Internet DRAFT - draft-akiya-bfd-seamless-base

draft-akiya-bfd-seamless-base



Internet Engineering Task Force                                 N. Akiya
Internet-Draft                                              C. Pignataro
Updates: 5880 (if approved)                                      D. Ward
Intended status: Standards Track                           Cisco Systems
Expires: October 19, 2014                                      M. Bhatia
                                                          Alcatel-Lucent
                                                           P. K. Santosh
                                                        Juniper Networks
                                                          April 17, 2014


          Seamless Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (S-BFD)
                    draft-akiya-bfd-seamless-base-03

Abstract

   This document defines a simplified mechanism to use Bidirectional
   Forwarding Detection (BFD) with large portions of negotiation aspects
   eliminated, thus providing benefits such as quick provisioning as
   well as improved control and flexibility to network nodes initiating
   the path monitoring.

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].

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  Seamless BFD Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   4.  BFD Target Identifier Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   5.  UDP Port  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   6.  S-BFD Discriminators  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   7.  Reflector BFD Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   8.  State Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     8.1.  New State Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     8.2.  State Variable Initialization and Maintenance . . . . . .   8
   9.  Full Reachability Validations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     9.1.  Initiator Behavior  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       9.1.1.  Initiator State machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     9.2.  Responder Behavior  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
       9.2.1.  Responder Demultiplexing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
       9.2.2.  Reflector BFD Session Procedures  . . . . . . . . . .  10
     9.3.  Further Packet Details  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     9.4.  Diagnostic Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     9.5.  The Poll Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
     9.6.  Control Plane Independent (C) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
     9.7.  Additional Initiator Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
     9.8.  Additional Responder Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   10. Partial Reachability Validations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   11. Scaling Aspect  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   12. Co-existence with Traditional BFD . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
   13. BFD Echo  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
   14. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
   15. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
   16. Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
   17. Contributing Authors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
   18. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17



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     18.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
     18.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
   Appendix A.  Loop Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19

1.  Introduction

   Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD), [RFC5880] and related
   documents, has efficiently generalized the failure detection
   mechanism for multiple protocols and applications.  There are some
   improvements which can be made to better fit existing technologies.
   There is a possibility of evolving BFD to better fit new
   technologies.  This document focuses on several aspects of BFD in
   order to further improve efficiency, to expand failure detection
   coverage and to allow BFD usage for wider scenarios.  This document
   extends BFD to provide solutions to use cases listed in
   [I-D.aldrin-bfd-seamless-use-case].  Because defined mechanism
   eliminates much of negotiation aspects of the BFD protocol, "Seamless
   BFD" (S-BFD) has been chosen as the name for this mechanism.

2.  Seamless BFD Overview

   Each protocol instance (e.g. OSPF/IS-IS) allocates one or more BFD
   discriminators on its network node, ensuring that BFD discriminators
   allocated are unique within the network domain.  Allocated BFD
   discriminators may be advertised by the protocol.  Required result is
   that a protocol possess the knowledge of mapping between network
   targets to BFD discriminators.  Each network nodes will also create a
   BFD session instance that listens for incoming BFD control packets
   with "your discriminator" having protocol allocated values.  The
   listener BFD session instance, upon receiving a BFD control packet
   targeted to one of local S-BFD discriminator values, will transmit a
   response BFD control packet back to the sender.

   Once above setup is complete, any network node, understanding the
   mapping between network targets to BFD discriminators, can quickly
   perform reachability check to these network targets by simply sending
   BFD control packets with known BFD discriminator value as "your
   discriminator".












