.5.1.2 DF Election Handshake Response Route . . . . . . . . 9
3.1.6 DF Handshake Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.1.7 Interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.2 DF Election Synchronization Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.2.3 Advantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.2.4 Interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.2.5 BGP Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.2.6 Note on NTP-based synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.2.7 An example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4 Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5 Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6 IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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7 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
7.1 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
7.2 Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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1 Introduction
Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) solution [RFC 7432] is
becoming pervasive in data center (DC) applications for Network
Virtualization Overlay (NVO) and DC interconnect (DCI) services, and
in service provider (SP) applications for next generation virtual
private LAN services.
EVPN solution [RFC 7432] describes DF election procedures for multi-
homing Ethernet Segments. These procedures are enhanced further in
[DF-FRAMEWORK] by applying Highest Random Weight Algorithm for DF
election in order to avoid DF status change unnecessarily upon a link
or node failure associated with the multi-homing Ethernet Segment.
This draft makes further improvement to DF election procedures in
[DF-FRAMEWORK] by providing two options for a fast DF election upon
recovery of the failed link or node associated with the multi-homing
Ethernet Segment. This DF election is achieved independent of number
of EVIs associated with that Ethernet Segment and it is performed via
a simple signaling between the recovered PE and each PE in the multi-
homing group. The draft presents two signaling options. The first
option is based on a bidirectional handshake procedure whereas the
second option is based on simple one-way signaling mechanism.
1.1 Terminology
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 RFC 2119 [KEYWORDS].
Provider Edge (PE) : A device that sits in the boundary of Provider
and Customer networks and performs encap/decap of data from L2 to L3
and vice-versa.
Designated Forwarder (DF): An PE that is currently forwarding
(encapsulating/decapsulating) traffic for a given VLAN in and out of
a site.
2 Challenges with Existing Solution
In EVPN technology, multiple PE devices have the ability to encap and
decap data belonging to the same VLAN. In certain situations, this
may cause L2 duplicates and even loops if there is a momentary
overlap of forwarding roles between two or more PE devices, leading
to broadcast storms.
EVPN [RFC 7432] currently uses timer based synchronization among PE
devices in redundancy group that can result in duplications (and even
loops) because of multiple DFs if the timer is too short or
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blackholing if the timer is too long.
Using site-of-origin Split Horizon filtering can prevent loops (but
not duplicates), however if there are overlapping DFs in two
different sites at the same time for the same VLAN, the site
identifier will be different upon re-entry of the packet and hence
the split horizon check will fail, leading to L2 loops.
The current state of art [DF-FRAMEWORK] uses the well known HRW
(Highest Random Weight) algorithm to avoid reshuffling of VLANs among
PE devices in the redundancy group upon failure/recovery and thus
reducing the impact of failure/recovery to VLANs not on the
failed/recovered ports. This eliminates loops/duplicates in failure
scenarios.
However, upon PE insertion or port bring-up, HRW cannot help as a
transfer of DF role need to happen to the newly inserted device/port
while the old DF is still active.
+---------+
+-------------+ | |
| | | |
/ | PE1 |----| | +-------------+
/ | | | MPLS/ | | |---H3
/ +-------------+ | VxLAN/ | | PE10 |
CE1 - | Cloud | | |
\ +-------------+ | |---| |
\ | | | | +-------------+
\ | PE2 |----| |
| | | |
+-------------+ | |
+---------+
Figure 1: CE1 multi-homed to PE1 and PE2. Potential for duplicate DF.
In the Figure 1, when PE2 is inserted or booted up, PE1 will transfer
DF role of some VLANs to PE2 to achieve load balancing. However,
because there is no handshake mechanism between PE1 and PE2,
duplication of DF roles for a give VLAN is possible. Duplication of
DF roles may eventually lead to L2 loops as well as duplication of
traffic.
Current state of EVPN art relies on a blackholing timer for
transferring the DF role to the newly inserted device. This can cause
the following issues:
* Loops/Duplicates if the timer value is too short
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* Prolonged Traffic Blackholing if the timer value is too long
This draft is proposing solutions that deterministically eliminates
loops/duplicates and at the same time provides fast convergence upon
PE/port insertion.
