[bess] A question about draft-ietf-bess-evpn-lsp-ping

[Alexander Vainshtein <[e-mail]>]

Hi,
A have a question about usage of the new return codes defined in the latest version of draft-ietf-bess-evpn-lsp-ping.
Section 8.2 of the draft<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-evpn-lsp-ping#section-8.2> requests IANA to define two new return codes as explained below:

   o  The FEC exists on the PE and the behavior is to drop the packet
      because of not DF.

   o  The FEC exists on the PE and the behavior is to drop the packet
      because of Split Horizon Filtering.

Section 6.2.1 of the draft<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-evpn-lsp-ping#section-6.2.1> describes how these codes may be used in a very simple scenario.
My question deals with a sightly more complicated scenario that is shown in the embedded diagram below (and also in the attached PDF file).
It still deals with an EVI that uses ingress replication for delivery of BUM traffic and is instantiated in PE-1, PE-2, and PE-3 (same as in the draft) that exchange and receive Inclusive Multicast Ethernet (IMET) Tag EVPN  routes.
However, in my example the EVI in PE-1 and PE-2 are each attached to two dual-homed CEs (CE-2 and CE-3) via two different All-Active multi-homed Ethernet segments in such a way that:

  1.  The EVI in PE-2 is selected as the DF on MH ES-1
  2.  The ECI in PE-1 is selected as the DF on MH ES-2
(quite easy to achieve, say, with the default DF election procedure, VLAN-based service interface and egress VLAN translation).
In addition, the EVI in PE-1 is attached to a single-homed CE-4.


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Just as in the example in the draft, an operator sends an LSP Ping request from PE-3 to PE-1 for the FEC associated with IMET route that has been advertised by the EVI in this  PE.
But, to differentiate from the example in the draft, the EVI in PE-1 is attached to 3 different Ethernet segments:

  *   To a single homed Ethernet segment that attaches it to CE-4
  *   To a multi-homed Ethernet segment MH ES-1 on which it is not elected as the DF
  *   To a multi-homed Ethernet segment MH ES-2 on which it is elected as the DF.

Which return code is supposed to be used in the reply to this request?

In another scenario, suppose that the operator sends an LSP Ping request from PE-2 to PE-1 1 for the FEC associated with IMET route that has been advertised by the EVI in this  PE and includes the ESI label that PE-1 has advertised in the per-ES Ethernet Auto-Discovery EVPN route for MH ES-2 (for which the ESI in PE-1 is the DF).

Which return code is supposed to be used in the reply to this request?

Your timely feedback would be highly appreciated.

Regards, and lots of thanks in advance,
Sasha

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