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   For example:

      <------- IS-IS Network ------->

                +---------+
                |         |
      A---------B---------C---------D
      ^                             ^
      |                             |
   SystemID                      SystemID
     xxx                           yyy
   BFD Discrim                   BFD Discrim
     123                           456

                    Figure 1: S-BFD for IS-IS Network

   IS-IS with SystemID xxx allocates BFD discriminator 123, and
   advertises the BFD discriminator 123 in IS-IS TLV.  IS-IS with
   SystemID yyy allocates BFD discriminator 456, and advertises the BFD
   discriminator 456 IS-IS TLV.  Both network nodes (node A and node D)
   creates listener BFD session instance.  When network node A wants to
   check a reachability to network node D, node A can send a BFD control
   packet, destined to node D, with "your discriminator" set as 456.  If
   listener BFD on node D receives this BFD control packet, then
   response BFD control packet is sent back to node A, which allows node
   A to complete the reachability test.

   Note that a protocol may create an explicit mapping between a
   protocol ID (e.g. System-ID, Router-ID) to a BFD discriminator.  A
   protocol may also create an explicit mapping between a network target
   (e.g. IP address) to a BFD discriminator.  A protocol may even
   function with implicit mapping between a network target (e.g. IPv4
   address) to a BFD discriminator, i.e. IPv4 address is used as BFD
   discriminator value.  Decisions and rules on how protocols allocate
   and distribute BFD discriminators are outside the scope of this
   document.

3.  Terminology

   The reader is expected to be familiar with the BFD, IP, MPLS and SR
   terminology and protocol constructs.  This section describes several
   new terminology introduced by Seamless BFD.

   o  BFD Target Identifier: Network entity that is provisioned as a
      target of Seamless BFD.

   o  BFD Target Identifier Type: Type of network entity that is
      provisioned as a target of Seamless BFD.



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   o  BFD Target Identifier Table: A table containing BFD target
      identifier type, BFD target identifier and corresponding BFD
      discriminator.

   o  Reflector BFD Session: A BFD session listening for incoming BFD
      control packets destined for local BFD target identifier(s).

4.  BFD Target Identifier Types

   This document defines a generic mechanism where network nodes can
   send BFD control packets to specific network targets to perform
   various tasks.  One task is to perform a reachability check (i.e
   requesting immediate response back).  Details of this task is further
   defined in sections to follow.  Further tasks (i.e. using BFD control
   packet to request specific services from specific network nodes) may
   be defined.  Therefore, this document defines a code point for BFD
   Target Identifier.  Each locally allocated S-BFD discriminator MUST
   be associated to BFD Target Identifier type, to allow demultiplexing
   to a specific task or service.

   BFD Target Identifier types:

         Value    BFD Target Identifier Type
        ------    --------------------------
             0    Reserved
             1    Network Target Discriminator

   Procedures defined in this document are to be associated with BFD
   Target Identifier Type 1 (Network Target Discriminator).

   Note that IP based BFD from [RFC5885] is supported by this
   specification, but non-IP based BFD is outside the scope of this
   document.

   Further identifier types are to be defined as needed basis.

5.  UDP Port

   S-BFD functions on a well-known UDP port: TBD1.

6.  S-BFD Discriminators

   Protocols (i.e. client of S-BFD) may request an arbitrary BFD
   discriminator value, or protocols may request a specific BFD
   discriminator value.  Therefore, it is RECOMMENDED for
   implementations to create a separate discriminator pool for S-BFD
   sessions to minimize the collision between existing BFD sessions and
   S-BFD sessions.  In such case, incoming BFD control packets MUST be



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   demultiplexed first with UDP port to identify the discriminator table
   to look up the session.  Regardless of the approach, collision can
   happen with following scenarios.

   o  Existing BFD session already using a discriminator value that
      collides with specific discriminator value requested for S-BFD
      session.

      *  Implementation SHOULD allow migrating existing BFD sessions to
         free up the discriminator to accommodate specific discriminator
         value requested for S-BFD session.

   o  S-BFD session already using a discriminator value, arbitrarily
      allocated, that collides with specific discriminator value
      requested for S-BFD session.  The two S-BFD sessions are of
      different BFD Target Identifier type.

