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Internet Engineering Task Force N. Leymann, Ed.
Internet-Draft Deutsche Telekom AG
Intended status: Informational B. Decraene
Expires: September 7, 2010 France Telecom
D. Steinberg
Steinberg Consulting
March 6, 2010
Seamless MPLS Architecture
draft-leymann-mpls-seamless-mpls-01
Abstract
This documents describes an architecture which can be used to extend
MPLS networks to integrate access and aggregation networks into a
single MPLS domain ("Seamless MPLS"). The Seamless MPLS approach is
based on existing and well known protocols. It provides a highly
flexible and a scalable architecture and the possibility to integrate
100.000 of nodes. The separation of the service and transport plane
is one of the key elements; Seamless MPLS provides end to end service
independent transport. Therefore it removes the need for service
specific configurations in network transport nodes (without end to
end transport MPLS, some additional services nodes/configurations
would be required to glue each transport domain. This draft defines
a routing architecture using existing standardized protocols. It
does not invent any new protocols or defines extensions to existing
protocols.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1. Why Seamless MPLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2. Use Case #1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2.1. Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2.2. Typical Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.3. Use Case #2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.3.1. Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.3.2. Typical Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3. Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.1. Overall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.1.1. Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.1.2. Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.1.3. Core . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.2. Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.3. Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.4. Scalability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.5. Stability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4. Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.1. Overall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.2. Multi-Domain MPLS networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.3. Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.4. Intra-Domain Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.5. Inter-Domain Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.6. Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5. Deployment Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.1. Deployment Scenario #1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.1.1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.1.2. General Network Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.1.3. Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5.1.4. Intra-Area Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.1.4.1. Core . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.1.4.2. Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.1.5. Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.1.5.1. LDP Downstream-on-Demand (DoD) . . . . . . . . . . 20
5.1.6. Inter-Area Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5.1.7. Labled iBGP next-hop handling . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.1.8. Network Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.1.9. Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.1.10. Next-Hop Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.2. Scalability Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.2.1. Control and Data Plane State for Deployment
Scenario #1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.2.1.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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5.2.1.2. Core Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.2.1.3. Aggregation Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.2.1.4. Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.2.1.5. Numerical application for use case #1 . . . . . . 27
5.2.1.6. Numerical application for use case #2 . . . . . . 28
6. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Appendix A. ABR Fast Reroute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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1. Introduction
MPLS as a mature and well known technology is widely deployed in
today's core and aggregation/metro area networks. Many metro area
networks are already based on MPLS delivering Ethernet services to
residential and business customers. Until now those deployments are
usually done in different domains; e.g. core and metro area networks
are handled as separate MPLS domains.
Seamless MPLS extents the core domain and integrates aggregation and
access domains into a single MPLS domain ("Seamless MPLS"). This
enables a very flexible deployment of an end to end service delivery.
In order to obtain a highly scalable architecture Seamless MPLS takes
into account that typical access devices (DSLAMs, MSAN) are lacking
some advanced MPLS features, and may have more scalability
limitations. Hence access devices are kept as simple as possible.
Seamless MPLS is not a new protocol suite but describes an
architecture by deploying existing protocols like BGP, LDP and ISIS.
Multiple options are possible and this document aims at defining a
single architecture for the main function in order to ease
implementation prioritization and deployments in multi vendor
networks. Yet the architecture should be flexible enough to allow
some level of personalization, depending on use cases, existing
deployed base and requirements. Currently, this document focus on
end to end unicast LSP.
1.1. Requirements Language
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
1.2. Terminology
This document uses the following terminology
o Access Node (AN): An access node is a node which processes
customers frames or packets at Layer 2 or above. This includes
but is not limited to DSLAMs or OLTs (in case of (G)PON
deployments). Access nodes have only limited MPLS functionalities
in order to reduce complexity in the access network.
o Aggregation Node (AGN): An aggregation node (AGN) is a node which
aggregates several access nodes (ANs).
o Area Border Router (ABR): Router between aggregation and core
domain.
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o Deployment Scenario:
o Seamless MPLS Domain: A set of MPLS equipments which can set MPLS
LSPs between them.
o Transport Node (TN): Transport nodes are used to connect access
nodes to service nodes, and services nodes to services nodes.
Transport nodes ideally have no customer or service state and are
therefore decoupled from service creation.
o Seamless MPLS (S-MPLS): Used as a generic term to describe an
architecture which integrates access, aggregation and core network
in a single MPLS domain.
o Service Node (SN): A service node is used to create services for
customers and is connected to one or more transport nodes.
Typical examples include Broadband Network Gateways (BNGs), video
servers
o Transport Pseudo Wire (T-PW): A transport pseudowire provides
service independent transport mechanisms based on Pseudo-Wires
within the Seamless MPLS architecture.
o Use Case: Describes a typical network including service creation
points in order to describe the requirments, typical numbers etc.
which need to be taken into account when applying the Seamless
MPLS architecture.
2. Motivation
MPLS is deployed in core and aggregation network for several years
and provides a mature and stable basis for large networks. In
addition MPLS is already used in access networks, e.g. such as mobile
or DSL backhaul. Today MPLS as technology is being used on two
different layers:
o the Transport Layer and
o the Service Layer (e.g. for MPLS VPNs)
In both cases the protocols and the encapsulation are identical but
the use of MPLS is different especially concerning the signalling,
the control plane, the provisioning, the scalability and the
frequency of updates. On the service layer only service specific
information is exchanged; every service can potentially deploy it's
own architecture and individual protocols. The services are running
on top of the transport layer. Nevertheless those deployments are
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usually isolated, focussed on a single use case and not integrated
into an end-to-end manner.
The motivation of Seamless MPLS is to provide an architecture which
supports a wide variety of different services on a single MPLS
platform fully integrating access, aggregation and core network. The
architecture can be used for residential services, mobile backhaul,
business services and supports fast reroute, redundancy and load
balancing. Seamless MPLS provides the deployment of service creation
points which can be virtually everywhere in the network. This
enables network and service providers with a flexible service and
service creation. Service creation can be done based on the existing
requirements without the needs for dedicated service creation areas
on fixed locations.
2.1. Why Seamless MPLS
Multiple SP plan to deploy networks with 10k to 100k MPLS nodes.
This is typically at least one order of magnitude higher than typical
deployments and may require a new architecture. Multiple options are
possible and it makes sense for the industry (both vendors and SP) to
restrict the options in order to ease the first deployments (e.g.
restrict the number of options to implement and/or scales for
vendors, reduce interoperability and debugging issues for SP).
