Internet DRAFT - draft-sajassi-bess-rfc8317bis
draft-sajassi-bess-rfc8317bis
BESS Working Group A. Sajassi, Ed.
Internet-Draft Cisco
Obsoletes: 8317 (if approved) J. Rabadan
Updates: 7385 (if approved) Nokia
Intended status: Standards Track J. Drake
Expires: 22 August 2024 Independent
A. Appachi gounder
Google
A. Bamberger
Arista Networks
19 February 2024
Ethernet-Tree (E-Tree) Support in Ethernet VPN (EVPN) and Provider
Backbone Bridging EVPN (PBB-EVPN)
draft-sajassi-bess-rfc8317bis-01
Abstract
The MEF Forum (MEF) has defined a rooted-multipoint Ethernet service
known as Ethernet-Tree (E-Tree). A solution framework for supporting
this service in MPLS networks is described in [RFC7387], "A Framework
for Ethernet-Tree (E-Tree) Service over a Multiprotocol Label
Switching (MPLS) Network". This document discusses how those
functional requirements can be met with a solution based on RFC 7432,
"BGP MPLS Based Ethernet VPN (EVPN)", with some extensions and a
description of how such a solution can offer a more efficient
implementation of these functions than that of [RFC7796], "Ethernet-
Tree (E-Tree) Support in Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)". This
document makes use of the most significant bit of the Tunnel Type
field (in the P-Multicast Service Interface (PMSI) Tunnel attribute)
governed by the IANA registry created by [RFC7385]; hence, it updates
[RFC7385] accordingly. This document obsoletes [RFC8317].
Requirements Language
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
capitals, as shown here.
Status of This Memo
This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the
provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. E-Tree Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1. Scenario 1: Leaf or Root Site(s) per PE . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. Scenario 2: Leaf or Root Site(s) per AC . . . . . . . . . 8
4.3. Scenario 3: Leaf or Root Site(s) per MAC Address . . . . 9
5. Operation for EVPN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.1. Known Unicast Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.2. BUM Traffic with MPLS Encapsulation . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.2.1. BUM Traffic Originated from a Single-Homed Site on a
Leaf AC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.2.2. BUM Traffic Originated from a Single-Homed Site on a
Root AC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5.2.3. BUM Traffic Originated from a Multihomed Site on a Leaf
AC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.2.4. BUM Traffic Originated from a Multihomed Site on a Root
AC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.3. BUM Traffic with non-MPLS Overlay Encapsulation . . . . . 13
5.4. E-Tree Traffic Flows for EVPN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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5.4.1. E-Tree with MAC Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.4.2. E-Tree without MAC Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5.5. Adaptive Ingress and Egress Filtering of BUM Traffic . . 16
5.5.1. Control Plane Operation: Advertising PE . . . . . . . 16
5.5.2. Control Plane Operation: Receiving PE . . . . . . . . 18
5.5.3. Data Plane Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6. Operation for PBB-EVPN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.1. Known Unicast Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.2. BUM Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6.3. E-Tree without MAC Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7. BGP Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7.1. E-Tree Extended Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
7.2. PMSI Tunnel Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
9.1. Considerations for PMSI Tunnel Types . . . . . . . . . . 25
10. Aditional Authors from RFC8317 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
1. Introduction
The MEF Forum (MEF) has defined a rooted-multipoint Ethernet service
known as Ethernet-Tree (E-Tree) [MEF6.1]. In an E-Tree service, a
customer site that is typically represented by an Attachment Circuit
(AC) (e.g., an 802.1Q VLAN tag), is labeled as either a Root or a
Leaf site. A customer site may also be represented by a Media Access
Control (MAC) address along with a VLAN tag. Root sites can
communicate with all other customer sites (both Root and Leaf sites).
However, Leaf sites can communicate with Root sites but not with
other Leaf sites. In this document, unless explicitly mentioned
otherwise, a site is always represented by an AC.
[RFC7387] describes a solution framework for supporting E-Tree
service in MPLS networks. This document identifies the functional
components of an overall solution to emulate E-Tree services in MPLS
networks and supplements the multipoint-to-multipoint Ethernet LAN
(E-LAN) services specified in [RFC7432] and [RFC7623].
[RFC7432] defines EVPN, a solution for multipoint Layer 2 Virtual
Private Network (L2VPN) services with advanced multihoming
capabilities that uses BGP for distributing customer/client MAC
address reachability information over the MPLS/IP network. [RFC7623]
combines the functionality of EVPN with IEEE 802.1ah Provider
Backbone Bridging (PBB) for MAC address scalability.
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This document discusses how the functional requirements for E-Tree
service can be met with a solution based on EVPN [RFC7432] and PBB-
EVPN [RFC7623] with some extensions to their procedures and BGP
attributes. Such a solution based on PBB-EVPN or EVPN can offer a
more efficient implementation of these functions than that of
[RFC7796], "Ethernet-Tree (E-Tree) Support in Virtual Private LAN
Service (VPLS)". This efficiency is achieved by performing filtering
of unicast traffic at the ingress Provider Edge (PE) nodes as opposed
to egress filtering where the traffic is sent through the network and
gets filtered and discarded at the egress PE nodes. The details of
this ingress filtering are described in Section 5.1. Since this
document specifies a solution based on [RFC7432], the knowledge of
that document is a prerequisite. This document makes use of the most
significant bit of the Tunnel Type field (in the PMSI Tunnel
attribute) governed by the IANA registry created by [RFC7385]; hence,
it updates [RFC7385] accordingly. Section 4 discusses E-Tree
scenarios, Section 5 and Section 6 describe E-Tree solutions for EVPN
and PBB-EVPN (respectively), and Section 7 covers BGP encoding for
E-Tree solutions.
2. Requirements Language
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
capitals, as shown here.
3. Terminology
BD: Broadcast Domain. In a bridged network, the broadcast domain
corresponds to a Virtual LAN (VLAN). In this document, "BD",
"subnet", and VLAN are equivalent terms, and wherever "subnet" is
used, it means "IP subnet". As per [RFC7432], an EVI consists of
a single BD or multiple BDs. In the case of VLAN-bundle and VLAN-
based service models, a BD is equivalent to an EVI. In the case
of a VLAN-aware bundle service model, an EVI contains multiple
BDs.
EVI: EVPN Instance spanning NVE/PE devices that are participating in
that EVPN. As per [RFC7432], an EVI consists of a single BD or
multiple BDs. In the case of VLAN-bundle and VLAN-based service
models (see [RFC7432]), an EVI is equivalent to a BD. In the case
of a VLAN-aware bundle service model, an EVI contains multiple
BDs.
MAC-VRF: A Virtual Routing and Forwarding table for Media Access
Control (MAC) addresses on a PE.
