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Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL):
Problem and Applicability Statement
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Abstract
Current Ethernet (802.1) link layers use custom routing protocols
that have a number of challenges. The routing protocols need to
strictly avoid loops, even temporary loops during route propagation,
because of the lack of header loop detection support. Routing tends
not to take full advantage of alternate paths, or even non-
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overlapping pairwise paths (in the case of spanning trees). The
convergence of these routing protocols and stability under link
changes and failures is also of concern. This document addresses
these concerns and suggests that they are related to the need to be
able to apply network layer routing (e.g., link state or distance
vector) protocols at the link layer. This document assumes that
solutions would not address issues of scalability beyond that of
existing bridged (802.1D) links, but that a solution would be
backward compatible with 802.1D, including hubs, bridges, and their
existing plug-and-play capabilities.
This document is a work in progress; we invite you to participate on
the mailing list at http://www.postel.org/rbridge
Table of Contents
1. Introduction...................................................3
2. The TRILL Problem..............................................4
2.1. Inefficient Paths.........................................4
2.2. Convergence Under Reconfiguration.........................5
2.3. Robustness to Link Interruption...........................6
2.4. Problems Not Addressed....................................6
3. Desired Properties of Solutions to TRILL.......................7
3.1. No Change to Link Capabilities............................7
3.2. Zero Configuration and Zero Assumption....................8
3.3. Forwarding Loop Mitigation................................8
3.4. Spanning Tree Management..................................9
3.5. Multiple Attachments......................................9
3.6. VLAN Issues...............................................9
3.7. Equivalence...............................................9
3.8. Optimizations............................................10
3.9. Internet Architecture Issues.............................10
4. Applicability.................................................11
5. Security Considerations.......................................12
6. IANA Considerations...........................................12
7. Conclusions...................................................12
8. Acknowledgments...............................................12
8.1. Normative References.....................................12
8.2. Informative References...................................13
Author's Addresses...............................................14
Intellectual Property Statement..................................14
Disclaimer of Validity...........................................14
Copyright Statement..............................................15
Acknowledgment...................................................15
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1. Introduction
[CAVEAT: this document is in very rough form. Input and feedback is
solicited
NOTE: the terms 'campus' and 'rbridge' intentionally do not appear in
this document]
Conventional Ethernet link subnets have a number of attractive
features, allowing hosts and routers to relocate within the subnet
without requiring renumbering and are automatically configuring.
Unfortunately, the basis of the simplicity of these subnets is the
spanning tree, which although simple and elegant, can have
substantial limitations. In subnets with high host reattachment
frequency, convergence of the spanning tree protocol can be slow.
Because all traffic flows over a single tree, all traffic is
concentrated on a subset of links, increasing susceptibility to the
effects of link failures and limiting the bandwidth across the
subnet.
[I use the term Ethernet link subnets; do I need to define this? It's
not a segment, which I think of as being shared or hubbed but not
bridged]
The alternative to an Ethernet link subnet is often a network subnet.
Network subnets can use link-state routing protocols that allow
traffic to traverse least-cost paths rather than being aggregated on
a spanning tree backbone, providing higher aggregate capacity and
more resistance to link failures. Unfortunately, IP - the dominant
network layer technology - requires that hosts be renumbered when
relocated in different network subnets, interrupting network (e.g.,
tunnels, IPsec) and transport (e.g., TCP, UDP) associations that are
in progress during the transition.
It is thus useful to consider a new approach that combines the
features of these two existing solutions, hopefully retaining the
desirable properties of each. Such an approach would develop a new
kind of bridge system that was capable of using network-style
routing, while still operating at the link layer. This allows reuse
of well-understood network routing protocols to benefit the link
layer.
This document describes the challenge of such a combined approach in
detail. This problem is known as "Transparent Interconnection of Lots
of Links" or "TRILL". The remainder of this document makes as few
assumptions about a solution to TRILL as possible.
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2. The TRILL Problem
Ethernet subnets have evolved from 'thicknet' to 'thinnet' to twisted
pair with hubs to twisted pair with switches, becoming increasingly
simple to wire and manage. Each level has corresponding topology
restrictions; thicknet is inherently linear, whereas thinnet and hub-
connected twisted pair have to be wired as a tree. Switches allow
network managers to avoid thinking in trees, where the spanning tree
protocol finds a valid tree automatically; unfortunately, this
additional simplicity comes with a number of associated penalties.
