Network Working Group B Decraene Internet Draft JL Le Roux Document: draft-decraene-mpls-ldp-interarea-04.txt France Telecom Expiration Date: September 2007 I Minei Juniper Networks, Inc. March 2007 LDP extension for Inter-Area LSP Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. Abstract To facilitate the establishment of Label Switched Paths (LSP) that would span multiple IGP areas in a given Autonomous System (AS), this document proposes a new optional label mapping procedure for the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP). This procedure allows the use of a label if the Forwarding Equivalence Class (FEC) Element matches an entry in the routing table (RIB). Matching is defined by an IP longest match search and does not mandate an exact match. Decraene Expires September 2007 [Page 1] Internet Draft LDP extensions for Inter-Area LSP March 2007 1. Conventions used in this document 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. 2. Terminology IGP Area: OSPF Area or IS-IS level ABR: OSPF Area Border Router or IS-IS L1/L2 router LSP: Label Switched Path Intra-area LSP: LSP that does not traverse any IGP area boundary. Inter-area LSP: LSP that traverses at least one IGP area boundary. 3. Introduction Link state IGPs such as OSPF [OSPFv2] and IS-IS [IS-IS] allow the partition of an autonomous system into areas or levels so as to increase routing scalability within a routing domain. However, [LDP] requires that the IP address of the FEC Element should *exactly* match an entry in the IP RIB: according to [LDP] section 3.5.7.1 (Label Mapping Messages Procedures) "An LSR receiving a Label Mapping message from a downstream LSR for a Prefix or Host Address FEC Element should not use the label for forwarding unless its routing table contains an entry that exactly matches the FEC Element". Therefore, MPLS LSPs between LERs in different areas/levels are not setup unless the exact (/32 for IPv4) loopback addresses of all the LERs are redistributed across all areas. The problem statement is discussed in section 3. Then, in section 4 we extend the Label Mapping Procedure defined in [LDP] so as to support the setup of contiguous inter-area LSPs while maintaining IP prefix aggregation on the ABRs. This basically consists of allowing for "Longest Match Based" Label Mapping. 4. Problem statement Provider based MPLS VPN networks are expanding with the success of Layer 3 VPN ([L3-VPN]) and the new deployments of layer 2 VPNs ([VPLS-BGP], [VPLS-LDP]). Service Provider MPLS backbones are significantly growing both in terms of density with the addition of PEs to connect new customers and in terms of footprint as traditional Decraene Expires September 2007 [Page 2] Internet Draft LDP extensions for Inter-Area LSP March 2007 layer two aggregation networks are being replaced by IP/MPLS networks. As a consequence many providers need to introduce IGP areas. Inter-area LSPs, that is LSPs that traverse at least two IGP areas are required to ensure MPLS connectivity between PEs located in distinct IGP areas. To set up the required MPLS LSPs between PEs in different IGP areas, services providers have currently three solutions: LDP with IGP route leaking, BGP [MPLS-BGP] over LDP with MPLS hierarchy, or also inter- area RSVP-TE [ID-RSVP-TE]. IGP route leaking consists in redistributing all /32 PE loopback addresses across area boundaries. As a result, LDP finds in the RIB an exact match for its FEC and sets up the LSP. As a consequence, the potential benefits that a multi-area domain may yield are significantly diminished since a lot of addresses have to be redistributed by ABRs, and the number of IP entries in the LSDB and RIB maintained by every LSR of the domain (whatever the area/level it belongs to) cannot be minimized. Service providers may also set up these inter-area LSPs by using MPLS hierarchy with BGP [MPLS-BGP] as a label distribution protocol between areas. The BGP next hop would typically be the ABRs and the BGP-created LSPs would be nested within intra-area LSPs setup by LDP between PEs and ABRs and between ABRs. This solution is not adequate for Service Providers which don't want to run BGP on their P routers as it requires BGP on all ABRs. In addition, this scheme has an impact on the availability, as the recovery upon ABR failure relies on BGP convergence. Also MPLS hierarchy does not allow locally protecting the LSP against ABR failures (LDP Fast Reroute), and hence ensuring sub-50ms recovery upon ABR failure. The resulting convergence time may not be acceptable for stringent SLAs required for voice or mission critical applications. Finally, this solution requires a significant migration effort for Service Providers which started with LDP and IGP route leaking to quickly set-up the fist inter-area LSPs. Service providers may also setup these inter-area LSPs by using inter-area RSVP-TE [ID-RSVP-TE]. This