      *  Protocol requesting arbitrary discriminator value MUST support
         migrating to another discriminator value, and implementations
         MUST allow migrating existing S-BFD sessions to free up the
         discriminator to accommodate specific discriminator value
         requested for S-BFD session.

   o  S-BFD session already using a discriminator value, arbitrary
      allocated, that collides with specific discriminator value
      requested for S-BFD session.  The two S-BFD sessions are of same
      BFD Target Identifier type.

      *  No action is required, as the two can share the discriminator.

   One important characteristics of S-BFD discriminator is that it MUST
   be network wide unique.  If multiple network nodes allocated same
   S-BFD discriminator value, then S-BFD control packets falsely
   terminating on a wrong network node can result in reflector BFD
   session (described in Section 7) to generate a response back, due to
   "your discriminator" matching.  This is clearly not desirable.  If
   only IP based S-BFD is concerned, then it is possible for S-BFD
   reflector session to require demultiplexing of incoming S-BFD control
   packet with combination of destination IP address and "your
   discriminator".  Then S-BFD discriminator only has to be unique
   within a local node.  However, S-BFD is a generic mechanism defined
   to run on wide range of environments: IP, MPLS, Segment Routing
   ([I-D.previdi-filsfils-isis-segment-routing]), etc.  For other
   transports like MPLS, because of the need to use non-routable IP
   destination address, it is not possible for S-BFD reflector session
   to demultiplex using IP destination address.  With PHP, there may not
   be any incoming label stack to aid in demultiplexing either.  Thus,




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   S-BFD imposes a requirement that S-BFD discriminators MUST be network
   wide unique.

7.  Reflector BFD Session

   Each network node MUST create one or more reflector BFD sessions.
   This reflector BFD session is a session which transmits BFD control
   packets in response to received valid locally destined BFD control
   packets.  Specifically, this reflector BFD session is to have
   following characteristics:

   o  MUST NOT transmit any BFD control packets based on local timer
      expiry.

   o  MUST transmit BFD control packet in response to a received valid
      locally destined BFD control packet.

   o  MUST be capable of sending only two states: UP and ADMINDOWN.

   One reflector BFD session MAY be responsible for handling received
   BFD control packets targeted to all local BFD target identifiers, or
   few reflector BFD sessions MAY each be responsible for subset of
   local BFD target identifiers.  This policy is a local matter, and is
   outside the scope of this document.

   Note that incoming BFD control packets destined to BFD target
   identifier types may be IPv4, IPv6 or MPLS based.  For those BFD
   target identifier types, implementations MAY either allow the same
   reflector BFD session to handle all incoming BFD control packets in
   address family agnostic fashion, or setup multiple reflector BFD
   sessions to handle incoming BFD control packets with different
   address families.  This policy is again a local matter, and is
   outside the scope of this document.

8.  State Variables

   S-BFD introduces some new state variables, and modifies the usage of
   existing ones.

8.1.  New State Variables

   A new state variable is added to the base specification in support of
   S-BFD.

   o  bfd.SessionType: The type of this session.  Allowable values are:






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      *  SBFDInitiator: Any session on a network node that attempts to
         perform a path monitoring to any BFD target identifier on other
         network nodes.

      *  SBFDReflector: Any session on a network node, which receives
         BFD control packets transmitted by an initiator and responds
         back to initiator is referred as responder.

   This variable MUST be initialized to the appropriate type when the
   session is created, according to the rules in section TBD.

8.2.  State Variable Initialization and Maintenance

   Some state variables defined in section 6.8.1 of the BFD base
   specification need to be initialized or manipulated differently
   depending on the session type.

   o  bfd.DemandMode: This variable MUST be initialized to 1 for session
      type SBFDInitiator, and MUST be initialized to 0 for session type
      SBFDReflector.

9.  Full Reachability Validations

9.1.  Initiator Behavior

   Any network node can attempt to perform a full reachability
   validation to any BFD target identifier on other network nodes, as
   long as destination BFD target identifier is provisioned to use this
   mechanism.  BFD control packets transmitted by the initiator is to
   have "your discriminator" corresponding to destination BFD target
   identifier.