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Ethernet Segment (ES): When a customer site (device or network) is
connected to one or more PEs via a set of Ethernet links, then
that set of links is referred to as an 'Ethernet segment'.
Ethernet Segment Identifier (ESI): A unique non-zero identifier that
identifies an Ethernet segment is called an 'Ethernet Segment
Identifier'.
VID: VLAN Identifier.
Ethernet Tag: Used to represent a BD that is configured on a given
ES for the purposes of DF election and <BD, BD> identification for
frames received from the CE. Note that any of the following may
be used to represent a BD: VIDs (including Q-in-Q tags),
configured IDs, VNIs (Virtual Extensible Local Area Network
(VXLAN) Network Identifiers), normalized VIDs, I-SIDs (Service
Instance Identifiers), etc., as long as the representation of the
BDs is configured consistently across the multihomed PEs attached
to that ES.
Ethernet Tag ID: Normalized network wide ID that is used to identify
a BD within a BD and carried in EVPN routes.
MP2MP: Multipoint to Multipoint.
MP2P: Multipoint to Point.
P2MP: Point to Multipoint.
P2P: Point to Point.
PE: Provider Edge device.
Single-Active Redundancy Mode: When only a single PE, among all the
PEs attached to an Ethernet segment, is allowed to forward traffic
to/from that Ethernet segment for a given VLAN, then the Ethernet
segment is defined to be operating in Single-Active redundancy
mode.
All-Active Redundancy Mode: When all PEs attached to an Ethernet
segment are allowed to forward known unicast traffic to/from that
Ethernet segment for a given VLAN, then the Ethernet segment is
defined to be operating in All-Active redundancy mode.
BUM: Broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast.
DF: Designated Forwarder
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Backup-DF (BDF): Backup-Designated Forwarder.
Non-DF (NDF): Non-Designated Forwarder.
AC: Attachment Circuit
NVO: Network Virtualization Overlay as described in [RFC8365]
IRB: Integrated Routing and Bridging interface, with EVPN procedures
described in [RFC9135]
IMET route: Inclusive Multicast Ethernet Tag route" described in
[RFC7432]
DCB label: Domain-wide Common Block label
4. E-Tree Scenarios
This document categorizes E-Tree scenarios into the following three
categories, depending on the nature of the Root/Leaf site
association:
* Scenario 1: either Leaf or Root site(s) per PE
* Scenario 2: either Leaf or Root site(s) per Attachment Circuit
(AC)
* Scenario 3: either Leaf or Root site(s) per MAC address
Scenarios 1 and 2 are of utmost importance and are covered
extensively in this document. Since publication of [RFC8317], no
network application for scenario 3 has been identified because E-Tree
segmentation for scenario 3 can be enforced for known unicast
traffic, but it cannot be enforced for BUM traffic. This limits the
applicability of scenario-3 significantly for EVPN services.
4.1. Scenario 1: Leaf or Root Site(s) per PE
In this scenario, a PE may receive traffic from either Root ACs or
Leaf ACs for a given Broadcast Domain (BD)(i.e., EVI or EVI+VLAN) but
not both. In other words, a given BD on a Provider Edge (PE) device
is either associated with Root(s) or Leaf(s). The PE may have both
Root and Leaf ACs, albeit for different BDs.
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+---------+ +---------+
| PE1 | | PE2 |
+---+ | +---+ | +------+ | +---+ | +---+
|CE1+---AC1----+--|BD1| | | | | | |--+----AC2-----+CE2|
+---+ (Root) | | | | | | | |BD1| | (Leaf) +---+
| +---+ | | | | | | | +---+
+---------+ | MPLS/| | | |--+----AC3-----|CE3|
| IP | | +---+ | (Leaf) +---+
| Net | +---------+
| |
| | +---------+
| | | PE3 |
| | | +---+ | +---+
+------| | | |--+----AC4-----+CE4|
| |BD1| | (Leaf) +---+
| | | |
| +---+ |
+---------+
Figure 1: Scenario 1
In this scenario, even though there is no EVPN data-plane
communications among leaf PEs belonging to the same BD, there needs
to be EVPN control-plane communications among these PEs because of
host mobility (i.e., a host can move from one leaf PE to another leaf
PE in the same BD). Therefore, EVPN unicast MAC/IP routes need to be
exchanged among the leaf PEs to allow for EVPN MAC mobility
procedures to get executed properly. This implies a single Route
Target just like baseline EVPN per EVI must be used for this
scenario.
Furthermore, in this scenario, known unicast traffic from a leaf PE
destined to another leaf PE must be dropped at the ingress PE (i.e.,
known unicast traffic from a leaf PE is only allowed to a root PE).
This ingress filtering of known unicast traffic is achieved by
signaling extensions to EVPN for coloring EVPN MAC/IP routes as
described in Section 5. Because of simple E-Tree topology for this
scenario where a given PE in a BD is either root or leaf (but not
both), the ingress filtering can be extended for BUM traffic in case
of ingress replication. This ingress filtering of BUM traffic can be
accomplished by coloring IMET routes with either tailored BGP route
import/export policies or EVPN signaling extensions. The EVPN
signaling extensions to enable this ingress filtering for BUM traffic
in case of ingress replication are described in Section 5.5.
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When BGP route policies are used to enable ingress filtering of BUM
traffic in case of ingress replication, for the BDs that need this
policy, the transmit policy matches simply on EVPN IMET route and
colors it with a BGP standard community attribute [RFC1997] and the
receive policy checks IMET routes with such color and discards them.
When E-Tree topology is dynamic in nature and can vary between
scenario 1 and 2 at different times, then EVPN signaling extensions
described in section Section 5.5 are recommended for ingress
filtering of BUM traffic in case of ingress replication. In such
dynamic environment, for a given BD, some PEs can start as leaf only
(or root only), then become both leaf and root and then at a later
time become root only (or leaf only).
4.2. Scenario 2: Leaf or Root Site(s) per AC
This scenario is a superset of scenario-1 in which some of the PEs in
a BD can have both Leaf and Root ACs. For example, in the figure
below, PE2 for BD1 has both Leaf and Root ACs; whereas, PE1 has only
root AC(s) and PE3 has only Leaf AC(s). A corresponding solution for
this scenario automatically covers scenario-1 but the converse may
not be true.
+---------+ +---------+
| PE1 | | PE2 |
+---+ | +---+ | +------+ | +---+ | +---+
|CE1+---AC1----+--|BD1| | | | | | |--+----AC2-----+CE2|
+---+ (Root) | | | | | | | |BD1| | (Leaf) +---+
| +---+ | | | | | | | +---+
+---------+ | MPLS/| | | |--+----AC3-----|CE3|
| IP | | +---+ | (Root) +---+
| Net | +---------+
| |
| | +---------+
| | | PE3 |
| | | +---+ | +---+
+------| | | |--+----AC4-----+CE4|
| |BD1| | (Leaf) +---+
| | | |
| +---+ |
+---------+
Figure 2: Scenario 2
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In this scenario, ingress filtering for known unicast traffic is
performed just like scenario 1. However, ingress-only filtering for
BUM traffic is not possible for this scenario because a participant
PE (e.g., PE2 in the above figure) can have both leaf and root ACs
and thus need to receive the BUM traffic and perform egress
filtering.
