Re: [bess] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC8365 (7735)

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

Hi John,


RFC8365 relies heavily on base MPLS-EVPN RFC (i.e., RFC7432/RFC7432bis) and assumes the reader is very familiar with RFC7432/7432bis. ESI label as described in RFC7432/RFC7432bis is used for split-horizon filtering; however, VxLAN-EVPN (RFC8365) doesn’t use split-horizon filtering but instead uses local-bias procedure which doesn’t need ESI label. This has already been captured in RFC7432bis in section 7.5 (ESI Label Extended Community) that says:” The ESI label value MAY be zero if no split-horizon filtering procedures are required …”

So, I don’t think we need to repeat that in RFC8365 because whatever changes needed to RFC7432/7432bis, has been explicitly captured in this RFC8365 and if it is not covered, then it is assumed applicability of RFC7432bis including RED field setting in ESI Label Extended Community.

Regards,
Ali

From: John Scudder <[e-mail]>
Date: Friday, February 9, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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Cc: Ali Sajassi (sajassi) <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] <[e-mail]>, Alvaro Retana <[e-mail]>, Andrew Alston - IETF <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] <[e-mail]>, Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang <[e-mail]>, Gaurav Sinha <[e-mail]>, Jim Uttaro <[e-mail]>, John Drake <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [Technical Errata Reported] RFC8365 (7735)
Hi All,

I started to look at this and pretty quickly got lost in a maze of twisty passages. RFC 8365 doesn’t mention the "ESI Label" Extended Community at all, I suppose it gets dragged in through the reliance on RFC 7432 as an underlying mechanism. Since the erratum proposes a new requirement ("The "ESI Label" field, in the "ESI Label" Extended Community, is set to all zeros in case of VxLAN encapsulation”) I think the most it can be verified as is Hold For Document update. Soliciting feedback.

—John

> On Dec 19, 2023, at 4:32 AM, RFC Errata System <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC8365,
> "A Network Virtualization Overlay Solution Using Ethernet VPN (EVPN)".
>
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> You may review the report below and at:
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid7735__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!DJ230uma4G4hxiFjp6qUOeiX8H6oLKgKOaS-1Tm7La77-DewSFRo0SzansDz_hUnOG9xGOaicVISO8JHw_lvGQ$<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid7735__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!DJ230uma4G4hxiFjp6qUOeiX8H6oLKgKOaS-1Tm7La77-DewSFRo0SzansDz_hUnOG9xGOaicVISO8JHw_lvGQ$>
>
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> Type: Technical
> Reported by: Gaurav Sinha <[e-mail]>
>
> Section: 8.3.1
>
> Original Text
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> Since VXLAN and NVGRE encapsulations do not include the ESI label, other means of performing the split-horizon filtering function must be devised for these encapsulations.
>
> Corrected Text
> --------------
> The "ESI Label" field, in the "ESI Label" Extended Community, is set to all zeros in case of VxLAN encapsulation.
> Since even though the VXLAN and NVGRE encapsulations send the "ESI Label" Extended Community, yet they do not set the "ESI label" field in it. Therefore, other means of performing the split-horizon filtering function must be devised for these encapsulations.
>
> Notes
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> It should be mentioned somewhere in this RFC document that the "ESI Label" Extended Community is sent with VxLAN encapsulation too, just like it is used with MPLS, but with the "MPLS Label" field set to all zeros in case of VxLAN.
>
> Otherwise, it gives rise to the unanswered question in mind, about the value of that field, given that there are no labels in VxLAN.
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> RFC8365 (draft-ietf-bess-evpn-overlay-12)
> --------------------------------------
> Title               : A Network Virtualization Overlay Solution Using Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
> Publication Date    : March 2018
> Author(s)           : A. Sajassi, Ed., J. Drake, Ed., N. Bitar, R. Shekhar, J. Uttaro, W. Henderickx
> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
> Source              : BGP Enabled ServiceS
> Area                : Routing
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG