Network Working Group J. Dong Internet-Draft H. Wang Intended status: Standards Track Huawei Technologies Expires: June 25, 2015 December 22, 2014 Pseudowire Redundancy on S-PE draft-ietf-pals-redundancy-spe-00 Abstract This document describes Multi-Segment Pseudowire (MS-PW) protection scenarios in which the pseudowire redundancy is provided on the Switching-PE (S-PE). Operations of the S-PEs which provide PW redundancy are specified in this document. Signaling of the preferential forwarding status as defined in [RFC6870] is reused. This document does not require any change to the T-PEs of MS-PW. Requirements Language 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]. 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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Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Typical Scenarios of PW Redundancy on S-PE . . . . . . . . . 2 2.1. MS-PW Redundancy on S-PE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2. MS-PW Redundancy on S-PE with S-PE Protection . . . . . . 3 3. S-PE Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.1. Operations of Scenario 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2. Operations of Scenario 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4. VCCV Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 7. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1. Introduction [RFC6718] describes the framework and requirements for pseudowire (PW) redundancy, and [RFC6870] specifies Pseudowire (PW) redundancy mechanism for scenarios where a set of redundant PWs is configured between provider edge (PE) nodes in single-segment pseudowire (SS-PW) [RFC3985]applications, or between terminating provider edge (T-PE) nodes in multi-segment pseudowire (MS-PW) [RFC5659] applications. In some MS-PW scenarios, there are benefits to provide PW redundancy on S-PEs, such as reducing the burden on the access T-PE nodes, and faster protection switching. This document describes some scenarios in which PW redundancy is provided on S-PEs, and specifies the operations of the S-PEs. Signaling of the preferential forwarding status as defined in [RFC6870] is reused. This document does not require any change to the T-PEs of MS-PW. 2. Typical Scenarios of PW Redundancy on S-PE In some MS-PW deployment scenarios, there are benefits to provide PW redundancy on S-PEs. This section describes typical scenarios of PW redundancy on S-PE. Dong & Wang Expires June 25, 2015 [Page 2] Internet-Draft PW redundancy on S-PE December 2014 2.1. MS-PW Redundancy on S-PE +-----+ +---+ +-----+ | | +---+ | | | |------|T-PE2|----| | | | +-----+ | ..PW-Seg2.......| | | | | |....PW-Seg1..... | +-----+ | | |CE1|----|T-PE1|------|S-PE1| |CE2| | | | | | . | +-----+ | | | | +-----+ | ..PW-Seg3.......| | | | | | |------|T-PE3|----| | +---+ +-----+ | | +---+ +-----+ Figure 1.MS-PW Redundancy on S-PE As illustrated in Figure 1, CE1 is connected to T-PE1 while CE2 is dual-homed to T-PE2 and T-PE3. T-PE1 is connected to S-PE1 only, and S-PE1 is connected to both T-PE2 and T-PE3. The MS-PW is switched on S-PE1, and PW-Seg2 and PW-Seg3 provides resiliency on S-PE1 for failure of T-PE2 or T-PE3 or the connected ACs. PW-Seg2 is selected as the primary PW segment, and PW-Seg3 is the secondary PW segment. MS-PW redundancy on S-PE is beneficial for the scenario in Figure 1 since T-PE1 as an access node may not be able to provide PW redundancy, especially when the PW-Seg1 between T-PE1 and S-PE1 is statically configured. And with PW redundancy on S-PE, the number of PW segments required between T-PE1 and S-PE1 is only half of the number of PW segments needed when using end-to-end MS-PW redundancy. In addition, in this scenario PW redundancy on S-PE could provide faster protection switching, compared with end-to-end protection switching of MS-PW. 2.2. MS-PW Redundancy on S-PE with S-PE Protection Dong & Wang Expires June 25, 2015 [Page 3] Internet-Draft PW redundancy on S-PE December 2014 +---+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ | | | | | | | | | | |......PW1-Seg1......PW1-Seg2........| | | | . . | | | |CE1|----|T-PE1|------|S-PE1|-----------|T-PE2| | | | . | | . | PW1-Seg3 | | +---+ | | + . + | ......... ......|----| | | | | . | | | . .| | | | +---+ +---.-+ +-----+ . . +-----+ | | |. . . |CE2| |. .. | | |. +-----+ . . +-----+ | | |. | | . .| |----| | |...PW2-Seg1.......... ......