In order to perform egress filtering for BUM traffic received at the
egress PE, the ingress PE needs to color the BUM traffic in data-
plane to indicate if the traffic is coming from a Root or a Leaf.
The egress PE uses this indication in data-plane in its egress
filtering decision as described in Section 5.2.
In this scenario, the transmission of BUM traffic to egress PEs (in a
given BD) that are only configured with leaf ACs, can be optimized by
ingress filtering of BUM traffic to those PEs. However, because of
dynamic nature of AC leaf/root activation on a PE, such ingress
filtering requires extensions to EVPN signaling as described in
Section 5.5. This adaptive ingress filtering optimization for BUM
traffic is optional and it is only applicable to ingress replication
tunnels. For a P2MP tunnel sourced from a leaf PE, other leaf PEs in
that BD should simply avoid joining that tree.
4.3. Scenario 3: Leaf or Root Site(s) per MAC Address
In this scenario, a customer Root or Leaf site is represented by a
MAC address on an AC and a PE may receive traffic from both Root and
Leaf sites on that AC for a BD. This scenario is not covered in
either [RFC7387] or [MEF6.1]; however, it is covered in this document
for the sake of completeness. In this scenario, since an AC carries
traffic from both Root and Leaf sites, the granularity at which Root
or Leaf sites are identified is on a per-MAC-address basis. This
scenario is considered in this document for EVPN service with only
known unicast traffic because the Designated Forwarder (DF) filtering
per [RFC7432] would not be compatible with the required egress
filtering; that is, Broadcast, Unknown Unicast, and Multicast (BUM)
traffic is not supported in this scenario; it is dropped by the
ingress PE.
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+---------+ +---------+
| PE1 | | PE2 |
+---+ | +---+ | +------+ | +---+ | +---+
|CE1+---AC1----+--|BD1| | | | | | |--+----AC2------+CE2|
+---+ (Root) | | | | | | | |BD1| | (Leaf&Root) +---+
| +---+ | | | | | | | +---+
+---------+ | MPLS/| | | |--+----AC3------|CE3|
| IP | | +---+ | (Leaf) +---+
| Net | +---------+
| |
| | +---------+
| | | PE3 |
| | | +---+ | +---+
+------| | | |--+----AC4------+CE4|
| |BD1| | (Leaf&Root) +---+
| | | |
| +---+ |
+---------+
Figure 3: Scenario 3
5. Operation for EVPN
[RFC7432] defines the notion of the Ethernet Segment Identifier (ESI)
MPLS label used for split-horizon filtering of BUM traffic at the
egress PE. Such egress filtering capabilities can be leveraged in
provision of E-Tree services, as it will be described in Section 5.2
for BUM traffic when MPLS encapsulation is used. For known unicast
traffic, additional extensions to [RFC7432] are needed (i.e., a new
BGP extended community for Leaf-Indication described in Section 7) in
order to enable ingress filtering as described in detail in the
following sections.
5.1. Known Unicast Traffic
In EVPN, MAC learning is performed in the control plane via
advertisement of BGP routes. Because of this, the filtering needed
by an E-Tree service for known unicast traffic can be performed at
the ingress PE, thus providing very efficient filtering and avoiding
sending known unicast traffic over the MPLS/IP core to be filtered at
the egress PE, as is done in traditional E-Tree solutions (i.e.,
E-Tree for VPLS [RFC7796]).
To provide such ingress filtering for known unicast traffic, a PE
MUST indicate to other PEs what kind of sites (Root or Leaf) its MAC
addresses are associated with. This is done by advertising a Leaf-
Indication flag via a new E-Tree extended community specified in
Section 7 along with each of its MAC/IP Advertisement routes learned
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from a Leaf site. This new extended community MUST be advertised
with MAC/IP Advertisement routes learned from a Leaf site. The lack
of such a flag indicates that the MAC address is associated with a
Root site. This scheme applies to all scenarios described in
Section 4.
Tagging MAC addresses with a Leaf-Indication enables remote PEs to
perform ingress filtering for known unicast traffic; that is, on the
ingress PE, the MAC destination address lookup yields (in addition to
the forwarding adjacency) a flag that indicates whether or not the
target MAC is associated with a Leaf site. The ingress PE cross-
checks this flag with the status of the originating AC, and if both
are Leafs, then the packet is not forwarded.
In a situation where MAC moves are allowed among Leaf and Root sites
(e.g., non-static MAC), PEs can receive multiple MAC/IP Advertisement
routes for the same MAC address with different Root or Leaf-
Indications (and possibly different ESIs for multihoming scenarios).
In such situations, MAC mobility procedures (see Section 15 of
[RFC7432]) take precedence to first identify the location of the MAC
before associating that MAC with a Root or a Leaf site.
5.2. BUM Traffic with MPLS Encapsulation
This section specifies the procedure for egress filtering of BUM
traffic with MPLS encapsulation. To support scenario-2 efficiently,
egress filtering of BUM traffic is required as described below. In
order to apply the proper egress filtering, which varies based on
whether a packet is sent from a Leaf AC or a Root AC, the MPLS-
encapsulated frames MUST be tagged with an indication of when they
originated from a Leaf AC (i.e., to be tagged with a Leaf label as
specified in Section 7). This Leaf label allows for disposition PE
(e.g., egress PE) to perform the necessary egress filtering function
in a data plane similar to the ESI label in [RFC7432]. The
allocation of the Leaf label can be domain wide (i.e., DCB labels -
[I-D.ietf-bess-mvpn-evpn-aggregation-label]) or it can be on a per-PE
basis (e.g., independent of ESI and EVI) as described in the
following sections.
The Leaf label can be upstream assigned for Point-to-Multipoint
(P2MP) Label Switched Path (LSP) or downstream assigned for Ingress
Replication tunnels. The main difference between a downstream- and
upstream-assigned Leaf label is that, in the case of downstream-
assigned Leaf labels, not all egress PE devices need to receive the
label in MPLS-encapsulated BUM packets, just like the ESI label for
Ingress Replication procedures defined in [RFC7432].
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On the ingress PE, the PE needs to place all its Leaf ACs for a given
bridge domain in a single split-horizon group in order to prevent
intra-PE forwarding of BUM traffic among its Leaf ACs.