   A node that initiates a BFD control packet MAY create an active BFD
   session to periodically send BFD control packets to a target, or a
   BFD control packet MAY be crafted and sent out on "as needed basis"
   (ex: BFD ping) without any session presence.  In both cases, a BFD
   instance MUST have a unique "my discriminator" value assigned.  If a
   node is to create multiple BFD instances to the same BFD target
   identifier, then each instance MUST have separate "my discriminator"
   values assigned.  A BFD instance MUST NOT use a discriminator
   corresponding to one of local BFD target identifiers as "my
   discriminator".  This is to prevent incoming response BFD control
   packets ("pong" packets) having "your discriminator" as a
   discriminator corresponding to the local BFD target identifier.

   Below ASCII art describes high level concept of full reachability
   validations using this mechanism.  R2 reserves value XX as BFD




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   discriminator for its BFD target identifier.  ASCII art shows that R1
   and R4 performing full reachability validation to XX on R2.

    -- md=50/yd=XX (BFD ping) -->
   <-- md=XX/yd=50 (BFD pong) --

                             [*]
    R1 ---------------------- R2 ----------- R3 ----------- R4

                             |  ^
                             |  |
                             |  + - md=60/yd=XX (BFD ping) --
                             + - - -md=XX/yd=60 (BFD pong) -->

   [*] Reflector BFD session on R2.

                    Figure 2: S-BFD path monitoring

   If BFD control packet is to be sent via IP path, then:

   o  Destination IP address MUST be an IP address corresponding to
      target identifier.
   o  Source IP address MUST be a local IP address.
   o  IP TTL MUST be 255 for full reachability validations.  Partial
      reachability validations MAY use smaller TTL value (see
      Section 10).
   o  Well-known UDP destination port(s) for IP based S-BFD.

   If BFD control packet response is determined to explicitly be label
   switched, then:

   o  BFD control packet MUST get imposed with a label stack that is
      expected to reach the target node.
   o  MPLS TTL MUST be 255 for full reachability validations.  Partial
      reachability validations MAY use smaller TTL value (see
      Section 10).
   o  Destination IP address MUST be 127/8 for IPv4 and
      0:0:0:0:0:FFFF:7F00/104 for IPv6.
   o  Source IP address MUST be a local IP address.
   o  IP TTL=1.
   o  Well-known UDP destination port(s) for MPLS based S-BFD

9.1.1.  Initiator State machine

   The following diagram provides an overview of the initiator state
   machine.  The notation on each arc represents the state of the remote
   system (as received in the State field in the BFD Control packet) or
   indicates the expiration of the Detection Timer.



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                       +--+
          ADMIN DOWN,  |  |
          TIMER        |  V
                     +------+   UP                +------+
                     |      |-------------------->|      |----+
                     | DOWN |                     |  UP  |    | UP
                     |      |<--------------------|      |<---+
                     +------+   ADMIN DOWN,       +------+
                                TIMER

                    Figure 3: S-BFD Initiator FSM

   Note that the above state machine is different from the base BFD
   specification[RFC5880].  This is because the Init state is no longer
   applicable for the initiator of the S-BFD session.  Another important
   difference is the transition of the state machine from the Down state
   to the Up state when a packet with State Up is received by the
   initiator.  The definitions of the states and the events have the
   same meaning as in the base BFD specification [RFC5880].

9.2.  Responder Behavior

   A network node which receives BFD control packets transmitted by an
   initiator is referred as responder.  Responder, upon reception of BFD
   control packets, is to perform necessary relevant validations
   described in [RFC5880]/[RFC5881]/[RFC5883]/[RFC5884]/[RFC5885].

