Re: [Roll] Transit vs. Target in P DAO

Hello Rahul

> Currently, the draft allows the Root to send multiple RTOs which could contain the egress target and all the (immediate) children and siblings. The VIO option list would contain all the hops on which to install these target routes. Doesn't this already handle the problem statement you mentioned? Using this the root can install routers not only to the egress but also to its immediate children, isn't it?

I thought so, but I felt there was something wring and digging I found it.

> Is the point to not install the route on behalf of egress but only for the egress's children/siblings? Is this the objective to achieve?
It would be great to have a sample topology to base this discussion on.

Ye, we’d like to be able to use the Track to reach siblings wouldn’t we? If so let’s look at signaling and encapsulation:

The “Track” that P DAO sets up is a path between a pair of nodes, call them I and E like ingress and egress. Currently E is indicated in an RTO and the Hops in an RPO (VIO or SRVIO).

If I talks to E, it can do like we do in useofrplinfo for Root to RAN, that is create a packet with destination (that is E), an RPI with the local RPL instance of the Track (rooted at E), and an SRH if this is a SR VIO. No encaps.

Now say that we want node I to send its packets to one of E’s sibling, S over the Track to E. Still following useofrplinfo, node I needs to encaps the packet I-> S in a packet I->E to add the RPI with the local RPL instance ID that is taken from E’s name space, and possibly an SRH.

We also see that signaling that we build a Track I->E (which comes as a aside effect with a route to E) is not the same thing as signaling a route to S via the Track before.
There could be many S nodes reachable via the Track to E.

Thus my proposal to encode S in RTO, E in TIO, and then the SRVIO. There could be multiple RTOs as usual, for all the siblings and children of E that we want to reach through the tunnel, but only one TIO since the track (tunnel) has only one egress.

So we’d get RTO*, TIO, (VIO | SRVIO*) . Whether E is implicitly a destination or we need an RTO for E as well is to be debated, see below.

It can get worse: say that a child of I sends a packet to E. Following the default route, that packet reaches I. I needs to decide whether to use the default topology (via the Root) or the Track. We have not really defined how that is programmed in I, but the current text says that the P DAO routes have a better admin distance, so current text says we use the Track. With DetNet and RAW, it’s flows that get routed over the Track, signaled by a 6tuple (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-detnet-ip-07#section-3). So really we’d need another option that carries the 6tuple (say  a flow info option, FIO) and use it as we use the RTOs to signal which flows are routed in the Track.

In that case the P DAO would have (FIO|RTO)*, TIO, (VIO | SRVIO*)

Did I make the problem more clear?

> One another point: The draft talks about "serial Track" .. is that synonymous to the "serial path" you mentioned in your mail. Does serial Track indicate a track with a single projected segment? Would be better to have this term described in the terminology section in the doc. Thanks.

Yes, I should use only one of the two. 6TiSCH defines serial and complex Tracks (see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-6tisch-architecture-29#section-4.5.2). OK that I align?
“

   A Projected Route is a serial path that may represent the end-to-end
   route or only a Segment in a complex Track, in which case multiple
   Projected Routes are installed with the same tuple (Target address,
   TrackID) and a different Segment ID each.

…

   An RPO indicates a Projected Route that can be a serial Track in full

   or a Segment of a more complex Track.  In Non-Storing Mode, multiple

   RPO may be placed after a same Target Option to reflect different

   Segments originated at this node.  The Track is identified by a

   TrackID that is a Local RPLInstanceID to the Target of the Track.

“
Keep safe;

Pascal

From: Roll <roll-bounces@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Rahul Jadhav
Sent: mercredi 23 septembre 2020 17:16
To: Routing Over Low power and Lossy networks <roll@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [Roll] Transit vs. Target in P DAO

Hi Pascal,

I have a few questions in the context (with respect to the problem statement, not proposals):

Currently, the draft allows the Root to send multiple RTOs which could contain the egress target and all the (immediate) children and siblings. The VIO option list would contain all the hops on which to install these target routes. Doesn't this already handle the problem statement you mentioned? Using this the root can install routers not only to the egress but also to its immediate children, isn't it?

Is the point to not install the route on behalf of egress but only for the egress's children/siblings? Is this the objective to achieve?
It would be great to have a sample topology to base this discussion on.

One another point: The draft talks about "serial Track" .. is that synonymous to the "serial path" you mentioned in your mail. Does serial Track indicate a track with a single projected segment? Would be better to have this term described in the terminology section in the doc. Thanks.

Best,
Rahul

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 16:35, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <pthubert=40cisco.com@dmarc.ietf.org<mailto:40cisco.com@dmarc.ietf.org>> wrote:
Dear all ;

Say we are building a serial path using P DAO: in that case,  we are building a tunnel from the Track Ingress to the Track Egress, where the Track is signaled in the packet by the local RPLInstanceID in the RPI and the destination IPv6 address. The outer header may also have a SRH in case of non storing P DAO.

In the current version of the P DAO draft we use a RPL Target Option (RTO) to signal the Track Egress and the new Via options (CMOs) to indicate the hops. But say we do not want to reach the Tunnel egress but one of its children or siblings. How can we signal that these guys are reachable over the tunnel?

Proposal A)

If we want to be able to signal that, it could be more consistent with RPL to use:
- one or more RTOs to indicate the targets of the route, can be any of the children and siblings
- Exactly one Transit Information Option (TIO) to indicate the tunnel egress
- then one VIO or one or more SRVIOs (as we currently do)

The result would be that the Track terminates at the “Parent” indicated in the TIO but can be used to reach any of the children and siblings indicates as targets

Proposal B)

Maybe we want to signal that only certain DetNet Flows should be placed in the Track. In that case, The RTO is not sufficient and we’d need the 6tuple. If we take that path, we’d need to create a new Flow option that is a Flow descriptor, in which case we’d get
- one or more Flow Options to indicate which flows  are encapsulated in the Track
- Exactly one RTO  (as we currently do) OR Exactly one TIO (as in Proposal A) to indicate the tunnel egress
- then one VIO or one or more SRVIOs (as we currently do)

What do you guys think?

Pascal

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