Many aggregation networks are already deploying MPLS but are limited
to the use of MPLS per aggregation area. Those MPLS based
aggregation domains are connected to a core network running MPLS as
well. Nevertheless most of the services are not limited to an
aggregation domain but running between several aggregation domains
crossing the core network. In the past it was necessary to provide
connectivity between the different domains and the core on a per
service level and not based on MPLS (e.g. by deploying native IP-
Routing or Ethernet based technologies between aggregation and core).
In most cases service specific configurations on the border nodes
between core and aggregation were required. New services led to
additional configurations and changes in the provisioning tools (see
Figure 1).
With Seamless MPLS there are no technology boundaries and no topology
boundaries for the services. Network (or region) boundaries are for
scaling and manageability, and do not affect the service layer, since
the Transport Pseudowire that carries packets from the AN to the SN
doesn't care whether it takes two hops or twenty, nor how many region
boundaries it needs to cross. The network architecture is about
network scaling, network resilience and network manageability; the
service architecture is about optimal delivery: service scaling,
service resilience (via replicated SNs) and service manageability.
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The two are decoupled: each can be managed separately and changed
independently.
+--------------+ +--------------+ +--------------+
| Aggregation | | Core | | Aggregation |
| Domain #1 +---------+ Domain +---------+ Domain #2 |
| MPLS | ^ | MPLS | ^ | MPLS |
+--------------+ | +--------------+ | +--------------+
| |
+------ service specific ------+
configuration
Figure 1: Service Specific Configurations
One of the main motivations of Seamless MPLS is to get rid of
services specific configurations between the different MPLS islands.
Seamless MPLS connects all MPLS domains on the MPLS transport layer
providing a single transport layer for all services - independent of
the service itself. The Seamless MPLS architecture therefore
decuples the service and transport layer and integrates access,
aggregation and core into a single platform. One of the big
advantages is that problems on the transport layer only need to be
solved once (and the solutions are available to all services). With
Seamless MPLS it is not necessary to use service specific
configurations on intermediate nodes; all services can be deployed in
an end to end manner.
2.2. Use Case #1
2.2.1. Description
In most cases at least residential and business services need to be
supported by a network. This section describes a Seamless MPLS use
case which supports such a scenario. The use case includes point to
point services for business customers as well as typical service
creation for residential customers.
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+-------------+
| Service |
| Creation |
| Residential |
| Customers |
+------+------+
|
|
|
PW1 +-------+ +---+---+
######################### |
# +--+ AGN11 +---+ AGN21 + +------+
# / | | /| |\ | | +--------+
+--#-+/ +-------+\/ +-------+ \| | | remote |
| AN | /\ + CORE +---......--+ AN |
+--#-+\ +-------+ \+-------+ /| | ####### |
# \ | | | |/################### +--------+
# +--+ AGN12 +---+ AGN22 +##+------+ P2P Business Service
##############################
PW2 +-------+ +-------+
Figure 2: Use Case #1: Service Creation
Figure 2 shows the different service creation points and the
corresponding pseudowires between the access nodes and the service
creation points. The use case does not show all PWs (e.g. not the
PWs needed to support redundancy) in order to keep the figure simple.
Node and link failures are handled by rerouting the PWs (based on
standard mechanisms).
Residential Services: The service creation for all residential
customers connected to the Access Nodes in an aggregation domain
is located on an Service Node connected to the AGN2x. The PW
(PW1) originated at the AN and terminates at the AGN2. A second
PW is deployed in the case where redundancy is needed on the AN
(the figure shows redundancy but this might not be the case for
all ANs in this Use Case). Additonal PWs can be deployed as well
in case more than a single service creation is needed for the
residential service (e.g. one service creation point for Internet
access and a second service creation point for IPTV services).
Business Sercvices: For business services the use cases shows point
to point connections between two access nodes. PW2 originates at
the AN and terminates on the remote AN crossing two aggregation
areas and the core network. If the access node needs connections
to several remote ANs the corresponding number of PWs will be
originated at the AN. Nevertheless taking the number of ports
available and the number of business customers on a typical access
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node the number of PWs will be relatively small.
+-------+ +-------+ +------+ +------+
| | | | | | | |
+--+ AGN11 +---+ AGN21 +---+ ABR1 +---+ LSR1 +--> to AGN
/ | | /| | | | | |
+----+/ +-------+\/ +-------+ +------+ /+------+
| AN | /\ \/
+----+\ +-------+ \+-------+ +------+/\ +------+
\ | | | | | | \| |
+--+ AGN12 +---+ AGN22 +---+ ABR2 +---+ LSR2 +--> to AGN
| | | | | | | |
+-------+ +-------+ +------+ +------+
static route ISIS L1 LDP ISIS L2 LDP
<-Access-><--Aggregation Domain--><---------Core--------->
Figure 3: Use Case #1: Redundancy
Figure 3 shows the redundancy at the access and aggregation network
deploying a two stage aggregation network (AGN1x/AGN2x).
Nevertheless redundancy is not a MUST in this use case. It is also
possible to use non redundant connection between the ANs and AGN1
stage and/or between the AGN1 and AGN2 stages. The AGN2x stage is
used to aggregate traffic from several AGN1x pairs. In this use case
an aggregation domain is not limited to the use of a single pair of
AGN2x; the deployment of several AGN2 pairs within the domain is also
supported. As design goal for the scalability of the routing and
forwarding within the Seamless MPLS architecture the following
numbers are used:
o Number of Aggregation Domains: 100
o Number of Backbone Nodes: 1.000
o Number of Aggregation Nodes: 10.000
o Number of Access Nodes: 100.000
The access nodes (AN) are dual homed to two different aggregation
nodes (AGN11 and AGN12) using static routing entries on the AN. The
ANs are always source or sink nodes for MPLS traffic but not transit
nodes. This allows a light MPLS implementation in order to reduce
the complexity in the AN. The aggregation network consists of two
stages with redundant connections between the stages (AGN11 is
connected to AGN21 and AGN22 as well as AGN12 to AGN21 and AGN22).
The gateway between the aggregation and core network is realized
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using the Area Border Routers (ABR). From the perspective of the
MPLS transport layer all systems are clearly identified using the
loopback address of the system. An ingress node must be able to
establish a service to an arbitrary egress system by using the
corresponding MPLS transport label
2.2.2. Typical Numbers
Table 1 shows typical numbers which are expected for Use Case #1
(access node).