9.2.1.  Responder Demultiplexing

   When responder receives a BFD control packet, if "your discriminator"
   value is not one of local entries in the BFD target identifier table,
   then this packet MUST NOT be considered for this mechanism.  If "your
   discriminator" value is one of local entries in the BFD target
   identifier table, then the packet is determined to be handled by a
   reflector BFD session responsible for specified BFD targeted
   identifier.  If the packet was determined to be processed further for
   this mechanism, then chosen reflector BFD session is to transmit a
   response BFD control packet using procedures described in
   Section 9.2.2, unless prohibited by local administrative or local
   policy reasons.

9.2.2.  Reflector BFD Session Procedures

   BFD target identifier type MUST be used to determine further
   information on how to reach back to the initiator.






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   In addition, destination IP address of received BFD control packet
   MUST be examined to determine how to construct response BFD control
   packet to send back to the initiator.

   If destination IP address of received BFD control packet is not 127/8
   for IPv4 or 0:0:0:0:0:FFFF:7F00/104 for IPv6, then:

   o  Destination IP address MUST be copied from received source IP
      address.
   o  Source IP address MUST be copied from received destination IP
      address if received destination IP address is a local address.
      Otherwise local IP address MUST be used.
   o  IP TTL MUST be 255.

   Response BFD control packet SHOULD be IP routed back, but MAY
   explicitly be label switched.

   If BFD control packet response is determined to be IP routed, then:

   o  Destination IP address MUST be copied from received source IP
      address.
   o  Source IP address MUST be a local address.
   o  IP TTL MUST be 255.

   If BFD control packet response is determined to explicitly be label
   switched, then:

   o  BFD control packet MUST get label switched back to the initiator.
      Determining the label stack to be imposed on a response BFD
      control packet is outside the scope of this document.
   o  MPLS TTL MUST be 255.
   o  Destination IP address MUST be 127/8 for IPv4 and
      0:0:0:0:0:FFFF:7F00/104 for IPv6.
   o  Source IP address MUST be a local IP address.
   o  IP TTL MUST be 1.

   Regardless of the response type, BFD control packet being sent by the
   responder MUST perform following procedures:

   o  Copy "my discriminator" from received "your discriminator", and
      "your discriminator" from received "my discriminator".
   o  UDP destination port MUST be same as received UDP destination
      port.








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9.3.  Further Packet Details

   Further details of BFD control packets sent by initiator (ex: active
   BFD session):

   o  Well-known UDP destination port assigned for S-BFD.
   o  UDP source port as per described in [RFC5881]/[RFC5883]/[RFC5884]/
      [RFC5885].
   o  "my discriminator" assigned by local node.
   o  "your discriminator" corresponding to an identifier of target
      node.
   o  "State" MUST be set to a value reflecting local state.
   o  "Desired Min TX Interval" MUST be set to a value reflecting local
      desired minimum transmit interval.
   o  "Required Min RX Interval" MUST be zero.
   o  "Required Min Echo RX Interval" SHOULD be zero.
   o  "Detection Multiplier" MUST be set to a value reflecting locally
      used multiplier value.
   o  "Demand bit (D)" MUST be set by the initiator.

   Further details of BFD control packets sent by responder (reflector
   BFD session):

   o  Well-known UDP destination port assigned for S-BFD.
   o  UDP source port as described in [RFC5881]/[RFC5883]/[RFC5884]/
      [RFC5885].
   o  "my discriminator" MUST be copied from received "your
      discriminator".
   o  "your discriminator" MUST be copied from received "my
      discriminator".
   o  "State" MUST be UP or ADMINDOWN.  Clarification of reflector BFD
      session state is described in Section 9.8.
   o  "Desired Min TX Interval" MUST be copied from received "Desired
      Min TX Interval".
   o  "Required Min RX Interval" MUST be set to a value reflecting how
      many incoming control packets this reflector BFD session can
      handle.
   o  "Required Min Echo RX Interval" SHOULD be set to zero.
   o  "Detection Multiplier" MUST be copied from received "Detection
      Multiplier".
   o  "Demand bit (D)" MUST be cleared by the reflector.

