| I2RS Working Group | S. Hares |
| Internet-Draft | L. Dunbar |
| Intended status: Informational | Huawei |
| Expires: January 5, 2015 | July 4, 2014 |
An Information Model for Service Chaining Policy
draft-hares-dunbar-i2rs-sfc-policy-im-01
This draft describes an I2RS information model for managing the service chain steering policy rules to a router via the I2RS interface (SFC-Policy IM).
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This draft describes an I2RS information model for managing the Service Chain via the I2RS interface.
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+---+---+ +---+---+ +-+---+ +--+-----+
| SF#1 | |SF#n | |SF#i1| |SF#im |
| | | | | | | |
+---+---+ +---+---+ +--+--+ +--+--+--+
: : : : :
: : : : :
\ / \ /
+--------------+ +--------+ +---------+
-- >| Chain | | SFF | ------ | SFF | ---->
|classifier | |Node-1 | | Node-i |
+--------------+ +----+---+ +----+--+-+
\ | /
\ | SFC Encapsulation /
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| Network |
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Figure 1 Framework of Service Chain
There are three major categories of information models for Service Chain management: [I-D.hares-i2rs-info-model-service-topo]. Additional I2RS modes on basic network policy (BNP IM) and Policy based Routing (PBR IM) is contained in [I-D.hares-i2rs-info-model-policy].
This document focuses on the first (service function instance discovery), and the second (the traffic flow steering rules) as expressed in I2RS policies. The third category, the Service Chain path computation, is out of scope for this document. An I2RS information model for Service Topology with its Traffic Engineering Databased (TED) and associated inventory can be found in
This section reviews the requirements for SFC Flow Filtering Policies for an existing service for SFFNs within the SFC domain.
Inherent in the [I-D.ietf-sfc-problem-statement] is the need for policies that establish and filter data flow on the Service chain pathways. This document defines an I2RS model to interface to the SFC's Service Function Forwarder (SFF) to install or change the the Policy controlling data flow to their designated and service functions and subsequent SFFN.
The SFC use case [I-D.bitar-i2rs-service-chaining] suggests SFF resources that must be on each SFF Node (SFFN). The SFFN resources include the following elements that the I2RS Client-I2RS Agent protocol can utilize:
<SFF_node> ::= <SFFN_address> /*SFC-Use-REQ01 */
[<Attached_Service_node>] /*SFC-Use-REQ02 */
[<SFFN_virtual_contexts>] /*SFC-Use-REQ03 */
[<SFFN_customer_cnt>] /*SFC-Use-REQ04 */
[<SFFN_Customer_support_table>] /*SFC-Use-REQ05 */
[<SFFN_Service_Resource_table>] /*SFC-Use-REQ06 */
[<SFFN_VNTopo>] /*SFC-Use-07*/
<SFFN_address> ::== <ip_address>
<Attached_Service_node> ::=
| [ (<service-node-ip_address>
<host-system-ip_address>)]
| [ (<hosting-system-ip_address>
<system-internal_ID>)]
<service-node-ip_address> ::= <ip_address>
<host-system-ip_address> ::= <ip_address>
<hosting-system-ip_address> ::= <ip_address>
<system-internal_ID> ::= INTEGER-64;
/* SFC-Use-02 */
<SFFN_supported_types> ::= <Attached_Service_node_types>
/* These are the types specified by the SFC-REQ-02]
<SF_Types> ::= [<SF_TYPE_FW>]
[<SF_TYPE_LB>]
[<SF_TYPE_DPI>]
[<SF_TYPE_NAT>]
/* SFC-Use-03 */ ...
<SFFN_virtual_contexts> ::== <VContext_max>
<VContext_current_inuse>
<VContext_current_avail>
<SFFN_Types>
/*SFC-Use-04 */
<SFFN_customer_cur_cnt> ::= INTEGER;
/* SFC-Use-05: Customer Support Table per Customer ID */
<SFFN_customer_table> ::= [<SFFN_customer< ...]