+-------------------+---------------+
| Parameter | Typical Value |
+-------------------+---------------+
| IGP Control Plane | 2 |
| IP FIB | 2 |
| LDP Control Plane | 200 |
| LDP FIB | 200 |
| BGP Control Plane | 0 |
| BGP FIB | 0 |
+-------------------+---------------+
Table 1: Use Case #1: Typical Numbers for Access Node
2.3. Use Case #2
2.3.1. Description
In most cases, residential, wholesales and business services need to
be supported by the network.
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+-------------+
| Service |
| platforms |
|(VoIP, VoD..)|
| Residential |
| Customers |
+------+------+
|
|
+---+ +-----+ +--+--+ +-----+
|AN1|----+AGN11+--+AGN21+---+ ABR |
+---+ +--+--+ +--+--+ +--+--+
| | |
+---+ +--+--+ | | +----+
|AN2|----+AGN12+ | | --+ PE |
+---+ +--+--+ | | +----+
| | |
. | |
. | |
. | |
| | |
+---+ +---+ +--+--+ +--+--+ +--+--+
|AN4+---+AN3|----+AGN1x+--+AGN22+---+ ABR |
+---+ +---+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+
<-Access-><--Aggregation Domain--><---------Core--------->
Figure 4: Use Case #2
The above topology (see Figure 4) is subject to evolutions, depending
on AN types and capacities (in terms of number of customers and/or
aggregated bandwidth). For examples, AGN1x connection toward AGN2y
currently forms a ring but may latter evolve in a square or triangle
topology; AGN2y nodes may not be present...
Most access nodes (AN) are single attached on one aggregation node
using static routing entries on the AN and AGN. Some AN, are dual
attached on two different AGN using static routes. Some AN are used
as transit by some lower level AN. Static routes are expected to be
used between those AN.
IPv4, IPv6 and MPLS interconnection between the aggregation and core
network is realized using the Area Border Routers (ABR). Any ingress
node must be able to establish IPv4, IPv6 and MPLS connections to any
egress node in the seamless MPLS domain.
Regarding MPLS connectivity requirements, a full mesh of MPLS LSPs is
required between the ANs of an aggregation area, at least for 6PE
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purposes. Some additional LSPs are needed between ANs and some PE in
the aggregation area or in the core area for access to services,
wholesale and enterprises services. In short, a meshing of LSP is
required between the AGN of the whole seamless MPLS domain. Finally,
LSP between any node to any node should be possible.
From a scalability standpoint, the following numbers are the targets:
o Number of Aggregation Domains: 30
o Number of Backbone Nodes: 150
o Number of Aggregation Nodes: 1.500
o Number of Access Nodes: 40.000
2.3.2. Typical Numbers
Table 2 shows typical numbers which are expected for Use Case #2 for
the purpose of establishing the transport LSPs. They do not take
into account the services built in addition. (e.g. 6PE will require
additional IPv6 routes).
+-------------------+---------------+
| Parameter | Typical Value |
+-------------------+---------------+
| IGP Control Plane | 2 |
| IP FIB | 2 |
| LDP Control Plane | 1000 |
| LDP FIB | 1000 |
+-------------------+---------------+
Table 2: Use Case #2: Typical Numbers for Access Node
3. Requirements
The following section describes the overall requirements which need
to be fulfilled by the Seamless MPLS architecture. Beside the
general requirements of the architecture itself there are also
certain requirements which are related to the different network
nodes.
o End to End Transport LSP: MPLS based services (pseudowire based,
L3-VPN or IP) SHALL be provided by the Seamless MPLS based
infrastructure between any nodes.
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o Scalability: The network SHALL be scalable to the minimum of
100.000 nodes.
o Fast convergence (sub second resilience) SHALL be supported. Fast
reroute (LFA) SHOULD be supported.
o Flexibility: The Seamless MPLS architecture SHALL be applied to a
wide variety of existing MPLS deployments. It SHALL use a
flexible approach deploying building blocks with the possiblity to
use certain features only if those features are needed (e.g. dual
homing ANs or fast reroute mechanisms).
o Service independence: Service and transport layer SHALL be
decoupled. The architecture SHALL remove the need for service
specific configurations on intermediate nodes.
o Native Multicast support: P2MP MPLS LSPs SHOULD be supported by
the Seamless MPLS architecture.
o Interoperable end to end OAM mechanisms SHALL be implemented
3.1. Overall
3.1.1. Access
In respect of MPLS functionality the access network should be kept as
simple as possible. Compared to the aggregation and/or core network
within Seamless MPLS a typical access node is less powerful. The
control plane and the forwarding should be as simple as possible. To
reduce the complexity and the costs of an access node not the full
MPLS functionality need to be supported (control and data plane).
The use of an IGP should be avoided. Static routing should be
sufficient. Required functionality to reach the required scalability
should be moved out of the access node. The number of access nodes
can be very high. The support of load balancing for layer 2 services
should be implemented.
3.1.2. Aggregation
The aggregation network aggregates traffic from access nodes. The
aggregation Node must have functionalities that enlarge the
scalability of the simple access nodes that are connected. The IGP
must be link state based. Each aggregation area must be a separated
area. All routes that are interarea should use an EGP to keep the
IGP small. The aggregation node must have the full scalability
concerning control plane and forwarding. The support of load
balancing for layer 2 services must be implemented.
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3.1.3. Core
The core connects the aggregation areas. The core network elements
must have the full scalability concerning control plane and
forwarding. The IGP must be link state based. The core area must
not include routes from aggregation areas. All routes that are
interarea should use an EGP to keep the IGP small. Each area of the
link state based IGP should have less than 2000 routes. The support
of load balancing for layer 2 services must be implemented.
3.2. Multicast
Compared with unicast connectivity Multicast is more dynamic. User
generated messages - like joining or leaving multicast groups - are
interacting directly with network components in the access and
aggregation network (in order to build the corresponding forwarding
states). This leads to the need for a highly dynamic handling of
messages on access and aggregation nodes. Nevertheless the core
network SHOULD be stable and state changes triggered by user
generated messages SHOULD be minimized. This rises the need for an
hierarchy for the P2MP support in Seamless MPLS hiding the dynamic
behaviour of the access and aggregation nodes
o mLDP
o P2MP RSVP-TE
3.3. Availability
All network elements should be high available (99.999% availability).
Outage times should be as low as possible. A repair time of 50
milliseconds or less should be guarantied at all nodes and lines in
the network that are redundant. Fast convergence features SHOULD be
used in all control plane protocols. Local Repair functions SHOULD
be used wherever possible. Full redundancy is required at all
equipment that is shared in a network element.
o Power Supply
o Switch Fabric
o Routing Processor
A change from an active component to a standby component SHOULD
happen without effecting customers traffic. The Influence of
customer traffic MUST be as low as possible.