There are four scenarios to consider as follows. In all these
scenarios, the ingress PE imposes the right MPLS label associated
with the originated Ethernet Segment (ES) depending on whether the
Ethernet frame originated from a Root or a Leaf site on that Ethernet
Segment (ESI label or Leaf label). The mechanism by which the PE
identifies whether a given frame originated from a Root or a Leaf
site on the segment is based on the AC identifier for that segment
(e.g., Ethernet Tag of the frame for 802.1Q frames). Other
mechanisms for identifying Root or Leaf sites, such as the use of the
source MAC address of the receiving frame, are optional. The
scenarios below are described in context of a Root/Leaf AC, however,
they can be extended to the Root/Leaf MAC address if needed.
5.2.1. BUM Traffic Originated from a Single-Homed Site on a Leaf AC
In this scenario, the ingress PE adds a Leaf label advertised using
the E-Tree extended community (see Section 7), which indicates a Leaf
site. This Leaf label, used for single-homing scenarios, is not on a
per-ES basis but rather on a per PE basis (i.e., a single Leaf MPLS
label is used for all single-homed ESs on that PE). This Leaf label
is advertised to other PE devices using the E-Tree extended community
(see Section 7) along with an Ethernet Auto-Discovery per ES (EAD-ES)
route with an ESI of zero and a set of RTs corresponding to all BDs
on the PE where each BD has at least one Leaf site. Multiple EAD-ES
routes will need to be advertised if the number of RTs that need to
be carried exceed the limit on a single route per [RFC7432]. The ESI
for the EAD-ES route is set to zero to indicate single-homed sites.
When a PE receives this special Leaf label in the data path, it
blocks the packet if the destination AC is of type Leaf; otherwise,
it forwards the packet.
5.2.2. BUM Traffic Originated from a Single-Homed Site on a Root AC
In this scenario, the ingress PE does not add any ESI or Leaf labels
and it operates per the procedures in [RFC7432].
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5.2.3. BUM Traffic Originated from a Multihomed Site on a Leaf AC
In this scenario, it is assumed that while different ACs (VLANs) on
the same ES could have a different Root/Leaf designation (some being
Roots and some being Leafs), the same VLAN does have the same Root/
Leaf designation on all PEs on the same ES. Furthermore, it is
assumed that there is no forwarding among subnets (i.e., the service
is EVPN L2 and not EVPN Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB)
[RFC9135]. IRB use cases described in [RFC9135] are outside the
scope of this document.
In this scenario, if a multicast or broadcast packet is originated
from a Leaf AC, then it only needs to carry a Leaf label as described
in Section 5.2.1. This label is sufficient in providing the
necessary egress filtering of BUM traffic from getting sent to Leaf
ACs, including the Leaf AC on the same ES.
5.2.4. BUM Traffic Originated from a Multihomed Site on a Root AC
In this scenario, both the ingress and egress PE devices follow the
procedure defined in [RFC7432] for adding and/or processing an ESI
MPLS label; that is, existing procedures for BUM traffic in [RFC7432]
are sufficient and there is no need to add a Leaf label.
5.3. BUM Traffic with non-MPLS Overlay Encapsulation
This section specifies the procedure for egress filtering of BUM
traffic with non-MPLS overlay encapsulation such as VxLAN or GENEVE.
As mentioned previously, in order to support scenario-2 efficiently,
egress filtering of BUM traffic is required, and in order to support
egress filtering, coloring of BUM traffic in data-plane is required
to indicate whether the source of the traffic is from a leaf site or
a root site.
In order to have a uniform coloring mechanism across all non-MPLS
overlay encapsulation types (including VxLAN, GPE, and GENEVE), this
specification proposes the use of VNI as the primary mechanism for
such coloring of BUM traffic similar to the use of MPLS label when
MPLS encapsulation is used. A PE that is configured with a leaf AC
for a given BD, advertises its IMET route for that BD along with
Tunnel Encapsulation EC indicating IP-based tunnel type (e.g., VxLAN
or GENEVE) and E-Tree extended community with leaf-indication flag
set and a valid VNI (not zero and not 0xFFFFFF). The leaf VNI is
encoded in E-Tree extended community and it is in addition to the
base VNI which is sent along with EVPN IMET route in PMSI Tunnel
attribute. The leaf VNI is often domain-wide VNI; however, if needed
it can be downstream assigned. When the receiving PE receives an
IMET route with the Tunnel Encapsulation EC and E-Tree EC, it checks
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to see if the leaf-indication flag is set. If it is set, then it
checks the received leaf VNI against its locally configured leaf VNI
for that BD (for domain-wide VNI assignment). If there is no match,
the IMET route is discarded and an error message is logged. The
interpretation of Leaf VNI/Label field of E-Tree EC is based on the
Tunnel Encapsulation EC received with the IMET route. An IP-based
tunnel type such as VxLAN or GENEVE, indicates to the receiving PE
that the Leaf VNI/Label field to be interpreted as a 24-bit Leaf VNI.
The imposition PE, when wants to send BUM traffic, it uses the leaf
VNI if the traffic is sourced from a leaf site. If the BUM traffic
is sourced from a root site, then existing base VNI is used. The
leaf VNI identifies both the BD and the leaf role. The disposition
PE, when receives a VxLAN or GENEVE encapsulated packet with leaf
VNI, performs egress filtering accordingly - i.e., it drops the
packet at the egress leaf ACs and passes it at the egress root ACs.
Optionally, coloring of BUM traffic with leaf indication in data-
plane MAY be done via GPE [I-D.ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe] or GENEVE
[RFC8926] header by using a single bit from the reserved field in
those headers. To signal such coloring mechanism, a PE advertises
its IMET route for a given BD along with E-Tree EC with leaf-
indication flag set and the VNI of 0xFFFFFF.
5.4. E-Tree Traffic Flows for EVPN
Per [RFC7387], a generic E-Tree service supports all of the following
traffic flows:
* known unicast traffic from Root to Roots & Leafs
* known unicast traffic from Leaf to Roots
* BUM traffic from Root to Roots & Leafs
* BUM traffic from Leaf to Roots
A particular E-Tree service may need to support all of the above
types of flows or only a select subset, depending on the target
application. In the case where only multicast and broadcast flows
need to be supported, the L2VPN PEs can avoid performing any MAC
learning function.
The following subsections will describe the operation of EVPN to
support E-Tree service with and without MAC learning.
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5.4.1. E-Tree with MAC Learning
The PEs implementing an E-Tree service must perform MAC learning when
unicast traffic flows must be supported among Root and Leaf sites.
In this case, the PE(s) with Root sites performs MAC learning in the
data path over the ESs and advertises reachability in EVPN MAC/IP
Advertisement routes. These routes will be imported by all PEs for
that BD (i.e., PEs that have Leaf sites as well as PEs that have Root
sites). Similarly, the PEs with Leaf sites perform MAC learning in
the data path over their ESs and advertise reachability in EVPN MAC/
IP Advertisement routes. PEs with Root and/or Leaf sites may use the
Ethernet Auto-Discovery per EVI (EAD-EVI) routes for aliasing (in the
case of multihomed segments) and EAD-ES routes for mass MAC
withdrawal per [RFC7432].
