Remote Loop-Free Alternate (LFA) Fast Reroute (FRR)
RFC 7490
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) S. Bryant
Request for Comments: 7490 C. Filsfils
Category: Standards Track S. Previdi
ISSN: 2070-1721 Cisco Systems
M. Shand
Independent Contributor
N. So
Vinci Systems
April 2015
Remote Loop-Free Alternate (LFA) Fast Reroute (FRR)
Abstract
This document describes an extension to the basic IP fast reroute
mechanism, described in RFC 5286, that provides additional backup
connectivity for point-to-point link failures when none can be
provided by the basic mechanisms.
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/rfc7490.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Overview of Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Repair Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1. Tunnels as Repair Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. Tunnel Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5. Construction of Repair Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.1. Identifying Required Tunneled Repair Paths . . . . . . . 8
5.2. Determining Tunnel Endpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.2.1. Computing Repair Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.2.2. Selecting Repair Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.3. A Cost-Based RLFA Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.4. Interactions with IS-IS Overload, RFC 6987, and Costed
Out Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6. Example Application of Remote LFAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
7. Node Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
8. Operation in an LDP Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
9. Analysis of Real World Topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
9.1. Topology Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
9.2. LFA Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
9.3. RLFA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
9.4. Comparison of LFA and RLFA results . . . . . . . . . . . 24
10. Management and Operational Considerations . . . . . . . . . . 25
11. Historical Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
12. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
13. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
13.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
13.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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