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3.4. Scalability
The network must be highly scalable. As a minimum requirement the
following scalability figures should be met:
o Number of aggregation domains: 100
o Number of backbone nodes: 1.000
o Number of aggregation nodes: 10.000
o Number of access nodes: 100.000
3.5. Stability
o The platform should be stable under certain circumstances (e.g.
missconfiguration within one area should not cause instability in
other areas).
o Differentiate between "All Loopbacks and Link addresses should be
ping able from every where." Vs. "Link addresses are not
necessary ping able from everywhere".
4. Architecture
4.1. Overall
One of the key questions that emerge when designing an architecture
for a seamless MPLS network is how to handle the sheer size of the
necessary routing and MPLS label information control plane and
forwarding plane state resulting from the stated scalability goals
especially with respect to the total number of access nodes. This
needs to be done without overwhelming the technical scaling limits of
any of the involved nodes in the network (access, aggregation and
core) and without introducing too much complexity in the design of
the network while at the same time still maintaining good convergence
properties to allow for quick MPLS transport and service restoration
in case of network failures.
4.2. Multi-Domain MPLS networks
The key design paradigm that leads to a sound and scalable solution
is the divide and conquer approach, whereby the large problem is
decomposed into many smaller problems for which the solution can be
found using well-known standard architectures.
In the specific case of seamless MPLS the overall MPLS network SHOULD
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be decomposed into multiple MPLS domains, each well within the
scaling limits of well-known architectures and network node
implementations. From an organizational and operational point of
view it MAY make sense to define the boundaries of such domains along
the pre-existing boundaries of aggregation networks and the core
network.
Examples of how networks can be decomposed include using IGP areas as
well as using multiple BGP autonomous systems.
4.3. Hierarchy
These MPLS domains SHOULD then be then be connected into an MPLS
multi-domain network in a hierarchical fashion that enables the
seamless exchange of loopback addresses and MPLS label bindings for
transport LSPs across the entire MPLS internetwork while at the same
time preventing the flooding of unnecessary routing and label binding
information into domains or parts of the network that do not need
them. Such a hierarchical routing and forwarding concept allows a
scalability in different dimensions and allows to hide the complexity
and size of the aggregation and access networks.
4.4. Intra-Domain Routing
The intra-domain routing within each of the MPLS domains (i.e.
aggregation domains and core) SHOULD utilize standard IGP protocols
like OSPF or ISIS. By definition, each of these domains is small
enough so that there are no relevant scaling limits within each IGP
domain, given well-known state-of-the-art IGP design principles and
recent router technology.
The intra-domain MPLS LSP setup and label distribution SHOULD utilize
standard protocols like LDP or RSVP.
4.5. Inter-Domain Routing
The inter-domain routing is responsible for establishing connectivity
between and across all MPLS domains. The inter-domain routing SHOULD
establish a routing and forwarding hierarchy in order to achieve the
scaling goals of seamless MPLS. Note that the IP aggregation usually
performed between region (IGP areas/AS) in IP routing does not work
for MPLS as MPLS is not capable of aggregating FEC (because MPLS
forwarding use an exact match lookup, while IP uses longest match).
Therefore it is RECOMMENDED to utilize protocols that support
indirect next-hops (like BGP with MPLS labels "labled BGP/SAFI4"
[RFC3107]).
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4.6. Access
Compared to the aggregation and core parts of the Seamless MPLS
network the access part is special in two respects:
o The number of ndes in the access is at least one order of
magnitude higher than in any other part of the network.
o Because of the large quantity of access nodes, the cost of these
nodes is extremly relevant for the overall costs of the entire
network, i.e. acess nodes are very cost sensitive.
This makes it desirable to design the architecture such that the AN
functionality can be kept as simple as possible. This should always
be kept in mind when evalulating different seamless MPLS
architectures. The goal is to limit both the number of different
protocols needed on the AN as well as the scale to which each
protocol must perform to the absolute minimum.
5. Deployment Scenarios
This section describes the deployment scenarios based on the use
cases and the gerenic architecture above.
5.1. Deployment Scenario #1
Section describing the Seamless MPLS implementation of a large
european ISP.
5.1.1. Overview
This deployment scenario describes one way to implement a seamless
MPLS architecture. Specific to this implementation is the choice of
intra- and inter-domain routing and label distribution protocols, as
well as the details of the interworking of these protocols to achieve
the overall scalable hierarchical architecture.
5.1.2. General Network Topology
There are multiple aggregation domains (in the order of up to 100)
connected to the core in a star topology, i.e. aggregation domains
are never connected among themselves, but only to the core. The core
has its own domain.
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+-------+ +-------+ +------+ +------+
| | | | | | | |
+--+ AGN11 +---+ AGN21 +---+ ABR1 +---+ LSR1 +--> to AGN
/ | | /| | | | | |
+----+/ +-------+\/ +-------+ +------+ /+------+
| AN | /\ \/ |
+----+\ +-------+ \+-------+ +------+/\ +------+
\ | | | | | | \| |
+--+ AGN12 +---+ AGN22 +---+ ABR2 +---+ LSR2 +--> to AGN
| | | | | | | |
+-------+ +-------+ +------+ +------+
static route ISIS L1 LDP ISIS L2 LDP
<-Access-><--Aggregation Domain--><---------Core--------->
Figure 5: Deployment Scenario #1
As shown in Figure 5, the access nodes (AN) are connected to the
aggregation network via aggregation nodes called AGN1x, either to a
single AGN1x or redundantly to two AGN1x. Each AGN1x has redundant
uplinks to a pair of second-level aggregation nodes called AGN2x.
Each aggregation domain is connected to the core via exactly two
border routers (ABR) on the core side. There can be multiple AGN2
pairs per aggregation domain, but only one ABR pair for each
aggregation domain. Each of the AGN2 in an AGN2 pair connects to one
of the ABRs in the ABR pair responsible for that aggregation domain.
The ABRs on the core side have redundant connections to a pair of LSR
routers.
The LSR pair is also connected via a direct link.
The core LSR are connected to other core LSR in a partly meshed
topology so that there are disjunct, redundant paths from each LSR to
each other LSR.
5.1.3. Hierarchy
As explained before, hierarchy is the key to a scalable seamless MPLS
architecture. The hierarchy in this implementation is achieved by
forming different MPLS domains for aggregation domains and core,
where within each of these domains a fairly common MPLS deployment
using ISIS as intradomain link-state routing protocol and using LDP
for MPLS label distribution is used.
These MPLS domains are mapped to ISIS areas as follows: Aggregation
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domains are mapped to ISIS L1 areas. The core is configured as ISIS
L2. The border routers connecting aggregation and core are ISIS L1L2
and are referred to as ABRs. From a technical and operational point
of view these ABRs are part of the core, althought they also belong
to the respective aggregation domain purely from a routing protocol
point of view.
For the interdomain-routing BGP with MPLS labels is deployed ("labled
BGP/SAFI4" [RFC3107]).
5.1.4. Intra-Area Routing
5.1.4.1. Core
The core uses ISIS L2 to distribute routing information for the
loopback addresses of all core nodes. The border routers (ABR) that
connect to the aggregation domains are also part of the respective
aggregation ISIS L1 area and hence ISIS L1L2.
LDP is used to distribute MPLS label binding information for the
loopback addresses of all core nodes.
5.1.4.2. Aggregation
The aggregation domains uses ISIS L1 as intra-domain routing
protocol. All AGN loopback addresses are carried in ISIS.
As in the core, the aggregation also uses LDP to distribute MPLS
label bindings for the loopback addresses.
5.1.5. Access
Access nodes do not have their own domain or IGP area. Instead, they
directly connect to the AGN1 nodes in the aggregation domain. To
keep access devices as simple as possible, ANs do not participate in
ISIS.
Instead, each AN has two static default routes pointing to each of
the AGN1 it is connected to. Appropriate techniques SHOULD be
deployed to make sure that a given default route is invalidated when
the link to an AGN1 or that node itself fails. Examples of such
techniques include monitoring the pysical link state for loss of
light/loss of frame, or using Ethernet link OAM or BFD
[I-D.ietf-bfd-v4v6-1hop].
The AGN1 MUST have a configured static route to the loopback address
of each of the ANs it is connected to, because it cannot learn the AN
loopback address in any other way. These static routes have to be
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monitored and invalidated if necessary using the same techniques as
described above for the static default routes on the AN.
The AGN1 redistributes these routes into ISIS for intra-domain
reachability of all AN loopback addresses.
LDP is used for MPLS label distribution between AGN1 and AN. In
order to keep the AN control plane as lightweight as possible, and to
avoid the necessity for the AN to store 100.000 MPLS label bindings
for each upstream AGN1 peer, LDP is deployed in downstream-on-demand
(DoD) mode, described below.
To allow the label bindings received via LDP DoD to be installed into
the LFIB on the AN without having the specific host route to the
destination loopback address, but only a default route, use of the
LDP Extension for Inter-Area Label Switched Paths [RFC5283] is made.
5.1.5.1. LDP Downstream-on-Demand (DoD)
LDP downstream-on-demand mode is specified in [RFC5036]. Although is
was originally intended to be used with ATM switch hardware, there is
nothing from a protocol perspective preventing its use in a regular
MPLS frame-based environment. In this mode the upstream LSR will
explicitly ask the downstream LSR for a label binding for a
particular FEC when needed.
The assumption is that a given AN will only have a limited number of
services configured to an even more limited number of destinations,
or egress LER. Instead of learning and storing all label bindings
for all possible loopback addresses within the entire Seamless MPLS
network, the AN will use LDP DoD to only request the label bindings
for the FECs corresponding to the loopback addresses of those egress
nodes to which it has services configured.
For LDP DoD the AGN1 MUST also ask the AN for label bindings for
specific FECs. FECs are necessary for all pseudowire destinations at
the AN. Most preferable this pseudowire destination is the LSR-ID of
the AN. Depending on the AN implementation and architecture multiple
pseudowire destination addresses and associated FECs could be needed.
The conclusion of this results to the following requirement:
o The AGN1 MUST ask the AN for label bindings for all potential
pseudowire destination addresses on the AN. Because the AGN (at
least in many cases) does not take part in the pseudowire
signaling an independent way of receiving the AN FEC is necessary
on the AGN. These potential pseudowire destinations MUST be known
on the AGN1, by configuration or otherwise. These are typically
the loopback addresses of the AN, to which a static route has been
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configured anyway on the AGN1, as explained above. In addition to
these static routes, the AGN1 SHOULD be configured statically to
request MPLS label bindings for these loopback addresses via LDP
DoD.
o Optionally an automatism that asks for a FEC for the LSR-ID COULD
be implemented. A configuration switch that disables this option
must be implemented. The label is necessary. The way of
initiating the DoD-signaling of the label could be done with both
methods (configuration/automatism).
o The AN knows by configuration to which destination a pseudowire is
set up. The AN is always the endpoint of the pseudowire. Before
signalling a pseudowire the AN MUST ask (via LDP DoD) the AGN for
a FEC. Because of this an independent preconfiguration is not
necessary on the AN.
o The following are the triggers for ANs to request a label:
o
* When a control session (targeted LDP) to a target has to be
established
* When a service label has been received by a control session
(e.g. pseudo wire label)
5.1.6. Inter-Area Routing
The inter-domain MPLS connectivity from the aggregation domains to
and across the core domain is realized primarily using BGP with MPLS
labels ("labled BGP/SAFI4" [RFC3107]). A very limited amount of
route leaking from ISIS L2 into L1 is also used.
All ABR and PE nodes in the core are part of the labeled iBGP mesh,
which can be either full mesh or based on route reflectors. These
nodes advertise their respective loopback addresses (which are also
carried in ISIS L2) into labeled BGP.
Each ABR node has labeled iBGP sessions with all AGN1 nodes inside
the aggregation domain that they connect to the core. Since there
are two ABR nodes per aggregation domain, this leads to each AGN1
node having an iBGP sessions with each of the two ABR. Note that the
use of iBGP implies that the entire seamless MPLS internetwork is
just a single AS to which all core and aggregation nodes belong. The
AGN1 nodes advertise their own loopback addresses into labeled BGP,
in addition to these loopbacks also being in ISIS L1.
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Additionally the AGN1 nodes also redistribute all the statically
configured routes to the AN loopback addresses into labeled BGP.
Note that as stated obove, the AGN1 MUST ask the AN for label
bindings for the AN loopback FECs via LDP DoD in order to have a
valid labeled route with a non-null label.
This architecture results in carrying all loopbacks of all nodes
except pure P nodes (AN, AGN, ABR and core PE) in labeled BGP, e.g.
there will be in the order of 100.000 routes in labeled BGP when
approaching the stated scalability goal. Note that this only affects
the BGP RIB size and does not necessarily imply that any node needs
to actually have active forwarding state (LFIB) in the same order of
magnitude. In fact, as will be discussed in the scalability
analysis, no single node needs to install all labeled BGP routes into
the LFIB, but each node only needs a small percentage of the RIB as
active forwarding state in the LFIB. And from a RIB point of view,
BGP is know to scale to hundreds of thousands of routes.
5.1.7. Labled iBGP next-hop handling
The ABR nodes run labeled iBGP both to the core mesh as well as to
the AGN1 nodes of their respective aggregation domains. Therefore
they operate as iBGP route reflectors, reflecting labeled routes from
the aggregation into the core and vice versa.
When reflecting routes from the core into the aggregation domain, the
ABR SHOULD NOT change then BGP NEXT-HOP addresses (next-hop-
unchanged). This is the usual behaviour for iBGP route reflection.
In order to make these routes resolvable to the AGN1 nodes inside the
aggregation domain, the ABR MUST leak all other ABR and core PE
loopback addresses from ISIS L2 into ISIS L1 of the aggregation
domain. Note that the number of leaked addresses is limited so that
the overall scalability of the seamless MPLS architecture is not
impacted. In the worst case all core loopback addresses COULD be
leaked into ISIS L1, but even that would not be a scalability
problem.
When reflecting routes from the aggregation into the core, the ABR
MUST set then BGP NEXT-HOP to its own loopback addresses (next-hop-
self). This is not the default behaviour for iBGP route reflection,
but requires special configuration on the ABR. Note that this also
implies that the ABR MUST allocate a new local MPLS label for each
labeled iBGP FEC that it reflects from the aggregation into the core.
This special next-hop handling is essential for the scalability of
the overall seamless MPLS architecture since it creates the required
hierarchy and enables the hiding of all aggregation and access
addresses behind the ABRs from an IGP point of view. Leaking of
aggregation ISIS L1 loopback addresses into ISIS L2 is not necessary
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and MUST NOT be allowed.
he resulting hierarchical inter-domain MPLS routing structure is
similar to the one described in [RFC4364] section 10c, only that we
use one AS with route reflection instead of using multiple ASes.
5.1.8. Network Availability
5.1.9. Multicast
5.1.10. Next-Hop Redundancy
An aggregation domain is connected to the core network using two
redundant area boarder routers, and MPLS hierarchy is applied on
these ABRs. MPLS hierarchy helps scale the FIB but introduces
additional complexity for the rerouting in case of ABR failure.
Indeed ABR failure requires a BGP converge to update the inner MPLS
hierarchy, in addition to the IGP converge to update the outer MPLS
hierarchy. This is also expected to take more time as BGP
convergence is performed after the IGP convergence and because the
number of prefixes to update in the FIB can be significant. This is
a drawback but the architecture allow for two "local" solutions which
restore the traffic before the BGP convergence takes place.
One called BGP PIC edge, would be required on all edge LSR involved
in the inner (BGP) MPLS hierarchy. Namely all routers except the AN
which are not involved in the inner MPLS hierarchy. It involves pre-
computing and pre-installing in the FIB the BGP backup path. Such
back up path are activated when the IGP advertise the failure of the
primary path.
One called egress fast reroute, would be required on the egress LSR
involved in the inner (BGP) MPLS hierarchy, namely TN and AGN
connected to ABR. It involves:
using a anycast loopback address shared by both nominal and back
up ABR, advertised by both ABR in the IGP and advertised as BGP
Next Hop by the nominal ABR;
activating IP FRR LFA on the (penultimate) hops, acting as PLR for
the anycast loopback;
using on the backup egress nodes (ABR2) an additional contextual
MPLS FIB populated by the labels upstream allocated by the nominal
egress node (ABR1).
Details can be found in [PEFRR] and [ABRFRR], and in the appendix of
this draft. Both solutions have their pro and con, and the choice is
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left to each Service Provider or deployment based on the different
requirements. The point is that the seamless MPLS architecture can
handles fast restoration time, even for ABR failures.
5.2. Scalability Analysis
5.2.1. Control and Data Plane State for Deployment Scenario #1
5.2.1.1. Introduction
Let's call:
o #AN the number of Access Node (AN) in the seamless MPLS domain
o #AGN the number of AGgregation Node (AGN) in the seamless MPLS
domain
o #Core the number of Core (Core) in the core network
o #Area the number of aggregation routing domains.
Let's take the following assumptions:
o Aggregation equipments are equally spread across aggregation
routing domains
o the number of IGP links is three times the number of IGP nodes
o the number of IGP prefixes is five times the number of IGP nodes
(links prefixes + 2 loopbacks)
o Access Nodes need to set up 1000 (1k) LSPs. 10% (100) are FEC
which are outside of their routing domain. Those 100 remote FEC
are the same for all Access Nodes of a given AGN.
The following sections roughly evaluate the scalability, both in
absolute numbers and relatively with the number of Access Node which
is the biggest scalability factor.
5.2.1.2. Core Domain
The IGP & LDP core domain are not affected by the number of access
nodes:
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IGP:
node : #Core ~ o(1)
links : 3*#Core ~ o(1)
IP prefixes : 5*#Core ~ o(1)
LDP FEC:
#Core ~ o(1)
Core TN FIBs grows linearly with the number of node in the core
domain. In other word, they are not affected by AGN and AN nodes:
Core TN:
IP FIB : 5*#Core ~ o(1)
MPLS LFIB : #Core ~ o(1)
BGP carries all AN routes which is significant. However, all AN
routes are only needed in the control plane, possibly in a dedicated
BGP Route Reflector (just like for BGP/MPLS VPNs) and not in the
forwarding plane. The number of routes (100k) is smaller than the
number of number of routes in the Internet (300k and rising) or in
major VPN SP (>500k and rising) so the target can be handled with
current implementations. In addition, AN routes are internal routes
whose churn and instability is smaller and more under control than
external routes.
BGP Route Reflector (RR)
NLRI : #AN ~ o(n)
path : 2*#AN ~ o(2n)
ABR handles both the core and aggregations routes. They do not
depend on the total number of AN nodes, but only on the number of AN
in their aggregation domain.
