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Network Working Group                                       Naiming Shen
INTERNET DRAFT                                               Albert Tian
                                                              Jun Zhuang
Expiration Date: December 2004                          Redback Networks

                                                               June 2004




          IP Traffic Engineering With Route Switched Paths (RSPs)

                      draft-shen-ip-te-rsp-00.txt


1. Status of this Memo

   This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
   all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.

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2. Abstract

   This document describes a mechanism to establish traffic
   engineering IP tunnels. RSVP is used as a signaling protocol just
   as in MPLS TE technology but no MPLS forwarding capability is
   assumed on the switched path. IP routing is used to switch IP
   traffic trunks. A simple RSVP extension is needed to setup
   the IP route switched paths (RSPs).


3. Introduction

   MPLS TE [1, 2] LSPs have been developed and deployed to
   automatically route IP traffic away from network failures,
   congestion and bottlenecks with or without resource reservations.
   MPLS must be enabled on the routers through which the LSPs traverse.


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   But some providers do not enable MPLS as one of the forwarding
   capabilities in their networks, thus they can not take the
   advantage offered by MPLS TE technologies.

   IP tunnels, for instance, GRE tunnel, IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel,
   L2TP tunnel, and IPsec tunnel, are widely deployed in ISPs.
   Currently there is no mechanism to make resource reservation,
   guarantee end-to-end QoS service, or setup explicit routing
   for those IP tunnels. Other applications such as Next-hop Fast
   Reroute [3] for IP traffic in the environment of pure IP
   network may require explicitly routed IP tunnels to reach
   the nexthop or next-nexthop nodes.

   This document describes a mechanism called IP TE, which is very
   similar to MPLS TE and offers similar capabilities as MPLS TE,
   but it does not require the network to be MPLS capable. A
   simple RSVP protocol extension is used to signal the setup of
   the IP route switched paths (RSPs). Most of the protocol
   extensions used in MPLS TE can also be used in this mechanism
   without any change.

   In MPLS TE, the signaling model uses downstream-on-demand label
   distribution; while in this IP TE scheme, the egress of a RSP
   allocates an IP route entry for the tunnel, and determines the
   routing along the path for this tunnel. Those IP routing entries
   are no different from other IP routing entries in their routing
   table, thus it does not require IP forwarding plane changes in
   order to support the IP TE mechanism.

   Point-to-point IP tunnels are usually deployed as bi-directional
   circuits in networks. This document also describes an optional
   mechanism having two RSPs in opposite directions to be used as
   a bi-directional IP tunnel.


4. Terminology

   IP TE Prefix  A non-globally routable IP prefix assigned to an
                 IP TE egress node. This prefix is advertised through
                 IGP.

   IP TE Route   An IP route with the IP TE Prefix on egress node
                 assigned for a terminated RSP.

   IP Tunnel     A tunnel uses IP as the encapsulation for payload.
                 Such as GRE, L2TP, IPsec, GTP, IPv6 over IPv4, etc.

   RSP           IP Route Switched Path. An explicitly routed IP
                 tunnel setup by the IP TE. It can be IPv4 RSP or
                 IPv6 RSP.



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   RSP Egress Address  The RSVP tunnel end-point IP address. It is
                 usually the router-ID of the egress node. This
                 RSP egress address can be shared among multiple
                 tunnels.

   RSP Tunnel Destination  The IP tunnel destination address used
                 in the packet encapsulation. This tunnel destination
                 address is unique to each RSP tunnel in the network.
                 It belongs to the IP TE prefix of the egress node.

   RSR           IP Route Switched Router. The IP node supports IP TE.

   LSP           An MPLS Label Switched Path. An explicitly switched
                 MPLS TE tunnel.


5. IP Traffic Engineering Scheme

   A non-globally routable IP address space is reserved for this
   scheme in a network. A network can use private address space
   or it can be assigned by address allocation authorities for
   IPv4 and IPv6. Each egress node is configured with a prefix within
   this address space which is large enough to handle all the RSPs
   terminated on the node. Each RSP tunnel requires an unique
   IP address in this prefix and is allocated by the egress node
   on demand.

