[bess] Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-09.txt

["Ali Sajassi (sajassi)" <[e-mail]>]

Hi Wen,

There shouldn’t be any backward compatibility issue as section 8.5 states:


    “Every PE is then given an ordinal
       indicating its position in the ordered list, starting with 0 as
       the ordinal for the PE with the lowest IP address length and
       numeric value tuple.  The tuple list is ordered by the IP address
       length first and IP address value second.”

Because IP address length is factored into sorting the list, both IPv4 and IPv6 are allowed to be in the list. This is the expected behavior because in a simple of dual-homing, an ES can span across two ASes with different address families.

Cheers,
Ali



From: Wen Lin <wlin=[e-mail]>
Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2024 at 12:47 PM
To: Ali Sajassi (sajassi) <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: [bess] Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-09.txt
Hi Ali,

Thank you for providing the following text.

I think it will be helpful to mention the backward compatibility issue regarding the change introduced in DF election (Section 8.5) as we need to consider the possibility of originating router’s IP addresses coming in with different IP address families.

Thanks,
Wen





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From: Ali Sajassi (sajassi) <sajassi=[e-mail]>
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [bess] Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-09.txt
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Hi Wen,

I am thinking of adding  the following paragraph as a clarification for the originating router’s IP address.


“The Originating Router’s IP address does not need to be a routable address and its purpose is to identify the originator of that EVPN route uniquely. It can be either IPv4 or IPv6 address independent of the BGP next hop address type for that NLRI and it must remain the same for all EVPN routes advertised by that PE.”



Cheers,

Ali



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From: Wen Lin <wlin=[e-mail]>
Date: Friday, May 10, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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Subject: [bess] Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-09.txt
Thank you for the updated draft.

I think we need to explicitly specify how we set the Originating Router’s IP address – when it will be to IPv6 or IPv4 address for both Ethernet Segment Route and Inclusive Multicast Ethernet Tag Route.  Today, there is no mentioning about it in the draft.
7.4. <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-09*section-7.4__;Iw!!NEt6yMaO-gk!D8FxrZ9AXM1VDe0Lr_x1vfnVhlT_Aa-m2k5dfbuYNwjcHjUrl4PwNDjonwQ2by0T_aS2klGdRdmVhPe9_ee4pOSj3vUNqw$> Ethernet Segment Route<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-09*name-ethernet-segment-route__;Iw!!NEt6yMaO-gk!D8FxrZ9AXM1VDe0Lr_x1vfnVhlT_Aa-m2k5dfbuYNwjcHjUrl4PwNDjonwQ2by0T_aS2klGdRdmVhPe9_ee4pOQZKTSEyg$>
            +---------------------------------------+
            |  RD (8 octets)                        |
            +---------------------------------------+
            |Ethernet Segment Identifier (10 octets)|
            +---------------------------------------+
            |  IP Address Length (1 octet)          |
            +---------------------------------------+
            |  Originating Router's IP Address      |
            |          (4 or 16 octets)             |
            +---------------------------------------+

We need to add definition or reference for the Originating Router’s IP Address.
7.3. <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-09*section-7.3__;Iw!!NEt6yMaO-gk!D8FxrZ9AXM1VDe0Lr_x1vfnVhlT_Aa-m2k5dfbuYNwjcHjUrl4PwNDjonwQ2by0T_aS2klGdRdmVhPe9_ee4pORjQTaKBA$> Inclusive Multicast Ethernet Tag Route<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-09*name-inclusive-multicast-etherne__;Iw!!NEt6yMaO-gk!D8FxrZ9AXM1VDe0Lr_x1vfnVhlT_Aa-m2k5dfbuYNwjcHjUrl4PwNDjonwQ2by0T_aS2klGdRdmVhPe9_ee4pOSIekbGxQ$>

            +---------------------------------------+

            |  RD (8 octets)                        |

            +---------------------------------------+

            |  Ethernet Tag ID (4 octets)           |

            +---------------------------------------+

            |  IP Address Length (1 octet)          |

            +---------------------------------------+

            |  Originating Router's IP Address      |

            |          (4 or 16 octets)             |

            +---------------------------------------+



For IMET route, we have the following definition in section 11.1:

“The Originating Router's IP Address field value MUST be set to an IP address of the PE that should be common for all the EVIs on the PE (e.g., this address may be the PE's loopback address). The IP Address Length field is in bits.”



A router may have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses configured for the loopback.  We need to specify when IPv6 address will be used based on whether EVPN is used IPv4 or IPv6 underlay.
Thanks,
Wen



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Internet-Draft draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-09.txt is now available. It is a
work item of the BGP Enabled ServiceS (BESS) WG of the IETF.

   Title:   BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN
   Authors: Ali Sajassi
            Luc Andre Burdet
            John Drake
            Jorge Rabadan
   Name:    draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-09.txt
   Pages:   73
   Dates:   2024-05-02

Abstract:

   This document describes procedures for Ethernet VPN (EVPN), a BGP
   MPLS-based solution which addresses the requirements specified in the
   corresponding RFC - "Requirements for Ethernet VPN (EVPN)".  This
   document obsoletes RFC7432 (BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN) and updates
   RFC8214 (Virtual Private Wire Service Support in Ethernet VPN).

The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
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