Internet DRAFT - draft-gao-bess-evpn-blackhole

draft-gao-bess-evpn-blackhole



BESS Workgroup                                               Yuan Gao
Internet-Draft                                               Haibo Wang
Intended status: Standards Track                     Huawei Technologies
Expires: July 20, 2019                                  January 16, 2019


           EVPN blackhole community extention for Blackholing
                    draft-gao-bess-evpn-blackhole-01

Abstract

   Ethernet Virtual Private Networks (EVPN) is becoming the de-facto
   standard-based control plane solution for Data Center and layer-2
   Service Provider applications.The risk of hacking and DDos attacks
   within the EVPN network is general common concern.Blackhole mac is a
   method used to block hacking or DDos attacks, The network device
   discard the packets where destionation match the blackhole
   mac.Normally blackhole mac is mannually configured on the
   networkdevic,Configure blackhole mac is complex and error-prone task
   for network operators.This document introduces a blackhole community
   extension for evpn mac route to distribute the blackhole mac in the
   EVPN networks.The evpn mac route with blackhole community allows the
   bgp speaker to notify the recipients the specific mac is a blackhole
   mac.

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 .

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Blackhole Extended Community Attribute  . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Control Plane Processing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Data Packets Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   5.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   6.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   7.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   8.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4

1.  Introduction

   Hacking attacks are a serious threat to the network infrastructure.In
   order to prevent a hacker from using a MAC address to attack a user
   device or network, the MAC address of an untrusted user is configured
   as blackhole mac on the network device.

   DDoS attacks targeting a certain mac may cause congestion of links,In
   order to block DDoS attacks, the mac being attacked could be
   congfigured as blackhole mac on the network device, The network
   device directly discards the received packets where the destination
   MAC address is the blackhole MAC address.

   Normally blackhole mac address entrys are manually configured on the
   device.  After blackhole mac entrys are configured, the device
   discards packets destined for the blackhole mac address.  Configure
   blackhole mac is complex and error-prone task for network operators.
   Therefore a well-known BGP community for blackholing based on evpn
   route is defined for operational ease.





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   This document introduces a blackhole community extension for evpn mac
   route, The BGP speaker advertise evpn mac route with this community
   indicate that the specific mac is a blackhole mac, the recipients
   install the mac address as blackhole mac address entry and discard
   the packet corresponds to the blackhole mac address.

2.  Blackhole Extended Community Attribute

   MAC Mobility Extended Community can be used to carry the blackhole
   mac attribute.  MAC Mobility Extended Community may be advertised
   along with MAC/IP Advertisement routes.  The thirdly octet of the
   first word is Flags octect.  The Flag bit 7(B Bit) of the flags
   octect is defined as the "blackhole" bit . A value of 1 means that
   the MAC address is blackhole mac . The semantics of this attribute is
   to allow a network to interpret the presence of this community as an
   advisory qualification to drop any traffic being sent towards or from
   this mac.

   When the Mac Mobility Extended Community's B bit is set to 1, the
   sequence number is meaningless and should be set to zero.

   The MAC Mobility extended community is encoded as an 8-octet value,
   as follows:

        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=0x00 |R|R|R|R|R|R|B|S|  Reserved=0   |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |                       Sequence Number                         |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

3.  Control Plane Processing

   When a network device is under DDos attack, it may announce the
   victim's mac address as blackhole mac address for the purpose of
   signaling to neighboring networks any traffic destinated to the mac
   address should be discard.  In such a scenarior, the victim's mac
   route should attach Blackhole Extended Community.  The network device
   will install the victim's mac address as blackhole mac entry.  Then
   the network device advertise the victim's mac address in evpn mac
   route with MAC Mobility Extended Community, the MAC Mobility Extended
   Community set the "blackhole" flag . The recipients install the mac
   address as blackhole mac address entry.








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4.  Data Packets Processing

   When the network device received packets where the destination MAC
   address match the blackhole MAC address.  The network device discards
   the packet directly.

5.  IANA Considerations

   TBD.

6.  Security Considerations

   Unauthorized addition of the BLACKHOLE BGP community to a mac route
   by the forwarding agent may cause a unexpected packet discard.  BGP
   have to support the mechanism to prevent the unauthorized
   modification of information by the forwarding agent.Recipients of
   routing information have the ability to to detect the unauthorized
   modification.  Howto prevent the unauthorized modification is out of
   the scope of this document.

7.  Acknowledgements

   The authors of this document would like to thank zhuangshunwan for
   his comments and review of this document.

8.  References

   [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>.

   [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>.

Authors' Addresses

   Yuan Gao
   Huawei Technologies
   101 Software Avenue, Yuhua District
   Nanjing  210012
   P.R. China

   Email: sean.gao@huawei.com




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   Haibo Wang
   Huawei Technologies
   Huawei Bld., No.156 Beiqing Rd.
   Beijing  100095
   P.R. China

   Email: rainsword.wang@huawei.com