   The ingress node of the RSP decides the path to be setup to the
   egress node. It uses the RSVP to establish the tunnel similar
   to MPLS TE. Instead of using Label Request Object in the Path
   message, a new IP Route Request Object is defined in this
   document to signal the egress node to allocate an unused address
   within the IP TE prefix. For the Resv messages, instead of
   using Label Object, a new IP Route Object is defined to carry
   the IP host route along the path back to the ingress node. The
   ingress node and all the transit nodes will install this host
   route in their routing table towards the egress node of the
   RSP. Explicit Route Object can also be used in this scheme to
   setup the RSP along the specified path instead of following
   the native IP routing. The ingress node will use this IP host
   address as the RSP tunnel destination. When a RSP is brought
   down, the nodes along the path of this RSP MUSH remove the
   host route associated with this RSP from their routing table.

   When a transit RSP node receives a Path message , it must
   determine the nexthop for this path towards the egress point.
   If the Explicit Route Object exists, it must follow the same
   procedure as described in section 4.3.4 of [2] to determine
   the nexthop. When a RSR receives a Resv message containing the
   IP Route Object, It must install the host route of the tunnel
   destination address of the RSP with the appropriate nexthop


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   towards the egress node defined on the path. Since the IP TE prefix
   and the RSP tunnel destination address is partitioned in such
   a way that each RSP has a unique IP TE address in the domain, the
   host route on each node along the RSP path must also be unique.


5.1 An Example of IP TE RSPs

   Consider the RSRs are interconnected as the following diagram
   Figure 1, the R1 is the ingress of RSPa and R4 is the ingress of
   RSPb. Both RSPs have R3 as the egress node:


                             100.1.1.1   (router-id)
                             10.1.3.0/24 (IP TE prefix)

          [R1] ==== [R2] ==== [R3]
        |  ||                  ||   ^ 10.1.3.1    ^ 10.1.3.2
        |  ||                  ||   |             |
        |  +======= [R4] ==== [R5]  | RSPa        | RSPb
        |                           |             |
        +------------>----------->--+             |
                      ----------->----------------+

        Figure 1:  An example of IP TE RSPs

   Assume all the links has the IGP metric of 10, R1 sets up RSPa
   with egress node of R3 and explicitly routed (with RSVP ERO
   routes in its Path message) through R4 and R5.

   IPv4 prefix 10.1.3.0/24 is reserved on R3 as the IP TE prefix
   address pool and this IP prefix is advertised through IGP in
   the network. When the Path message gets to R3, R3 picks the
   first unused address within this TE prefix, 10.1.3.1 to be the
   RSP tunnel egress address. The Resv message will be sent back
   following the path through R5, R4 and R1 containing the
   IP Route Object with host route 10.1.3.1. R1, R4 and R5 will
   install the 10.1.3.1/32 in their routing table following the
   explicit path towards R3.

   RSPb is setup from R4 to R3 through R5, and RSP tunnel
   destination address 10.1.3.2 is used. R4 and R5 install the
   route 10.1.3.2/32 towards the egress of the RSP.

   In both cases, R3's router-ID 100.1.1.1 is used as the
   RSP egress address which is not unique among the RSP tunnels.
   RSP tunnels are still identified in the same way as in
   MPLS TE LSPs which has nothing to do with the IP TE prefixes.

   On R1, when the IP traffic is resolved onto 100.1.1.1, the
   traffic will be sent through the RSPa with tunnel destination
   address of 10.1.3.1.


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5.2 IP TE Address Allocation

   An IP TE prefix is configured on each egress RSR. The address
   should be allocated to handle the maximum number of IP TE
   tunnels that could terminate on the node.

   This IP TE prefix SHOULD be advertised through the IGP, but it
   SHOULD NOT be advertised outside the domain. The host routes
   installed for the RSPs are only local to the node, and they
   MUST NOT be redistributed into any dynamic routing protocols.

   The host routes allocated by the egress node within the IP TE
   prefix should be treated as local interface routes on the egress
   node. The source address of the tunnel SHOULD use the same
   IP address when the RSVP sets up the RSP. The egress node SHOULD
   check the validity of the RSP by examine the source and destination
   addresses of the IP tunnel.


