Re: [bess] Encoding a 20 bit label in a 24 bit field.

"Ali Sajassi (sajassi)" <sajassi@cisco.com> Mon, 22 October 2018 22:32 UTC

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From: "Ali Sajassi (sajassi)" <sajassi@cisco.com>
To: Greg Mirsky <gregimirsky@gmail.com>, Stephane Litkowski <stephane.litkowski@orange.com>
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Subject: Re: [bess] Encoding a 20 bit label in a 24 bit field.
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Hi Greg,
The text that Stephane mentioned is from “MVPN for PMSI tunnel attribute” and not from proposed text for RFC 7432 errata.

Hi Stephane,
I think the provided text in Errata below is sufficient and we don’t need to say “The lower order 4 bits SHOULD be sent as 0 and ignored on receipt." In case of penultimate hop pop and need to use EXP bits for QoS.

Cheers,
Ali

From: Greg Mirsky <gregimirsky@gmail.com>
Date: Monday, October 22, 2018 at 3:07 PM
To: Stephane Litkowski <stephane.litkowski@orange.com>
Cc: Cisco Employee <sajassi@cisco.com>, "Jakob Heitz (jheitz)" <jheitz@cisco.com>, "zhuangshunwan@huawei.com" <zhuangshunwan@huawei.com>, BESS <bess@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [bess] Encoding a 20 bit label in a 24 bit field.

Hi Stephane,
should note that "setting the MPLS Label field to zero" may be also interpreted as a valid label, IPv4 Explicit Null Label.

Regards,
Greg

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 6:47 AM <stephane.litkowski@orange.com<mailto:stephane.litkowski@orange.com>> wrote:
Hi,

Does anyone disagree with the additional Jakob's statement proposal ?
" The lower order 4 bits SHOULD be sent as 0 and ignored on receipt."

As an example, in MVPN for PMSI tunnel attribute, we have the following statement which does not tell anything about the lower order bits:
" If the MPLS Label field is non-zero, then it contains an MPLS label
   encoded as 3 octets, where the high-order 20 bits contain the label
   value.  Absence of an MPLS Label is indicated by setting the MPLS
   Label field to zero."


Brgds,


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From: BESS [mailto:bess-bounces@ietf.org<mailto:bess-bounces@ietf.org>] On Behalf Of Ali Sajassi (sajassi)
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 19:30
To: Jakob Heitz (jheitz); Zhuangshunwan; BESS
Subject: Re: [bess] Encoding a 20 bit label in a 24 bit field.


Yes, just the encoding of label value needs to be clear.

Cheers,
Ali



On 10/15/18, 6:24 PM, "BESS on behalf of Jakob Heitz (jheitz)" <bess-bounces@ietf.org<mailto:bess-bounces@ietf.org> on behalf of jheitz@cisco.com<mailto:jheitz@cisco.com>> wrote:

    How about:
    The lower order 4 bits SHOULD be sent as 0 and ignored on receipt.

    Regards,
    Jakob.


    -----Original Message-----
    From: Zhuangshunwan <zhuangshunwan@huawei.com<mailto:zhuangshunwan@huawei.com>>
    Sent: Monday, October 15, 2018 6:02 PM
    To: Jakob Heitz (jheitz) <jheitz@cisco.com<mailto:jheitz@cisco.com>>; BESS <bess@ietf.org<mailto:bess@ietf.org>>
    Subject: RE: Encoding a 20 bit label in a 24 bit field.

    It is good to make this explicit. This ambiguity has led to some unnecessary interworking problems.

    Should we also need to explicitly define the "bottom of stack" bit in the low-order bit of the 3-octet label field?

    Thanks,
    Shunwan

    -----Original Message-----
    From: BESS [mailto:bess-bounces@ietf.org<mailto:bess-bounces@ietf.org>] On Behalf Of Jakob Heitz (jheitz)
    Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 4:21 AM
    To: BESS <bess@ietf.org<mailto:bess@ietf.org>>
    Subject: [bess] Encoding a 20 bit label in a 24 bit field.

    We have proposed the following erratum for RFC 7432.

    Opinions?

    Regards,
    Jakob.


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    Subject: [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7432 (5523)

    The following errata report has been submitted for RFC7432, "BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN".

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    You may review the report below and at:
    http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5523

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    Type: Technical
    Reported by: Krishnamoorthy Arumugham <karumugh@cisco.com<mailto:karumugh@cisco.com>>

    Section: 7

    Original Text
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    Clarifications to following sub-sections:
    Section 7.1
    Section 7.2
    Section 7.5


    Corrected Text
    --------------
    Section 7.1:
    Add below text to the section 7.1 regarding the encoding of MPLS label:

    "The value of the 20-bit MPLS label is encoded in the high-order 20 bits of the 3 bytes MPLS Label field."

    Section 7.2:
    Add below text to the section 7.2 regarding the encoding of both the MPLS label fields:

    "The value of the 20-bit MPLS label is encoded in the high-order 20 bits of the 3 bytes MPLS Label field for both MPLS Label1 and MPLS Label2."

    Section 7.5:
    Add below text to the section 7.5 regarding the encoding of ESI Label fields:

    "The value of the 20-bit MPLS label is encoded in the high-order 20 bits of the ESI Label field."


    Notes
    -----
    MPLS label is a 20-bit value and is stored in a 3 bytes field in a packet. The 20-bit MPLS label value is generally stored in higher order 20 bits of the 3 byte label field. The exact encoding to be followed for storing MPLS label values are not explicitly mentioned in the RFC 7432 under section 7.1, 7.2 and 7.5 for different types of EVPN routes. This lead to ambiguity in different implementations. Hence a clarification is required.

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    RFC7432 (draft-ietf-l2vpn-evpn-11)
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    Title               : BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN
    Publication Date    : February 2015
    Author(s)           : A. Sajassi, Ed., R. Aggarwal, N. Bitar, A. Isaac, J. Uttaro, J. Drake, W. Henderickx
    Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
    Source              : Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks
    Area                : Routing
    Stream              : IETF
    Verifying Party     : IESG

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