3 Operation
Here we describe two signaling mechanisms between the newly inserted
PE and remaining PEs. The signaling is only possible once the newly
inserted PE has reliably discovered the other PEs and vice versa. The
first option is referred to as DF Election Handshake solution and is
described in section 3.1. The second option is referred to as DF
Election Synchronization Solution and is described in section 3.2.
3.1 DF Election Handshake Solution
Due to HRW, the handshake will only be one per PE device and
independent of EVI/VNI scale. Therefore, this solution is divided
into three steps:
Phase 1: Discovery
Phase 2: DF Candidate Determination; HRW or Preference-based
Phase 3: Handshake
Following is the description each step in detail.
3.1.1 Discovery
Each PE needs to have a consistent view of the network including the
newly inserted PE.
Newly inserted device PE will advertise it's Ethernet Segment route
and start a flood/wait timer. This timer should be large enough to
guarantee the dissemination and receipt of this advertisement by
previously inserted PEs.
As the old DF is continuously forwarding traffic while the new PE is
running this timer, this timer can be made as long as required
without impacting traffic convergence. The timer value can be the BGP
session hold time in the worst case to ensure proper discovery.
3.1.2 DF candidates Determination
After the discovery timer has elapsed, each PE would have an imported
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list of the Ethernet Segment Routes from other PEs. The resultant
database will comprise of all the DF candidates on a per ES basis and
will be used for DF election. Each PE will independently run the
selected DF algorithm - i.e., HRW algorithm (or Preference-based) for
all VLANs in a given Ethernet Segment. Since the discovery phase
guarantees uniform network view between the participating devices,
the VLAN distribution results based on HRW (or Preference-based) will
be consistent.
3.1.3 DF Election Handshake
The DF Election handshake will be accomplished in the following
steps:
- The newly inserted PE will send the DF Request to previously
inserted PEs with a new sequence number.
- The previously inserted PE(s) will receive the DF Request, will
validate this request as per own discovery state and HRW (or
Preference-based) results.
- The previously inserted PE(s) will program hardware to block the
VLANs that must be transferred to the newly inserted PE.
- The previously inserted PE(s) will send DF Response (W/ ACK OR
NACK) to the newly inserted PE with the same sequence number that was
contained in the DF Request.
- Newly inserted PE will receive DF Response and validate it using
the sequence number. It will take action per received DF Response
message and will not wait for all previously inserted devices for
faster convergence. The received DF Response is interpreted as an
indication from the previously inserted PE to give up the DF role on
those VLANs for which the newly inserted PE should be DF. In other
words, the newly inserted PE will only take over as DF for a given
VLAN/ISID if (a) it is the DF Election winner AND (b) it gets the ACK
from the previous DF.
- In case of Preference-based DF Election, the above procedure should
only be followed if there is at least one previously inserted PE that
signals DP=0 in its ES route (there is no need for handshake in case
of non-revertive mode).
- In case of a DF Response ACK, newly inserted PE will program its
hardware to assume the DF responsibility.
We don't need to have a handshake on a per VLAN/EVI basis but rather
per pair of PEs in the redundancy group - i.e., if a new PE is added
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to an existing redundancy group of 3 PE devices, then we need only to
have 3 handshakes. This is because the devices already are in sync
about which VLANs to give-up/takeover (HRW).
At the end of these three phases, the VLAN DF role transfer would
have happened in a deterministic way while ensuring minimum traffic
loss. Device recovery and device insertion scenarios are identical in
terms of the handshaking procedure. In next section, we describe the
procedure details for device insertion.
3.1.4 Node Insertion
Consider the scenario where PE3 is inserted in the network, while PE1
and PE2 are already in stable state. PE3 will send/receive the
following flags along with the EVPN Type 4 route:
- DF Request: Upon completing the DF Election, PE3 will send DF
Request with a new sequence number. PE1 and PE2 will receive this
message and respond with DF Response ACK or NACK with the same
sequence number that was generated by PE3.
- DF Response ACK: When PE3 receives DF Response ACK from PE1 with
the same sequence number as DF Request, it will take over the DF role
for the appropriate VLANS that are being transferred from PE1. When
DF Response ACK from PE2 arrives, the rest of the VLANS to be
transferred from PE2 to PE3 are then taken over by PE3.
