Re: [Idr] [Responses for the comments during the IETF108] New Version Notification for draft-wang-idr-rd-orf-01.txt

[Gyan Mishra <[e-mail]>]

Hi Aijun

See in-line responses.

Service Providers networks are built to be robust enough to carry customer
prefixes and account for flood of routes.

The layers of protection are basic standard protection mechanisms for any
SP core public or private.

1.  Infrastructure security ACLs on PE-CE links.

2.  RTC on PE-RR to only advertise interesting RTs defined on PEs based on
import policy.

3.  Per VRF maximum prefix setting based on edge node resources.

4.  PE-CE edge peer maximum prefix

5. Inter AS Opt B RT level protection for rewrite or limit interesting RTs
to be accepted.

The main point is the SP router infrastructure is built to account for edge
flood of prefixes intra or inter-as
within any given edge or SP.  The protection mechanisms above have address
all the issues of prefix flooding and has been the basic a used for years.

Maybe first documenting actual use cases with a problem statement draft
that depicts the providers that had the problems you are describing and the
impact and why the solutions above did not resolve the issue.

I think that is a first step as most all the responses on the ML are
stating that the above has historically solved the issues described.

I am the lead architect and SME for Verizon a tier 1 carrier which carries
tremendous weight as a stakeholder worldwide and we have used these basic
standard best practices for years since the inception of MPLS IP VPNs 20+
years ago.  We have not run into any of the problems you are mentioning.

Thanks

Gyan

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 2:57 AM Aijun Wang <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> Hi, Gyan:
>
>
>
> *From:* Gyan Mishra [mailto:[e-mail]]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 12, 2020 2:02 PM
> *To:* Aijun Wang <[e-mail]>
> *Cc:* John E Drake <jdrake=[e-mail]>; Keyur Patel <
> [e-mail]>; Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]>; UTTARO, JAMES <
> [e-mail]>; idr <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]
> *Subject:* Re: [Idr] [Responses for the comments during the IETF108] New
> Version Notification for draft-wang-idr-rd-orf-01.txt
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi Aijun
>
>
>
> Standard practice for service providers is to have Infrastructure ACLs I
> call “Leaving the Kingdom” as when a packet enters or leaves the trusted SP
> domain it is a requirement per security posture for providers to secure the
> edge.  As far as config errors, centralized NMS controller for
> Restconf/Yang southbound policy push is the standard practice and that
> makes for ZTP and day to to day operations configuration changes error free.
>
> *[WAJ] This is just the “perimeter protection”, is useful but not enough.*
>
          Gyan> I don’t understand why that does not work for you.

>
>
> As far as inter domain for opt B & C your control point is still your
> PE-CE protecting your edges from a control plane perspective and data plane
> perspective via infrastructure ACLs.  The NNI inter as link with option B
> is already a built in control point by design as you have to turn on
> retain-route-target all and then tie to a policy for interesting RTs to
> import as well as if their is an RT mismatch you have to manually via the
> same protection policy perform a RT-Rewrite.
>
> *[WAJ] we are concerning the “trashing routes” from interested VRFs, not
> from the uninterested VRFs.*
>

          Gyan> I understand and even with the RTs imported you can still
define the per VRF maximum prefix in the RT translation case or existing
RTs on the ASBR as well as the PEs in the domain importing the routes.

