Re: [Idr] I-D Action: draft-sas-idr-maxprefix-inbound-02.txt

[Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]>]

Hi Job,

The distinction between Per and Post policy is clear.

Inbound Prefix Limit may (depending on implementation) apply to either or
both of those processing stages.

The observation I am trying to make is that IMHO soft in is not really a
Pre Policy in a sense that you must not apply Prefix Limit to it. Otherwise
the entire idea of soft-in becomes questionable.

To me perhaps the proper way to visualize it is actually to divide Pre
Policy into two blocks - ALL Prefixes and Pre-Policy Prefix-Limited. All
Prefixes block would occur only when soft in is enabled. Otherwise some may
expect or request to apply Inbound Prefix Limit before routes are stored
when soft reconfiguration inbound is enabled.

Or perhaps you actually want to do that sort of breaking that knob ?

Many thx,
R.






On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 4:10 PM Job Snijders <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Dear Robert,
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 02:16:12PM +0200, Robert Raszuk wrote:
> > I think I have one question or suggestion.
>
> Your review is appreciated!
>
> > As you all know some implementations allow you to explicitly force BGP
> > speaker to keep (pre-policy) all routes/paths received.
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > neighbor 192.168.1.1 soft-reconfiguration inbound
> >
> > The draft does not seem to comment on this case yet if implementation
> > maintains the above behaviour at least some of the justifications for
> > the document is gone.
>
> Interesting, the draft's objective is to clarify that inbound limits can
> be applied at multiple stages of the pipeline (pre and post policy), not
> all Network Operating Systems appear to offer this (operationally
> speaking much needed) granularity, and through this draft we hope to
> clarify to implementers that it is something worth considering to add.
>
> > I think that draft should at least mention such behaviour, not force to
> > change it however put some light that if
> > configured by the operator some of the benefits of inbound prefix limit
> > will not be fully effective.
>
> What you call 'soft-reconfiguration inbound' ends up storing into what
> the draft refers to as 'Pre Policy'. (At least... that is the intention,
> it is possible the text is readable to us but not easy to understand for
> others)
>
> Do you have specific text in mind to add to the draft to clarify this?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Job
>