- DF Response NACK: If PE3 receives DF Response NACK from at least
one of PE1 or PE2, it will not take over DF role and will start
over.
Consider the scenario where two nodes PE3 and PE4 are being inserted
at the same time. Both of them will send a DF Request to PE1 and PE2
at around the same time with possibly the same sequence number. When
PE1 and PE2 respond with DF Response ACK, it is important to signify
exactly whom the response is meant for as it could be for either
requester (PE3 or PE4). To remove any ambiguity and false positives,
the IP address of the requester MUST be included in the response
message to specify who the response is meant for.
3.1.5 BGP Encoding
The EVPN NLRI comprises of Route Type (1B), Length (1B) and Route
Type specific variable encoding. Here we propose the creation of two
new EVPN route types:
+ 0x0C - DF Election Handshake Request Route
+ 0x0D - DF Election Handshake Response Route
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3.1.5.1 DF Election Handshake Request Route
A DF Election Handshake Request Type NLRI consists of the following:
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-++
| RD (8 octets) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Ethernet Segment Identifier (10 octets) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| DF-Flags (1 octet) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Sequence Number (1 octet) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Originating Router's IP Address |
| (4 or 16 octets) |
+-----------------------------------------+
The DF-Flags can have the following values:
DF-INIT : Sent initially upon boot-up; bootstraps the network
DF-REQUEST : Sent to request DF takeover
For the purpose of BGP route key processing, the Ethernet Segment
Identifier and Originating Router's IP address fields are considered
to be part of the prefix in the NLRI. The DF-Flag and Sequence number
is to be treated as a route attribute as opposed to being part of the
route. This route is sent along with ESI-Import route target.
3.5.1.2 DF Election Handshake Response Route
A DF Election Handshake Response Type NLRI consists of the following:
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+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-++
| RD (8 octets) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Ethernet Segment Identifier (10 octets) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| IP-Address Length (1 octet) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Destination Router's IP Address |
| (4 or 16 octets) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| DF-Flags (1 octet) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Sequence Number (1 octet) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Originating Router's IP Address |
| (4 or 16 octets) |
+-----------------------------------------+
The DF-Flags can have the following values:
DF-ACK : Sent to Acknowledge DF-REQUEST
DF-NACK : Sent to Reject DF-Request
For the purpose of BGP route key processing, the Ethernet Segment
Identifier, IP Address Length and Destination Router's IP Address
fields, and Originating Router's IP address fields are considered to
be part of the prefix in the NLRI. The DF-Flag and Sequence number is
to be treated as a route attribute as opposed to being part of the
route. This route is sent along with ESI-Import route target.
This document introduces a new flag called "H" (for Handshake) to the
bitmap field of the DF Election Extended Community defined in [DF-
FRAMWORK].
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type=0x06 | Sub-Type(0x06)| DF Type |P|A|H|T| Bitmap|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Reserved = 0 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
H: This flag is located in bit position 26 as shown above. When set
to 1, it indicates the desire to use Handshaking capability with the
rest of the PEs in the ES. This capability can only be used with a
selected number of DF election algorithms such as HRW and Preference-
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based.
3.1.6 DF Handshake Scenarios
Consider the scenario where PE3 is freshly inserted into the network
with PE1 and PE2 in steady state (as shown below). As shown in the
sequence diagram below, at time = T0, PE3 will send Type 4 ES route
and that will cause PE1 and PE2 to discover PE3.
Post the discovery timer, at time = T1, PE3 will send DF Request
containing [ESI, DF-REQ, SEQ1].
PE2 responds via DF Response ACK at time = T2, with the same sequence
number SEQ1. [ESI, DF-ACK, PE3, SEQ1]. Note that the sequence number
is the same as is contained in the DF Request from PE3. PE3 will
receive the DF Response ACK and take over the appropriate VLANs based
on HRW only if the sequence number matches.
PE1 responds via DF Response ACK at time = T3, with the same sequence
number SEQ1; [ESI, DF-ACK, PE3, SEQ1]. PE3 will receive the DF
Response ACK and take over the appropriate VLANs based on HRW only if
the sequence number matches.
