Re: [Lsr] Prefix Unreachable Announcement Use Cases

[Gyan Mishra <[e-mail]>]

Thanks Robert!

I will work on spelling out the scenario in updated LSR presentation.

Thanks

Gyan
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 5:31 PM Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> Yes that is the case where I see some potential use case.
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> Especially considering also https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5283 - which
> by many network operators is very desired, but not configured due to "slow
> BGP convergence" - pls let's not go there :)
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> But again if someone knows how to configure BGP properly I think IGP
> speedup would be marginal or even null hence a grain of hesitation if we
> should use IGP flooding for it. Maybe in some scenarios ... which PUA
> authors need to spell out to move fwd I suppose.
>
> Cheers,
> R.
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> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 9:40 PM Gyan Mishra <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> Robert
>>
>> I am recalling now the BGP use case you mentioned.
>>
>> If the next hop is being summarized between areas which it would be, the
>> next hop failure component prefix is now hidden in the summary and now you
>> have to wait for BGP timer to pop and route withdrawal.
>>
>> So for this failure scenario one option is multihop BFD but that does get
>> way complicated.
>>
>> So here the obvious and best use case for PUA would be for the data plane
>> detection of the next hop component down at which time PUA is sent flooded
>> and the routers in the other area now set next hop to null for that next
>> hop and are forced to converge on alternate next hop.
>>
>> Let me update the presentation to add this use case.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Gyan
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 2:09 PM Gyan Mishra <[e-mail]>
>> wrote:
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>>> Agreed.
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>
>>> Can you explain the BGP scenario you had in mind that you have mentioned
>>> a number of times that you think this PUA feature would pertain?
>>>
>>> I will respond to your other email separately.  I was trying to guess
>>>  as to the BGP next hop use case you were referring to but apparently was
>>> way off.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>> Gyan
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 9:43 AM Acee Lindem (acee) <[e-mail]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Speaking as WG member:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think it would be good to hone in on the BGP PE failure convergence
>>>> use case as suggested by Robert. It seems there is some interest here
>>>> although I’m not convinced the IGP is the right place to solve this problem.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Acee
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From: *Lsr <[e-mail]> on behalf of Gyan Mishra <
>>>> [e-mail]>
>>>> *Date: *Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at 4:02 AM
>>>> *To: *Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]>
>>>> *Cc: *lsr <[e-mail]>, Jeff Tantsura <[e-mail]>,
>>>> Aijun Wang <[e-mail]>, "Acee Lindem (acee)" <acee=
>>>> [e-mail]>
>>>> *Subject: *Re: [Lsr] Prefix Unreachable Announcement Use Cases
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 3:36 AM Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    Robert, I believe the original intention was related to having the
>>>> data plane converge quickly when summarization is used and flip so traffic
>>>> converges from the Active ABR to the Backup ABR.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I do not buy this use case. Flooding within the area is fast such that
>>>> both ABRs will get the same info. As mentioned before there is no practical
>>>> use of PUA for making any routing or fwd decision on which ABR to use. If
>>>> your ABRs are not connected with min redundancy this draft is a worst patch
>>>> ever to work around such a design.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    Gyan> Agreed.  The point of PUA in ABR use case is the ability to
>>>> track the component prefixes and in case where component is down and
>>>> traffic is still forwarded to the ABR and dropped.  The other more
>>>> important use case is when links are down within the area and the area is
>>>> partitioned and so one ABR has all component prefixes however other ABR is
>>>> missing half the component prefixes.  So since the ABR will by default
>>>> advertise the summary as long as their is one component UP the summary is
>>>> still advertised.  So this use case is severely impacting as now you have
>>>> an ECMP path to the other area for the summary via the two ABRs and you
>>>> drop half your traffic.  So now with PUA the problem is fixed and the PUA
>>>> is sent and now traffic is only sent to the ABR that has the component
>>>> prefixes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please present us a picture indicating before and after ABRs behaviour.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>      Gyan> will do
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    However PUA can be used in the absence of area segmentation within a
>>>> single area when a link or node fails to converge the data plane quickly by
>>>> sending PUA for the backup path so the active path.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If there is no area segmentation then there is no summaries. So what
>>>> are we missing in the first place ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Gyan> Sorry I am stating that PUA feature can also be used intra
>>>> area where if a link or node goes down to improve data plane convergence.
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> With the IGP tuned with BFD fast detection on ISIS or OSPF links and
>>>> LFA & RLFA for MPLS or TI-LFA for SR local protection - with those tweaks
>>>> the convergence is well into sub second.  So for Intra area convergence
>>>> with all the optimizations mentioned I am not sure how much faster the data
>>>> plane will converge with PUA.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Even without any of the above listed chain of acronymous things will
>>>> generally work well intra-area without PUAs.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Gyan> Agreed which is why I mentioned the BGP next hop self use
>>>> case if I could figure out how PUA could help there that would be a major
>>>> benefit of PUA.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thx,
>>>> R.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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