Requirements for the Graceful Shutdown of BGP Sessions
RFC 6198
| Document | Type | RFC - Informational (April 2011; No errata) | |
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| Authors | Antonio Armengol , Cristel Pelsser , Bruno Decraene , Zubair Ahmad , Tomonori Takeda , Pierre Francois | ||
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) B. Decraene
Request for Comments: 6198 France Telecom
Category: Informational P. Francois
ISSN: 2070-1721 UCL
C. Pelsser
IIJ
Z. Ahmad
Orange Business Services
A.J. Elizondo Armengol
Telefonica I+D
T. Takeda
NTT
April 2011
Requirements for the Graceful Shutdown of BGP Sessions
Abstract
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is heavily used in Service Provider
networks for both Internet and BGP/MPLS VPN services. For resiliency
purposes, redundant routers and BGP sessions can be deployed to
reduce the consequences of an Autonomous System Border Router (ASBR)
or BGP session breakdown on customers' or peers' traffic. However,
simply taking down or even bringing up a BGP session for maintenance
purposes may still induce connectivity losses during the BGP
convergence. This is no longer satisfactory for new applications
(e.g., voice over IP, online gaming, VPN). Therefore, a solution is
required for the graceful shutdown of a (set of) BGP session(s) in
order to limit the amount of traffic loss during a planned shutdown.
This document expresses requirements for such a solution.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents
approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6198.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2
2. Conventions Used in This Document ...............................3
3. Problem Statement ...............................................4
3.1. Example of Undesirable BGP Routing Behavior ................4
3.2. Causes of Packet Loss ......................................5
4. Terminology .....................................................6
5. Goals and Requirements ..........................................7
6. Security Considerations ........................................10
7. References .....................................................10
7.1. Normative References ......................................10
7.2. Informative References ....................................10
Acknowledgments ...................................................11
Appendix A. Reference BGP Topologies ..............................12
A.1. EBGP Topologies ...........................................12
A.2. IBGP Topologies ...........................................15
A.3. Routing Decisions .........................................19
1. Introduction
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) [RFC4271] is heavily used in
Service Provider networks for both Internet and BGP/MPLS VPN services
[RFC4364]. For resiliency purposes, redundant routers and BGP
sessions can be deployed to reduce the consequences of an Autonomous
System Border Router (ASBR) or BGP session breakdown on customers' or
peers' traffic.
We place ourselves in the context where a Service Provider performs a
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