| +---+ | | . | PW2-Seg2 | | ----------|S-PE2|-----------|T-PE3| | . | | | | .....PW2-Seg3........| | | | | +-----+ +-----+ Figure 2. MS-PW Redundancy on S-PE with S-PE protection As illustrated in Figure 2, CE1 is connected to T-PE1 while CE2 is dual-homed to T-PE2 and T-PE3. T-PE1 is connected to S-PE1 and S-PE2, and both S-PE1 and S-PE2 are connected to both T-PE2 and T-PE3. There are two MS-PWs which are switched at S-PE1 and S-PE2 respectively to provide S-PE node protection. For MS-PW1, S-PE1 provides resiliency using PW1-Seg2 and PW1-Seg3. For MS-PW2, S-PE2 provides resiliency using PW2-Seg2 and PW2-Seg3. MS-PW1 is the primary PW and PW1-Seg2 between S-PE1 and T-PE2 is the primary PW segment. MS-PW2 is the secondary PW. MS-PW redundancy on S-PE is beneficial for this scenario since it reduces the number of end-to-end MS-PWs required for both T-PE and S-PE protection. In addition, PW redundancy on S-PE could provide faster protection switching, compared with end-to-end protection switching of MS-PW. 3. S-PE Operations For an S-PE which provides PW redundancy for MS-PW, it is important to advertise proper preferential forwarding status to the PW segments on both sides and perform protection switching according to the received status information. This section specifies the operations of S-PEs on which PW redundancy is provisioned. This document does not make any change to the T-PEs of MS-PW. Dong & Wang Expires June 25, 2015 [Page 4] Internet-Draft PW redundancy on S-PE December 2014 In general, the S-PE SHOULD work as a Slave node for the single- connected side, and SHOULD work in Independent mode for the multi- connected side. The S-PE SHOULD pass the preferential forwarding status received from the single-connected side unchanged to the PW segments on the multi-connected side. The S-PE SHOULD advertise Standby status to the single-connected side if it receives Standby status from all the PW segments on the multi-connected side, and it SHOULD advertise Active status to the single-connected side if it receives Active status from any of the PW segments on the multi- connected side. For the single-connected side, the active PW segment is determined by the T-PE on this side, which works as the Master node. On the multi-connected side, the PW segment which has both local and remote Up/Down status and Preferential Forwarding status as Up and Active SHOULD be selected for traffic forwarding. The Signaling of Preferential Forwarding bit defined in [RFC6870] is reused in these scenarios. 3.1. Operations of Scenario 1 For the scenario in Figure 1, assume the AC from CE2 to T-PE2 is active. In normal operation, S-PE1 would receive Active Preferential Forwarding status bit on the single-connected side from T-PE1, then it would advertise Active Preferential Forwarding status bit on both PW-Seg2 and PW-Seg3. T-PE2 and T-PE3 would advertise Active and Standby preferential status bit respectively to S-PE1, reflecting the forwarding state of the two ACs to CE2. By matching the local and remote Up/Down status and Preferential Forwarding status, PW-Seg2 would be used for traffic forwarding. On failure of the AC between CE2 and T-PE2, the forwarding state of AC on T-PE3 is changed to Active. T-PE3 then advertises Active Preferential Status to S-PE1, and T-PE2 would advertise a PW status Notification message to S-PE1, indicating that the AC between CE2 and T-PE2 is down. S-PE1 would perform the switchover according to the updated local and remote Preferential Forwarding status and status of "Pseudowire forwarding", and select PW-Seg3 as the new PW Segment for traffic forwarding. Since S-PE1 still connects to an Active PW segment on the multi-connected side, it will not advertise any change of the PW status to T-PE1. S-PE1 may advertise the updated Switching Point PE TLVs (SP-PE TLVs) [RFC6073] using Label Mapping message to T-PE1. 