Internet DRAFT - draft-rohit-trill-proactive-oam
draft-rohit-trill-proactive-oam
TRILL working Group Rohit Watve
Internet Draft Tissa Senevirathne
Intended status: Standards Track Chandan Mishra
CISCO
Gayatri Ramachandran
ARISTA Networks
September 17, 2013
Expires: March 2014
Pro-active connectivity monitoring for TRILL
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Abstract
Pro-active fault monitoring for TRILL monitors all the paths between
any two given RBridges in the network. Number of paths to be
monitored can be of exponential order based on the distance between
two RBridges. In this document novel fault monitoring mechanism
based on a distributed approach is presented.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction...................................................2
2. Conventions used in this document..............................3
3. Motivation.....................................................3
4. Solution overview..............................................6
4.1. Details for monitoring paths upto 2nd hop Rbridge.........8
5. Frame formats..................................................9
5.1.1. Pro-active fault monitoring request..................9
5.1.2. Pro-active Payload discovery request................10
5.1.3. Pro-active Payload discovery response...............12
5.1.4. Pro-active fault notification.......................13
6. Formal Syntax.................................................16
7. Security Considerations.......................................16
8. IANA Considerations...........................................16
9. Conclusions...................................................16
10. References...................................................16
10.1. Normative References....................................17
10.2. Informative References..................................17
11. Acknowledgments..............................................17
Appendix A. Sample report........................................19
A.1. Summary Report per monitor...............................19
A.2. Detail Report............................................19
A.2.1. <H2>................................................20
A.2.1.1. <H3>...........................................20
A.2.1.1.1. <H4>......................................20
A.2.1.1.1.1. <H5>.................................20
A.3. C type usage is messages.................................20
1. Introduction
Pro-active fault monitoring is necessary for all OAM solutions. It
gives network service providers confidence about the health of their
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network. Whenever network service is provided to customers with SLA
(Service Level Agreement), it becomes even more important to monitor
the network pro-actively. In traditional Layer-2 networks (CE) pro-
active fault monitoring is done based on VLANs. Since spanning-tree
ensures that there is a single path between any two nodes, it is
straightforward mechanism to monitor path between 2 given RBridges
and given VLAN.
TRILL Base Protocol Specification [RFC6325] provides a method for
forwarding Layer 2 data frames over multiple active links. There can
be number of ECMPs (Equal Cost Multiple Paths) between any two given
TRILL RBridges. As the number of hops between given two RBridges
increases, number of ECMPs increases exponentially. Pro-active
monitoring in this case needs to monitor all the ECMPs between two
given RBridges.
TRILL OAM draft [TRILLOAM] proposes OAM suite for TRILL. This draft
is for adding pro-active functionality to the OAM suite. It extends
C-types defined in TRILL OAM draft, for pro-active monitoring.
2. 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 [RFC2119].
3. Motivation
As we discussed in the introduction, number of paths to be tested
increases exponentially as the number of hops between ingress and
egress RBridge increases. Identifying the header parameters
(mac/IP/L4 addresses) to exercise each unique path is a hard problem
and needs information about hashing functions from each intermediate
RBridge.
Sending test packets, with random header parameters, expecting that
will exercise different ECMPs is one option. But in this case number
of packets that need to be sent can be even higher than total number
of ECMPs.
In this document we take a different approach to address this
problem.
Testing end-to-end connectivity means, testing connectivity of all
links along the path as well as exercising switching on all
intermediate RBridges. Instead of doing it end to end, same can be
done after splitting it into multiple short paths, such that, paths
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overlap to cover complete end-to-end connectivity. If each such
short path is limited only to two hops, it brings down number of
packets to be sent from exponential order of number of hops (k^n) to
order of (k^3)*n, where k is assumed to be number of ECMPs for each
hop for simplification of calculation and n is number of hops
between the Ingress and Egress RBridges.
Consider following Figure 1. In the figure, Rbridges are numbered
from 1 to 10. The problem is to monitor end-to-end connectivity
between Rbridge 1 and 10.
+------------------------------------------------+
| |
| +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +--+ |
| |1|--|2|---|4|---|6|---|8|--|10 | |
| +-+ +-+ +-+ -+-+ +-+ +--+ |
| | \ / \ / \ / | |
| | \ \ \ | |
| | / \ / \ / \ | |
| | +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ | |
| +---|3|---|5|---|7|---|9|---+ |
| +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ |
| |
+------------------------------------------------+
Figure 1 Example network.