ABR:
IP FIB : 5*#Core + (5*#AGN + #AN) / #Area ~ o(#AN /#Area)
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MPLS LFIB : #Core + (#AGN + #AN) / #Area ~ o(#AN / #Area)
5.2.1.3. Aggregation Domain
In the aggregation domain, IGP & LDP are not affected by the number
of access nodes outside of their domain. They are not affected by
the total number of AN nodes:
IGP:
node : #AGN / #Area ~ o(1)
links : 3*#AGN / #Area ~ o(1)
IP prefixes : #Core + #Area + (5*#AGN + #AN) / #Area ~ o(#AN
*5/ #Area)
+ + 1 loopback per core node + one aggregate per area + 5
prefixes per AGN in the area + 1 prefix per AN in the area.
LDP FEC:
Core + (#AGN + #AN) / #Area ~ o(#AN / #Area)
+ + 1 loopback per core node + 1 loopback per AGN & AN node in
the area.
AGN FIBs grows with the number of node in the core area, in their
aggregation area, plus the number of inter domain LSP required by the
AN attached to them. They do not depend on the total number of AN
nodes. In the BGP control plane, AGN also needs to handle all the AN
routes.
AGN:
IP FIB : #Core + #Area + (5*#AGN + #AN) / #Area ~ o(#AN *5/
#Area)
MPLS LFIB : #Core + (#AGN + #AN) / #Area + 100 ~ o(#AN / #Area)
AN FIBs grows with its connectivity requirement. They do not depend
on the number of AN, AGN, SN or any others nodes.
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AN:
IP RIB : 1 ~ o(1)
MPLS LIB : 1k ~ o(1)
IP FIB : 1 ~ o(1)
MPLS LFIB : 1k ~ o(1)
5.2.1.4. Summary
AN requirements are kept minimal. BGP is not required and the size
of their FIB is limited to their own connectivity requirements.
In the core area, IGP and LDP are not affected by the node in the
aggregation domains. In particular they do not grow with the number
of AGN or AN.
In the aggregation areas, IGP and LDP are affected by the number of
core nodes and the number of AGN and AN in their area. They are not
affected by the total number of AGN or AN in the seamless MPLS
domain.
No FIB of any node is required to handle the total number of AGN or
AN in the seamless MPLS domain. In other word, the number of AGN and
AN in the seamless MPLS domain is not limited, if the number of areas
can grow accordingly. The main limitation is the MPLS connectivity
requirements on the AN, i.e. mainly the number of LSP needed on the
AN. Another limitation may be the number of different LSP needed by
AN attached or behind an AGN. However, given foreseen deployments
and current AGN capabilities, this is not expected to be a
limitation.
In the control plane, BGP will typically handle all AN routes. This
is significant but target deployments are well under current
equipments capacities. In addition, if required, additional
techniques could be used to improve this scalability, based on the
experience gained with scaling BGP/MPLS VPN (e.g. route partitioning
between RR planes, route filtering (static or dynamic with ORF or
route refresh) between AN and on AGN to improve AGN scalability.
5.2.1.5. Numerical application for use case #1
As a recap, targets for deployment scenario 1 are:
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o Number of Aggregation Domains 100
o Number of Backbone Nodes 1.000
o Number of AGgregation Nodes 10.000
o Number of Access Nodes 100.000
This gives the following scaling numbers for each category of nodes:
o AN IP FIB 1
o AN MPLS LFIB 1 000
o AGN IP FIB 2 600
o AGN MPLS LFIB 2 200
o ABR IP FIB 7 600
o ABR MPLS LFIB 2 100
o TN IP FIB 5 000
o TN MPLS LFIB 1 000
o RR BGP NLRI 100 000
o RR BGP paths 200 000
5.2.1.6. Numerical application for use case #2
As a recap, targets for deployment scenario 1 are:
o Number of Aggregation Domains 30
o Number of Backbone Nodes 150
o Number of AGgregation Nodes 1.500
o Number of Access Nodes 40.000
This gives the following scaling numbers for each category of nodes:
o AN IP FIB 1
o AN MPLS LFIB 1 000
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o AGN IP FIB 1 700
o AGN MPLS LFIB 1 800
o ABR IP FIB 3 700
o ABR MPLS LFIB 1 600
o TN IP FIB 750
o TN MPLS LFIB 150
o RR BGP NLRI 40 000
o RR BGP paths 80 000
6. Acknowledgements
Many people contributed to this document. The authors wish to thank
- in alphabetical order:
o Wim Henderickx (Alcatel)
o Clarence Filsfils (Cisco Networks),
o Thomas Beckhaus, Wilfried Maas, Roger Wenner (Deutsche Telekom),
o Kireeti Kompella (Juniper Networks),
7. IANA Considerations
This memo includes no request to IANA.
All drafts are required to have an IANA considerations section (see
the update of RFC 2434 [I-D.narten-iana-considerations-rfc2434bis]
for a guide). If the draft does not require IANA to do anything, the
section contains an explicit statement that this is the case (as
above). If there are no requirements for IANA, the section will be
removed during conversion into an RFC by the RFC Editor.
8. Security Considerations
In a typical MPLS deployment the use of MPLS is limited to relatively
small network consisting of core and edge nodes. Those nodes are
under full control of the services provider and placed at locations
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where only authorized personal has access (this also includes
physical access to the nodes). With the extensions of MPLS towards
access and aggregation nodes not all nodes will be "locked away" in
secure locations. Small access nodes like DSLAMs will be located in
street cabinets, potentially offering access to the "interested
researcher". Nevertheless the unauthorized access to such in device
SHOULD NOT impose any security risks to the MPLS infrastructure
itself. Seamless MPLS must be stable regarding attacks against
access and aggregation nodes running MPLS.
Levels of Security: tbd.
Access Network: tbd.
Aggregation Network: tbd.
Core Network: tbd.
9. References
9.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
9.2. Informative References
[ABRFRR] Rekhter, Y., "Local Protection for LSP tail-end node
failure, MPLS World Congress 2009".
[I-D.ietf-bfd-v4v6-1hop]
Katz, D. and D. Ward, "BFD for IPv4 and IPv6 (Single
Hop)", draft-ietf-bfd-v4v6-1hop-11 (work in progress),
January 2010.
[I-D.kothari-henderickx-l2vpn-vpls-multihoming]
Kothari, B., Kompella, K., Henderickx, W., and F. Balus,
"BGP based Multi-homing in Virtual Private LAN Service",
draft-kothari-henderickx-l2vpn-vpls-multihoming-01 (work
in progress), July 2009.
[I-D.narten-iana-considerations-rfc2434bis]
Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
IANA Considerations Section in RFCs",
draft-narten-iana-considerations-rfc2434bis-09 (work in
progress), March 2008.