The spanning tree often results in inefficient use of the link
topology; traffic is concentrated on the spanning tree path, and all
traffic follows that path even when other more direct paths may be
available. The spanning tree configuration is affected by even small
topology changes, and small changes can have large effects. Each of
these inefficiencies can cause problems for current link layer
deployments.
2.1. Inefficient Paths
The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) helps break cycles in a set of
interconnected bridges, but it also can limit the bandwidth among
that set and cause traffic to take circuitous paths.
Consider the network shown in Figure 1, which shows a number of
bridges and their interconnecting links. End hosts and routers are
not shown; they would connect to the bridges that are shown, labeled
A-H. Note that the network shown has cycles which would cause packet
storms if hubs (repeaters) were used instead of STP-capable bridges.
One possible spanning tree is shown by double lines.
B=======\\ C
// \ \\ / \\ D
// \ \\/ \\ //
A-----\-------H===== E
\ // ||
\ // ||
\ // ||
G----------F
Figure 1 Bridged subnet with spanning tree shown
The spanning tree limits the capacity of the resulting subnet. Assume
that the links are 100 Mbps. Figure 2 shows how traffic from hosts on
A to hosts on C goes via the spanning tree path A-B-H-E-C (links
replaced with '1' in the figure); traffic from hosts on G to F go via
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the spanning three path G-H-E-F (links replaced by '2' in the
figure). The link H-E is shared by both paths (alternating '1's and
'2's), resulting in an aggregate capacity for both A..C and G..F
paths of a total of 100 Mbps.
B11111111 C
1 1 1
1 1 1
A H121212E
2 2
2 2
2 2
G F
Figure 2 Traffic from A..C (1) and G..F (2) share a link
If traffic from G to F were to go directly using full routing, e.g.,
from G-F, both paths could have 100 Mbps each, and the total
aggregate capacity could be 200 Mbps (Figure 3). In this case, the H-
F link carries only A-C traffic ('1's) and the G-F traffic ('2's) is
more direct.
B11111111 C
1 1 1 D
1 1 1
A H111111E
G2222222222F
Figure 3 Traffic from A..C (1) and G..F (2) with full routing
There are a number of features of modern layer 3 routing protocols
which would be beneficial if available at layer 2, but which cannot
be integrated into the spanning tree system. Multipath routing can
distribute load simultaneously among two different paths; alternate
path routing supports rapid failover to backup paths. Layer 3 routing
typically optimizes paths between pairs of endpoints, conventionally
based on hopcount but also including bandwidth, latency, or other
policy metrics.
2.2. Convergence Under Reconfiguration
The spanning tree is dependent on the way a set of bridges are
interconnected, i.e., the link layer topology. Small changes in this
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topology can cause large changes in the spanning tree. Changes in the
spanning tree can take time to propagate and converge.
[QUESTION: is there a good visual example of this, one that we can
walk through in the description?]
[QUESTION: What is the timescale? O(# bridges)? O(#links?), etc?]
[QUESTION: is port autolearning in this category too? i.e., are TRILL
solutions trying to hide port reattachment from other nodes (or is
that even necessary?)]
The spanning tree protocol is inherently global to an entire layer 2
subnet; there is no current way to contain, partition, or otherwise
factor the protocol into a number of smaller, more stable subsets
that interact as groups. Contrast this with Internet routing, which
includes both intradomain and interdomain variants, split to provide
exactly that containment and scalability within a domain while
allowing domains to interact freely independent of what happens
inside.
[QUESTION: anybody have a convenient reference for a proof? Are new
spanning tree protocols not considering AS-like boundaries? (just
checking)]
2.3. Robustness to Link Interruption
Persistent changes to the link topology, as described in Section 2.2,
are not the only effects on subnet stability. Transient link
interruptions have similar effects, with similar scalability issues.
It would be more useful for subnet configuration to be tolerant of
such transients, e.g., supporting alternate, backup paths.
[QUESTION: is there more to say here?]
Contrast this to network layer intradomain and interdomain routing,
both of which include provisions for backup paths. These backups
allow routing to be more stable in the presence of transients, as
well as to recover more rapidly when the transient disappears.