> For Option C the SAFI 128 VPN control plane Is RR-RR so no RT filtering by
> default but not to worry as RTC takes care of the RR-PE advertisements.
>
>
>
> I know your concern is with trashing of routes, however if you think about
> it “who originates the trashing routes” ?
>
>
>
> So in this particular case it would be the provider outside of your
> administrative control.
>
>
>
> If it’s the inter-as is within a single administrative domain that is one
> thing but if it’s outside of the operators administrative domain and if
> this issue exists with certain RTs they have trashing routes or RD.  I do
> see your point with opt b and c.
>
>
>
> In those cases where you had an RT or RD that had trashing routes you
> could switch those to option-a back to back VRF and apply the maximum
> prefix filter.
>
>
>
> So I think we have narrowed the scope of the trashing routes to inter-as
> opt b or c going between administrative domains.  At that layer you cannot
> does the maxim prefix knob as it’s a VPN peer carrying all RTs.  So all you
> can do is filter on RTs.
>
> *[WAJ] If the “trashing routes” from the interested VRF, filter on RTs
> will erase all prefixes from this VRF?*
>
>  Gyan> Understood, however you also have the per VRF maximum prefix that
> you can set on the RTs imported from the other providers.
>
> I do still stand by the per VRF maximum prefix knob as the first global
> control point that would be set on all PEs including the NNI inter-as
> boundary PEs and that would be your first line of defense against trashing
> routes.
>
>
>
> An example of how that would work is if you set the per VRF maximum to
> 100,000 prefixes.  Let’s say you get 1M+ prefixes on a 1000 different VRFs
> and that happened all simultaneously a coincidental flood with all the
> stars and moons in alignment.
>
>
>
>  In that case for each VRF you would drop 900,000 routers per VPN.
>
> *[WAJ] But protect other VPNs in this PE from crashing.*
>
>  Gyan> I don’t understand the crashing.  Is that crashing of the router.
> What would happen is the routes above the maximum would be clipped and
> dropped.
>
> The RD-ORF or RT-ORF is still working at the RD RT VPN layer and does not
> have the prefix level granularity as the PE-CE maximum prefix.
>
> *[WAJ] RD-ORF has the effect of PE-CE maximum prefix.*
>
>  Understood.  I think you need a study of service providers to depict why
> the list of mentioned protection mechanisms won’t work for you.
>
> On every inter-as b c NNI if their was an RT that is thrashing you could
> adjust the RT filter / RT translation policy to not permit the RT doing the
> thrashing.
>
>
>
> As far as the RD-ORF the RD is used to make the prefix unique 64 bit
> quantity so you can have overlapping prefixes within different VRFs unique
> by the RD.  As far as filtering their is no need to ever filter using RD.
> That is never done in practice that I know of.  So I would remove that from
> the draft.  The RD is usually set to auto which makes it unique within a
> domain and of using a RR is required to be set to auto so that all the RDs
> originated by each PE has a different RD so that they all get reflected by
> the RR.  Without that sub optimal routing can occur as all paths are not
> reflected.  In that the case of RD auto making the RD unique per VRF so
> then their is no benefit from RD ORF.  That being said if RR is not used
> then the RD does not have to be unique pet VRF on a PE and so all VRFs
> could have the same RD.
>
> *[WAJ]  On one PE, different VRF will use different RD, or the address
> spaces from different VRF has the possibilities to collide.  If you can
> assure the address space unique within different VRFs, what the reason to
> use different VRFs then?*
>
>  Gyan> I mis stated the RD scenario.  Sorry. The RD can be the same on all
> PEs within a VPN or different per PE within the same VPN on the VRF
> definition.  When RR is utilized the RD must be set to Auto which is the
> standard practice so the the VPN routes from different PEs within the same
> VPN can be reflected within the VRF which can only be possible if the RD is
> different.  L3 VPN does not have the option of “add path” as does SAFI 1 so
> you must do RD auto for the RR route reflection to work on a per path
> basis. So the RD as stated has to  be different per VRF as that is what
> makes the prefix unique and each prefix can have many RTs tagged to the
> prefix if it is imported into many different VRFs.  Your draft addresses
> the RR scenario to use the RD-ORF prefix filtering feature.  So now the RD
> in the RR scenario now references the source  per PE VPN routes advertised
> to the RR and does not represent all PEs as the RD must be unique by RD
> auto set to type 1 RD IP:Y.  So your policy would be matching the Type 1
> RD.
>
More dangerous in this case would allow you to ORF RD filter all VPNs
> coming from a particular PE.
>
> *[WAJ] If these VPNs on this PE, uses same RD(you assure the address space
> are non-overlapped),  what the harm that we filtered based on RD ? These
> VPNs act just like one VPN.*
>
>
>
          Gyan> See above comment