6. RSVP Extension

   In this document, we define two new RSVP objects: IP Route
   Request object and IP Route object. This is in symmetrical
   to the Label Request and Label objects in MPLS TE.

6.1 IP Route Request Object

   Class = 195 (To Be allocated by IANA), C_Type = 1

    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |            RSP Key            |           Protocol Type       |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

      RSP Key

        It contains a two octet number which may be used between a
        pair of RSRs to identify two RSPs belong to the same
        bi-directional IP tunnel. The RSP Key MUST be set to zero if
        the RSP is a uni-directional one.  The actual method by which
        this RSP Key is obtained is beyond the scope of the document.

      Protocol Type

         An identifier of the protocol type of tunnel payload using
         this path. Standard Ethertype [4] values are used.

6.1.1 Handling of IP_ROUTE_REQUEST

   To establish an RSP tunnel the sender creates a Path message with a


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   IP_ROUTE_REQUEST object. The IP_ROUTE_REQUEST object indicates that
   an IP host route installation of the IP TE address for this path
   is requested and provides an indication of the network layer protocol
   that is to be carried over this path.

   The IP_ROUTE_REQUEST object SHOULD be stored in the Path State Block,
   so that Path refresh messages will also contain the IP_ROUTE_REQUEST
   object.

   A node that recognizes a IP_ROUTE_REQUEST object, but that is unable
   to support it SHOULD send a PathErr with the error code "Routing
   problem" with error value TBA to indicate "IP TE routing install
   failure".

   An node that does not recognize the IP_ROUTE_REQUEST object sends
   a PathErr with error code "Unknown object class" toward the sender.
   In either of the above two cases, the sender MUST bring down the
   RSP if this is an explicitly routed tunnel.

6.2 IP Route Object

   The IP TE route MAY be carried in Resv messages. The IP TE
   route for a sender MUST immediately follow the FILTER_SPEC for
   that sender in the Resv message.

   The IP Route object has the following format:

   Class = 196 (To Be allocated by IANA), C_Type = 1 (IPv4)

    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                           IP TE Route (IPv4)                  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | Prefix Length |                 Reserved                      |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   The contents of the IP Route of IPv4 is encoded in 8 octets.
   4 octets of IPv4 address. 1 octet of prefix length. The prefix
   length of value 32 should be used in this scheme.

   C_Type = 2 (IPv6)

    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
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                        IP TE Route (IPv6)                     |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                        IP TE Route (IPv6 continued)           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                        IP TE Route (IPv6 continued)           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

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   |                        IP TE Route (IPv6 continued)           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | Prefix Length |                 Reserved                      |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   The contents of the IP Route of IPv6 is encoded in 20 octets.
   16 octets of IPv6 address. 1 octet of prefix length.

6.2.1 Handling IP Route Objects in Resv Messages

   The egress RSP node allocates the IP TE route in the IP Route
   object. Once the IP route is allocated or received from a
   downstream node, the node formats a new IP Route object and
   sends the new IP Route object as part of the Resv message to the
   previous hop. The transit node and the ingress node SHOULD
   install the IP host route into their routing table. The IP Route
   object SHOULD be kept in the Reservation State Block.

   If a RSVP router does not recognize the IP_ROUTE object, it
   SHOULD send a ResvErr with error code "Unknown object class" toward
   the receiver. This causes the reservation to fail.


7. Bi-directional IP Tunnel with RSPs

   The IP TE RSP can be used as an uni-directional traffic truck,
   the same way as an MPLS LSP is used. This section describes an
   optional mechanism that can be applied to allow a pair of RSP
   established IP tunnels as a bi-directional circuit.

   RSVP matches a pair of bi-directional RSPs by identifying three
   fields in the RSVP Path messages: tunnel end-point address,
   tunnel sender address [2, sections 4.6.1.1 and 4.6.2.1], and
   RSP Key (section 6.1 above, if there are multiple RSP pairs
   between the two RSRs). RSVP installs the source and destination
   addresses as the outbound data encapsulation to be used by the
   bi-directional IP tunnel. The source address is the same as
   the tunnel sender address; the destination address is an IP TE
   host route assigned by the RSP egress node. RSVP also needs to
   inform the IP tunnel about the inbound data encapsulation since
   it will not be simply the reverse of the outbound as in most of
   the normal IP tunnel encapsulation cases.