2.4. Problems Not Addressed
There are other challenges to 802.1D link layer subnets that are not
addressed in this document. These include:
[NOTE: these are guesses; if any are wrong, we can move or revise]
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o increased Ethernet link subnet scale
o increased node relocation
o Ethernet link subnet management protocol security
o flooding attacks on a Ethernet link subnet
Solutions to TRILL are not intended to support increasingly larger
scales of Ethernet link subnets than current spanning tree protocols
can support. This may be a side-effect of supporting more rapid
reaction to subnet reconfiguration or multiple internal paths, or of
the grouped modularity that network style routing affords, but is not
the focus of this work.
Similarly, solutions to TRILL are not intended to address link layer
node migration, which can complicate the caches in learning bridges.
Similar challenges exist in the ARP protocol, where link layer
forwarding is not updated appropriately when nodes move to ports on
other bridges. Again, the grouped modularity of network routing, like
that of network layer ASes, can help hide the effect of migration.
That is a side effect, however, and not a primary focus of this work.
Current link control plane protocols, including Ethernet link subnet
management (STP) and link/network integration (ARP), are vulnerable
to a variety of attacks. Solutions to TRILL are not intended to
directly address these vulnerabilities. Similar attacks exist in the
data plane, e.g., source address spoofing, single address traffic
attacks, traffic snooping, and broadcast flooding. TRILL solutions do
not address any of these issues, although it is critical that they do
not introduce new vulnerabilities in the process (see Section 5).
3. Desired Properties of Solutions to TRILL
This section describes some of the desirable or required properties
of any system that would solve the TRILL problems, independent of the
details of such an architecture. Most of these are based on retaining
useful properties of bridges, or maintaining those properties while
solving the problems listed in Section 2.
3.1. No Change to Link Capabilities
There must be no change to the service that Ethernet subnets already
provide as a result of deploying a TRILL solution. Ethernet supports
unicast, broadcast, and multicast natively. Although network
protocols, notably IP, can tolerate link layers that do not provide
all three, it would be useful to retain the support already in place
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[6]. Zeroconf, as well as existing bridge autoconfiguration, are
dependent on broadcast as well.
There are subtle implications to such a requirement. Bridge
autolearning already is susceptible to moving nodes between ports,
because previously learned associations between port and link address
change. A TRILL solution could be similarly susceptible to such
changes.
3.2. Zero Configuration and Zero Assumption
Both bridges and hubs are zero configuration devices; hubs having no
configuration at all, and bridges being automatically self-
configured. Bridges are further zero-assumption devices, unlike hubs.
Bridges can be interconnected in arbitrary topologies, without regard
for cycles or even (inadvertent) self-attachment. STP removes the
impact of cycles automatically, and port autolearning reduces
unnecessary broadcast of unicast traffic.
A TRILL solution should strive to have similar zero configuration,
zero assumption operation. This includes having TRILL solution
components automatically discover other TRILL solution components and
organize themselves, as well as to configure that organization for
proper operation (plug-and-play). It also includes zero configuration
backward compatibility with existing bridges and hubs, which may
include interacting with some of the bridge protocols, such as STP.
Autoconfiguration extends to optional services, such as multicast
support via IGMP snooping, broadcast support via internal serial
copy, and supporting multiple VLANs.
3.3. Forwarding Loop Mitigation
Spanning tree avoids forwarding loops by design, even during update
(?). Solutions to TRILL are intended to use adapted network layer
routing protocols which may introduce transient loops during routing
convergence. TRILL solutions thus need support for mitigating the
effect of such routing loops.
In the Internet, loop avoidance is provided by a decrementing
hopcounts (TTL); in other networks, packets include a trace
(serialized or unioned) of visited nodes [1]. These mechanisms
(respectively) limit the impact of loops or detect them explicitly. A
mechanism with similar effect should be included in TRILL solutions.
[QUESTION: anyone have a good reference for serialized or union
traces - or better names for them?]
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3.4. Spanning Tree Management
In order to address convergence under reconfiguration and robustness
to link interruption (Sections 2.2 and 2.3), participation in the STP
must be carefully managed. The goal is to provide the desired
stability inside the TRILL solution and of the entire Ethernet link
subnet while not interfering with the operation of STP outside the
TRILL solution. This may involve TRILL solutions participating in the
STP, where internally a more stable protocol is run such that the
interactions between the TRILL solution and external STP is dampened,
or it may involve severing the external STP into separate STPs on
'stub' external Ethernet link subnet segments.