In above Figure 1, RBridges 2 and 3 are connected to RBRidges 4 and
5, RBridges 4 and 5 are connected to RBridges 6 and 7. Rbridges 6
and 7 are connected to RBridges 8 and 9.
Total number of ECMPs between RBridge 1 and RBridge 10 is -
2x2x2x2x2 = 32
Hence Rbridge 1 will need to send 32 packets to test all ECMPs to
Rbridge 10, assuming Rbridge 1 knows payloads required to exercise
all these paths.
Above network can be split into four overlapping sections as shown
in Figure 2 and Figure 3. If we test all paths between Ingress and
Egress Rbridges of each section then all paths between 1 and 10
will be tested.
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+------------------------------------------------+
| |
| +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ |
| |1|--|2|---|4| |2|---|4|--|6| |
| +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ |
| | \ / \ / \ / |
| | \ \ \ |
| | / \ / \ / \ |
| | +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ |
| +---|3|---|5| |3|---|5|--|7 | |
| +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ |
| |
| section1 section2 |
| |
| path tested 4 paths tested 8 |
| |
+------------------------------------------------+
Figure 2 Section 1 and 2 for network in Fig.1
+------------------------------------------------+
| |
| +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +--+ |
| |4|--|6|---|8| |6|---|8|--|10| |
| +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +--+ |
| \ / \ / \ / | |
| \ \ \ | |
| / \ / \ / \ | |
| +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ | |
| |5|--|7|---|9| |7|---|9|-- + |
| +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ |
| |
| section3 section4 |
| |
| path tested 8 paths tested 4 |
| |
+------------------------------------------------+
Figure 3 Section 3 and 4 for network in Fig.1
In Figure 2, for the section 1, the number of paths between RBridges
1 and 4 is 2 and number of paths between RBridges 1 and 5 is 2.
Hence total number of paths to be tested for sub-network1 is 4.
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Similarly, number of paths between RBridges 2 and 6 is 2, between
RBridges 2 and 7 is 2. Number of paths between RBRidges 3 and 6 is 2
and between RBridges 3 and 7 is 2.
Hence total number of paths to be tested is 8.
Similarly from Figure 3. total number paths to be tested for
section3 is 8 and for section 4 is 4.
Note that, in the above example network, maximum number of paths to
be tested by any given Rbridge is limited to 8. Hence load of
monitoring network is now distributed. Also total number of paths
tested is 4+8+8+4=24.
Note that if Rbridge 1 was to do testing for all paths, number of
paths to be tested would be 32. As the complexity of the network
increases and number of paths between Ingress and Egress Rbridges
increases, the mechanism proposed here will yield even more
benefits.
4. Solution overview
Here we present high level overview of the solution. More details
are discussed in the subsequent sections.
Pro-active fault monitoring is initiated by the user. As part of the
request, user identifies a VLAN and 2 RBridges - Ingress and Egress
Rbridges. All Equal Cost Paths ECMPs on this vlan and between these
two RBridges need to be monitored. User provides total time interval
for monitoring session as the part of the request.
Here are the high-level steps of the mechanism
1. Ingress Rbridge starts connectivity tests for paths upto its 2nd
hop Rbridge(s)(on the path to egress RBridge).
2. If 2nd hop Rbridge is egress Rbridge, it stops the test.
3. Else it requests its 1st hop Rbridge(s) (on the path to egress),
to initiate the tests, starting with step1.
Once the request is distributed, whenever a fault is detected, it is
indicated to the Originator Rbridge using a fault notification
message which includes fault details.
Consider Figure 4 as example network. Let us assume user requests
proactive fault monitoring between ingress RBridge RB1 and egress
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RBridge RB5. P1 to P5 are the Egress ports along the ECMPs netween
RB1 and RB5.
+------------------------------------------------+
| |
| |
| |
| RB1 RB2 RB3 RB5 |
| +---+ +---+p3 +---+ +---+ |
| | |p1 | o----| |p4 | | |
| | o----o | | o----o | |
| +---+ +-o-+ +---+ +-o-+ |
| |p2 | |
| | | |
| | RB4 | |
| | +---+ p5 | |
| | | o------| |
| |------o | |
| +---+ |
| |
| |
+------------------------------------------------+
Figure 4 Example network.
