Encoding Multipoint LDP (mLDP) Forwarding Equivalence Classes (FECs) in the NLRI of BGP MCAST-VPN Routes
RFC 7441
Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(January 2015; No errata)
Updates RFC 6514
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Authors | IJsbrand Wijnands , Eric Rosen , Uwe Joorde | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Replaces | draft-rosen-l3vpn-mvpn-mldp-nlri | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
Reviews | |||
Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | Martin Vigoureux | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2014-10-19) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 7441 (Proposed Standard) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Adrian Farrel | ||
Send notices to | l3vpn-chairs@ietf.org | ||
IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) IJ. Wijnands Request for Comments: 7441 Cisco Systems, Inc. Updates: 6514 E. Rosen Category: Standards Track Juniper Networks, Inc. ISSN: 2070-1721 U. Joorde Deutsche Telekom January 2015 Encoding Multipoint LDP (mLDP) Forwarding Equivalence Classes (FECs) in the NLRI of BGP MCAST-VPN Routes Abstract Many service providers offer "BGP/MPLS IP VPN" service to their customers. Existing IETF standards specify the procedures and protocols that a service provider uses in order to offer this service to customers who have IP unicast and IP multicast traffic in their VPNs. It is also desirable to be able to support customers who have MPLS multicast traffic in their VPNs. This document specifies the procedures and protocol extensions that are needed to support customers who use the Multipoint LDP (mLDP) as the control protocol for their MPLS multicast traffic. Existing standards do provide some support for customers who use mLDP, but only under a restrictive set of circumstances. This document generalizes the existing support to include all cases where the customer uses mLDP, without any restrictions. This document updates RFC 6514. Status of This Memo This is an Internet Standards Track document. 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). Further information on Internet Standards is available in 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/rfc7441. Wijnands, et al. Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 7441 mLDP FECs in NLRI of BGP MCAST-VPN Routes January 2015 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2015 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................2 2. Why This Document is Needed .....................................3 3. Encoding an mLDP FEC in the MCAST-VPN NLRI ......................5 4. Wildcards .......................................................7 5. IANA Considerations .............................................7 6. Security Considerations .........................................8 7. References ......................................................9 7.1. Normative References .......................................9 7.2. Informative References .....................................9 Acknowledgments ...................................................10 Authors' Addresses ................................................10 1. Introduction Many service providers (SPs) offer BGP/MPLS IP VPN service to their customers. When a customer has IP multicast traffic in its VPN, the service provider needs to signal the customer multicast states across the backbone. A customer with IP multicast traffic is typically using PIM (Protocol Independent Multicast) [PIM] and/or IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) [IGMP] as the multicast control protocol in its VPN. The IP multicast states of these protocols are commonly denoted as "(S,G)" and/or "(*,G)" states, where "S" is a multicast source address and "G" is a multicast group address. [MVPN-BGP] specifies the way an SP may use BGP to signal a customer's IP multicast states across the SP backbone. This is done by using Multiprotocol BGP Updates whose Subsequent Address Family Identifier (SAFI) values contain the codepoint for MCAST-VPN (as defined in [MVPN-BGP]). The NLRI (Network Layer Reachability Information) field of these BGP Updates includes a customer Multicast Source field and a customer Multicast Group field, thus enabling the customer's (S,G) or (*,G) states to be encoded in the NLRI. Wijnands, et al. Standards Track [Page 2]Show full document text