Re: BFD over VXLAN: Trapping BFD Control packet at VTEP

[Dinesh Dutt <[e-mail]>]

Hi Greg,

As long as the inner MAC address is such that the packet is trapped to the
CPU, it should be fine for use as an inner MAC is it not? Stating that is
better than trying to force a management VNI. What if someone wants to test
connectivity on a specific VNI? I would not pick a loopback IP address for
this since that address range is host/node local only. Is there a reason
you're not using the VTEP IP as the inner IP address ?

Dinesh

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 5:48 AM Greg Mirsky <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Dear All,
> thank you for your comments, suggestions on this issue, probably the most
> challenging for this specification. In the course of our discussions, we've
> agreed to abandon the request to allocate the dedicated MAC address to be
> used as the destination MAC address in the inner Ethernet frame. Also,
> earlier using VNI 0 was changed from mandatory to one of the options an
> implementation may offer to an operator. The most recent discussion was
> whether VTEP's MAC address might be used as the destination MAC address in
> the inner Ethernet frame. As I recall it, the comments from VXLAN experts
> equally split with one for it and one against. Hence I would like to
> propose a new text to resolve the issue. The idea is to let an operator
> select Management VNI and use that VNI in VXLAN encapsulation of BFD
> Control packets:
> NEW TEXT:
>
> An operator MUST select a VNI number to be used as Management VNI. VXLAN
> packet for Management VNI MUST NOT be sent to a tenant. VNI number 1 is
> RECOMMENDED as the default for Management VNI.
>
> With that new text, what can be the value of the destination MAC in the
> inner Ethernet? I tend to believe that it can be anything and ignored by
> the reciever VTEP. Also, if the trapping is based on VNI number, the
> destination IP address of the inner IP packet can from the range 127/8 for
> IPv4, and for IPv6 from the range 0:0:0:0:0:FFFF:7F00:0/104. And lastly,
> the TTL to be set to 1 (no change here).
>
> Much appreciate your comments, questions, and suggestions.
>
> Best regards,
> Greg
>