>
>
>   That does seem quite dangerous and as it is a very unique case as RRs
> are almost alway used my recommendation is to nix the ORF-RD.
>
> *[WAJ] RR is always used, RD is often unique for each VRF on one PE. Then
> the scenarios that you described will not happen, what’s the dangerous
> then?*
>
> Gyan> See comments above addresses this.
>
> Kind Regards
>
>
>
> Gyan
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 9:42 PM Aijun Wang <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi, Gyan:
>
> Theoretically, you are right.
>
> But, don’t’ you worry that if only one of the edge points being
> comprised/error-configured/attacked, then all of PEs within your domain are
> under risk?
>
> Furthermore, if you control different domains, and use Option-B/C to
> provide the inter-AS VPN services, such risk/”trashing routes” can easily
> spread among these domains?
>
> Don’t’ you think such network is too fragile?
>
>
>
> RD-ORF is the mechanism that aims to strengthen the risk resistance
> capabilities.
>
>
>
> Best Regards
>
>
>
> Aijun Wang
>
> China Telecom
>
>
>
> *From:* Gyan Mishra [mailto:[e-mail]]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 12, 2020 3:54 AM
> *To:* Aijun Wang <[e-mail]>
> *Cc:* John E Drake <jdrake=[e-mail]>; Keyur Patel <
> [e-mail]>; Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]>; UTTARO, JAMES <
> [e-mail]>; idr <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]
> *Subject:* Re: [Idr] [Responses for the comments during the IETF108] New
> Version Notification for draft-wang-idr-rd-orf-01.txt
>
>
>
> Aijun
>
>
>
> If you use maximum prefix on every PE-CE peering at the edge how would the
> PE-RR peering send “trashing routes”.  The “trashing routes” would not be
> present in the VPN RIB on the PE to send to the RR.
>
>
>
> To me that’s “Problem Solved”.
>
>
>
> Kind Regards
>
>
>
> Gyan
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 5:20 AM Aijun Wang <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi, Robert:
>
>
>
> RD-ORF is mainly for restricting PE from sending trashing routes. When the
> source PE receives such notification info, it should find which CE is the
> real source of the routes. This is not the scope of this draft, but if
> necessary, we can add some deployment consideration for this part later.
>
> “Prefix Limit” mechanism can only protect the edge between PE-CE, can’t
> be deployed within PE that peered via RR.  We should not rely solely on the
> edge protection.
>
>
>
> You can also refer our discussion at
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/idr/d79fKMXa3HZcq6Zti5H7qnxJ1_o/
>
>
>
>
>
> Best Regards
>
>
>
> Aijun Wang
>
> China Telecom
>
>
>
> *From:* Robert Raszuk [mailto:[e-mail]]
> *Sent:* Monday, August 10, 2020 5:06 PM
> *To:* Aijun Wang <[e-mail]>
> *Cc:* Gyan Mishra <[e-mail]>; UTTARO, JAMES <[e-mail]>;
> Keyur Patel <[e-mail]>; John E Drake <jdrake=
> [e-mail]>; [e-mail]; idr <[e-mail]>
> *Subject:* Re: [Idr] [Responses for the comments during the IETF108] New
> Version Notification for draft-wang-idr-rd-orf-01.txt
>
>
>
> Aijun,
>
>
>
> > Using the RD-ORF can restrict the influence within one limited
> scope(within one VRF, one PE, one domain or different domains)
>
>
>
> Please kindly observed that this is still not enough of granularity.
>
>
>
> As you know src VRF can have many CEs and perhaps just one of them say out
> of 10 is injecting trashing routes. Then IMO penalizing reachability to all
> 10 CEs instead of 1 is a very bad thing to do to your customer's VPN.
>
>
>
> RD is per VRF and not per CE and does not provide sufficient
> granularity to address the protection problem you are pointing out.
>
>
>
> Also apologies if I missed it but I do not think you have sufficiently
> explained what is wrong with using the prefix limit on incoming sessions to
> your PE. You said this is one way. If it solves the problem why to invent
> different way ? If it does not solve the problem please explain why.
>
>
>
> Thx,
> R.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 3:58 AM Aijun Wang <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi, Gyan, Jim, John and Robert:
>