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[PEFRR] Le Roux, J., Decraene, B., and Z. Ahmad, "Fast Reroute in
MPLS L3VPN Networks - Towards CE-to-CE Protection, MPLS
2006 Conference".
[RFC2629] Rose, M., "Writing I-Ds and RFCs using XML", RFC 2629,
June 1999.
[RFC3031] Rosen, E., Viswanathan, A., and R. Callon, "Multiprotocol
Label Switching Architecture", RFC 3031, January 2001.
[RFC3107] Rekhter, Y. and E. Rosen, "Carrying Label Information in
BGP-4", RFC 3107, May 2001.
[RFC3209] Awduche, D., Berger, L., Gan, D., Li, T., Srinivasan, V.,
and G. Swallow, "RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP
Tunnels", RFC 3209, December 2001.
[RFC3353] Ooms, D., Sales, B., Livens, W., Acharya, A., Griffoul,
F., and F. Ansari, "Overview of IP Multicast in a Multi-
Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Environment", RFC 3353,
August 2002.
[RFC3552] Rescorla, E. and B. Korver, "Guidelines for Writing RFC
Text on Security Considerations", BCP 72, RFC 3552,
July 2003.
[RFC4090] Pan, P., Swallow, G., and A. Atlas, "Fast Reroute
Extensions to RSVP-TE for LSP Tunnels", RFC 4090,
May 2005.
[RFC4364] Rosen, E. and Y. Rekhter, "BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private
Networks (VPNs)", RFC 4364, February 2006.
[RFC5036] Andersson, L., Minei, I., and B. Thomas, "LDP
Specification", RFC 5036, October 2007.
[RFC5283] Decraene, B., Le Roux, JL., and I. Minei, "LDP Extension
for Inter-Area Label Switched Paths (LSPs)", RFC 5283,
July 2008.
[RFC5332] Eckert, T., Rosen, E., Aggarwal, R., and Y. Rekhter, "MPLS
Multicast Encapsulations", RFC 5332, August 2008.
Appendix A. ABR Fast Reroute
In order to deploy local repair also when an area border router fails
and additional mechanism is used (see Figure 6) with the PLR being
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the point of local repair.
+-------+
| |
vl0+ ABR 1 |
/| |
+----------+ +-------+ / +-------+
| | | |/
| PE / LER +----+ PLR |
| | | |\
+----------+ +-------+ \ +-------+
\| |
vl0+ ABR 2 |
| |
+-------+
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+
| LDP-L +-----+ LDP-L +-----+ LDP-L |
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+
| BGP-L +-------------------+ BGP-L |
+-------+ +-------+
--------------- traffic ---------------->
<----- routing + label distribution -----
Figure 6: Routing and Traffic Flow
In order to deploy local repair also when an area border router fails
an additional mechanism is used (see Figure 6) with the PLR being the
point of local repair. ABR1 advertises in addition to it's loopback
address in ISIS and LDP a virtual loopback address (vl0). ABR2 is
backup router and advertises the same address as well with a worse
metric. If ABR1 fails the PLR can immediately locally switch to the
alternative path towards ABR2 (anycast behaviour). If this anycast
address is used as next hop within the labled BGP a local repair for
the MPLS transport layer can be performed.
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+-----------------+-----------+-----------+
| FEC 10.0.1.1/32 | Label 200 | NH AGN2-1 |
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+
| FEC 10.0.1.2/32 | Label 233 | NH AGN2-1 | ABR1
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+
| FEC 10.0.1.3/32 | Label 313 | NH AGN2-1 |
+-----------------+-----------+-----------+
+------+ +-------+
| | | | +------------------+
vl0+ ABR1 +----+ AGN21 +----+ AGN11:10.0.1.1/32|
/| | | |\ /+------------------+
/ +------+\ /+-------+ \/
+----+ +-----+/ \/ \ /\ +------------------+
| PE +---+ PLR | /\ X X+ AGN12:10.0.1.2/32|
+----+ +-----+\ / \ / \/ +------------------+
\ +------+ +-------+ /\
\| | | |/ \+------------------+
vl0+ ABR2 +----+ AGN22 +----+ AGN13:10.0.1.3/32|
| | | | +------------------+
+------+ +-------+
+----------------------------------------+
| native forwarding context |
+-----------------+-----------+----------+
| FEC 10.0.1.1/32 | Label 100 | NH AGN21 |
+-----------------+-----------+----------+
| FEC 10.0.1.2/32 | Label 107 | NH AGN21 | ABR2
+-----------------+-----------+----------+
| FEC 10.0.1.3/32 | Label 152 | NH AGN21 |
+-----------------+-----------+----------+
| | |
V V V
+----------------------------------------+
| backup forwarding context |
+-----------------+-----------+----------+
| FEC 10.0.1.1/32 | Label 200 | NH AGN21 |
+-----------------+-----------+----------+
| FEC 10.0.1.2/32 | Label 233 | NH AGN21 | ABR2
+-----------------+-----------+----------+
| FEC 10.0.1.3/32 | Label 313 | NH AGN21 |
+-----------------+-----------+----------+
(ABR2 acting as backup for ABR1)
Figure 7: ABR Failure Scenario
Figure 7 shows the behaviour in case of an ABR failure. ABR2 creates
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a backup forwarding context for labled BGP routes which are routed
via ABR1. This local backup forwarding context is not part of the
global lable table. ABR2 advertises over LDP as anycast next-hop not
implicit null but an explicit label which points internally to the
backup context. ABR2 learns via BGP the labels used by ABR1 for the
connected aggregation domain(s). In addition ABR2 carries also label
forwarding states for the corresponding FECs. By combining those two
informations the backup forwarding context is filled with valid label
forwarding entries. MPLS frames carrying the correct label for the
forwarding by ABR1 as second entry in the label stack are also
correctly forwarded by ABR2 using this information.
Authors' Addresses
Nicolai Leymann (editor)
Deutsche Telekom AG
Winterfeldtstrasse 21
Berlin 10781
DE
Phone: +49 30 8353-92761
Email: n.leymann@telekom.de
Bruno Decraene
France Telecom
38-40 rue du General Leclerc
Issy Moulineaux cedex 9, 92794
FR
Phone:
Fax:
Email: bruno.decraene@orange-ftgroup.com
URI:
Dirk Steinberg
Steinberg Consulting
Ringstrasse 2
Buchholz 53567
DE
Email: dws@steinbergnet.net
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