Re: [Idr] BGP MIBv2 implementation
"Daniel Cohn" <DanielC@orckit.com> Wed, 25 April 2012 12:42 UTC
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From: Daniel Cohn <DanielC@orckit.com>
To: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@juniper.net>, idr@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [Idr] BGP MIBv2 implementation
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Hi Jeff and all, Sorry for the delayed response. I think it would be a shame to go through the hassle of updating the BGP MIB without fully supporting BGP L3VPN/VPLS (in both RFC 4761 and 6074 flavors). Therefore I support using a generic NLRI prefix TC that explicitly supports these NLRIs and can be extended to support future BGP applications. It doesn't seem consistent to add AFI/SAFI to the MIB while leaving the NLRI as an IP address. A couple more suggestions for this draft: - Change the bgp4V2AdjRibsOutTable index to make it the same as in bgp4V2NlriTable. In its current form (a pointer to the bgp4V2NlriTable), it doesn't support BGP routes originated by this speaker (e.g. redistributed from IGP) so it's woefully inadequate. - Add support for BGP communities (as in your communities draft) in the NLRI in/out tables. - Restore local address (and maybe ports) to bgp4V2PeerTable index to support multiple BGP sessions between two speakers as in draft-ietf-grow-diverse-bgp-path-dist Feedback is welcome, regards, Daniel From: Jeffrey Haas [mailto:jhaas@pfrc.orgnet] Sent: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:19:17 Subject: Re: [Idr] IETF 83 - BGP MIBv2 Update - prefix Textual Conventions Working Group, As per prior plenary discussion on making more effect use of working group session time, please find my BGP MIBv2 update slides on the proceedings page: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/83/slides/slides-83-idr-0.pdf The bulk of the presentation is self explanatory. I'd like to thank Bert Wijnen for additional MIB feedback. I suspect we'll get a bit more feedback from him since he discovered bugs as part of doing derivative work for the SIDR MIB. Draft -13 [1] reflects his comments as of the IETF 83 posting cutoff. One item I would like to draw the working group's further attention to is covered on slides 5-7. As part of analyzing the requirements for the multicast next-gen VPN [2] MIBs that Jeffrey Zhang (zzhang at juniper.net) is working on, we briefly considered exposing MVPN routing state in BGP via the BGP MIBv2. Per prior presentations and discussions on design goals for the BGP MIBv2, we wanted one MIB that was capable of being re-used for various types of reachability that was being carried in BGP. However, the primary goal was to be able to carry IPv6 reachability. RFC 6514 can be briefly examined to see the different types of reachability that are being passed around in BGP. The reachability is distinguished within the same AFI/SAFI by a "Route Type" field within the prefix with type specific encodings following. The BGP MIBv2 presents prefixes using the following two objects: bgp4V2NlriPrefixType OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX InetAddressType MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The type of the IP address prefix in the Network Layer Reachability Information field. The value of this object is derived from the appropriate value from the bgp4V2NlriAfi field. Where an appropriate InetAddressType is not available, the value of the object must be unknown(0)." ::= { bgp4V2NlriEntry 4 } bgp4V2NlriPrefix OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX InetAddress MAX-ACCESS not-accessible STATUS current DESCRIPTION "An IP address prefix in the Network Layer Reachability Information field. This object is an IP address containing the prefix with length specified by bgp4V2NlriPrefixLen. Any bits beyond the length specified by bgp4V2NlriPrefixLen are zeroed. An implementation is required to support IPv4 prefixes. In this case, the object length is (0..4). An implementation MAY support IPv6 prefixes. In this case, the object length is (0..16)" REFERENCE "RFC 4271, Section 4.3." ::= { bgp4V2NlriEntry 5 } The general goal of the "InetAddressType/InetAddress" textual conventions [3] is to provide a level of generality for MIB objects that are "addresses". Our initial design guidance for the BGP MIBv2 was to make use of these TCs to help represent both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses - and it does this well. As part of investigating encoding MVPN prefixes in the BGP MIBv2, I sent mail to the ietfmibs mailing list to discuss this possibility. After a few exchanges, it was suggested that since the information is BGP specific that this was not the best fit for the INET-ADDRESS-MIB and that we should consider a BGP TC specifically for this purpose. If we were to consider such a TC, we would make it "IANA maintained". This would permit us to issue the initial MIB but permit IANA to maintain the code points as new protocol elements are added. I.e. we don't have to have a MIB document stuck as an I-D forever. The current INET-ADDRESS-MIB is an example of such a MIB. After further discussion with Jeffrey Zhang, we determined that there wasn't a strong incentive to continue the MVPN MIB work as a BGP MIBv2 extension, We may see future requirements from other BGP-based address families. My recommendation would be that we proceed with the work to create a BGP Prefix TC MIB with an explicit goal of being backward compatible with the INET-ADDRESS-MIB. However, the WG may also come to the decision to not pursue making this MIB completely general purpose and just worry about IPv4/IPv6. With regard to standards advancement, the new BGP Prefix MIB shouldn't unnecessarily hinder the BGP MIBv2. I would like the WG to come to some consensus as to whether we (very likely, I) take on the work to make such a prefix TC MIB. If the discussion becomes interesting enough, Sue and John have agreed to grant us discussion time at the upcoming IDR session in Paris. -- Jeff
- Re: [Idr] BGP MIBv2 implementation Daniel Cohn
- Re: [Idr] BGP MIBv2 implementation Bill Fenner
- Re: [Idr] BGP MIBv2 implementation Jeffrey Haas
- Re: [Idr] BGP MIBv2 implementation Daniel Cohn
- Re: [Idr] BGP MIBv2 implementation Bill Fenner
- Re: [Idr] BGP MIBv2 implementation Jeffrey Haas