One document matched: draft-zeng-idr-one-time-prefix-orf-00.txt


Network working group                                          Q. Zeng
Internet Draft                                                 J. Dong
Intended status: Standards Track                   Huawei Technologies
Expires: September 2011                                       J. Heitz
                                                         Ericsson Inc.
                                                              K. Patel
                                                         Cisco Systems
                                                             R. Shakir
                                                                   C&W
                                                              Z. Huang
                                                         China Telecom
                                                         March 7, 2011
 
                                      
       One-time Address-Prefix Based Outbound Route Filter for BGP-4 
                                      
                 draft-zeng-idr-one-time-prefix-orf-00.txt 


Abstract  

   This document defines a new Outbound Router Filter (ORF) type for 
   BGP, termed "One-time Address Prefix Outbound Route Filter", which 
   would allow a BGP speaker to send to its BGP peer a route refresh 
   request with a set of address-prefix-based filters to make the peer 
   re-advertise only the specific routes matching the filters to the 
   speaker. This ORF-type enables a BGP speaker to replay or recover 
   some specific "problematic" routes without requiring its peer to re-
   advertise the whole Adj-RIB-Out of a specific address family, which 
   makes the trouble shooting operation (such as packets tracking) more 
   efficient and reduces the impact on network stability. This filter 
   does not change the outbound route filters on BGP peers and should 
   only be used for one-time filtering. 

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Conventions used in this document 

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   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this 
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119 [RFC2119]. 

Table of Contents 

   1. Introduction ................................................ 2 
   2. One-time Address Prefix ORF-Type............................. 3 
   3. Operation ................................................... 4 
   4. Security Considerations...................................... 5 
   5. IANA Considerations ......................................... 5 
   6. Acknowledgments ............................................. 5 
   7. References .................................................. 5 
      7.1. Normative References.................................... 5 
      7.2. Informative References.................................. 6 
   Authors' Addresses ............................................. 7 
    
   1. Introduction 

   The Outbound Route Filtering Capability defined in [RFC5291] 
   provides a mechanism for a BGP speaker to send to its BGP peer a set 


 
 
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   of Outbound Route Filters (ORFs) that can be used by its peer to 
   filter its outbound routing updates to the speaker.  

   During some network maintenance, BGP speaker only needs to retrieve 
   some specific "problematic" routes from its peer if the routes are 
   possibly lost or contain some problematic attributes for some reason, 
   but send ROUTE-REFRESH will lead to the peer re-advertising its 
   whole Adj-RIB-Out. Such large numbers of updates include a lot of 
   unnecessary routes which would make trouble shooting operation (such 
   as packets tracking) more difficult, and is a waste of processing 
   resources and bandwidth. With the increase of IPV6 deployment, this 
   problem could be more significant. Even configured with ORF 
   mechanism as defined in [RFC5291], on receipt of a ROUTE-REFRESH 
   message, the peer will re-advertise all the routes matching current 
   outbound route filters, i.e., the whole Adj-Rib-Out for this BGP 
   speaker. Since in this case the BGP speaker does not want to change 
   the outbound route filters on its peer, this problem cannot be 
   solved by current ORF mechanism.  

   This document defines a new Outbound Router Filter (ORF) type for 
   BGP, termed "One-time Address Prefix Outbound Route Filter", which 
   would allow a BGP speaker to send to its BGP peer a route refresh 
   request with a set of address-prefix-based filters to make the peer 
   re-advertise only the specific routes matching the filters to the 
   speaker. This ORF-type enables a BGP speaker to replay or recover 
   some specific "problematic" routes without requiring its peer to re-
   advertise the whole Adj-RIB-Out of specific address family, which 
   makes the trouble shooting operation (such as packets tracking) more 
   efficient and reduces the impact on network stability. This filter 
   does not change the outbound route filters on BGP peers and should 
   only be used for one-time filtering.  

   Consider the following scenario: In an Inter-AS environment, if 
   ASBR-A received a malformed UPDATE from ASBR-B and treated it as 
   withdraw. For Operator-A, the log on the ASBR-A was not enough to 
   judge whether the UPDATE was incorrectly sent by ASBR-B or 
   incorrectly processed by ASBR-A. A good method is to replay and 
   debug the packets. One-time Prefix ORF is a low impact way to 
   refresh the UPDATE. 

   2. One-time Address Prefix ORF-Type 

   This document defines a new ORF type: One-time Address Prefix ORF. 

   In the following description, the sending speaker sends a one-time 



 
 
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   ORF request and the receiving speaker receives it and sends back the   
   routes to satisfy the request. 

   As specified in the [RFC5291], an ORF entry is a tuple of the form 
   <AFI/SAFI, ORF-Type, Action, Match, ORF-value> an ORF consists of 
   one or more ORF entries that have a common AFI/SAFI and ORF-Type. An 
   ORF is identified by <AFI/SAFI, ORF-Type>. 