>
>
> Thanks for your detail analysis.
>
> Actually, we know the value of RTC mechanism, but it is not enough for
> controlling the route limit within one VRF.
>
> The propagation of routes that influence the router performance can come
> from different VRFs and can also come from the same VRF.
>
> RTC aims to solve the former problem, RD-ORF aims to solve the latter.
>
>
>
> If we depend on the local discard, as Robert proposed, the route
> inconsistence can also occur. It is the sacrifice we should accept.
>
> Using the RD-ORF can restrict the influence within one limited
> scope(within one VRF, one PE, one domain or different domains), in
> controlled manner.
>
> RD-ORF is based on the ORF mechanism, which is transferred via P2P
> message. Every node on the path can have its policy to determine whether or
> not sending this filter information to the upstream BGP peer, based on its
> performance criteria.
>
>
>
> Best Regards
>
>
>
> Aijun Wang
>
> China Telecom
>
>
>
> *From:* [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] *On Behalf Of *Gyan
> Mishra
> *Sent:* Saturday, August 8, 2020 6:39 AM
> *To:* UTTARO, JAMES <[e-mail]>
> *Cc:* Keyur Patel <[e-mail]>; John E Drake <jdrake=
> [e-mail]>; [e-mail]; Robert Raszuk <
> [e-mail]>; idr <[e-mail]>
> *Subject:* Re: [Idr] [Responses for the comments during the IETF108] New
> Version Notification for draft-wang-idr-rd-orf-01.txt
>
>
>
> Agreed and good points.
>
>
>
> As you said the processing is not impacting the forwarding aspect.  Agreed.
>
>
>
> As RTC is SAFI 132 flood control mechanism RR to PE optimization if you
> have a ton of SAFI stacked as you’ve mentioned the optimization applies
> to all the SAFI stacked onto the PE to RR peering.
>
>
>
> RTC is an optimization in that respect and not a requirement as default RT
> filtering rule application eliminates all accept what is explicitly
> imported.
>
>
>
> I gave the IP VPN example but as you stated the RTC optimization can be
> used for a variety of SAFI but is not a requirement.
>
>
>
> L3 VPN is a good example although it it does not really come into play as
> much for intra domain as in general all PEs have the same VPNs defined,
> however inter-as is a different story and there as that is not the case the
> flooding can really be cut down as stated to interesting RTs only.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Gyan
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 6:21 PM UTTARO, JAMES <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> *The rationale for RTC is not to prevent paths being sent from an RR to a
> PE in a L3VPN. Granted that this could be a secondary benefit when routes
> are flooded from an RR towards a PE. Flooding of routes occurs in two
> cases:*
>
>
>
> a.  *PE is rebooting. In this case the PE is not operational so in
> reality it does not matter how many paths are being sent. I have seen
> millions of paths  being sent to a vintage router @1999 and it rips through
> these paths keeping the ones it needs for the VPNs instantiated on it and
> discarding the rest.  Again the PE is not up so it really does not matter.*
>
> b.  *A VRF is added to an existing PE that is operational. In this case
> the RR floods the paths towards the PE, the RE processes and keeps paths of
> interest. This processing in no way affects the forwarding aspect of the
> router. I have seen millions of paths flooded towards for this case and
> there is no effect on forwarding.*
>
>
>
> *RTC’s assumption is that the RR topology services a set of VPNs that are
> localized. As an example, if VPN A is localized to California and VPN B to
> New York an RR topology that has two clusters East and West can deploy RTC
> to ensure the East cluster never has to “see” the VPN B routes and the West
> cluster never has to “see” the VPN A routes. *
>
>
>
> *Generally speaking VPNs are not localized in this fashion and RTC has
> limited value and the downside of path hiding. Assume one wants to dual
> purpose the RR as a stitcher and wants to “stitch” as subset of VPN A paths
> to VPN B and vice versa.. Path hiding would prevent this.*
>
>
>
