Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) Inter-FE Logical Functional Block (LFB)
RFC 8013
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) D. Joachimpillai
Request for Comments: 8013 Verizon
Category: Standards Track J. Hadi Salim
ISSN: 2070-1721 Mojatatu Networks
February 2017
Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES)
Inter-FE Logical Functional Block (LFB)
Abstract
This document describes how to extend the Forwarding and Control
Element Separation (ForCES) Logical Functional Block (LFB) topology
across Forwarding Elements (FEs) by defining the inter-FE LFB class.
The inter-FE LFB class provides the ability to pass data and metadata
across FEs without needing any changes to the ForCES specification.
The document focuses on Ethernet transport.
Status of This Memo
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(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 7841.
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RFC 8013 ForCES Inter-FE LFB February 2017
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Terminology and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Problem Scope and Use Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2. Sample Use Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2.1. Basic IPv4 Router . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2.1.1. Distributing the Basic IPv4 Router . . . . . . . 6
3.2.2. Arbitrary Network Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2.2.1. Distributing the Arbitrary Network Function . . . 8
4. Inter-FE LFB Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1. Inserting the Inter-FE LFB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5. Inter-FE Ethernet Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.1. Inter-FE Ethernet Connectivity Issues . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.1.1. MTU Consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.1.2. Quality-of-Service Considerations . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.1.3. Congestion Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.2. Inter-FE Ethernet Encapsulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6. Detailed Description of the Ethernet Inter-FE LFB . . . . . . 13
6.1. Data Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.1.1. Egress Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.1.2. Ingress Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.2. Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6.3. Inter-FE LFB XML Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
8. IEEE Assignment Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
9. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
1. Introduction
In the ForCES architecture, a packet service can be modeled by
composing a graph of one or more LFB instances. The reader is
referred to the details in the ForCES model [RFC5812].
The ForCES model describes the processing within a single Forwarding
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