Network Working Group E. Chen
Request for Comments: 5292 S. Sangli
Category: Standards Track Cisco Systems
August 2008
Address-Prefix-Based Outbound Route Filter for BGP-4
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Abstract
This document defines a new Outbound Router Filter (ORF) type for
BGP, termed "Address Prefix Outbound Route Filter", that can be used
to perform address-prefix-based route filtering. This ORF-type
supports prefix-length- or range-based matching, wild-card-based
address prefix matching, as well as the exact address prefix matching
for address families.
1. Introduction
The Outbound Route Filtering Capability defined in [BGP-ORF] provides
a mechanism for a BGP speaker to send to its BGP peer a set of
Outbound Route Filters (ORFs) that can be used by its peer to filter
its outbound routing updates to the speaker.
This documents defines a new ORF-type for BGP, termed "Address Prefix
Outbound Route Filter (Address Prefix ORF)", that can be used to
perform address-prefix-based route filtering. The Address Prefix ORF
supports prefix-length- or range-based matching, wild-card-based
address prefix matching, as well as the exact address prefix matching
for address families [BGP-MP].
2. Address Prefix ORF-Type
The Address Prefix ORF-Type allows one to express ORFs in terms of
address prefixes. That is, it provides address-prefix-based route
filtering, including prefix-length- or range-based matching, as well
as wild-card address prefix matching.
Conceptually, an Address Prefix ORF entry consists of the fields
<Sequence, Match, Length, Prefix, Minlen, Maxlen>.
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The "Sequence" field specifies the relative ordering of the entry
among all the Address Prefix ORF entries.
The "Match" field specifies whether this entry is "PERMIT" (value 0)
or "DENY" (value 1).
The "Length" field indicates the length (in bits) of the address
prefix. A length of zero indicates a prefix that matches all (as
specified by the address family) addresses (with the prefix itself of
zero octets).
The "Prefix" field contains an address prefix of an address family.
The "Minlen" field indicates the minimum prefix length (in bits) that
is required for "matching". The field is considered unspecified with
a value of 0.
The "Maxlen" field indicates the maximum prefix length (in bits) that
is required for "matching". The field is considered unspecified with
a value of 0.
The fields "Sequence", "Length", "Minlen", and "Maxlen" are all
unsigned integers.
This document imposes the following requirement on the values of
these fields:
0 <= Length < Minlen <= Maxlen
However, tests related to the "Minlen" or "Maxlen" value should be
omitted when the "Minlen" or "Maxlen" field (respectively) is
unspecified.
In addition, the "Maxlen" value must be no more than the maximum
length (in bits) of a host address for a given address family
[BGP-MP].
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The value of the ORF-Type for the Address Prefix ORF-Type is 64.
An Address Prefix ORF entry is encoded as follows. The "Match" field
of the entry is encoded in the "Match" field of the common part
[BGP-ORF], and the remaining fields of the entry are encoded in the
"Type specific part", as shown in Figure 1.
+--------------------------------+
| Sequence (4 octets) |
+--------------------------------+
| Minlen (1 octet) |
+--------------------------------+
| Maxlen (1 octet) |
+--------------------------------+
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