> *Where RTC makes a lot of sense to me is where the VPN is local..
> Specifically Kompella VPWS spec is by definition local where each VPN has
> two members in a point to point topology and is also generally localized to
> a given region/metro/LATA.  Here RTC can reduce the number of paths on RRs
> in a substantial manner. In the above ex all California VPWS paths are
> local and there is no need to populate said paths on the East coast RRs.
> This also makes sense for Kompella/VPLS, EVPN/VPLS, EVPN/VPWS, and
> EVPN/FXC..*
>
>
>
> *Thanks,*
>
> *              Jim Uttaro*
>
>
>
> *From:* Idr <[e-mail]> *On Behalf Of *Gyan Mishra
> *Sent:* Friday, August 07, 2020 5:32 PM
> *To:* John E Drake <jdrake=[e-mail]>
> *Cc:* Keyur Patel <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]; Robert
> Raszuk <[e-mail]>; idr <[e-mail]>
> *Subject:* Re: [Idr] [Responses for the comments during the IETF108] New
> Version Notification for draft-wang-idr-rd-orf-01.txt
>
>
>
> Hi Authors
>
>
>
> I agree with Roberts’s analysis as well.
>
>
>
> As pointed out by Robert this feature appears to be a dangerous addition
> to the BGP specification.  The concept or idea of wanting to drop routes
> for select devices based on criteria that is not holistic.
>
>
>
> BGP is a holistic routing protocol and by that I mean consistent and
> ubiquitous propagation of NLRI’s throughout the domain.  The concept of
> resource constrained nodes and creating a BGP knob for resource constrained
> nodes is out of the scope of the BGP protocol.  The goal and primary
> purpose of BGP is to provide “reachability” a by that I mean every router
> in the domain has a consistent view of the topology soft state and
> identical RIB..  This is not different then the goal of an IGP to provide
> next hop reachability and a consistent view of the domain meaning IGP
> database synchronization.  Vendors provide plenty of knobs to filer that
> consistent view of the domain but those are very one off exception use
> cases where that happens in both the IGP and EGP world.  In the IGP world
> for example take OSPF or ISIS you can as a corner case filter the IGP RIB
> that is on a router with an inbound prefix filter.  This is an exception to
> the rule but it must be done carefully as since the LSDB is “synchronized”
> every router interface on every device in the domain bust now require that
> same filter implemented as the database is “synchronized” for the goal of
> both IGP and EGP to provide a consistent identical view of the domain.
> Similarly with EGP such as BGP iBGP intra domain filtering is not
> recommended and is not built by design to so as the goal BGO is to provide
> the same reachability.  You can match and manipulate BGP attributes but not
> filter as it will break the goal and primary purpose of BGP in the intra
> domain construct of a consistent identical view throughout the domain.
>
>
>
> There is already control mechanisms built into BGP to prevent routing
> loops and re-advertisements such as BGP originator-id and cluster-id and
> cluster list path created for route-reflector-client originated routes to
> prevent loops as well as RR side sidenon client to non client
> re-advertisement controls.
>
>
>
>
>
> From an IP VPN framework perspective you have to understand that a PE has
> RT filtering enabled by default which is the control mechanism.  Their is
> absolutely no need for any additional resource constrained node knob to
> drop NLRI in what seems to be a random inconsistent fashion.  What PE “RT
> filtering” means and this is a very basic concept but and applied
> directly to what you are proposing and is the grounds to stop development
> of the draft.  So when an RR advertises prefixes to a PE and let’s say
> their are a million RTs and let’s say the PE is configured to import RT=1
> and so only one RT.  So now what happens is the RR advertises 1M RTs and
> the PE per “RT filtering” drops 999,999 RTs as the PE only has RT=1
> defined.
>
>
>
> This issue caused unnecessary flood of RTs that soaks up operators
> bandwidth that is not necessary that are going to be dropped anyway.
>
>
>
> RTC to the rescue!!
>
>
>
>
>