                         (b, a, key1)
    a (loopback)   rsp1 --------------------->x (IP TE route)
               [A]                             [B]  b (loopback)
    (IP TE route) y<--------------------- rsp2          [ CONTROL ]
                         (a, b, key1)
                                                      ...............
          IP tunnel encap (x, a)---------------->         [ DATA ]
                 <------------------ IP tunnel encap (y, b)

        Figure 2: RSPs in control plane and IP tunnel in data plane

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   Assume the IP tunnel is established using a pair of RSPs, rsp1
   and rsp2 between node A and B. Further assume A has its loopback
   address 'a' and B has its loopback address 'b'. RSVP on A sends
   a Path message for rsp1 using (b, a, key1), where 'b' is the
   tunnel end-point address, 'a' is the tunnel sender address, and
   key1 is the RSP key. Assume B will assign an IP TE route 'x' for
   this rsp1. Similarly, RSVP on B sends a Path message for rsp2
   using (a, b, key1), and A will assign an IP TE route 'y' for
   this rsp2. Node A and node B match the pair of RSPs by those three
   identifiers to belong to a bi-directional circuit. RSVP on Nodes
   A and B determine the data encapsulation for the IP tunnel. On
   node A, the IP tunnel will use 'x' as the tunnel destination,
   and 'a' as the tunnel source for outbound encapsulation. It also
   checks the inbound tunnel with destination address of 'y' and
   source address of 'b' for the IP tunnel. The RSP Key key1 is not
   used by IP tunnel encapsulation and it is only internal to RSVP.
   On node B, the operation is the same as above, it sends out with
   destination of 'y' and source of 'b', and expects inbound with
   destination of 'x' and source of 'a'.

   A backup RSP should have a different IP TE route assigned by the
   same egress node to protect the primary RSP. When the backup RSP
   is used instead of the primary, the RSVP needs to update the
   IP tunnel with the new encapsulation.


8. IANA Considerations

   The IP TE proposal requires that IANA allocate a Class number
   for IP_ROUTE_REQUEST object and a Class number for IP_ROUTE object.
   IANA also needs to allocate the Error Code for "IP TE routing
   install failure" sub-code.


9. Security Considerations

   The same RSVP security issues in [5] still apply. The reserved IP
   TE prefixes SHOULD not be advertised outside the domain. The
   operators can filter the traffic on non-backbone ports to drop
   the packets destine to the IP TE prefix blocks. The operators
   can also use IP tunnel with keys or authentication.


10. Acknowledgments

   The authors would like to thank Changming Liu and Ping Pan for
   their comments to this document.


11. IPR Disclosure



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   By submitting this Internet draft, we certify that any applicable
   patent or other IPR claims of which we are aware have been disclosed,
   and any of which we become aware will be disclosed, in accordance
   with RFC 3668.


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13. References

   [1] D. Awduche, J. Malcolm, J. Agogbua, M. O'Dell, J. McManus,
       "Requirements for Traffic Engineering Over MPLS", RFC 2702,
       September 1999.

   [2] Awduche, D., et al, "RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP
       tunnels", RFC 3209, December 2001.

   [3] Shen, N. and Pan, P., "Nexthop Fast ReRoute for IP and
       MPLS", draft-shen-nhop-fastreroute-00.txt, work in progress.

   [4] Reynolds, J. and J. Postel, "Assigned Numbers", RFC 1700,
       October 1994.

   [5] Braden, R., Zhang, L., Berson, S., Herzog, S. and S. Jamin,
       "Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1, Functional
       Specification", RFC 2205, September 1997.


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14. Authors' Addresses


   Naiming Shen
   Redback Networks, Inc.
   300 Holger Way
   San Jose, CA 95134
   Email: naiming@redback.com

   Albert Tian
   Redback Networks, Inc.
   300 Holger Way
   San Jose, CA 95134
   Email: tian@redback.com

   Jun Zhuang
   Redback Networks, Inc.
   300 Holger Way
   San Jose, CA 95134
   Email: junz@redback.com

































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