   The format of One-time Address Prefix ORF-Type entry is the same as 
   the encoding of Address Prefix ORF in [RFC5292], the specific fields 
   are defined as follows: 

   Since the semantics of this new ORF-Type is always "one-time 
   filtering" and has no impact on existing ORFs, the Action field MUST 
   be ignored. 

   The matching rules of the One-time Address Prefix ORF are the same 
   as defined in Address-Prefix-Based ORF [RFC-5292]. 

   The ORF entries of this type are used as one-time filters that MUST 
   not change any previously installed ORF entry on the receiving 
   speaker. 

   3. Operation 

   The capability negotiation of <AFI/SAFI, One-time Address Prefix 
   ORF> MUST NOT delay the advertisement of routes with this AFI/SAFI. 

   The received One-time Address Prefix ORF entries SHOULD only be used 
   for one-time route filtering and MUST NOT be saved locally. The 
   received One-time Address Prefix ORF entries MUST NOT modify the 
   outbound route filters on the receiving speaker (either locally 
   configured or received from the sending speaker through ORF). 

   On receipt of ROUTE-REFRESH message with One-time Address Prefix ORF 
   entries, the receiving speaker SHOULD re-advertise to the sending 
   speaker the routes from the Adj-RIB-Out associated with the sending 
   speaker which pass the entries carried in the One-time Address 
   Prefix ORF as well as the locally saved ORFs (if any) received from 
   the sending speaker. 

   Since different processing orders may lead to different results, the 
   One-time ORFs and the regular ORFs SHOULD not be encoded in one 
   route-refresh message.  

   During the period when the receiving speaker is sending updates to 
   satisfy the One-time ORF request, it may experience other routing   

 
 
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   activity that will require it to send updates unrelated to the One-
   time ORF request. It is permitted to send these updates before it 
   has completed sending the One-time ORF related updates. 

   Similarly, if a route that passes the One-time ORF has already   
   been sent and the receiving speaker experiences routing activity   
   that changes this route and the receiving speaker has not yet sent 
   all routes to satisfy the One-time ORF request, it is permitted to 
   send the changed route immediately. 

   Details about how to interoperate when both One-time ORF Capability 
   and the Enhanced Route Refresh Capability as described in [Enhanced-
   Refresh] are enabled will be discussed in the next version. 

   4. Security Considerations 

   This extension to BGP does not change the underlying security issues 
   in [RFC4271]. 

   5. IANA Considerations 

   This document specifies a new Outbound Route Filtering (ORF) type, 
   One-time Address-Prefix ORF. The value of the ORF-type needs to be 
   assigned by the IANA. 

   6. Acknowledgments 

   The authors would like to thank Enke Chen, Susan Hares, Haibo Wang, 
   Jiawei Dong, Yaqun Xiao and Mach Chen for their valuable suggestions 
   and comments to this document. 

   7. References 

   7.1. Normative References 

   [RFC4271] Rekhter, Y., Ed., Li, T., Ed., and S. Hares, Ed., "A 
             Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", RFC 4271, January 2006. 

   [RFC2918] Chen, E., "Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4", RFC 2918, 
             September 2000. 

   [RFC5291] Chen, E. and Y. Rekhter, "Outbound Route Filtering 
             Capability for BGP-4", RFC 5291, August 2008. 

   [RFC5292] Chen, E. and S. Sangli, "Address-Prefix-Based Outbound 
             Route Filter for BGP-4", RFC 5292, August 2008. 


 
 
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   [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate 
             Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. 

   [RFC4020] Kompella, K. and A. Zinin, "Early IANA Allocation of 
             Standards Track Code Points", BCP 100, RFC 4020, February 
             2005. 

   [RFC5226] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an 
             IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226, 
             May 2008.  

   7.2. Informative References 

   [Enhanced-Refresh] K. Patel, E. Chen and B. Venkatachalapathy,             
             "Enhanced Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4",             
             draft-keyur-bgp-enhanced-route-refresh-01.txt, Ocotober 
             2010 

    

    


























 
 
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Authors' Addresses 

   Qing Zeng 
   Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd. 
   Huawei Building, No.3 Xinxi Rd., 
   Hai-Dian District 
   Beijing, 100085 
   P.R. China 
       
   Email: zengqing@huawei.com 
    
   Jie Dong  
   Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd. 
   Huawei Building, No.3 Xinxi Rd., 
   Hai-Dian District 
   Beijing, 100085 
   P.R. China 
       
   Email: jie.dong@huawei.com 
    
   Jakob Heitz 
   Ericsson Inc. 
   100 Headquarters Drive 
   San Jose CA 95134 
   USA 
    
   Email: jakob.heitz@ericsson.com 
    
   Keyur Patel 
   Cisco Systems 
   170 W. Tasman Drive 
   San Jose, CA  95134 
   USA 
    
   Email: keyupate@cisco.com 
    
   Rob Shakir 
   Cable&Wireless Worldwide 
    
   Email: rob.shakir@cw.com 
    
   ZhiLan Huang 
 
 
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   China Telecom 
   109 West Zhongshan Ave, 
   Tianhe District, Guanghou, 510630, P.R.C 
      
   Email: huangzl@gsta.com   









































 
 
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