As per step1, RB1 tests all paths upto its 2nd hop Rbridge on the
path along RB5.
For that, RB1 sends 'payload request' message to its 1st hop
Rbridges on the path along RB5. RB1 looks up its local forwarding
table, and finds that p1 is Egress port for path towards RB5. It
then sends 'payload request' with TTL=1 on p1. RB2, will reply back
with 2 payloads say PL1 and PL2, for taking path along ports p3 and
p2, respectively.
RB1 now sends two packets with payloads PL1 and PL2, and TTL=2. When
RB1 receives 'hop count expiry' message for both, it confirms that
paths up to its 2nd hop Rbridge(s) are fault-free( i.e. paths
between RB1 and RB3 , as well as between RB1 and RB4 are fault-
free).
As per step3, RB1 also forwards the 'pro-active fault monitoring
request' message defined in section 5.1.1, to monitor connectivity,
to its 1st hop Rbridges along the path. It does so by sending
request with TTL=1, on port p1.
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RB2 on receiving this request, will repeat the step1. It will send
'payload request' with TTL=1, on port p2 and p3. For each request,
it will get one payload, say PL3 for request sent on p2 and PL4 for
request sent on p2. It will test paths upto its 2nd hop Rbridges, by
sending a packet with payload PL3 on port p2 and a packet with
payload PL4 on port p3 and TTL=2.
As RB2 will receive 'hop count expiry' message from RB5, it will not
forward the requests for monitoring paths till RB5, to its 1st hop
Rbridges.
4.1. Details for monitoring paths upto 2nd hop Rbridge
For a given egress TRILL RBridge, local TRILL routing table can
provide information about different next hop RBridges/Egress ports
to exercise the ECMPs.
We propose to send 'Payload Discovery request' message on each of
these ports, with TTL=1. 'Payload Discovery request' (section
5.1.1. ) message carries information about egress TRILL RBridge
(RB5) in the original request made by the user.
Based on the egress RBridge (RB5), each 1st hop Rbridge looks up its
TRILL forwarding tables, and for each equal cost multi path towards
egress RBridge (RB5) identifies a unique inner destination MAC
adresses, that will exercise the ECMPs towards egress Rbridge-id.
These MAC addresses will be sent back in a 'Payload Discovery
response packet'.
The source mac address is not used for payload generation, as it
might be learnt by other Rbridge, if the packets are originated by
TRILL Edge Rbridges. Well known source mac address is used, so that
it will not be used by any real data packets. Ethtype is fixed to
TRILL OAM Diagnostic ethtype to restrict these frames from leaving
TRILL network (refer section 6.2, from [TRILLOAM]). VLAN is
specified by the user as a part of the request. For payload
generation, nickname of the requester Rbridge, provided in 'payload
generation request'(section 5.1.2), is used as ingress Rbridge
nickname. Egress Rbridge nickname provided in the request is used as
Egress Rbridge nickname for payload generation.
The current TRILL RBridge, receives list of destination mac
addresses on each port on ECMP. It constructs 'loopback message'
(TRILLOAM) message with TTL=2 and these mac addresses as inner
destination mac addresses and sends these on ports on which
corresponding mac address was received.
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Each packet sent, will now test the switching at next hop and test
all links on the path taken by the packet. The inband or out of band
ICMP 'hop count expiry response' (TRILLOAM), will confirm that both
are fault-free. When all such responses are received, it will
confirm that all paths towards egress Rbridge are error free, till
2nd hop. If there is a fault, fault details are sent to the
originator Rbridge. If current Rbridge itself is the originator
Rbridge, it saves the fault information.
Payload generation request is sent periodically based on the
'Payload generation request time interval' specified in the user
request. Test packets are also sent at an 'test time interval'
provided by the user. Finally this whole monitoring process is
continued till the 'Monitor time interval', also specified by the
user. 'Pro-active fault monitoring request' defined in next section
is used for forwarding the request to 1st hop Rbridges.
5. Frame formats
5.1.1. Pro-active fault monitoring request
Pro-active fault monitoring request includes C-type 44 which
provides Egress Rbridge ID and originator Rbridge ID. It also
provides information about timers required in fault monitoring. C-
type 4 (interested vlan) is included in the request to indicate
monitored vlan, if the request packet is not using the same vlan.
