Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) H. Jeng
Request for Comments: 7024 J. Uttaro
Category: Standards Track AT&T
ISSN: 2070-1721 L. Jalil
Verizon
B. Decraene
Orange
Y. Rekhter
Juniper Networks
R. Aggarwal
Arktan
October 2013
Virtual Hub-and-Spoke in BGP/MPLS VPNs
Abstract
With BGP/MPLS Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), providing any-to-any
connectivity among sites of a given VPN would require each Provider
Edge (PE) router connected to one or more of these sites to hold all
the routes of that VPN. The approach described in this document
allows the VPN service provider to reduce the number of PE routers
that have to maintain all these routes by requiring only a subset of
these routers to maintain all these routes.
Furthermore, when PE routers use ingress replication to carry the
multicast traffic of VPN customers, the approach described in this
document may, under certain circumstances, reduce bandwidth
inefficiency associated with ingress replication and redistribute the
replication load among PE routers.
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Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
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Table of Contents
1. Overview ........................................................3
2. Specification of Requirements ...................................4
3. Routing Information Exchange ....................................5
4. Forwarding Considerations .......................................7
5. Internet Connectivity ...........................................9
6. Deployment Considerations ......................................12
7. Multicast Considerations .......................................13
7.1. Terminology ...............................................14
7.2. Eligible Upstream Multicast Hop (UMH) Routes ..............14
7.3. Originating VPN-IP Default Route by a V-Hub ...............14
7.4. Handling C-Multicast Routes ...............................15
7.5. Originating I-PMSI/S-PMSI/SA A-D Routes by V-Spoke ........15
7.6. Originating I-PMSI/S-PMSI/SA A-D Routes by V-Hub ..........16
7.7. Receiving I-PMSI/S-PMSI/SA A-D Routes by V-Spoke ..........17
7.8. Receiving I-PMSI/S-PMSI/SA A-D Routes by V-Hub ............17
7.8.1. Case 1 .............................................17
7.8.2. Case 2 .............................................18
7.9. Use of Ingress Replication with I-PMSI A-D Routes .........20
8. An Example of RT Provisioning ..................................21
8.1. Unicast Routing ...........................................21
8.2. Multicast Routing .........................................22
9. Further Refinements ............................................23
10. Security Considerations .......................................23
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