9.4.  Diagnostic Values

   Diagnostic value in both directions MAY be set to a certain value, to
   attempt to communicate further information to both ends.  However,
   details of such are outside the scope of this specification.




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9.5.  The Poll Sequence

   The Poll sequence MUST operate in accordance with [RFC5880].

9.6.  Control Plane Independent (C)

   Control plane independent (C) bit for BFD instances speaking to a
   reflector BFD session MUST work according to [RFC5880].  Reflector
   BFD session also MUST work according to [RFC5880].  Specifically, if
   reflector BFD session implementation does not share fate with control
   plane, then response BFD control packets transmitted MUST have
   control plane independent (C) bit set.  If reflector BFD session
   implementation shares fate with control plane, then response BFD
   control packets transmitted MUST NOT have control plane independent
   (C) bit set.

9.7.  Additional Initiator Behavior

   o  If initiator receives valid BFD control packet in response to
      transmitted BFD control packet, then initiator SHOULD conclude
      that packet reached intended target.

   o  When a sufficient number of BFD control packets have not arrived
      as they should, the initiator could declare loss of reachability.
      The criteria for declaring loss of reachability and the action
      that would be triggered as a result are outside the scope of this
      specification.

   o  Relating to above bullet item, it is critical for an
      implementation to understand the latency to/from reflector BFD
      session on target node.  In other words, for very first BFD
      control packet transmitted, an implementation MUST NOT expect
      response BFD control packet to be received for time equivalent to
      sum of latencies: initiator node to target node and target node
      back to initiator node.

   o  If initiator receives a packet with D bit set, the packet MUST be
      discarded.

9.8.  Additional Responder Behavior

   o  BFD control packets transmitted by a reflector BFD session MUST
      have "Required Min RX Interval" set to a value which reflects how
      many incoming control packets this reflector BFD session can
      handle.  Responder can control how fast initiators will be sending
      BFD control packets to self by ensuring "Required Min RX Interval"
      reflects a value based on current load.




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   o  If a reflector BFD session wishes to communicate to some or all
      initiators that monitored BFD target identifier is "temporarily
      out of service", then BFD control packets with "state" set to
      ADMINDOWN are sent to those initiators.  Initiators, upon
      reception of such packets, MUST NOT conclude loss of reachability
      to corresponding BFD target identifier, and MUST back off packet
      transmission interval to corresponding BFD target identifier an
      interval no faster than 1 second.  If a reflector BFD session is
      generating a response BFD control packet for BFD target identifier
      that is in service, then "state" in response BFD control packets
      MUST be set to UP.

   o  If a reflector receives a packet with D bit cleared, the packet
      MUST be discarded.

10.  Partial Reachability Validations

   Same mechanism as described in "Full Reachability Validations"
   section will be applied with exception of following differences on
   initiator.

   o  When initiator wishes to perform a partial reachability validation
      towards identifier X upto identifier Y, number of hops to
      identifier Y is calculated.

   o  TTL value based on this calculation is used as the IP TTL or MPLS
      TTL on top most label, and "your discriminator" of transmitted BFD
      control packet will carry BFD discriminator corresponding to
      target transit identifier Y.

   o  Imposed label stack or IP destination address will continue to be
      of identifier X.

11.  Scaling Aspect

   This mechanism brings forth one noticeable difference in terms of
   scaling aspect: number of BFD sessions.  This specification
   eliminates the need for egress nodes to have fully active BFD
   sessions when only one side desires to perform reachability
   validations.  With introduction of reflector BFD concept, egress no
   longer is required to create any active BFD session per path/LSP
   basis.  Due to this, total number of BFD sessions in a network is
   reduced.

   If traditional BFD technology was used on a network comprised of N
   nodes, and each node monitored M unidirectional paths/LSPs, then
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   (((N - 1) x M) x 2)

   Assuming that each network node creates one reflector BFD session to
   handle all local BFD target identifiers, then total number of BFD
   sessions in same scenario will be:

   (((N - 1) x M) + N)

12.  Co-existence with Traditional BFD

   This mechanism has no issues being deployed with traditional BFDs
   ([RFC5881]/[RFC5883]/[RFC5884]/[RFC5885]) because BFD discriminators
   which allow this mechanism to function are explicitly reserved and
   separate UDP port values are used with S-BFD.