Source Mac address and ethtype are fixed to the values used in the
request packet. Pro active fault monitoring message is represented
by TRILL OAM message code 26.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| egress nickname | originator nickname |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ingress nickname | Reserved |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S|G| Reserved | MonitorId |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Monitor interval |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Payload Generation Interval | test interval |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 5 Pro-active fault monitoring request details (C-type 44)
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Egress nickname (2 octets): nickname of the Egress/egress Rbridge.
Originator nickname (2 octets): nickname of the originator Rbridge.
Ingress nickname (2 octets): nickname of the ingress Rbridge.
S (1 bit),start/stop request: if set to 1, specifies request to
start monitoring, if set to 0, specifies request to stop monitoring.
G (1bit); Global stop, when set to 1, stops all pro-active
monitoring requests on this Rbridge requested by same Originator
RBridge, irrespective of other information in the C-type. Set to 1
only for debugging.
Reserved (14 bits):
MonitorId (16bits): Identifier for the current session. It is
generated by Originator Rbridge such that it is unique locally, and
propogated while forwarding request to next hops. MonitorId,
combined with Originator Rbridge ID, forms unique identifier for
fault monitoring session.
Monitor interval (4octets): total interval of fault monitoring
session in seconds. 0 is a special value, indicating it needs to run
till request to stop comes.
Payload Generation Interval(2 octets): interval for refreshing
payload parameters by sending payload generation request in seconds.
Test interval (2 octets): interval for sending test packets with
TTL=2, for testing paths till 2nd hop in seconds.
5.1.2. Pro-active Payload discovery request
C-type 'Payload discovery request for pro-active monitoring' is
different from Payload Discovery request defined in section 8.2 in
[TRILLOAM]. This C-type by definition allows use of any Destination
Mac address for payload generation. It also expects that response
will include payloads for exercising all available ECMPs. Along with
this new type, interested vlan (ctype 4) is also specified, if
packet is not using same vlan. Source Mac address and ethtype are
fixed to the values used in the request packet. Payload discovery
message is represented by TRILL OAM message code (22).
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0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| egress nickname | originator nickname |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| ingress nickname | Requester nickname |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 6 Pro-active Payload Discovery request (C-type 45)
Egress nickname (2 octets): nickname of the Egress Rbridge provided
by user (used as Egress Rbridge nickname for payload generation).
Originator nickname (2 octets): nickname of the originator Rbridge.
Ingress nickname (2 octets): nickname of the ingress Rbridge.
Requester nickname (2octets): nickname of the Rbridge sending this
request (Used as Ingress nickname for payload generation).
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5.1.3. Pro-active Payload discovery response
'Payload generation response for Proactive monitoring' specifies one
or more Destination MAC addresses, one for each ECMP. Its uses new
C-type 46 which lists down destination mac addresses (DMAC1,
DMAC2..DMACn where n is number of ECMPs). TRILL OAM code is set to
payload generation response (23).
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| egress nickname | S | ECMP count | R |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-^-
| DMAC1 | |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |
| DMAC1 | next hop nickname | R
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ e
| ifindex | p
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ e
| Port | Slot | a
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ t
| State | Speed | |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-v-
: :
: DMAC and Next hop path information (from ifindex to speed) :
: repeated for number for all ECMPs. :
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 7 Pro-active Payload Discovery Response(C-type 46)
Egress nickname (2 octets): nickname of the Egress Rbridge.
S (3 bits) : indicates the status
0. Success
1. ECMP data not found
2. System overloaded try later
3. -7 Reserved MUST not be used
ECMP count(8bit) - specifies number of ECMPs
DMAC1- DMACn - Destination mac addresses, (number of MAC addresses
is equal to number if ECMP count).
Next hop nickname ( 2 octets): nickname of the next hop Rbridge, to
which packet will be forwarded if Destination mac given with this
field is used.
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Ifindex (4 octets) : unsigned integer of local significance
Slot (2 octets) : Slot number
Port (2 octets) : Port number
Speed (2 octets) : Speed in 100Mbps. Zero (0) indicates port
speeds less than 100Mbps.
State (2 octets) : Represent the state of the port.
0: Down - no errors
1: Disable
2: Forwarding-no errors
3: Down - errors
4: Forwarding - errors
5: Forwarding - oversubscribed
6: Link monitoring disable
All other values reserved.
Total number of DMAC and next hop path information entries MUST
be equal to ECMP count.