To support multicast/broadcast from Root to Leaf sites, either a P2MP
tree rooted at the PE(s) with the Root site(s) (e.g., Root PEs) or
Ingress Replication can be used (see Section 16 of [RFC7432]). The
multicast tunnels are set up through the exchange of the EVPN
Inclusive Multicast route, as defined in [RFC7432].
To support multicast/broadcast from Leaf to Root sites, either
Ingress Replication tunnels from each Leaf PE or a P2MP tree rooted
at each Leaf PE can be used. The following two paragraphs describe
when each of these tunneling schemes can be used and how to signal
them.
When there are only a few Root PEs with small amount of multicast/
broadcast traffic from Leaf PEs toward Root PEs, then Ingress
Replication tunnels from Leaf PEs toward Root PEs should be
sufficient. Therefore, if a Root PE needs to support a P2MP tunnel
in the transmit direction from itself to Leaf PEs, and, at the same
time, it wants to support Ingress Replication tunnels in the receive
direction, the Root PE can signal it efficiently by using a new
composite tunnel type defined in Section 7.2. This new composite
tunnel type is advertised by the Root PE to simultaneously indicate a
P2MP tunnel in the transmit direction and an Ingress Replication
tunnel in the receive direction for the BUM traffic.
If the number of Root PEs is large, P2MP tunnels (e.g., Multipoint
LDP (mLDP) or RSVP-TE) originated at the Leaf PEs may be used; thus,
there will be no need to use the modified PMSI Tunnel attribute and
the composite tunnel type values defined in Section 7.2.
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5.4.2. E-Tree without MAC Learning
The PEs implementing an E-Tree service need not perform MAC learning
when the traffic flows between Root and Leaf sites are mainly
multicast or broadcast. In this case, the PEs do not exchange EVPN
MAC/IP Advertisement routes. Instead, the Inclusive Multicast
Ethernet Tag route is used to support BUM traffic. In such
scenarios, the small amount of unicast traffic (if any) is sent as
part of BUM traffic.
The fields of this route are populated per the procedures defined in
[RFC7432], and the multicast tunnel setup criteria are as described
in the previous section.
Just as in the previous section, if the number of Root PEs are only a
few and, thus, Ingress Replication is desired from Leaf PEs to these
Root PEs, then the modified PMSI attribute and the composite tunnel
type values defined in Section 7.2 should be used.
5.5. Adaptive Ingress and Egress Filtering of BUM Traffic
It was noted previously that BUM procedure for scenario-2 can be
further optimized by performing ingress filtering of BUM traffic from
a leaf PE to other leaf-only PEs in case of ingress replication.
Furthermore, it was noted that a PE role (for a given BD) as a leaf-
only, root-only, or both leaf-and-root can change dynamically as new
ACs are added or existing ACs are modified or deleted. Therefore, if
such optimization is desired, it must be done dynamically via EVPN
signaling extensions and without any operator manual intervention.
This section describes the procedures for such an adaptive ingress
and egress filtering of BUM traffic when ingress replication is used.
5.5.1. Control Plane Operation: Advertising PE
This section describes control plane procedure for a PE advertising
EVPN IMET route used for BUM traffic. The IMET route is specified in
[RFC7432] and it carries PMSI Tunnel attribute for identifying tunnel
type (i.e., Ingress Replication, PIM-SM P2MP, mLDP P2MP, etc). The
IMET route also carries Tunnel Encapsulation extended community as
specified in [RFC9012] which identifies encapsulation type over
multicast tunnel (i.e., VxLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE, MPLS, etc). In case of
non-MPLS overlay encapsulation (e.g., VxLAN, GENEVE) with domain-wide
VNI, the advertising PE is also the ingress PE for BUM traffic.
However, in case of non-MPLS overlay encapsulation with locally-
assigned VNI or MPLS overlay encapsulation with local MPLS label, the
advertising PE is the ingress PE for P2MP tunnel type and it is the
egress PE for Ingress Replication tunnel type. In addition to PMSI
Tunnel Attribute and Tunnel Encapsulation EC, the IMET route is
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advertised with E-Tree EC in order to support adaptive ingress and
egress filtering as highlighted below.
* For a given BD on a PE, if there are ONLY root ACs but no leaf AC,
then no E-Tree EC needs to be advertised and the processing at
advertising and receiving PEs are based on [RFC7432]
* For a given BD on a PE, when the first leaf AC becomes active
(multi-homed or single-homed), the PE checks to see if there is
any root AC active (multi-homed or single-homed), if there is no
root AC active, then the PE (re)-advertises the corresponding IMET
route along with E-Tree EC with Root-Indication=0, Leaf-
Indication=1, and a valid Leaf VNI.
* For a given BD on a PE, when the first leaf AC becomes active
(multi-homed or single-homed), the PE checks to see if there is
any root AC active (multi-homed or single-homed), if there is/are
active root AC(s), the PE (re)-advertises the corresponding IMET
route along with E-Tree EC with Root-Indication=1, Leaf-
Indication=1, and a valid Leaf VNI.
* If root ACs become active after readvertisement of IMET route with
only Leaf-Indication set, then the PE MUST readvertise IMET route
with both Root-Indication and Leaf-Indication set along with a
valid Leaf VNI
* If the last root AC becomes inactive and there are only leaf ACs,
then the PE readvertises IMET route with only Leaf-Indication set
and a valid Leaf VNI in the E-Tree extended community
* If the last leaf AC become inactive and there are only root ACs,
then the PE readvertises IMET route without E-Tree EC
+---------+---------+---------+-------------------------------+
|Condition| Root AC | Leaf AC | E-Tree EC Fields |
+---------+---------+---------+-------------------------------+
| 1 | No | No | No E-Tree EC |
+---------+---------+---------+-------------------------------+
| 2 | Yes | No | No E-Tree EC |
+---------+---------+---------+-------------------------------+
| 3 | No | Yes | Root-Flag=0, Leaf-Flag=1 |
| | | | Leaf-VNI= valid or |
| | | | Leaf-VNI= 0xFFFFFF |
+---------+---------+---------+-------------------------------+
| 4 | Yes | Yes | Root-Flag=1, Leaf-Flag=1 |
| | | | Leaf-VNI= valid or |
| | | | Leaf-VNI= 0xFFFFFF |
+---------+---------+---------+-------------------------------+
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Figure 4: E-Tree EC Setting by an Ingress PE per BD
5.5.2. Control Plane Operation: Receiving PE
This section describes control plane procedure for a PE receiving
EVPN IMET route used for BUM traffic.