is a relevant solution when RSVP-TE is already used for setting up intra-area LSPs, and inter- area traffic engineering features are required. In return this is not a desired solution when LDP is already used for setting up intra-area LSPs, and inter-area traffic engineering features are not required. To avoid the above drawbacks, there is a need for an LDP based solution which allows setting up contiguous inter-area LSPs while avoiding leaking of /32 PE loopback addresses across area boundaries, and hence keeping all the benefits of IGP hierarchy. In that context, this document defines a new LDP Label Mapping Procedure so as to support the setup of contiguous inter-area LSPs Decraene Expires September 2007 [Page 3] Internet Draft LDP extensions for Inter-Area LSP March 2007 while maintaining IP prefix aggregation on the ABRs. This procedure is similar to the one defined in [LDP] but performs a longest match when searching the FEC element in the RIB. 5. Label Mapping Procedure This document defines a new label mapping procedure for LDP. It MUST be possible to activate/deactivate this procedure by configuration and it SHOULD be deactivated by default. It MAY be possible to activate it on a per prefix basis. With this new longest match label mapping procedure, a LSR receiving a Label Mapping message from a neighbor LSR for a Prefix Address FEC Element SHOULD use the label for MPLS forwarding if its routing table contains an entry that matches the FEC Element and the advertising LSR is a next hop to reach the FEC. If so, it SHOULD advertise the FEC Element and a label to its LDP peers. By "matching FEC Element", one should understand an IP longest match. That is, either the LDP FEC element exactly matches an entry in the IP RIB or the FEC element is a subset of an IP RIB entry. There is no match for other cases such as the FEC element is a superset of a RIB entry. Note that with this longest match Label Mapping Procedure, each LSP established by LDP still strictly follows the shortest path(s) defined by the IGP. FECs selected by this "Longest Match" label mapping procedure will be distributed in an ordered way. However this procedure is applicable to both independent and ordered distribution control mode. As per RFC 3036, LDP has already some interactions with the RIB. In particular, it needs to be aware of the following events: - prefix UP when a new IP prefix appears in the RIB - prefix DOWN when an existing prefix disappears - next-hop change when an existing prefix have new next hop following a routing change. With the longest match procedure, multiple FECs may be concerned by a single RIB prefix change. The LSR must check all the FECs which are a subset of this RIB prefix. So some LDP reactions following a RIB event are changed: - When a new prefix appears in the RIB, the LSR MUST check if this prefix is a better match for some existing FECs. E.g. the FEC elements 192.0.2.1/32 and 192.0.2.2/32 used the IP RIB entry 192.0.0/16 and a new more specific IP RIB entry 192.0.2/24 appears. This may result in changing the LSR used as next hop and hence the NHLFE for this FEC. - When a prefix disappears in the RIB, the LSR MUST check all FEC elements which are using this RIB prefix as best match. For each Decraene Expires September 2007 [Page 4] Internet Draft LDP extensions for Inter-Area LSP March 2007 FEC, if another RIB prefix is found as best match, LDP MUST use it. This may result in changing the LSR used as next hop and hence the NHLFE for this FEC. Otherwise, the LSR MUST remove the FEC binding and send a label withdraw message. - When the next-hop of a RIB prefix change, the LSR must change the NHLFE of all the FEC elements using this prefix. 6. Application examples 6.1. Inter-area LSPs Consider the following example of an autonomous system with one backbone area and two edge areas: Area "B" Level 2 / Backbone area +--------------------------+ Area "A" | | Area "C" | | Level 1 | | Level 1 / area | P1 | +----------+ +-------------+ | | P2 | PE1 | 192.0.2.1/32 | | | | |PE4 ABR2 ABR1 PE2 | 192.0.2.2/32 | | P3 | | | | | PE3 | 192.0.2.3/32 +----------+ +-------------+ | | +--------------------------+ Figure 1: An IGP domain with two areas attached to the Backbone Area. Note that this applies equally to IS-IS and OSPF. An ABR refers here either to an OSPF ABR or to an IS-IS L1/L2 node. All routers are MPLS enabled and MPLS connectivity (ie an LSP) is required between all PE routers. In the "egress" area "C", the records available are: IGP RIB LDP FEC elements: 192.0.2.1/32 192.0.2.1/32 192.0.2.2/32 192.0.2.2/32 192.0.2.3/32 192.0.2.3/32 Decraene Expires September 2007 [Page 5] Internet Draft LDP extensions for Inter-Area LSP March 2007 The area border router ABR1 advertises in the backbone area: - the aggregated IP prefix 192.0.2/24 in the IGP - all the individual IP FEC elements (/32) in LDP In the "backbone" area "B", the records available are: IGP RIB LDP FEC elements: 192.0.2/24 192.0.2.1/32 192.0.2.2/32 192.0.2.3/32 The area border router ABR2 advertises in the area "A": - an aggregated IP prefix 192.0/16 in the IGP - all the individual IP FEC elements (/32) in LDP In the "ingress" area "A", the records available are: IGP RIB LDP FEC elements: 192.0/16 192.0.2.1/32 192.0.2.2/32 192.0.2.3/32 In this situation, one LSP is established between the ingress PE4 and every egress PE of area C while maintaining IP prefix aggregation on the ASBRs. 