Re: [mpls] MPLS-RT review draft-shen-mpls-egress-protection-framework-06

[Alexander Vainshtein <[e-mail]>]

Hi all,
I have looked up RFC 4875<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4875> that defines setup of P2MP LSPs using RSVP-TE and found the following text  in section 6.2 (irrelevant text is skipped):

   As usual, the Resv message carries the label allocated by the

   egress LSR.

        ...

   A node upstream of the egress node MUST allocate its own label and

   pass it upstream in the Resv message.

        ...

   The node that sends the Resv message, for a P2MP LSP, upstream MUST

   associate the label assigned by this node with all the labels

   received from downstream Resv messages, for that P2MP LSP.





IMHO and FWIW, this means that P2MP LSPs set up by RSVP-TE only used downstream-allocated labels - hardly surprising since RFC 4875 has been published in May-2007, while RFC 5331<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5331> (that defines upstream-allocated labels) – only in Aug-2008. And I am not aware of any extensions to RFC 4875 that would result in using upstream-allocated labels in P2MP LSPs that can be set up with RSVP-TE.



At the same time, P2MP and MP2MP LSPs set up by mLDP may use upstream-allocated labels as described in RFC 6389<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6389/?include_text=1>.


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Sasha

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From: mpls [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Yimin Shen
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Subject: Re: [mpls] MPLS-RT review draft-shen-mpls-egress-protection-framework-06

Hi Lizhong,

Thanks for the comments. Please see below for [yshen_1].

3. section 5.12. It seems bypass tunnel sharing or facility backup scenario missed in this section.

[yshen] The section 5.12 does talk about bypass sharing at the beginning. Bypass sharing is also talked about in some other sections. This framework does not use facility backup.
[Lizhong] this section talks about the label swapping operation on PLR, and I do not see similar words for bypass tunnel sharing. I consider the bypass tunnel sharing as similar mechanism of facility backup, is that correct?

[yshen_1] Yes, that is correct. The description in this section is generic and applicable to the case of bypass tunnel sharing. We can add text to mention this.

4. section 8. "On PE3, a context label 100 is assigned to the context ID, "
The label 100 should be assigned to the RSVP-TE tunnel with address of context ID, not only to the context ID, since one-to-one backup is used in this example.

[yshen] The context label is assigned to the context ID. If any RSVP tunnel is destined to the context ID, yes, it will automatically get bound to the context label as well.
[Lizhong] It seems I understand you meaning. If there are two RSVP-TE bypass tunnel to the same context ID, then same context label will be used for the two RSVP-TE bypass tunnel, right?

[yshen_1] Correct.

In that case, how about the upstream label in P2MP LSP? It is not possible for the P to distinguish different upstream labels assigned from different ingress if there are two P2MP share one of the same egress.

[yshen_1] Not sure about the septic case of P2MP LSP using upstream labels. In general, a PLR should pop all the labels of a transport tunnel, before sending a packet (with only a service label) through a bypass tunnel to a protector.

Thanks,

-- Yimin


From: "lizho.jin" <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>
Date: Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 11:05 AM
To: Yimin Shen <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>
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Subject: Re: MPLS-RT review draft-shen-mpls-egress-protection-framework-06

Hi Yimin
Thanks for the reply. See inline below.

Regards
Lizhong
On 10/18/2017 00:33，Yimin Shen<[e-mail]><mailto:[e-mail]> wrote：
Hi, Lizhong

Thanks very much for your kind review! Please see inline for our response.

Thanks,
Yimin Shen
Juniper Networks


From: "lizho.jin" <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>
Date: Friday, October 13, 2017 at 1:03 PM
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Hi, Authors
I've been asked to do MPLS-RT review. Overall this kind of egress protection is much easy to deploy, and the mechanism is useful, and technically sound.
It is ready to consider for WG adoption. And I still have some questions as below:
1. section 1. " example of such extension is [RSVP-EP]."
Typo? It should be RSVP-TE?

[yshen] This is supposed to refer to draft-ietf-teas-rsvp-egress-protection, which is missing in the reference section. We will add it.

2. section 5.9. The protected egress {E, P} which is called a "context ID" is actually an anycast address, right? The terminology of "anycast" used here will be much clear, but it depends on you to choose.

[yshen] The section 5.9 describes context ID strictly from reachability’s perspective. We want to avoid the word “anycast”, because a context ID should not be used in anycast. IOW, it should not be the destination address in any IP headers.

3. section 5.12. It seems bypass tunnel sharing or facility backup scenario missed in this section.

[yshen] The section 5.12 does talk about bypass sharing at the beginning. Bypass sharing is also talked about in some other sections. This framework does not use facility backup.
[Lizhong] this section talks about the label swapping operation on PLR, and I do not see similar words for bypass tunnel sharing. I consider the bypass tunnel sharing as similar mechanism of facility backup, is that correct?

4. section 8. "On PE3, a context label 100 is assigned to the context ID, "
The label 100 should be assigned to the RSVP-TE tunnel with address of context ID, not only to the context ID, since one-to-one backup is used in this example.

[yshen] The context label is assigned to the context ID. If any RSVP tunnel is destined to the context ID, yes, it will automatically get bound to the context label as well.
[Lizhong] It seems I understand you meaning. If there are two RSVP-TE bypass tunnel to the same context ID, then same context label will be used for the two RSVP-TE bypass tunnel, right? In that case, how about the upstream label in P2MP LSP? It is not possible for the P to distinguish different upstream labels assigned from different ingress if there are two P2MP share one of the same egress.

5. section 8.1. "R1 computes a bypass path to 198.51.100.1 while avoiding PE2. "
Could you give more explicit way to achieve above without RSVP-TE protocol extensions?

[yshen] Section 5.10 and 5.11.

Regards
Lizhong
On 9/28/2017 01:14，Loa Andersson<[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote：
Carlos, Eric, Ignas and Lizhong

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