By the end of the handshake, all appropriate VLANs for the ES are
transferred from PE1 and PE2 to PE3 with a single per-ES handshake.
PE1 PE2 PE3
| | |
| | Type 4 (Discovery) |
| |<<-------------------------| T0
|<<---------------------------------------------|
| | |
| | |
| | Type C (DF Request) | .br
|<<-----------------|<<-------------------------| T1
| | |
| | Type D (DF Response) | .br
| |------------------------->>| T2
| Type D(DF Resp) | |
|--------------------------------------------->>| T3
| | |
|<<###########################################>>|
| PE3 freshly inserted |
|<<###########################################>>|
. . .
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Consider the scenario where PE2 and PE3 are inserted simultaneously
in the network where PE1 is in steady state (as shown below). PE2 and
PE3 will send the Type 4 ES routes and start the discovery timer.
This will cause PE1, PE2 and PE3 to discover each other.
PE2 and PE3 will then simultaneously and separately send DF Request.
PE1 will receive these requests and respond to them.
To avoid any ambiguity, PE1 will explicitly specify in the DF Request
route the destination for which the DF-ACK is meant for. That is why
the responses from PE1 will contain [ES1, DF-ACK, PE2, SEQ] and [ESI,
DF-ACK, PE3, SEQ] to specify that the response is meant for PE2 and
PE3 respectively.
Upon receiving the Type-D response message, PE2 and PE3 will take
over the respective VLANs.
PE1 PE2 PE3
| | |
| | Type 4 (Discovery) |
|<<-----------------| | T0
|<<-----------------|<<-------------------------|
| | |
| | |
| | Type C (DF Request) |
| |<<-------------------------| T1
| | |
| Type C(DF Request)| |
|<<-----------------| | T2
| | |
| | Type D (DF Response) |
|--------------------------------------------->>| T3
| | |
|Type D(DF Response)| |
|----------------->>| | T4
| | |
|<<###########################################>>|
| PE2 and PE3 inserted simultaneously |
|<<###########################################>>|
. . .
When PE3 is booted down or removed from the network, the routes
formerly advertised by PE3 will be withdrawn, including the Type 4
route (as shown below). When PE1 and PE2 process the deletion of
PE3's Type 4 route, they will clean up any DF handshake state
pertaining to PE3. This means that PE1 and PE2 will withdraw the DF
Response routes that they had earlier sent with PE3 as the
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destination.
PE1 PE2 PE3
| | |
| | Type 4 Route Withdrawal |
| |<<-------------------------| T0
|<<---------------------------------------------|
| | |
| PE2 purges Type D(DF Resp) sent to PE3 | T2
| | |
| PE1 purges Type D(DF Resp) sent to PE3 | T3
| | |
|<<###########################################>>|
| PE3 booted down/removed from the network |
|<<###########################################>>|
. . .
3.1.7 Interoperability
Per redundancy group (per ES), for the DF election procedures to be
globally convergent and unanimous, it is necessary that all the
participating PEs agree on the DF Election algorithm to be used. It
is, however, possible that some PEs continue to use the existing
modulus based DF election and do not rely on the new handshake/sync
procedures. PEs running an old versions of draft/RFC shall simply
discard unrecognized new BGP extended communities.
A PE can indicate its willingness to support new Handshake and/or
Time Synchronization capabilities by signaling them in the DF
Election Extended Community defined in [DF-FRAMEWORK] sent along with
the Ethernet-Segment Route (Type-4).
Considering that all the PE devices support the HRW election
algorithm, but only a subset of them may have the capability of
performing the handshake or synchronization mechanism. In such a
situation, the following procedure are exercised.
If some PEs in the redundancy group signal both Handshake and Time
Synchronization capabilities (both H & T set to 1), then Time
Synchronization capability SHALL be chosen over Handshake capability
with the HRW (or Preference-based) DF election algorithm.