5.1.4. Pro-active fault notification
Fault details are sent to the originator Rbridge provided in the
'proactive monitoring request' by including C-type 47 (downstream
identification for pro-active monitoring).
C type 47 gives information about interface on which connectivity
test failed, i.e, hop count expiry message was not received.
If 'payload discovery generation response', had succeeded, one more
copy of C_type 47 is included in the pro-active fault notification.
The fields in this entry, are copied from the 'payload discovery
generation response'. If connectivity was being tested using DMAC3
(DMAC provided in the 3rd entry in payload discovery response), the
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details of the interface provided with the DMAC3 will be used in
this instance of C type 47.
The notification can be sent either inband or out of band. TRILL OAM
code is set to parameter problem notification (5).
0 31
+----------------------+-------------------+
| S | Reserved1 | responder-nickname|
+----------------------+-------------------+
| Local nickname | next hop nickname|
+----------------------+-------------------+
| ifindex |
+----------------------+-------------------+
| Port | Slot |
+----------------------+-------------------|
| State | Speed |
+----------------------+-------------------+
Figure 8 downstream identification for pro-active monitoring (C-type
47)
Responder nickname (16 bits): TRILL 16 bit nickname of responder
RBridge [RFCtrill]
S (3 bits): 'Payload discover generation response' status from
section 5.1.3. If Status is not Success, remaining fields below can
be set to 0.
0. Success
1. ECMP data not found
2. System overloaded try later
3. Not availabe
4. 4-7 Reserved MUST not be used
ECMP count (8 bits): Copied from for 'payload generation response',
if Status was 'Success'.
Reserved1 (13 bits): Reserved, set to zero on transmission and
ignored on receipt.
Next-hop neighbor information:
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Local Nickname (16 bits): TRILL 16 bit nickname of the local
RBridge [RFCtrill]
Next hop Nickname (16 bits): TRILL 16 bit nickname of the next
hop RBridge[RFCtrill]
Slot (2 octets) : Slot number
Port (2 octets) : Port number
Speed (2 octets) : Speed in 100Mbps. Zero (0) indicates port
speeds less than 100Mbps.
State (2 octets) : Represent the state of the port.
0: Down - no errors
1: Disable
2: Forwarding-no errors
3: Down - errors
4: Forwarding - errors
5: Forwarding - oversubscribed
6: Link monitoring disable
All other values reserved.
st 1 instance of C-type 47 gives information about interface
connecting local Rbridge and 1st hop Rbridges.
If 'payload generation response' status (section 5.1.3), was
SUCCESS, one more instance of C-type 47 is also included as part of
'pro-active fault notification.
2nd instance of C-type 47 gives information about interface
connecting 1st hop Rbridge and 2nd hop Rbridges, that 'loopback
message' (TRILLOAM) message would have encountered, if connectivity
test was successful (i.e if hop count expiry message was received
from 2nd hop Rbrige).
If 'loopback message' message (TRILLOAM) used Destination Mac
address provided in the nth entry of 'payload generation response'
(section 5.1.3), 2nd instance of Ctype 47 will include interface
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information provided in that particular entry. In this instance of
C-type 47, Status is set to 3 (not available).
6. Formal Syntax
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grammar is BNF grammar defined in RFC-2234. Suggested wording.
The following syntax specification uses the augmented Backus-Naur
Form (BNF) as described in RFC-2234 [RFC2234].
<Define your formal syntax here.>
7. Security Considerations
INFO (REMOVE): Every draft MUST have a Security Considerations
section.
Security consideration for pro-active monitoring are similar to
TRILL OAM draft [TRILLOAM]. Request/response packet can not go out
of the TRILL cloud, as TRILL OAM ethtype packets are dropped at the
Edge Rbridge. Since Pro-active monitoring request can be issued only
at a TRILL Rbridge, consideration is needed only for ensuring packet
with TRILL OAM ethtype and c-type 43 is dropped at Ingress Rbridge.
8. IANA Considerations
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section, although it may be removed prior to publication by the RFC
Editor if null.
<Add any IANA considerations>
9. Conclusions
<Add any conclusions>
10. References
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OR the named references; typically, these would not be mixed in a
single document. This template includes both examples for
illustration of the two variations. Named references are preferred
(e.g., [RFC2119] or [Fab1999].