* For a given BD, if a PE receives IMET route without an E-Tree EC,
then the receiving PE treats the peer PE as a root PE and follows
the procedure of [RFC7432] and [RFC8365] by adding the advertising
PE to the flood list for that BD for ingress replication.
* For a given BD, if a PE receives IMET route with E-Tree EC that
has only Leaf-Indication set and with a valid VNI, then:
- If the receiving PE is Root-only or Root-and-Leaf, and it is
configured for ingress-replication tunnel for that BD, then it
adds the advertising PE to its "All-PEs" flood list and
excludes the advertising PE from its "non-Leaf" flood list. If
the receiving PE is configured for P2MP tunnel for that BD, it
joins that tree. The receiving PEs also configure their leaf
ACs (if not already configured) for egress filtering of BUM
traffic matching Leaf VNI.
- If the receiving PE is Leaf-only, and it is configured for
ingress-replication tunnel for that BD, it excludes the
advertising PE from its flood list. If the receiving PE is
configured for P2MP tunnel for that BD, it does not join that
tree.
* For a given BD, if a PE receives IMET route with E-Tree EC that
has both Root-Indication and Leaf-Inication set along with a valid
Leaf VNI, then the receiving PE (Root-only, Root-and-Leaf, or
Leaf-only) add the advertising PE to their "All-PEs" flood list if
configured for ingress replication tunnel, or join the multicast
tree if configured for P2MP tunnel for that BD. The receiving PEs
also configure their leaf ACs (if not already configured) for
egress filtering of BUM traffic matching Leaf VNI.
5.5.3. Data Plane Operation
* For ingress replication:
- BUM traffic coming from a leaf AC on the local PE uses "non-
Leaf" flood list
- BUM traffic coming from a root AC uses "All-PEs" flood list
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* For P2MP or MP2MP tunnels:
- Leaf-only PEs, do not join the multicast tunnels from other
Leaf PEs
- Root-only or Root-and-Leaf PEs join the multicast tunnels from
Leaf PEs
- All PEs join the multicast tunnels from Root-only and Root-and-
Leaf PEs
* For all multicast tunnels, imposition PEs:
- BUM traffic coming from a leaf AC on the local PE uses leaf VNI
- BUM traffic coming from a root AC on the local PE uses baseline
VNI
* For all multicast tunnels, disposition PEs:
- BUM traffic received with leaf VNI is only sent to root ACs
- BUM traffic received with base VNI is sent to both root and
leaf ACs per baseline procedure
+---------+---------+---------+-------------------------------+
|Condition| Ingress | Ingress | Flood List |
| | PE role | AC role | |
+---------+---------+---------+-------------------------------+
| 1 | Root | Root | Use All-PEs flood list with |
| | | | Base VNI for BUM traffic |
+---------+---------+---------+-------------------------------+
| 2 | Leaf | Leaf | Use non-Leaf-PEs flood list |
| | | | with Leaf VNI for BUM traffic |
+---------+---------+---------+-------------------------------+
| 3 | Root+ | Root | Use All-PEs flood list with |
| | Leaf | | Base VNI for BUM traffic |
+---------+---------+---------+-------------------------------+
| 4 | Root+ | Leaf | Use non-Leaf-PEs flood list |
| | Leaf | | with Leaf VNI for BUM traffic |
+---------+---------+---------+-------------------------------+
Figure 5: When to use "non-Leaf PEs" flood list
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6. Operation for PBB-EVPN
In PBB-EVPN, the PE advertises a Root or Leaf-Indication along with
each Backbone MAC (B-MAC) Advertisement route to indicate whether the
associated B-MAC address corresponds to a Root or a Leaf site. Just
like the EVPN case, the new E-Tree extended community defined in
Section 7 is advertised with each EVPN MAC/IP Advertisement route.
In the case where a multihomed ES has both Root and Leaf sites
attached, two B-MAC addresses are advertised: one B-MAC address is
per ES (as specified in [RFC7623]) and implicitly denotes Root, and
the other B-MAC address is per PE and explicitly denotes Leaf. The
former B-MAC address is not advertised with the E-Tree extended
community, but the latter B-MAC denoting Leaf is advertised with the
new E-Tree extended community where a "Leaf-indication" flag is set.
In multihoming scenarios where an ES has both Root and Leaf ACs, it
is assumed that while different ACs (VLANs) on the same ES could have
a different Root/Leaf designation (some being Roots and some being
Leafs), the same VLAN does have the same Root/Leaf designation on all
PEs on the same ES. Furthermore, it is assumed that there is no
forwarding among subnets (i.e., the service is L2 and not IRB). An
IRB use case is outside the scope of this document.
The ingress PE uses the right B-MAC source address depending on
whether the Ethernet frame originated from the Root or Leaf AC on
that ES. The mechanism by which the PE identifies whether a given
frame originated from a Root or Leaf site on the segment is based on
the Ethernet Tag associated with the frame. Other mechanisms of
identification, beyond the Ethernet Tag, are outside the scope of
this document.
Furthermore, a PE advertises two special global B-MAC addresses, one
for Root and another for Leaf, and tags the Leaf one as such in the
MAC Advertisement route. These B-MAC addresses are used as source
addresses for traffic originating from single-homed segments. The
B-MAC address used for indicating Leaf sites can be the same for both
single-homed and multihomed segments.
6.1. Known Unicast Traffic
For known unicast traffic, the PEs perform ingress filtering: on the
ingress PE, the Customer/Client MAC (C-MAC) [RFC7623] destination
address lookup yields, in addition to the target B-MAC address and
forwarding adjacency, a flag that indicates whether the target B-MAC
is associated with a Root or a Leaf site. The ingress PE also checks
the status of the originating site; if both are Leafs, then the
packet is not forwarded.
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6.2. BUM Traffic
For BUM traffic, the PEs must perform egress filtering. When a PE
receives an EVPN MAC/IP Advertisement route (which will be used as a
source B-MAC for BUM traffic), it updates its egress filtering (based
on the source B-MAC address) as follows:
* If the EVPN MAC/IP Advertisement route indicates that the
advertised B-MAC is a Leaf, and the local ES is a Leaf as well,
then the source B-MAC address is added to its B-MAC list used for
egress filtering (i.e., to block traffic from that B-MAC address).
Otherwise, the B-MAC filtering list is not updated.
* If the EVPN MAC/IP Advertisement route indicates that the
advertised B-MAC has changed its designation from a Leaf to a
Root, and the local ES is a Leaf, then the source B-MAC address is
removed from the B-MAC list corresponding to the local ES used for
egress filtering (i.e., to unblock traffic from that B-MAC
address).