If some PEs in the redundancy group signal Time Synchronization
(T=1) but not Handshaking (H=0); whereas, some other PEs in the same
redundancy group signal Handshaking (H=1) but not Time
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Synchronization (T=0), then the PEs that have handshaking ability,
SHALL perform HRW with handshaking among themselves and the PEs that
Time Synchronization capability SHALL perform HRW (or Preference-
based) with time synchronization among themselves.
If some PEs in the redundancy group don't signal either Time
Synchronization or Handshaking capabilities, then these PEs SHALL
perform HRW (or Preference-based) with default timer based mechanism
defined in [RFC 7432].
In the illustration below, PE1, PE2 and PE3 send their respective
Type 4 routes indicating their DF capabilities at time T1, T2 and T3
respectively. Only PE2 and PE3 are Handshake capable, hence only PE2
and PE3 partake in DF Handshaking procedure described here at time T4
and T5. PE1 on the other hand, runs the DF election timer and takes
over the DF role upon timer expiry at time T6.
PE1 PE2 PE3.br
| | |
| | |
| Type 4 (0x0 Default Capability) |
|----------------->>|------------------------->>| T1
| | |
| Type 4 (H=1 Handshake Capable) |
|<<-----------------|------------------------->>| T2
| | |
| Type 4 (H=1 Handshake Capable) |
|<<-----------------|<<-------------------------| T3
| | |
| | |
| | Type C (DF Request) |
| |<<-------------------------| T4
| | |
| | Type D (DF Response) |
| |------------------------->>| T5
| PE1 Timer Expiry (DF Takeover) | T6
|<<###########################################>>|
| Only PE2 and PE3 Handshake Capable |
|<<###########################################>>|
. . .
3.2 DF Election Synchronization Solution
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If all PE devices attached to a given Ethernet Segment are clock-
synchronized with each other, then the above handshaking procedures
can be simplified and packet loss can be reduced from BGP-propagation
time (between recovered PE and the DF PE) to very small time (e.g.,
milliseconds or less).
The simplified procedure is as follow:
First, the DF election procedure, described in RFC7432, is applied as
before.
All PEs attached to a given Ethernet-Segment are clock-synchronized;
using a networking protocol for clock synchronization (e.g. NTP, PTP,
etc).
Newly inserted device PE or during failure recovery of a PE, that PE
communicates the current time to peering partners plus the remaining
peering timer time left. This constitute an "endtime" as see from
local PE. That "endtime" is called "Service Carving Time" (SCT).
A new BGP Extended Community is advertised along with RT-4 to
communicate to other partners the Service Carving Time.
Upon reception of that new BGP Extended Community, partner PEs know
exactly its carving time. The notion of skew is introduced to
eliminate any potential duplicate traffic or loops. They add a skew
(default = -10ms) to the Service Carving Time to enforce this;
basically partner PEs must carve first.
To summarize, all peering PEs carve almost simultaneously at the time
announced by newly added / recovered PE. The newly added/recovered PE
initiates the SCT, carves immediately on peering timer expiry. Other
PE receiving RT-4 with a SCT BGP ExtComm, carve shortly before "SCT
time".
3.2.3 Advantages
There are multiples advantages of using the approach. Here is a non-
exhaustive list:
- A simple uni-directional signaling is all needed
- Backwards-compatible: old versions of draft/RFC shall simply
discard unrecognized new SCT BGP ExtComm
- Multiple DF Election algorithms can be supported:
* RFC7432's default ordered list ordinal algorithm (modulo)
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* HRW in [DF-FRAMEWORK], etc
- Independent of BGP transmission delay for RT-4
- Solutions is agnostic of the time synchronization mechanisms (e.g.
NTP, PTP, ...)
3.2.4 Interoperability
Per redundancy group, for the DF election procedures to be globally
convergent and unanimous, it is necessary that all the participating
PEs agree on the DF Election algorithm to be used. It is, however,
possible that some PEs continue to use the existing modulus based DF
election and do not rely on the new SCT BGP extended community. PEs
running an baseline DF election mechanism shall simply discard
unrecognized new SCT BGP extended community.
A PE can indicate its willingness to support clock-synched carving by
signaling the new SCT BGP extended community along with the Ethernet-
Segment Route (Type-4).