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10.1. Normative References
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**required** to understand this doc. These are usually Standards-
track and BCP RFCs, or external (IEEE, ANSI, etc.) standards, but
may include other publications.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC2234] Crocker, D. and Overell, P.(Editors), "Augmented BNF for
Syntax Specifications: ABNF", RFC 2234, Internet Mail
Consortium and Demon Internet Ltd., November 1997.
[RFC6325] Perlman, R. et.al. "Routing Bridges (RBridges): Base
Protocol Specification", RFC 6325, July 2011.
[RFC6326] Eastlake, Donald. et.al. "Transparent Interconnection of
Lots of Links (TRILL) Use of IS-IS", RFC 6326, July 2011.
[RFC4884] Bonica, R. et.al "Extended ICMP to support Multi-Part
messages",RFC 4884, April, 2007.
[TRILLOAM] Senevirathne, T. et.al., "ICMP based OAM solution for
TRILL", work in progress, January 2012.
10.2. Informative References
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standards not required to understand this doc. These are usually
informative RFCs, internet-drafts (avoid if possible), and other
external documents.
[RFC792] Postel, J. "Internet Control Message Proctocol (ICMP)",
RFC 792, September, 1981.
[1] Faber, T., Touch, J. and W. Yue, "The TIME-WAIT state in TCP
and Its Effect on Busy Servers", Proc. Infocom 1999 pp. 1573-
1583.
[Fab1999] Faber, T., Touch, J. and W. Yue, "The TIME-WAIT state in
TCP and Its Effect on Busy Servers", Proc. Infocom 1999
pp. 1573-1583.
11. Acknowledgments
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Appendix A. Sample report
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A.1. Summary Report per monitor
Monitor Vlan:
Monitor paths to RbridgeID:
Monitor Id:
Monitoring for time: x days x hours x minutes x seconds
Total Faults reported : x faults
Faulty paths detected (RbridgeId1 to RbridgeId3)
(RbridgeId1/Interface)-> (RbridgeId2/Interface)->RbridgeId3
S1/eth3/2 S2/eth4/5 S3
S4/eth5/2 S5/eth4/5 S3
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A.2. Detail Report
Fault detection log:
2012 Jan 31 13:50:34 Fault at (S1/eth3/2,S2) "ECMP information not
found" for monitor to S7, vlan 2, MonitorId 10.
2012 Jan 31 13:51:24 Fault at (S4/eth5/2,S5/eth4/5,S3) "Packet flow
test failed" for monitor to S8, vlan 1, MonitorId 3.
2012 Jan 31 13:52:24 Fault at (S4/eth5/2,S5/eth4/5,S3)"Packet flow
test failed" for monitor to S8, vlan 1, MonitorId 3.
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A.3. C type usage is messages
+----------------------+--------------------+---------------------+
| Message |Mandatory parameters|Optional parameters |
+----------------------+--------------------+---------------------+
| Proactive fault |Version(1) |Interested vlan(4) |
| monitoring request |Pro-active fault | |
| |monitoring request | |
| |details(44) | |
+----------------------+--------------------+---------------------|
| Proactive fault |Version(1) |Interested vlan(4) |
| discovery request |Pro-active fault | |
| |discovery request | |
| |(45) | |
+----------------------+--------------------+---------------------|
| Proactive fault |Version(1) | |
| discovery response |Pro-active fault | |
| |discovery response | |
| | (46) | |
+----------------------+--------------------+---------------------|
| Proactive fault |Version(1) | Pro-active fault |
| notication |Pro-active fault | notification(47) |
| |notification(47) | (2nd instance) |
+----------------------+--------------------+---------------------|
Figure 9 Optional and mandatory C-types.
New TRILL OAM code 26: Pro-active fault monitoring request
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Authors' Addresses
Rohit Watve
CISCO Systems
375 East Tasman Drive,
San Jose, CA 95134
Phone: 408-424-2091
Email: rwatve@cisco.com
Tissa Senevirathne
CISCO Systems
375 East Tasman Drive,
San Jose, CA 95134
Phone: 408-853-2291
Email: tsenevir@cisco.com
Chandan Mishra
CISCO Systems
375 East Tasman Drive,
San Jose, CA 95134
Phone: 408-526-5376
Email: cmishra@cisco.com
Gayatri Ramachandran
5470 Great America Parkway,
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Phone:(408) 547-5946
Email: gayatri@aristanetworks.com
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