> RTC provides a elegant function to control advertisements from RR to PE
> and is very robust and sensible in that it not dropping routes randomly or
> because a few nodes have a resource constraint.  RTC has a well defined
> purpose which is to cut down on a flood or RTs to a PE as described.
>
>
>
> So the PE-RR peering had a RTC BGP MP reach AFI/SAFI defined on each peer
> SAFI 132 enabled on each PE-RR peering  capability is established
> send/receive state.  So now what happens is the PE does an ORF to the RR
> stating that I only have RT=1 defined for import which is sent in a RTC
> membership report to the RR.  The RR with RTC capability enabled now honors
> what the PE has stated and only sends RT=1 and not 1M RTs.
>
>
>
> Hooray for RTC saves the day = Job well done
>
>
>
> This issue can be exacerbated with NNI inter-as when using option-b where
> all VPN routes are propagated.  In this case we have default “RT filtering
> ” to the rescue to slow down the RT propagation to be done in a
> controlled fashion.  So by default on the RR node does not have RT
> filtering enabled by default and only PEs have that feature enabled by
> default. With Option-B the inter-as link is PE-PE peering connecting the
> two SP domains together.  So looking deeper into option-b you can set “
> retain-route-target” which now changes the default behavior and is
> required for the VPN routes to be propagated.  In some cases between
> providers the RT does not match so a RT-rewrite is required so in that case
> the rewrite policy become the RTC like filtering mechanism.  In case where
> RT is the same between providers we tie the “retain-route-target all” to
> a RT filter “RTC like” to only accept RTs pertinent to the domain.
>
>
>
> With inter-as option C we run BGP LU for labels unicast end loopback FEC
> all leaked between domains via eBGP and IBGP LU for data plane forwarding
> and the control plane function vpn peer that was on the PE-PE in option-b
> is RR-RR eBGP vpnv4 vpnv6 SAFI 128.  Since the RR sits in the control plane
> not the data plane “RT filtering” is not enabled by Default.  So for the
> proper end to e f LSP data plane forwarding we have to set BGP “
> next-hop-unchanged” so that the next hop attribute is now the ingress and
> egress PEs between domains for the end to end LSP.  So now in this case all
> the SAFI 128 RTs are propagated between domains.  You can apply explicit RT
> filtering in this scenario but generally that is not done as opt-c used
> mostly within same administrative domain or special agreement scenario
> between SPs that work closely together or in M&A activity type scenarios..
> So now we still have RTC SAFI 132 eatabled PE-RR within each domain so even
> if you got a quadrillion RTs on the RR-RR peering and did not want to
> filter there we have RTC back to the rescue and if you only have 1M RTs
> defined for import on the PE within each domain,  now in a graceful
> controlled fashion only 1M RTs are not advertised RR to PE within each
> domain.
>
>
>
> This same concept as IP VPN is an “overlay” it applies to SR both SR-MPLS
> and SRv6 as well.
>
>
>
> From an BGP architecture and designer perspective when building a “SP core
> ” in that standard framework where you have separation of control plane
> and data plane where the RRs are dedicated control plane function and don’t
> sit in the data plane where the PEs RRC clients sit at the edge sit in the
> data plane for ingress to egress LSP to FEC to be built.
>
>
>
> So in a nutshell, a combination of default RT filtering on PEs, and
> controlled RT advertisements via ORF RT membership via RTC we have complete
> control of SAFI 128 advertisements for resource constrained nodes as it
> stands today and there is absolutely no need for this draft to be
> considered with IDR.
>
>
>
> I did not mention the per VRF maximum prefix knobs to control how big each
> VPN gets at a micro level so we have that control mechanism as well.  In
> general most providers have this set as a rule of thumb per VRF maximum
> which is sized accordingly to the lowest resource constrained node within
> an operators network and is publish as the SLA customer agreement contract