[we need pictures here; to appear in the next version]
3.5. Multiple Attachments
[QUESTION: I'm not sure what this refers to; is it the same NIC
attached at different points to a TRIL solution? If so, why should
this be possible where it seems ignored in bridges?]
3.6. VLAN Issues
A TRILL solution should support multiple VLANs. This may involve
ignorance, just as many bridge devices do not participate in the VLAN
protocols. It may alternately support direct VLAN support, e.g., by
the use of separate internal routing protocol instances to separate
traffic for each VLAN inside a TRILL solution.
[QUESTION: is it possible to be ignorant of VLANs and still operate?
Bridges are, right?]
3.7. Equivalence
As with any extension to an existing architecture, it would be useful
- though not strictly necessary - to be able to describe or consider
a TRILL solution as a model of an existing link layer component. Such
equivalence provides a validation model for the architecture.
This provides a sanity check, i.e., "we got it right if we can
replace a TRILL solution with an X" (where "X" might be a single
bridge, a hub, or some other link layer abstraction). It does not
matter whether "X" can be implemented on the same scale as the
corresponding TRILL solution. It also does not matter if it can -
there may be utility to deploying the TRILL solution components
incrementally, in ways that a single "X" could not be installed.
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For example, if TRILL solution were equivalent to a single bridge, it
would mean that the TRILL solution would - as a whole - participate
in the STP. This need not require that TRILL solution would propagate
STP internally, any more than a bridge need do so in its on-board
control. It would mean that the solution would interact with BPDUs at
the edge, where the solution would - again, as a whole - participate
as if a single node in the spanning tree. Note that this equivalence
is not required; a solution may act as if a hub, or may not have a
corresponding equivalent link layer component at all.
3.8. Optimizations
There are a number of optimizations that may be applied to TRILL
solutions. These must be applied in a way that does not affect
functionality as a tradeoff for increased performance. Such
optimizations address broadcast and multicast frame distribution,
VLAN support, and snooping of ARP and IPv6 neighbor discovery.
[NOTE: need to say more here.]
3.9. Internet Architecture Issues
TRILL solutions are intended to have no impact on the Internet
network layer architecture. In particular, the Internet and higher
layer headers should remain intact when traversing a TRILL solution,
just as they do when traversing any other link subnet technologies.
This means that the IP TTL field cannot be co-opted for forwarding
loop mitigation, as it would interfere with the Internet layer
assuming that the link subnet was reachable with no changes in TTL
(Internet TTLs are changed only at routers, as per RFC 1812) [1].
TRILL solutions should also have no impact on Internet routing or
signaling, which also means that broadcast and multicast, both of
which can pervade an entire Ethernet link subnet, must be able to
transparently pervade a TRILL solution. Changing how either of these
capabilities behaves would have significant effects on a variety of
protocols, including RIP (broadcast), RIPv2 (multicast), ARP
(broadcast), IPv6 neighbor discovery (multicast), etc.
Note that snooping of network layer packets may be useful, especially
for certain optimizations. These include snooping multicast control
plane packets (IGMP) to tune link multicast to match the network
multicast topology, as is already done in existing smart switches
[3]. This also includes snooping IPv6 neighbor discovery messages to
assist with governing TRILL solution edge configuration, as is the
case in some smart learning bridges [7]. Other layers may similarly
be snooped, notably ARP packets, for similar reasons for IPv4 [11].
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[Need a ref for the router-router 'igmp' protocol]
4. Applicability
As might be expected, TRILL solutions are intended to be used to
solve the problems described in Section 2. However, not all such
installations are appropriate environments for such solutions. This
section outlines the issues in the appropriate use of these
solutions.
TRILL solutions are intended to address problems of path efficiency
and stability within a single Ethernet link subnet. Like bridges,
individual TRILL solution components may find other TRILL solution
components within a single Ethernet link subnet and aggregate into a
single TRILL solution.
TRILL solutions are not intended to span separate Ethernet link
subnets where interconnected by network layer (e.g., router) devices,
except via link layer tunnels that are in place prior to their
deployment, where such tunnels render the distinct subnet
undetectably equivalent from a single Ethernet link subnet.