3.2. Operations of Scenario 2 For the scenario of Figure 2, assume the AC from CE2 to T-PE2 is active. T-PE1 works in Master mode and it would advertise Active and Standby Preferential Forwarding status bit respectively to S-PE1 and Dong & Wang Expires June 25, 2015 [Page 5] Internet-Draft PW redundancy on S-PE December 2014 S-PE2 according to configuration. According to the received Preferential Forwarding status bit, S-PE1 would advertise Active Preferential Forwarding status bit to both T-PE2 and T-PE3, and S-PE2 would advertise Standby Preferential Forwarding status bit to both T-PE2 and T-PE3. T-PE2 would advertise Active Preferential Forwarding status bit to both S-PE1 and S-PE2, and T-PE3 would advertise Standby Preferential Forwarding status bit to both S-PE1 and S-PE2, reflecting the forwarding state of the two ACs to CE2. By matching the local and remote Up/Down Status and Preferential Forwarding status, PW1-Seg2 from S-PE1 to T-PE2 would be used for traffic forwarding. Since S-PE1 connects to the Active PW segment on the multi-connected side, it would advertise Active Preferential Forwarding status bit to T-PE1, and S-PE2 would advertise Standby Preferential Forwarding status bit to T-PE1 since it does not have any Active PW segment on the multi-connected side. On failure of the AC between CE2 and T-PE2, the forwarding state of AC on T-PE3 is changed to Active. T-PE3 would then advertise Active Preferential Forwarding status bit to both S-PE1 and S-PE2, and T-PE2 would advertise a PW status Notification message to both S-PE1 and S-PE2, indicating that the AC between CE2 and T-PE2 is down. S-PE1 would perform the switchover according to the updated local and remote Preferential Forwarding status and status of "Pseudowire forwarding", and select PW1-Seg3 for traffic forwarding. Since S-PE1 still has an Active PW segment on the multi-connected side, it would not advertise any change of the PW status to T-PE1. S-PE1 may advertise the updated SP-PE TLVs [RFC6073] using Label Mapping message to T-PE1. If S-PE1 fails, T-PE1 would notice this through some kind of detection mechanism and then advertise the Active Preferential Forwarding status bit to S-PE2, and PW2-Seg1 would be selected by T-PE1 for traffic forwarding. On receipt of the newly changed Preferential Forwarding status, S-PE2 would advertise the Active Preferential Forwarding status to both T-PE2 and T-PE3. T-PE2 and T-PE3 would also notice the failure of S-PE1 by some kind of detection mechanism. Then by matching the local and remote Up/Down and Preferential Forwarding status, PW2-Seg2 would be selected for traffic forwarding. 4. VCCV Considerations PW VCCV [RFC5085] CC type 1 "PW ACH" can be used with S-PE redundancy mechanism. VCCV CC type 2 "Router Alert Label" is not supported for MS-PW as specified in [RFC6073]. If VCCV CC type 3 "TTL Expiry" is to be used, the hop count from one T-PE to the remote T-PE needs to be obtained in advance. This can be achieved either by control plane SP-PE TLVs or through data plane tracing of the MS-PW. Dong & Wang Expires June 25, 2015 [Page 6] Internet-Draft PW redundancy on S-PE December 2014 5. IANA Considerations This document makes no request of IANA. 6. Security Considerations This document has the same security properties as in the PWE3 control protocol [RFC4447] and [RFC6870]. 7. Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Mach Chen, Lizhong Jin, Mustapha Aissaoui, Luca Martini, Matthew Bocci and Stewart Bryant for their valuable comments and discussions. 8. References 8.1. Normative References [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC4447] Martini, L., Rosen, E., El-Aawar, N., Smith, T., and G. Heron, "Pseudowire Setup and Maintenance Using the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)", RFC 4447, April 2006. [RFC6073] Martini, L., Metz, C., Nadeau, T., Bocci, M., and M. Aissaoui, "Segmented Pseudowire", RFC 6073, January 2011. [RFC6870] Muley, P. and M. Aissaoui, "Pseudowire Preferential Forwarding Status Bit", RFC 6870, February 2013. 8.2. Informative References [RFC3985] Bryant, S. and P. Pate, "Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge-to- Edge (PWE3) Architecture", RFC 3985, March 2005. [RFC5085] Nadeau, T. and C. Pignataro, "Pseudowire Virtual Circuit Connectivity Verification (VCCV): A Control Channel for Pseudowires", RFC 5085, December 2007. [RFC5659] Bocci, M. and S. Bryant, "An Architecture for Multi- Segment Pseudowire Emulation Edge-to-Edge", RFC 5659, October 2009. [RFC6718] Muley, P., Aissaoui, M., and M. Bocci, "Pseudowire Redundancy", RFC 6718, August 2012. Dong & Wang Expires June 25, 2015 [Page 7] Internet-Draft PW redundancy on S-PE December 2014 Authors' Addresses Jie Dong Huawei Technologies Huawei Building, No.156 Beiqing Rd. Beijing 100095 China Email: jie.dong@huawei.com Haibo Wang Huawei Technologies Huawei Building, No.156 Beiqing Rd. Beijing 100095 China Email: rainsword.wang@huawei.com Dong & Wang Expires June 25, 2015 [Page 8]