6.2. Use of static routes Consider the following example where a LER is dual-connected to two LSRs: +--------LSR1---- | | LER | | | +--------LSR2---- Figure 2: LER dual-connected to two LSRs. In some situations, especially on the edge of the network, it is valid to use static IP routes between the LER and the two LSRs. If necessary, the BFD protocol can be used to quickly detect loss of connectivity. The LDP specification defined in [LDP] would require on the ingress LER the configuration and the maintenance of one IP route per egress LER and per outgoing interface. The longest match Label Mapping Procedure described in this document only requires one IP route per outgoing interface. Decraene Expires September 2007 [Page 6] Internet Draft LDP extensions for Inter-Area LSP March 2007 7. Caveats for deployment 7.1. Deployment consideration LSRs compliant with this document are backward compatible with LSRs that comply with [LDP]. For the successful establishment of end-to-end MPLS LSPs whose FEC are aggregated in the RIB, this specification must be implemented on all LSRs in all areas where IP aggregation is used. If all IP prefixes are leaked in the IGP backbone area and only stub areas use IP aggregation, LSRs in the backbone area don't need to be compliant with this document. 7.2. Impact on routing convergence time In case of an egress LER failure, performing IP route aggregation on ABRs will change the routing convergence behavior. The IGP will not propagate the notification of the egress LER failure outside of the egress area and failure notification will rely on LDP signaling through the end-to-end propagation of the LDP withdraw message. This failure notification may be faster or slower depending on the implementations, the IGP timers used and the network topology (network diameter). For failure of links and other nodes (Ps, ABRs), the failure notification and the convergence is unchanged. The convergence time may be improved because the RIB has fewer entries to update. 8. Security Considerations The longest match Label Mapping procedure described in this document does not introduce any change as far as the Security Consideration section of [LDP] is concerned. 9. References 9.1. Normative References [LDP] L. Andersson, P. Doolan, N. Feldman, A. Fredette, B. Thomas, "LDP Specification", RFC 3036, January 2001 [MPLS] E. Rosen, A. Viswanathan, R. Callon, " Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture", RFC 3031, January 2001 9.2. Informative References Decraene Expires September 2007 [Page 7] Internet Draft LDP extensions for Inter-Area LSP March 2007 [MP-BGP] Bates, T., Chandra, R., Katz, D. and Rekhter, Y, "Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4", RFC 4760, January 2007. [L3-VPN] Rosen, E., Rekhter, Y. ," BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) ", RFC 4374, February 2006 [MPLS-BGP] Rekhter, Y., Rosen, E., "Carrying Label Information in BGP-4", RFC 3107, May 2001 [OSPFv2] Moy, J.,"OSPF Version 2", RFC 2328, April 1998 [IS-IS] Callon, R., "Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and Dual Environments", RFC 1195, December 1990 [VPLS-BGP] Kompella, K., Rekhter, Y., "Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Using BGP for Auto-discovery and Signaling", RFC 4761, January 2007. [VPLS-LDP] Lasserre, M., Kompella, V., "Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Using Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) Signaling", RFC 4762, January 2007. [ID-RSVP-TE] Farrel, Ayyangar, Vasseur, " Inter domain MPLS and GMPLS Traffic Engineering - RSVP-TE extensions", draft-ietf- ccamp-inter-domain-rsvp-te, work in progress. 10. Acknowledgments Authors would like to thank Yakov Rekhter, Stefano Previdi, Vach Kompella, Benoit Fondeviole, Gilles Bourdon and Christian Jacquenet for the useful discussions on this subject, their review and comments. 11. Author's Addresses Bruno Decraene France Telecom 38-40 rue du General Leclerc 92794 Issy Moulineaux cedex 9 France bruno.decraene@orange-ftgroup.com Jean-Louis Le Roux France Telecom 2, avenue Pierre-Marzin 22307 Lannion Cedex France jeanlouis.leroux@orange-ftgroup.com Decraene Expires September 2007 [Page 8] Internet Draft LDP extensions for Inter-Area LSP March 2007 Ina Minei Juniper Networks 1194 N. 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