RE: Can Multihop BFD be protected using RLFA backup?

[Alexander Vainshtein <[e-mail]>]

Muthu,
Regarding the question in your 2nd email “Do we know of any implementation that provides RLFA FRR protection to multihop BFD packets?”
My employer (ECI Telecom) has implemented multi-hop IP BFD protected by IP FRR (including local and remote LFA) with encapsulation that follows RFC 5883.
(As explained by Stephane, IP FRR does not differentiate between multi-hop IP BFD and any other native IP traffic to the protected destination).
Multi-hop IP BFD is used for reliable and reasonably fast detection of failure of iBGP peers that, in its turn,  can trigger appropriate protection mechanisms.

Regards,
Sasha

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From: Rtg-bfd <[e-mail]> On Behalf Of Muthu Arul Mozhi Perumal
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 1:02 PM
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Subject: Re: Can Multihop BFD be protected using RLFA backup?

Hi Stephane,

Thanks for your response. Please see inline..

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 3:27 PM <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
Hi,

I think that the fact that “control” packets can benefit of FRR is really implementation dependent. It is also linked to the place where BFD packets are created (RP or LC).
From a theoretical point of view, nothing prevents FRR to be used as for any packet generated by the router itself.

Do we know of any implementation that provides RLFA FRR protection to multihop BFD packets?

Regarding the encapsulation, if your BFD client is using RFC5883, this will not change during FRR, the FRR will just push labels on top independently.

The primary reason for my question on encapsulations is because RFC 4379 has the foll. as one of the reasons for using the destination address in 127/8 range for IPv4 (0:0:0:0:0:FFFF:7F00/104 range for IPv6) for diagnostic packets sent over MPLS LSP:
   1. Although the LSP in question may be broken in unknown ways, the
      likelihood of a diagnostic packet being delivered to a user of an
      MPLS service MUST be held to an absolute minimum.

Since multihop BFD uses a routable destination address, wondering whether there would be any issues if multihop BFD packets are sent over the RLFA backup path without following RFC 5884 encapsulation..

Regards,
Muthu

Again, the possibility to get FRR is really implementation dependent, as the forwarding decision of the BFD packet may not be taken by the network processor of the LC.

Brgds,

From: Rtg-bfd [mailto:[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>] On Behalf Of Muthu Arul Mozhi Perumal
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 10:16
To: [e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>
Subject: Can Multihop BFD be protected using RLFA backup?

Hi All,

Multihop BFD (RFC 5883) packets are sent over UDP/IP. The encapsulation used is identical to single hop BFD (RFC 5881) except that the UDP destination port is set to 4784.

Now, suppose on the ingress node there is no IP/LFA backup path for the destination address tracked by multihop BFD, but there exists an an RLFA backup path to that destination. In this case, is multihop BFD expected to be protected using the RLFA backup path i.e should multihop BFD packets be sent over the RLFA backup path if the primary path goes down?

If multihop BFD packets are to be sent over the RLFA backup path, what encapsulation should the ingress use? The encapsulation specified in RFC 5883 or the encapsulation specified in RFC 5884 (MPLS BFD)?

Please let me know you opinion.

Regards,
Muthu

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