A currently open question is whether a single Ethernet link subnet
should contain only one TRILL solution instance, either of necessity
of architecture or utility. Multiple TRILL solutions, like Internet
ASes, may allow internal TRILL routing protocols to be partitioned in
ways that help their stability, but this may come at the price of
needing the TRILL solutions to participate more fully as nodes (each
modeling a bridge) in the Ethernet link subnet STP. Each architecture
solution should decide whether multiple TRILL solutions are supported
within a single Ethernet link subnet and mechanisms should be
included to enforce whatever decision is made.
TRILL solutions are not intended to address scalability limitations
in bridged subnets. Although there may be scale benefits of other
aspects of solving TRILL problems, e.g., of using network layer
routing to provide stability under link changes or intermittent
outages, this is not a focus of this work.
As also noted earlier, TRILL solutions are not intended to address
security vulnerabilities in either the data plane or control plane of
the link layer. This means that TRILL solutions should not limit
broadcast frames, ARP requests, or spanning tree protocol messages
(if such are interpreted by the TRILL solution or solution edge).
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5. Security Considerations
TRILL solutions should not introduce new vulnerabilities compared to
traditional bridged subnets.
TRILL solutions are not intended to be a solution to Ethernet link
subnet vulnerabilities, including spoofing, flooding, snooping, and
attacks on the link control plane (STP, flooding the learning cache)
and link-network control plane (ARP). Although TRILL solutions are
intended to provide more stable routing than STP, this stability is
limited to performance, and the subsequent robustness is intended to
address non-malicious events.
There may be some side-effects to the use of TRILL solutions that can
provide more robust operation under certain attacks, such as those
interrupting link service, but TRILL solutions should not be relied
upon for such capabilities.
Finally, TRILL solutions should not interfere with other protocols
intended to address these vulnerabilities, such as those under
development to secure IPv6 neighbor discovery.
[need a ref for secure ipv6 nd]
6. IANA Considerations
This document has no IANA considerations.
This section should be removed by the RFC Editor prior to final
publication.
7. Conclusions
(TBA)
8. Acknowledgments
Portions of this document are based on a preliminary solution
description document [10].
8.1. Normative References
None.
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8.2. Informative References
[1] Baker, F., "Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers", RFC 1812
(Standards Track), June 1995.
[2] Braden, R., "Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication
Layers", STD 3, RFC 1122, October 1989.
[3] Cain, B., S. Deering, I. Kouvelas, B. Fenner, A. Thyagarajan,
"Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3," RFC 3376
(Proposed Standard), October 2002.
[4] Callon, R., "Use of OSI IS-IS for routing in TCP/IP and dual
environments", RFC 1195, December 1990.
[5] IEEE 802.1d bridging standard, "IEEE 802.1d bridging standard".
[6] P. Karn (ed.), C. Bormann, G.Fairhurst, D. Grossman, R. Ludwig,
J. Mahdavi, G. Montenegro, J. Touch, L. Wood, "Advice for
Internet Subnetwork Designers," RFC-3819 / BCP 89, July 2004.
[7] Narten, T., Nordmark, E. and W. Simpson, "Neighbor Discovery
for IP Version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 2461 (Standards Track), December
1998.
[8] Perlman, R., "RBridges: Transparent Routing", Proc. Infocom
2005, March 2004.
[9] Perlman, R., "Interconnection: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and
Internetworking Protocols", Addison Wesley Chapter 3, 1999.
[10] Perlman, R., J. Touch, A. Yegin, "RBridges: Transparent
Routing," (work in progress), Apr. 2004 - May 2005.
[11] Plummer, D., "Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol: Or
converting network protocol addresses to 48.bit Ethernet
address for transmission on Ethernet hardware", STD 37, RFC 826
(Standard), November 1982.
[12] Touch, J., Wang, Y., Eggert, L. and G. Finn, "A Virtual
Internet Architecture", ISI Technical Report ISI-TR-570,
Presented at the Workshop on Future Directions in Network
Architecture (FDNA) 2003 at Sigcomm 2003, March 2003.
[13] Mogul, J. and S. Deering, "Path MTU discovery", RFC 1191,
November 1990.
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[14] Lahey, K., "TCP Problems with Path MTU Discovery", RFC 2923
(Informational), September 2000.
Author's Addresses
Joe Touch
USC/ISI
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Email: touch@isi.edu
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