13.  BFD Echo

   BFD echo is outside the scope of this document.

14.  Security Considerations

   Same security considerations as [RFC5880], [RFC5881], [RFC5883],
   [RFC5884] and [RFC5885] apply to this document.

   Additionally, implementing the following measures will strengthen
   security aspects of the mechanism described by this document.

   o  Implementations MUST provide filtering capability based on source
      IP addresses or source node segment IDs of received BFD control
      packets: [RFC2827].

   o  Implementations MUST NOT act on received BFD control packets
      containing Martian addresses as source IP addresses.

   o  Implementations MUST ensure response target IP addresses or node
      segment IDs are reachable.

   o  Initiator MAY pick crypto sequence number based on authentication
      mode configured.

   o  The reflector MUST NOT look at the crypto sequence number before
      accepting the packet.

   o  Reflector MAY look at the Key ID
      [I-D.ietf-bfd-generic-crypto-auth] in the incoming packet and
      verify the authentication data.

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   o  Reflector MUST compute the Authentication data and MUST use the
      same sequence number that it received in the S-BFD packet that it
      is responding to.

   o  Initiator MUST accept the S-BFD packet if it either comes with the
      same sequence number as it had sent or its within the window that
      it finds acceptable (described in detail in
      [I-D.ietf-bfd-generic-crypto-auth])

   Using the above method,

   o  Reflectors continue to remain stateless despite using security.

   o  Reflectors are not susceptible to replay attacks as they always
      respond to S-BFD packets irrespective of the sequence number
      carried.

   o  An attacker cannot impersonate the Reflector since the Initiator
      will only accept S-BFD packets that come with the sequence number
      that it had originally used when sending the S-BFD packet.

15.  IANA Considerations

   BFD Target Identifier types:

         Value    BFD Target Identifier Type
        ------    --------------------------
             0    Reserved
             1    Network Target Discriminator

   New UDP port number, TBD1, will be requested for S-BFD.

16.  Acknowledgements

   Authors would like to thank Jeffrey Haas for performing thorough
   reviews and providing number of suggestions.  Authors would like to
   thank Girija Raghavendra Rao, Marc Binderberger, Les Ginsberg,
   Srihari Raghavan, Vanitha Neelamegam and Vengada Prasad Govindan from
   Cisco Systems for providing valuable comments.

17.  Contributing Authors

   Tarek Saad
   Cisco Systems
   Email: tsaad@cisco.com

   Siva Sivabalan
   Cisco Systems



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   Email: msiva@cisco.com

   Nagendra Kumar
   Cisco Systems
   Email: naikumar@cisco.com

   Mallik Mudigonda
   Cisco Systems
   Email: mmudigon@cisco.com

   Sam Aldrin
   Huawei Technologies
   Email: aldrin.ietf@gmail.com

18.  References

18.1.  Normative References

   [I-D.aldrin-bfd-seamless-use-case]
              Aldrin, S., Bhatia, M., Mirsky, G., Kumar, N., and S.
              Matsushima, "Seamless Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
              (BFD) Use Case", draft-aldrin-bfd-seamless-use-case-01
              (work in progress), March 2014.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC5880]  Katz, D. and D. Ward, "Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
              (BFD)", RFC 5880, June 2010.

   [RFC5881]  Katz, D. and D. Ward, "Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
              (BFD) for IPv4 and IPv6 (Single Hop)", RFC 5881, June
              2010.

   [RFC5883]  Katz, D. and D. Ward, "Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
              (BFD) for Multihop Paths", RFC 5883, June 2010.

