Re: [Isis-wg] New Version Notification for draft-ginsberg-isis-sbfd-discriminator-00.txt

Mach Chen <mach.chen@huawei.com> Thu, 15 May 2014 09:21 UTC

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From: Mach Chen <mach.chen@huawei.com>
To: "Nobo Akiya (nobo)" <nobo@cisco.com>, Hannes Gredler <hannes@juniper.net>
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Hi Nobo and Hannes,

IMHO, the capability issue should not be a S-BFD specific issue, even not BFD specified issue. It is actually a forwarding capability issue, it is about whether the target node can process IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, SR encapsulated BFD packets. 

Best regards,
Mach

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Isis-wg [mailto:isis-wg-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Nobo Akiya (nobo)
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 1:02 AM
> To: Hannes Gredler
> Cc: Jeffrey Haas; Les Ginsberg (ginsberg); rtg-bfd@ietf.org; isis-wg@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [Isis-wg] New Version Notification for
> draft-ginsberg-isis-sbfd-discriminator-00.txt
> 
> Hi Hannes,
> 
> > assume that the advertising node only supports BFD4 and the receiving
> > node does support only BFD6. - how to detect such a condition ?
> 
> Ah I see. You are talking about S-BFD capability.
> 
> i.e.
> 
> IPv4
> IPv6
> MPLSv4
> MPLSv6
> SR-MPLS
> SR-IPv6
> Etc
> 
> One doesn't necessary have to solve this via assigning and advertising different
> discriminator per "feature" .. you would then have to advertise what "feature"
> each discriminator is for, with IANA maintained "feature" value.
> 
> Other approach is for a node to advertise the capability separate from
> discriminator value. You would also need IANA maintained "feature" value for
> this.
> 
> Another approach is to not define/advertise the S-BFD capabilities, but rely on
> operators to provision S-BFD for only those "features" which are known to be
> supported by relevant network nodes.
> 
> In summary, S-BFD capability might be something needed, but that doesn't
> necessary have to be tied to discriminator advertisement.
> 
> Those are some possibilities that I can think of. Do you have any thoughts around
> this?
> 
> - Nobo
> 
> >
> > /hannes
> >
> >
> > On May 14, 2014, at 6:15 PM, Nobo Akiya (nobo) wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Hannes,
> > >
> > > Please see in-line.
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Hannes Gredler [mailto:hannes@juniper.net]
> > >> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 11:58 AM
> > >> To: Nobo Akiya (nobo)
> > >> Cc: Jeffrey Haas; Les Ginsberg (ginsberg); rtg-bfd@ietf.org;
> > >> isis-wg@ietf.org
> > >> Subject: Re: [Isis-wg] New Version Notification for
> > >> draft-ginsberg-isis-sbfd- discriminator-00.txt
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 03:48:10PM +0000, Nobo Akiya (nobo) wrote:
> > >> | Hi Jeff,
> > >> |
> > >> | > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 05:26:52PM +0200, Hannes Gredler wrote:
> > >> | > > On May 14, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) wrote:
> > >> | > > > Thanx for the comments.
> > >> | > > > I don't see how your proposal solves the problem you are
> > >> | > > > attempting to
> > >> | > address. The sender of the S-BFD packet has no control over
> > >> | > what interface is used to receive the packet on the target node.
> > >> | > Associating it with a prefix will not help in that regard.
> > >> | > >
> > >> | > > well it would help first endpoint discovery and pinning down
> > >> | > > BFD traffic to
> > >> | > particular line card.
> > >> | >
> > >> | > Indeed.  In the SPRING related case (or even some MPLS
> > >> | > scenarios), traffic may be heavily steered to a given interface.
> > >> | > This interface may not even be to a router, but may be an
> > >> | > ingress for a SFC device and that ingress is critical for the
> > >> | > execution of the
> > chain.
> > >> |
> > >> | In those cases, one should be sending S-BFD packet in-band, which
> > >> | would
> > >> go through the specific interface/LC to reach the reflector session
> > >> on the target node (i.e. outage will be detected regardless of the
> > >> discriminator used). So having separate reflector discriminator
> > >> won't be adding further benefit.
> > >> |
> > >> | Flip side is, if a reflector is hosted on LC 1 and traffic
> > >> | engineered tunnel is
> > >> terminating on LC2, then outage of LC1 can cause the "no S-BFD
> > response"
> > >> on the tunnel terminating on LC2. However, I would think this is a
> > >> limitation with implementation.
> > >>
> > >> what about AF discovery ? - how would a receiver know what AF a
> > >> S-BFD session to bring up with ?
> > >
> > > I was under the impression that IP header (i.e version) can
> > > distinguish the
> > AF if implementations required demux'ing received S-BFD packet based
> > on AF. If I missed your point/question, do clarify.
> > >
> > > -Nobo
> > >
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