3.2.5 BGP Encoding
A new BGP extended community needs to be defined to communicate the
Service Carving Expected Timestamp for each Ethernet Segment.
A new transitive extended community where the Type field is 0x06, and
the Sub-Type is <to be defined> is advertised along with Ethernet
Segment route. Timestamp for expected Service carving is encoded as a
8-octet value as follows:
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type=0x06 | Sub-Type(TBD) | Timestamp(upper 16)|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Timestamp (lower 32) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
This document introduces a new flag called "T" (for Time
Synchronization) to the bitmap field of the DF Election Extended
Community defined in [DF-FRAMWORK].
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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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type=0x06 | Sub-Type(0x06)| DF Type |P|A|H|T| Bitmap|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Reserved = 0 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
T: This flag is located in bit position 27 as shown above. When set
to 1, it indicates the desire to use Time Synchronization capability
with the rest of the PEs in the ES. This capability is used in
conjunction with the agreed upon DF Type (DF Election Type). For
example if all the PEs in the ES indicated that they have Time
Synchronization capability and they want the DF type be of HRW, then
HRW algorithm is used in conjunction with this capability.
3.2.6 Note on NTP-based synchronization
The 64-bit timestamp used by NTP protocol consists of a 32-bit part
for seconds and a 32-bit part for fractional second. Giving a time
scale that rolls over every 2^32 seconds (136 years) and a
theoretical resolution of 2^32 seconds (233 picoseconds). The
recommendation is to keep the top 32 bits and carry lower MSB 16 bits
of fractional second.
3.2.7 An example
Let's take figure 1 as an example where initially PE2 had failed and
PE1 had taken over.
Based on RFC-7432:
- Initial state: PE1 is in steady-state, PE2 is recovering
- PE2 recovers at (absolute) time t=99
- PE2 advertises RT-4 (sent at t=100) to partner PE1.
- PE2, it starts its 3sec peering timer as per RFC7432
- PE1 carves immediately on RT-4 reception. PE2 carves at time t=103.
With following procedure, there is a high chance to generate a
traffic black hole or traffic loop. The peering timer value has a
direct effect of this behavior. A short peering timer may generate
loop whereas a long peering timer provide a prolong blackout.
Based on the SCT approach:
- Initial state: PE1 is in steady-state, PE2 is recovering
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- PE2 recovers at (absolute) time t=99
- PE2 advertises RT-4 (sent at t=100) with target SCT value t=103 to
partner PE1
- PE2 starts its 3sec peering timer as per RFC7432
- Both PE1 and PE2 carves at (absolute) time t=103; In fact, PE1
should carve slightly before PE2 (skew).
Using SCT approach, the effect of the peering timer is gone. Also,
the BGP RT-4 transmission delay (from PE2 to PE1) becomes a no-op.
4 Acknowledgement Authors would like to acknowledge helpful comments
and contributions of Satya Mohanty and Luc Andre Burdet.
5 Security Considerations
The mechanisms in this document use EVPN control plane as defined in
[RFC7432]. Security considerations described in [RFC7432] are equally
applicable. This document uses MPLS and IP-based tunnel technologies
to support data plane transport. Security considerations described in
[R7432] and in [ietf-evpn-overlay] are equally applicable.
6 IANA Considerations
Allocation of Extended Community Type and Sub-Type for EVPN.
7 References
7.1 Normative References
[KEYWORDS] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC7432] Sajassi et al., "BGP MPLS Based Ethernet VPN", February,
2015.
[DF-FRAMEWORK] Rabadan, Mohanty et al., "Framework for EVPN
Designated Forwarder Election Extensibility", draft-ietf-
bess-evpn-df-election-framework-00, work in progress,
March 5, 2018.
7.2 Informative References
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Authors' Addresses
Ali Sajassi
Cisco
Email: sajassi@cisco.com
Gaurav Badoni
Cisco
Email: gbadoni@cisco.com
Patrice Brissette
Cisco
Email: pbrisset@cisco.com
Dhananjaya Rao
Cisco
Email: dhrao@cisco.com
John Drake
Juniper
Email: jdrake@juniper.net
Jorge Rabadan
Juniper
Email: jorge.rabadan@nokia.com
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