Re: [Lsr] New Version Notification for draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement-03.txt

[Aijun Wang <[e-mail]>]

Hi, Robert:

 

Agree with you J

 

 

Best Regards

 

Aijun Wang

China Telecom

 

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Subject: Re: [Lsr] New Version Notification for draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement-03.txt

 

Hello Acee,

 

I would like to question your assessment that signalling unreachable routes is unnecessary. 

 

Imagine hierarchical network with areas. Under no failures area 1 advertises to area 0 summary LSA with 1.1.1.0/24 <http://1.1.1.0/24> . That block covers PE's loopbacks which within the area are /32s. Those loopbacks are also BGP next hops. 

 

Now imagine PE1 with 1.1.1.1/32 <http://1.1.1.1/32>  fails. Well till BGP reconverges all paths advertised by this PE with 1.1.1.1/32 <http://1.1.1.1/32>  are still valid as this next hop is still reachable entire network wide. That means that traffic is being sent to this failed PE1 for relatively long period of time. 

 

It seems natural that without breaking benefits of summarization across areas or domains in the above scenario we could continue to advertise 1.1.1.0/24 <http://1.1.1.0/24>  - 1.1.1.1/32 <http://1.1.1.1/32> . That is when I see most benefits of advertising unreachability aka negative routing. 

 

Of course said all of the above - if you search your employer's archives - you will see a proposal where the above mechanism can be done within BGP itself with no touch to the IGP - just using a bit of twisted next hop validation steps and BGP native recursion. I am not going to make any judgements here which method is better or easier - naturally I personally like BGP one more :). 

 

But I hope this is clear why at least discussion on the subject is important. It also illustrates why the below statement is not necessarily correct: 

 

"Note that the unreachability of a given summarized prefix is only relevant if it is reachable through another ABR. " 

 

Kind regards,
Robert.

 

 

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 7:51 PM Acee Lindem (acee) <acee=[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]> > wrote:

Speaking as an LSR Working Group member:

Asking the WG precisely how to advertise prefix unreachability is the wrong question - it is analogous to asking whether to use a car or truck to drive off the edge of a cliff. Rather than messing up OSPF and IS-IS with these complex and unnecessary mechanisms, it would be better to address the requirement in your network design. Note that the unreachability of a given summarized prefix is only relevant if it is reachable through another ABR. In this case, the network design should provide adequate intra-area redundancy to provide communications between the ABRs. If this cannot be accomplished, an intra-area adjacency should be established over a tunnel between the ABRs in the backbone. Contrary to section 6.1, Looping is normally not a problem as ABRs should add back hole routes for their advertised summaries. 

Acee

On 7/26/20, 9:34 PM, "Lsr on behalf of Aijun Wang" <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>  on behalf of [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]> > wrote:

    Hi, LSR experts:

    We have uploaded the new version of this PUA(Prefix Unreachable Announcement) draft. The main updates are the followings:
    1) Describes the solution that using tunnel to redirect traffic among ABRs, when all ABRs reaches the PUA limit.
    2) Describe fast rerouting to avoid routing black hole.
    3) Defining PUA capabilities announcements for OSPFv2/OSPFv3 and ISIS.

    There are also some arguments about the current solution for PUA, for example:
    1) Is it suitable to set the "Prefix Originator" sub-TLV to NULL to indicate the prefix is unreachable?
    2) if not, what's the consideration? What's the other convincible solution?

    Wish to hear comments and suggestions on the above issues. We will also have the presentation on the coming IETF LSR meeting.

    Best Regards

    Aijun Wang
    China Telecom 

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    Subject: New Version Notification for draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement-03.txt


    A new version of I-D, draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement-03.txt
    has been successfully submitted by Aijun Wang and posted to the IETF repository.

    Name:               draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement
    Revision:   03
    Title:              Prefix Unreachable Announcement
    Document date:      2020-07-27
    Group:              Individual Submission
    Pages:              11
    URL:            https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement-03.txt
    Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement/
    Htmlized:       https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement-03
    Htmlized:       https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement
    Diff:           https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-wang-lsr-prefix-unreachable-annoucement-03

    Abstract:
       This document describes the mechanism that can be used to announce
       the unreachable prefixes for service fast convergence.




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