When the egress PE receives the packet, it examines the B-MAC source
address to check whether it should filter or forward the frame. Note
that this uses the same filtering logic as the split-horizon
filtering described in Section 6.2.1.3 of [RFC7623] and does not
require any additional flags in the data plane.
Just as in Section 5.2, the PE places all Leaf ESs of a given bridge
domain in a single split-horizon group in order to prevent intra-PE
forwarding among Leaf segments. This split-horizon function applies
to BUM traffic as well as known unicast traffic.
6.3. E-Tree without MAC Learning
In scenarios where the traffic of interest is only multicast and/or
broadcast, the PEs implementing an E-Tree service do not need to do
any MAC learning. In such scenarios, the filtering must be performed
on egress PEs. For PBB-EVPN, the handling of such traffic is per
Section 6.2 without the need for C-MAC learning (in the data plane)
in the I-component (C-bridge table) of PBB-EVPN PEs (at both ingress
and egress PEs).
7. BGP Encoding
This document defines a new BGP extended community for EVPN.
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7.1. E-Tree Extended Community
This extended community is a new transitive extended community
[RFC4360] having a Type field value of 0x06 (EVPN) and the Sub-Type
0x05. It is used for Leaf-Indication of known unicast and BUM
traffic. It indicates that the frame is originated from a Leaf site.
The E-Tree extended community is encoded as an 8-octet value as
follows:
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type=0x06 | Sub-Type=0x05 | Flags(1 Octet)| Reserved=0 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Reserved=0 | Leaf VNI/Label |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 6: E-Tree Extended Community
The Flags field has the following format:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| MBZ |R|L| (MBZ = MUST Be Zero)
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
This document defines the following flags:
+ Leaf-Indication (L)
+ Root-Indication (R)
A value of one for L flag indicates a Leaf AC/site.
A value of one for R flag indicates a Root AC/site.
The rest of the flag bits (MBZ field) are reserved and must be set to
zero.
When this extended community is advertised along with the MAC/IP
Advertisement route (for known unicast traffic) per Section 5.1, the
Leaf-Indication flag MUST be set to one and the Leaf label SHOULD be
set to zero. The receiving PE MUST ignore Leaf label and the Root-
Indication flag, and only process the Leaf-Indication flag. A value
of zero for the Leaf- Indication flag is invalid when sent along with
a MAC/IP Advertisement route, and an error should be logged.
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When this extended community is advertised along with the EAD-ES
route (with an ESI of zero) for BUM traffic to enable egress
filtering on disposition PEs per Sections 4.2.1 and 4.2.3, the Leaf
label MUST be set to a valid MPLS label (i.e., a non-reserved,
assigned MPLS label [RFC3032]) and the Leaf-Indication flag SHOULD be
set to zero. The value of the 20-bit MPLS label is encoded in the
high-order 20 bits of the Leaf label field. The receiving PE MUST
ignore the Leaf-Indication and the Root-Indication flags. A non-
valid MPLS label, when sent along with the EAD-ES route, should be
ignored and logged as an error.
When this extended community is advertised along with the IMET route,
then the procedures covered in "Operation for EVPN" must be followed.
The reserved bits SHOULD be set to zero by the transmitter and MUST
be ignored by the receiver.
7.2. PMSI Tunnel Attribute
[RFC6514] defines the PMSI Tunnel attribute, which is an optional
transitive attribute with the following format:
+===========================================+
| Flags (1 octet) |
+===========================================+
| Tunnel Type (1 octet) |
+-------------------------------------------+
| Ingress Replication MPLS Label (3 octets) |
+-------------------------------------------+
| Tunnel Identifier (variable) |
+-------------------------------------------+
Table 1: PMSI Tunnel Attribute
This document defines a new composite tunnel type by introducing a
new 'composite tunnel' bit in the Tunnel Type field and adding an
MPLS label to the Tunnel Identifier field of the PMSI Tunnel
attribute, as detailed below. All other fields remain as defined in
[RFC6514]. Composite tunnel type is advertised by the Root PE to
simultaneously indicate a non-Ingress-Replication tunnel (e.g., P2MP
tunnel) in the transmit direction and an Ingress Replication tunnel
in the receive direction for the BUM traffic.
When receiver Ingress Replication labels are needed, the high-order
bit of the Tunnel Type field (composite tunnel bit) is set while the
remaining low-order seven bits indicate the Tunnel Type as before
(for the existing Tunnel Types). When this composite tunnel bit is
set, the "tunnel identifier" field begins with a three-octet label,
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followed by the actual tunnel identifier for the transmit tunnel.
PEs that don't understand the new meaning of the high-order bit treat
the Tunnel Type as an undefined Tunnel Type and treat the PMSI Tunnel
attribute as a malformed attribute [RFC6514]. That is why the
composite tunnel bit is allocated in the Tunnel Type field rather
than the Flags field. For the PEs that do understand the new meaning
of the high-order, if Ingress Replication is desired when sending BUM
traffic, the PE will use the label in the Tunnel Identifier field
when sending its BUM traffic.
Using the composite tunnel bit for Tunnel Types 0x00 'no tunnel
information present' and 0x06 'Ingress Replication' is invalid. A PE
that receives a PMSI Tunnel attribute with such information considers
it malformed, and it SHOULD treat this Update as though all the
routes contained in this Update had been withdrawn per Section 6 of
[RFC6514].
8. Security Considerations
Since this document uses the EVPN constructs of [RFC7432] and
[RFC7623], the same security considerations in these documents are
also applicable here. Furthermore, this document provides an
additional security check by allowing sites (or ACs) of an EVPN
instance to be designated as a "Root" or "Leaf" by the network
operator / service provider and thus prevent any traffic exchange
among "Leaf" sites of that VPN through ingress filtering for known
unicast traffic and egress filtering for BUM traffic. Since (by
default and for the purpose of backward compatibility) an AC that
doesn't have a Leaf designation is considered a Root AC, in order to
avoid any traffic exchange among Leaf ACs, the operator SHOULD
configure the AC with a proper role (Leaf or Root) before activating
the AC.
9. IANA Considerations
IANA has allocated sub-type value 5 in the "EVPN Extended Community
Sub-Types" registry defined in [RFC7153] as follows:
SUB-TYPE VALUE NAME Reference
-------------- ------------------------- -------------
0x05 E-Tree Extended Community [RFC8317]
This document creates a one-octet registry called "E-Tree Flags".
New registrations will be made through the "RFC Required" procedure
defined in [RFC8126]. Initial registrations are as follows:
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Bit Name Reference
---- -------------- -------------
0-5 Unassigned
6 Root-Indication [This document]
7 Leaf-Indication [RFC8317]
The Root-Indication flag is sent only along EVPN IMET route and not
Eth-AD per ES or MAC/IP routes
9.1. Considerations for PMSI Tunnel Types
The "P-Multicast Service Interface (PMSI) Tunnel Types" registry in
the "Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Parameters" registry has been
updated to reflect the use of the most significant bit as the
"composite tunnel" bit (see Section 7.2).