> as part of the VPN service offering.
>
>
>
> Kind Regards
>
>
>
> Gyan
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 8:35 AM John E Drake <jdrake=
> [e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I agree with Robert’s analysis.  There is no need to define an external
> mechanism to deal with an internal node issue.
>
>
>
> Yours Irrespectively,
>
>
>
> John
>
>
>
>
>
> Juniper Business Use Only
>
> *From:* Idr <[e-mail]> *On Behalf Of *Robert Raszuk
> *Sent:* Friday, August 7, 2020 3:45 AM
> *To:* Aijun Wang <[e-mail]>
> *Cc:* Keyur Patel <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]; idr <
> [e-mail]>
> *Subject:* Re: [Idr] [Responses for the comments during the IETF108] New
> Version Notification for draft-wang-idr-rd-orf-01.txt
>
>
>
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>
>
>
>
>
>  > Using RD-ORF can control the VPN routes limits within each VRF.
>
>
>
> If you really want to create such inconsistency within any VPN you can ask
> your vendor for a knob to locally drop on inbound received routes with
> specific RD. That also can be fully automated by setting the auto trigger
> threshold on a per VRF.
>
>
>
> The inbound drop is a very low cost operation so will be of no CPU issue.
>
>
>
> You will then be able to use such *local* knob as an additional safety
> fuse.
>
>
>
> There is however no need to propagate this anywhere nor to pass it from RR
> to upstream PEs. Such knob can exist on RRs as well if you even further
> want to completely break your user's happiness.
>
>
>
> I see no need and I stay by original position that this proposed protocol
> extension is a bad one and I do not support it to proceed any further nor
> to be adopted as an IDR WG document.
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Robert
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 3:20 AM Aijun Wang <wangaijun@tsinghua...org.cn
> <[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
> Hi, Robert and Gyan:
>
>
>
> The problem is similar as that for “BGP Maximum-Prefix” and should be
> control plane related issue.
>
> No matter what’s the capabilities of the router, there is always the roof
> for its performance.
>
> And in large network deployment, there still exist the possibility that
> one or some PEs are misconfigured/attacked etc.
>
> We should not only control the PE behavior at network edge(for example,
> using BGP Maximum-Prefix feature), but also need to consider the risk
> within the network.
>
>
>
> RTC is one kind of method to control the routes propagation within the
> network, but it is not enough.
>
> RTC can filter the VRF routes it doesn’t want to, but it can’t suppress
> the VPN routes it wants.  Using RD-ORF can control the VPN routes limits
> within each VRF.
>
>
>
>
>
> Best Regards
>
>
>
> Aijun Wang
>
> China Telecom
>
>
>
> *From:* Robert Raszuk [mailto:[e-mail]]
> *Sent:* Friday, August 7, 2020 7:05 AM
> *To:* Aijun Wang <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]
> *Cc:* Keyur Patel <[e-mail]>; idr <[e-mail]>; Gyan Mishra <
> [e-mail]>
> *Subject:* Re: [Idr] [Responses for the comments during the IETF108] New
> Version Notification for draft-wang-idr-rd-orf-01.txt
>
>
>
> Folks,
>
>
>
> I think we need to step back and first understand what is the problem..
>
>
>
> Statements "overload of the PE" .. "overwhelmed PE" etc ... are really not
> helpful. Neither are sufficient to justify this work based on the statement
> "we need more then one solution" etc .....
>
>
>
> What exactly is being considered a problem here ?
>
>
>
> 1. Running out of RAM in control plane ?
>
> 2. Running out of CPU in control plane ?
>
> 3. Not being able to import VPNv4 routes to a VRFs due to not enough
> control plane memory ?
>
> 4. Not being able to import VPNv4 routes to a VRFs due to not enough data
> plane memory ?
>
>
>
> And please do not say "all of the above" as it will also not much
> productive.
>
>
>
> While stating the above please indicate which vendors have been tested and
> do not meet feature wise sufficient protection.
>
>
>
> Many thx,
>
> R.
>
>
>
>
>
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