OSPF Extensions in Support of Inter-Autonomous System (AS) MPLS and GMPLS Traffic Engineering
RFC 5392
Network Working Group M. Chen
Request for Comments: 5392 R. Zhang
Category: Standards Track Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
X. Duan
China Mobile
January 2009
OSPF Extensions in Support of Inter-Autonomous System (AS)
MPLS and GMPLS Traffic Engineering
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Abstract
This document describes extensions to the OSPF version 2 and 3
protocols to support Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and
Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) Traffic Engineering (TE) for multiple
Autonomous Systems (ASes). OSPF-TE v2 and v3 extensions are defined
for the flooding of TE information about inter-AS links that can be
used to perform inter-AS TE path computation.
No support for flooding information from within one AS to another AS
is proposed or defined in this document.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2
1.1. Conventions Used in This Document ..........................3
2. Problem Statement ...............................................3
2.1. A Note on Non-Objectives ...................................4
2.2. Per-Domain Path Determination ..............................4
2.3. Backward Recursive Path Computation ........................6
3. Extensions to OSPF ..............................................7
3.1. LSA Definitions ............................................8
3.1.1. Inter-AS-TE-v2 LSA ..................................8
3.1.2. Inter-AS-TE-v3 LSA ..................................8
3.2. LSA Payload ................................................9
3.2.1. Link TLV ............................................9
3.3. Sub-TLV Details ...........................................10
3.3.1. Remote AS Number Sub-TLV ...........................10
3.3.2. IPv4 Remote ASBR ID Sub-TLV ........................11
3.3.3. IPv6 Remote ASBR ID Sub-TLV ........................11
4. Procedure for Inter-AS TE Links ................................12
4.1. Origin of Proxied TE Information ..........................13
5. Security Considerations ........................................14
6. IANA Considerations ............................................14
6.1. Inter-AS TE OSPF LSA ......................................14
6.1.1. Inter-AS-TE-v2 LSA .................................14
6.1.2. Inter-AS-TE-v3 LSA .................................14
6.2. OSPF LSA Sub-TLVs Type ....................................15
7. Acknowledgments ................................................15
8. References .....................................................15
8.1. Normative References ......................................15
8.2. Informative References ....................................16
1. Introduction
[OSPF-TE] defines extensions to the OSPF protocol [OSPF] to support
intra-area Traffic Engineering (TE). The extensions provide a way of
encoding the TE information for TE-enabled links within the network
(TE links) and flooding this information within an area. Type 10
Opaque Link State Advertisements (LSAs) [RFC5250] are used to carry
such TE information. Two top-level Type Length Values (TLVs) are
defined in [OSPF-TE]: Router Address TLV and Link TLV. The Link TLV
has several nested sub-TLVs that describe the TE attributes for a TE
link.
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[OSPF-V3-TE] defines similar extensions to OSPFv3 [OSPFV3]. It
defines a new LSA, which is referred to as the Intra-Area-TE LSA, to
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