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Making Route Servers Aware of Data Link Failures at IXPs
draft-ietf-idr-rs-bfd-09

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (idr WG)
Expired & archived
Authors Randy Bush , Jeffrey Haas , John Scudder , Arnold Nipper , Christoph Dietzel
Last updated 2021-03-25 (Latest revision 2020-09-21)
Replaces draft-ymbk-idr-rs-bfd
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Intended RFC status Proposed Standard
Formats
Additional resources Mailing list discussion
Stream WG state Waiting for Implementation
Document shepherd Susan Hares
IESG IESG state Expired
Consensus boilerplate Yes
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Responsible AD (None)
Send notices to Susan Hares <shares@ndzh.com>

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Abstract

When BGP route servers are used, the data plane is not congruent with the control plane. Therefore, peers at an Internet exchange can lose data connectivity without the control plane being aware of it, and packets are lost. This document proposes the use of a newly defined BGP Subsequent Address Family Identifier (SAFI) both to allow the route server to request its clients use BFD to track data plane connectivity to their peers' addresses, and for the clients to signal that connectivity state back to the route server.

Authors

Randy Bush
Jeffrey Haas
John Scudder
Arnold Nipper
Christoph Dietzel

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