For this purpose, this document updates [RFC7385] by changing the
previously unassigned values (i.e., 0x08 - 0xFA) as follows:
Value Meaning Reference
--------- ----------------------------- --------------
0x0C-0x7A Unassigned
0x7B-0x7E Experimental [RFC8317]
0x7F Reserved [RFC8317]
0x80-0xFA Reserved for Composite Tunnel [RFC8317]
0xFB-0xFE Experimental [RFC7385]
0xFF Reserved [RFC7385]
The allocation policy for values 0x08-0x7A is per IETF Review
[RFC8126]. The range for "Experimental" has been expanded to include
the previously assigned range of 0xFB-0xFE and the new range of 0x7B-
0x7E. The values in these ranges are not to be assigned. The value
0x7F, which is the mirror image of (0xFF), is reserved in this
document.
10. Aditional Authors from RFC8317
Samer Salam, Cisco
Email: ssalam@cisco.com
James Uttaro, ATT
Email: uttaro@att.com
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Sami Boutros, Ciena
Email: sboutros@ciena.com
Acknowledgements
For [RFC8317], we would like to thank Eric Rosen, Jeffrey Zhang, Wen
Lin, Aldrin Issac, Wim Henderickx, Dennis Cai, and Antoni Przygienda
for their valuable comments and contributions. The authors would
also like to thank Thomas Morin for shepherding this document and
providing valuable comments.
For this Document, we would like to thank Neeraj Malhotra, Ramchander
Nadipally, Lukas Krattiger, Arie Vayner, Akhil Shashidhar, and Sergey
Kolobov for their valuable inputs.
References
Normative References
[RFC1997] Chandra, R., Traina, P., and T. Li, "BGP Communities
Attribute", RFC 1997, DOI 10.17487/RFC1997, August 1996,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1997>.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
[RFC4360] Sangli, S., Tappan, D., and Y. Rekhter, "BGP Extended
Communities Attribute", RFC 4360, DOI 10.17487/RFC4360,
February 2006, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4360>.
[RFC6514] Aggarwal, R., Rosen, E., Morin, T., and Y. Rekhter, "BGP
Encodings and Procedures for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP
VPNs", RFC 6514, DOI 10.17487/RFC6514, February 2012,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6514>.
[RFC7153] Rosen, E. and Y. Rekhter, "IANA Registries for BGP
Extended Communities", RFC 7153, DOI 10.17487/RFC7153,
March 2014, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7153>.
[RFC7385] Andersson, L. and G. Swallow, "IANA Registry for
P-Multicast Service Interface (PMSI) Tunnel Type Code
Points", RFC 7385, DOI 10.17487/RFC7385, October 2014,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7385>.
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[RFC7432] Sajassi, A., Ed., Aggarwal, R., Bitar, N., Isaac, A.,
Uttaro, J., Drake, J., and W. Henderickx, "BGP MPLS-Based
Ethernet VPN", RFC 7432, DOI 10.17487/RFC7432, February
2015, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7432>.
[RFC7623] Sajassi, A., Ed., Salam, S., Bitar, N., Isaac, A., and W.
Henderickx, "Provider Backbone Bridging Combined with
Ethernet VPN (PBB-EVPN)", RFC 7623, DOI 10.17487/RFC7623,
September 2015, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7623>.
[RFC8126] Cotton, M., Leiba, B., and T. Narten, "Guidelines for
Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26,
RFC 8126, DOI 10.17487/RFC8126, June 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8126>.
[RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.
[RFC8317] Sajassi, A., Ed., Salam, S., Drake, J., Uttaro, J.,
Boutros, S., and J. Rabadan, "Ethernet-Tree (E-Tree)
Support in Ethernet VPN (EVPN) and Provider Backbone
Bridging EVPN (PBB-EVPN)", RFC 8317, DOI 10.17487/RFC8317,
January 2018, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8317>.
[RFC9012] Patel, K., Van de Velde, G., Sangli, S., and J. Scudder,
"The BGP Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute", RFC 9012,
DOI 10.17487/RFC9012, April 2021,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9012>.
Informative References
[I-D.ietf-bess-mvpn-evpn-aggregation-label]
Zhang, Z. J., Rosen, E. C., Lin, W., Li, Z., and I.
Wijnands, "MVPN/EVPN Tunnel Aggregation with Common
Labels", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-
bess-mvpn-evpn-aggregation-label-09, 12 December 2022,
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-
mvpn-evpn-aggregation-label-09>.
[I-D.ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe]
Maino, F., Kreeger, L., and U. Elzur, "Generic Protocol
Extension for VXLAN (VXLAN-GPE)", Work in Progress,
Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe-12, 22 September
2021, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-
nvo3-vxlan-gpe-12>.
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[RFC3032] Rosen, E., Tappan, D., Fedorkow, G., Rekhter, Y.,
Farinacci, D., Li, T., and A. Conta, "MPLS Label Stack
Encoding", RFC 3032, DOI 10.17487/RFC3032, January 2001,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3032>.
[RFC7387] Key, R., Ed., Yong, L., Ed., Delord, S., Jounay, F., and
L. Jin, "A Framework for Ethernet Tree (E-Tree) Service
over a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Network",
RFC 7387, DOI 10.17487/RFC7387, October 2014,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7387>.
[RFC7796] Jiang, Y., Ed., Yong, L., and M. Paul, "Ethernet-Tree
(E-Tree) Support in Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)",
RFC 7796, DOI 10.17487/RFC7796, March 2016,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7796>.
[RFC8365] Sajassi, A., Ed., Drake, J., Ed., Bitar, N., Shekhar, R.,
Uttaro, J., and W. Henderickx, "A Network Virtualization
Overlay Solution Using Ethernet VPN (EVPN)", RFC 8365,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8365, March 2018,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8365>.
[RFC8926] Gross, J., Ed., Ganga, I., Ed., and T. Sridhar, Ed.,
"Geneve: Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation",
RFC 8926, DOI 10.17487/RFC8926, November 2020,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8926>.
[RFC9135] Sajassi, A., Salam, S., Thoria, S., Drake, J., and J.
Rabadan, "Integrated Routing and Bridging in Ethernet VPN
(EVPN)", RFC 9135, DOI 10.17487/RFC9135, October 2021,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9135>.
Authors' Addresses
Ali Sajassi (editor)
Cisco
Email: sajassi@cisco.com
Jorge Rabadan
Nokia
Email: jorge.rabadan@nokia.com
John Drake
Independent
Email: je_drake@yahoo.com
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Arivudainambi Appachi gounder
Google
Email: aappachi@google.com
Aaron Bamberger
Arista Networks
Email: abamberger@arista.com
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