<SFFN_customer> ::= <SFFN_customer_Name>
<SFFN_customer_ID>
<SFFN_customers_contexts>
<SFFN_customers_contexts> ::= <SFFN_Types>
/*SFC-Use-REQ06 */
<SFFN_Service_Resource_table> ::= <SFF_Service_resource_index>
<SFFN-SR_service_BW_capacity>
<SFFN-SR_packet_rate_max>
<SFFN-SR_BW>
<SFFN-SR_IP_fwd_instance_list>
<SFFN-SR_MAX_RIB>
<SFFN-SR_MAX_FIB>
<SFFN-SR_MAX_COUNTER64>
<SFFN-SR_MAX_Flows>
<SFF_Service_resource_index> := <SFFN_Address>
<VContext_ID>
<Service_types>
/*SFC-Use-REQ07
* SFC_topology is defined by
* ietf-hares-i2rs-service-topology
* which includes node code
*/
<SFF_VNT> ::= <SFC_Topology>
A Service function instance can be either attached to a router via a physical interface or instantiated on a virtual machine that is attached to a router. Following are our assumptions:
Service Chain Manager/Controller
^ |
| | A: Set filter for
B: | | the interested service
Router reports the | | function instances
Directly attached | |
Service Function | |
Instances | V
+------+---+-------------+
| Router |
++-----+----------+------+
/ | | \
/ | | \
+-+-+ +-+-+ +-+-+ +-+-+
| |... | | | | ... | |
+---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ Server racks
| |... | | | | ... | | for hosting
+---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ Service
| |... | | | | ... | | Function
+---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ Instances
Figure 1: Service Function Instances
Service Function Instances placement can be managed by entities that are not integrated with Service Chain Manager. Therefore, it is necessary for the Service Chain Manager to discover all the Service Function Instances that might be needed for a specific service chain. Service Chain Manager can send down the filter periodically or on-demand (i.e. when there is a request for building a specific service chain for a client).
Some service function instances are attached to router via tunnels, e.g. VxLAN. Service Function Instances might be partitioned by clients, which are differentiated by different network ID (e.g. VNID, VPN ID, etc). Some filter will carry the network ID (tenant ID, or VPN ID) to get specific service functions.
The I2RS Client can operate as the service chain manager/controller communicating with the I2RS Agents operating in the router or I2RS Agents operating on the service function instances in the server racks to discover and control specific service function instances.
The I2RS Client-Agent must be able to discover the I2RS Agent associated with a specific Service Function instance by querying for: SFFN Address,SFFN type, or SFFN virtual context or SFFN Customer;
<interested-SF-filter> ::= <SF-FILTER-NAME>
[<ipv4-address-list>|<ipv6-address-list>]
[<client-identifier>]
<ipv4-address-list> ::= ((<ipv4-address>
|<ipv4-prefix>) ...)
<ipv4-prefix> ::= <IPV4_ADDRESS><IPV4_PREFIX_LENGTH>
<ipv6-address-list> = ((<ipv6-address>
|<ipv6-prefix>) ...)
<ipv6-prefix> ::= <IPV6_ADDRESS><IPV6_PREFIX_LENGTH>
<client-identifier> ::= <client-identifier-type>
<client-identifier >
<client-identifier-type> ::= <GRE>
| <VxLAN>
| <NVGRE>
<client-identifier > ::= (<VXLAN> <VXLAN_IDENTIFIER>)
| (<NVGRE> <VIRTUAL_SUBNET_ID>)
| (<GRE> <GRE_KEY>)
When a router receives the filter of the interested Service Function Instances, it can scan through all its interfaces to check if any of the addresses in the filter list are attached to the interfaces. For the Service Function Instances attached via Layer 2, the router can send ARP/ND to get the matching instances to respond. For the Service Function Instances attached via Layer 3, the router can use Ping to check if the addresses in the filter are attached.
The response should be grouped by <SF-FILTER-NAME >
<sf-instance-list> ::= <INSTANCE-LIST-NAME>
< SF-FILTER-NAME>
[<INTERFACE_IDENTIFIER>
|<ipv4-address-list>
|<ipv6-address-list>]]
The semantics of traffic steering rules is "Match" and "Action", similar to the "route" described in [I-D.ietf-i2rs-rib-info-model]. However, there are more matching criteria for traffic steering rules.
match
|
|
+-------+-------+-------+--------+-------+-----------+-----
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
IPv4 IPv6 tunnel MAC VLAN VxLAN ID Interface
(Unicast/Multicast SAFI)
The steering rules include matches on combinations of:
<SFC-Policy> ::= <steering-rules>
<steering-rules> ::= <match> <action>
<match> ::= <address>
|<label>
|<interface>
|<l4-field>
|<packet-size>
<address> ::= <ip-address>
|<multicast-address>
|<mac-address>]
<ip-address> ::= <IPV4_ADDRESS>
|<ipv4-prefix >
|<IPV6_ADDRESS>
|<ipv6-prefix >]
<label> ::= [MPLS_LABEL] | <VXLAN-ID> | <GRE-KEY>
<l4-field>::= <TCP_PORT> | <UDP-PORT>
<action> ::= <nexthop-list>
|<drop-policy>
|<metadata>
<drop-policy> ::= <PASS>|<DROP>
<metadata> ::= [<ATTACH> <object>] | <detach>
The I2RS interface of a router should allow "write" and "read" of above objects.
The SC use cases described in this document assumes use of I2RS programmatic interfaces described in the I2RS framework mentioned in [I-D.ietf-i2rs-architecture]. This document does not change the underlying security issues inherent in the existing in [I-D.ietf-i2rs-architecture].
This draft includes no request to IANA.
We'd like to thank Qin Wu for his comments on this document relating to the service topologies.
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