Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Multipoint Active Tails
RFC 8563
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) D. Katz
Request for Comments: 8563 Juniper Networks
Category: Standards Track D. Ward
ISSN: 2070-1721 Cisco Systems
S. Pallagatti, Ed.
VMware
G. Mirsky, Ed.
ZTE Corp.
April 2019
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Multipoint Active Tails
Abstract
This document describes active tail extensions to the Bidirectional
Forwarding Detection (BFD) protocol for multipoint networks.
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Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology and Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Operational Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5.1. No Head Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5.2. Head Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5.2.1. Head Notification without Polling . . . . . . . . . . 5
5.2.2. Head Notification and Tail Solicitation with
Multipoint Polling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5.2.3. Head Notification with Composite Polling . . . . . . 6
6. Protocol Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.1. Multipoint Client Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.2. Multipoint Client Session Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.3. State Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.3.1. New State Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.3.2. New State Variable Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.3.3. State Variable Initialization and Maintenance . . . . 10
6.4. Controlling Multipoint BFD Options . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.5. State Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.6. Session Establishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.7. Discriminators and Packet Demultiplexing . . . . . . . . 12
6.8. Controlling Tail Packet Transmission . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.9. Soliciting the Tails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.10. Verifying Connectivity to Specific Tails . . . . . . . . 13
6.11. Detection Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.12. MultipointClient Down/AdminDown Sessions . . . . . . . . 15
6.13. Base BFD for Multipoint Networks Specification Text
Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.13.1. Reception of BFD Control Packets . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.13.2. Demultiplexing BFD Control Packets . . . . . . . . . 16
6.13.3. Transmitting BFD Control Packets . . . . . . . . . . 16
7. Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
8. Operational Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
11. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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