IDR Working Group A. Wang Internet-Draft W. Wang Intended status: Informational China Telecom Expires: March 10, 2022 G. Mishra Verizon Inc. H. Wang S. Zhuang J. Dong Huawei Technologies September 6, 2021 Analysis of VPN Routes Control in Shared BGP Session draft-wang-idr-vpn-routes-control-analysis-04 Abstract This draft analyzes some scenarios and the necessaries for VPN routes control in the shared BGP session, which can be the used as the base for the design of related solutions. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. 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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. Conventions used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4. Inter-AS VPN Option B/AB Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5. Inter-AS VPN Option C Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6. Intra-AS VPN RR Deployment Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 7. VPN Routes Shared on one PE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 8. Requirements for the solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 9. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 10. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 11. Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 12. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1. Introduction BGP Maximum Prefix feature [RFC4486] is often used at the network boundary to control the number of prefixes to be injected into the network. But for some scenarios when the VPN routes from several VRFs are advertised via one shared BGP session, there is lack of appropriate methods to control the flooding of VPN routes within one VRF to overwhelm the process of VPN routes in other VRFs. That is to say, the excessive VPN routes advertisement should be controlled individually for each VRF in such shared BGP session. The following sections analyzes the scenarios that are necessary to such mechanism. 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 [RFC2119] . 3. Terminology The following terms are defined in this draft: o RD: Route Distinguisher, defined in [RFC4364] Wang, et al. Expires March 10, 2022 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Analysis of VPN routes control September 2021 o RR: Router Reflector, provides a simple solution to the problem of IBGP full mesh connection in large-scale IBGP implementation. o VRF: Virtual Routing Forwarding, a virtual routing table based on VPN instance. 4. Inter-AS VPN Option B/AB Scenario For inter-AS VPN deployment option B/AB scenario, as described in Figure 1, there is one BGP session between ASBR1 and ASBR2, which is used to advertise the VPN routes from VPN1 and VPN2 VRF. Normally the operator will deploy the BGP maximum prefixes feature under different address families between the ASBR1 and ASBR2, but the threshold must be set very high to cope with the situation when all the VRFs in each family reach their VPN routes limit simultaneously. In case VPN routes in only one of VRF, for example VPN1 in PE3, advertises excess VPN routes(with RD set to RD31 and RT import/export set to RT1. Configurations on other PEs are similar) into the network, but VPN routes advertisement in other VRFs are in normal, the prefix bar set between the ASBRs will not take effect. Such excessive VPN routes will be advertised into the AS1, to PE1 and PE2 respectively. PE1 in this example, provides the services for VPN2 at the same time. If it receives the excessive VPN routes for VPN1 from ASBR1, although such VPN routes have exceeded the limit within the VRF VPN1, it can't break the BGP session with ASBR1 directly, because the VPN prefix limit is to prevent a flood from errors or other issues but does not prevent the device from being overwhelmed and resources exhausted. All it can do is to receive and process the excessive BGP updates continuously, parse the excessive VPN routes for VPN1 and drop it, extract the VPN routes for VPN2 and install it. Doing so can certainly influence the performance of PE1 to serve the other VPN services on it, considering that there are hundreds of VRFs deployed on it. PE1 should have the capability to control the advertisement of specified excessive VPN routes from its BGP peer. The ASBR should also have such capability. The excessive VPN routes may carry just one RT(for example in VPN1 on PE3), or carry more than one RTs(for example in VPN2 on PE3). Such excessive VPN routes may be imported into one VRF(for example VPN1 on PE1) or more than one VRFs(for example both VPN2 and VPN3 import the VPN routes with RD32, which has attached RT2 and RT3 together when they are advertised) Wang, et al. Expires March 10, 2022 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Analysis of VPN routes control September 2021 +---------------------------+ +------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | +---------+ | | +---------+ | | | PE1 | | | | PE3 | | | +---------+ | | +---------+ | |VPN1(RD11,RT1)\ | | /VPN1(RD31,RT1) | |VPN2(RD12,RT2) \+---------+ MP-EBGP +---------+/ VPN2(RD32,RT2,RT3)| |VPN3(RD3 ,RT3) | | | | | | | ASBR1 |-----------| ASBR2 | | | | | | | | | +---------+ +---------+ | | / | | \ | | +---------+/ | | \+---------+ | | | PE2 | | | | PE4 | | | +---------+ | | +---------+ | |VPN1(RD21,RT1) | | VPN2(RD42,RT2) | |VPN2(RD2 ,RT2) | | VPN3(RD3, RT3) | | AS1 | | AS2 | +---------------------------+ +------------------------------+ Figure 1: The Option B/Option AB cross-domain scenario 5. Inter-AS VPN Option C Scenario For inter-AS VPN deployment option C scenario, as that described in Figure 2, there is one BGP session between RR1 and RR2, which is used to advertise the VPN routes from all