   [RFC5884]  Aggarwal, R., Kompella, K., Nadeau, T., and G. Swallow,
              "Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) for MPLS Label
              Switched Paths (LSPs)", RFC 5884, June 2010.

18.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-bfd-generic-crypto-auth]
              Bhatia, M., Manral, V., and D. Zhang, "BFD Generic
              Cryptographic Authentication", draft-ietf-bfd-generic-
              crypto-auth-05 (work in progress), October 2013.




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   [I-D.previdi-filsfils-isis-segment-routing]
              Previdi, S., Filsfils, C., Bashandy, A., Horneffer, M.,
              Decraene, B., Litkowski, S., Milojevic, I., Shakir, R.,
              Ytti, S., Henderickx, W., and J. Tantsura, "Segment
              Routing with IS-IS Routing Protocol", draft-previdi-
              filsfils-isis-segment-routing-02 (work in progress), March
              2013.

   [RFC2827]  Ferguson, P. and D. Senie, "Network Ingress Filtering:
              Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source
              Address Spoofing", BCP 38, RFC 2827, May 2000.

   [RFC5885]  Nadeau, T. and C. Pignataro, "Bidirectional Forwarding
              Detection (BFD) for the Pseudowire Virtual Circuit
              Connectivity Verification (VCCV)", RFC 5885, June 2010.

Appendix A.  Loop Problem

   Consider a scenario where we have two nodes and both are S-BFD
   capable.

        Node A (IP 1.1.1.1) ---------------- Node B (IP 2.2.2.2)
                                    |
                                    |
                            Man in the Middle (MiM)

   Assume node A reserved a discriminator 0x01010101 for target
   identifier 1.1.1.1 and has a reflector session in listening mode.
   Similarly node B reserved a discriminator 0x02020202 for its target
   identifier 2.2.2.2 and also has a reflector session in listening
   mode.

   Suppose MiM sends a spoofed packet with MyDisc = 0x01010101, YourDisc
   = 0x02020202, source IP as 1.1.1.1 and dest IP as 2.2.2.2.  When this
   packet reaches Node B, the reflector session on Node B will swap the
   discriminators and IP addresses of the received packet and reflect it
   back, since YourDisc of the received packet matched with reserved
   discriminator of Node B. The reflected packet that reached Node A
   will have MyDdisc=0x02020202 and YourDisc=0x01010101.  Since YourDisc
   of the received packet matched the reserved discriminator of Node A,
   Node A will swap the discriminators and reflects the packet back to
   Node B. Since reflectors MUST set the TTL of the reflected packets to
   255, the above scenario will result in an infinite loop with just one
   malicious packet injected from MiM.

   FYI: Packet fields do not carry any direction information, i.e., if
   this is Ping packet or reply packet.




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   Solutions

   The current proposals to avoid the loop problem are:

   o  Overload "D" bit (Demand mode bit): Initiator always sets the 'D'
      bit and reflector clears it.  This way we can identify if a
      received packet was a reflected packet and avoid reflecting it
      back.  However this changes the interpretation of 'D' bit.

   o  Use of State field in the BFD control packets: Initiator will
      always send packets with State set to "DOWN" and reflector will
      send back packets with state field set to "UP.  Reflectors will
      never reflect any received packets with state as "UP".  However
      the only issue is the use of state field differently i.e. state in
      the S-BFD control packet from initiator does not reflect the local
      state which is anyway not significant at reflector.

   o  Use of local discriminator as My Disc at reflector: Reflector will
      always fill in My Discriminator with a locally allocated
      discriminator value (not reserved discriminators) and will not
      copy it from the received packet.

Authors' Addresses

   Nobo Akiya
   Cisco Systems

   Email: nobo@cisco.com


   Carlos Pignataro
   Cisco Systems

   Email: cpignata@cisco.com


   Dave Ward
   Cisco Systems

   Email: wardd@cisco.com


   Manav Bhatia
   Alcatel-Lucent

   Email: manav.bhatia@alcatel-lucent.com





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   Santosh
   Juniper Networks

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