Re: [Idr] draft-merciaz-idr-bgp-bfd-strict-mode

Hi Ketan,

I think it will be good to mention this in the doc, as I expect most large
networks concerned with network stability impacted by link flaps to enable
the BFD hold-up feature.

For example, if one side has BFD hold-up enabled (> BGP hold time) and the
other side does not, the BGP keepalive message from one side may be delayed
even if BFD is up. This may have implication on the BGP session
transitiining to established phase.

Thanks
Albert

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 4:27 PM Ketan Talaulikar (ketant) <ketant@cisco.com>
wrote:

> Hi Albert,
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> Thanks for your feedback from an operator perspective – it is valuable.
> This “BFD hold up” behaviour that you desire is best handled by BFD since I
> would expect that similar behaviour would be desired across routing
> protocols (OSPF, ISIS, BGP) and perhaps other clients.
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> IMHO this is not something that we should be tackling within the scope of
> this BGP draft. Would you agree?
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> That said, this seems like a local implementation aspect to me. We should
> however discuss within the BFD WG if there is value in documenting this.
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> Thanks,
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> Ketan
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> *From:* Idr <idr-bounces@ietf.org> *On Behalf Of *Susan Hares
> *Sent:* 25 July 2019 16:21
> *To:* 'Albert Fu' <afu14@bloomberg.net>; idr@ietf.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Idr] draft-merciaz-idr-bgp-bfd-strict-mode
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> Albert:
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> To clarify, do you support WG adoption with the draft as is.
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> As a WG chair, I have to trust that all  drafts are improved during the WG
> process.  Can this small change be made after adoption or should it be made
> before the draft is considered for adoption.
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> Sue Hares
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> *From:* Idr [mailto:idr-bounces@ietf.org <idr-bounces@ietf.org>] *On
> Behalf Of *Albert Fu (BLOOMBERG/ 120 PARK)
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 25, 2019 4:19 PM
> *To:* idr@ietf.org
> *Subject:* [Idr] draft-merciaz-idr-bgp-bfd-strict-mode
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> I am in support of this draft, and would like to request a small change to
> make this draft more operationally useful.
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> We have encountered several traffic blackhole problems in our production
> network without this feature. As such, we have deployed BGP with strict BFD
> mode on a proprietary vendor implementation for a while.
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> Since a lot of MetroE circuit failures occur with interfaces still up, ie.
> break in the middle issues, the traditional knobs like interface
> hold-time/debounce timer can not be used to dampen interface flaps.
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> We have observed that interface issues tend to occur in bursts and would
> like to request that an option be added in "Section 4 Operation:" to delay
> BGP from coming up until BFD is proven stable continuously for a period of
> time (i.e. BFD hold up feature).
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> This is a feature that we are currently using in the proprietary vendor
> deployment. In our case, since we have multiple redundant paths, we have
> some links where we delay BGP from coming up until BFD has been stable
> continuously for 60 seconds.
>
> Thanks
> Albert Fu
> Bloomberg
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