the VRFs that located on the edge routers(PE1 and PE2). The BGP maximum prefix bar can't also prevent the excessive advertisement of VPN routes in one VRF, and such abnormal behavior in one VRF can certainly influence the performances of PEs to serve other normal VRFs. PE and RR should all have some capabilities to control the specified excessive VPN routes to be advertised from its upstream BGP peer. Wang, et al. Expires March 10, 2022 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Analysis of VPN routes control September 2021 MP-EBGP +------------------------------------------+ | | +------------+--------------+ +------------+------------------+ | +---+----+ | | +----+----+ | | +---+ RR1 +---+ | | +----+ RR2 +---+ | | | +--------+ | | | | +---------+ | | | | | | | | | | | |IBGP IBGP| | | |IBGP IBGP| | | | | | | | | | | +--+---+ +---+--+ | | +---+---+ +--+--+ | | | PE1 | | ASBR1|--|--------------|---| ASBR2 | | PE2 | | | +------+ +------+ | | +-------+ +-----+ | | AS1 | | AS2 | +---------------------------+ +-------------------------------+ Figure 2: The Option C cross-domain scenario 6. Intra-AS VPN RR Deployment Scenario For intra-AS VPN deployment, as depicted in Figure 3, if the RR is present, the above excess VPN routes advertisement churn can also occurs. For example, if PE3 receives excessive VPN routes for VPN1 VRF(there may be several reasons for this to occur, for example, multiple CEs connect to PE3 advertising routes simultaneously causing a wave of routes, redistribution from VRF to VRF, or from GRT to VRF on PE3 etc.), it will advertise such excessive VPN routes to RR and then to PE1. The BGP session between RR and PE3, and the BGP session between RR and PE1 can't prevent this to occur. The RD in each VPN may be allocated and unique for each VPN on each PE(as example VPN1 in Figure 3), or only unique for each VPN(as example VPN2 in Figure 3). Each VPN may be associated with one or more RTs. The excessive VPN routes may have only one RT(for example, the excessive VPN routes from PE3 has the RD equal to RD31 and RT is set only to RT1) When PE1 in this figure receives such excessive VPN routes, it can only process them, among the other normal BGP updates. This can certainly influence process of VPN routes for other normal services, the consequences on the receiving PE1 may be the one or more of the followings: a) PE1 can't process a given number of routes in time period X leading to dropping of routes Wang, et al. Expires March 10, 2022 [Page 5] Internet-Draft Analysis of VPN routes control September 2021 b) Delayed processing that may result in an incomplete number of inputs to the BGP Best Path decision. c) L3VPN customers experiencing an incorrect VPN specification for some time period Y. d) The convergence of control plane processing impacts the traffic forwarding PE and RR should all have some capabilities to control the specified excessive VPN routes to be advertised from its upstream BGP peer. +-----------------------------------------------+ | +---------+ +---------+ | | | PE1 | | PE4 | | | +---------+ +---------+ | | VPN1(RD11,RT1) \ / VPN2(RD12,RT2)| | VPN2(RD12,RT2) \+---------+ / | | | | | | | RR | | | | | | | +---------+ \ | | / \ | | +---------+/ +---------+ | | | PE2 | | PE3 | | | +---------+ +---------+ | | VPN1(RD21,RT1) VPN1(RD31,RT1,RT2)| | VPN2(RD12,RT2) | | | | AS100 | +-----------------------------------------------+ Figure 3: Intra-AS VPN RR deployment scenario 7. VPN Routes Shared on one PE The scenarios described above are mainly in device level, that is to say, if the receiving PE has some mechanism to control the excess VPN routes advertisement from its BGP neighbor, the failure churn effect can be controlled then. But there are also situations that the granular control should be took place within the receiving PE itself. Figure 4 below describes such scenario. There are four VRFs on PE, and three of them import the same VPN routes that carry route target RT3. Such deployment can occur in the inter-VRF communication scenario. If the threshold of VPN route-limit for these VRFs is set different, for example, are max-vpn-routes-vrf1, max-vpn-routes-vrf2, max-vpn-routes-vrf3, max-vpn-routes-vrf4 respectively, and these Wang, et al. Expires March 10, 2022 [Page 6] Internet-Draft Analysis of VPN routes control September 2021 values have the following order, as max-vpn-routes-vrf1. [RFC4364] Rosen, E. and Y. Rekhter, "BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)", RFC 4364, DOI 10.17487/RFC4364, February 2006, . [RFC4486] Chen, E. and V. Gillet, "Subcodes for BGP Cease Notification Message", RFC 4486, DOI 10.17487/RFC4486, April 2006, . Authors' Addresses Wang, et al. Expires March 10, 2022 [Page 8] Internet-Draft Analysis of VPN routes control September 2021 Aijun Wang China Telecom Beiqijia Town, Changping District Beijing, Beijing 102209 China Email: wangaj3@chinatelecom.cn Wei Wang China Telecom Beiqijia Town, Changping District Beijing, Beijing 102209 China Email: wangw36@chinatelecom.cn Gyan S. Mishra Verizon Inc. 13101 Columbia Pike Silver Spring MD 20904 United States of America Phone: 301 502-1347 Email: gyan.s.mishra@verizon.com Haibo Wang Huawei Technologies Huawei Building, No.156 Beiqing Rd. Beijing, Beijing 100095 China Email: rainsword.wang@huawei.com Shunwan Zhuang Huawei Technologies Huawei Building, No.156 Beiqing Rd. Beijing, Beijing 100095 China Email: zhuangshunwan@huawei.com Wang, et al. Expires March 10, 2022 [Page 9] Internet-Draft Analysis of VPN routes control September 2021 Jie Dong Huawei Technologies Huawei Building, No.156 Beiqing Rd. Beijing, Beijing 100095 China Email: jie.dong@huawei.com Wang, et al. Expires March 10, 2022 [Page 10]