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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 RFC7432, "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.¶
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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.¶
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.¶
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.¶
This document categorizes E-Tree scenarios into the following three categories, depending on the nature of the Root/Leaf site association:¶
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.¶
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.¶
+---------+ +---------+
| PE1 | | PE2 |
+---+ | +---+ | +------+ | +---+ | +---+
|CE1+---AC1----+--|BD1| | | | | | |--+----AC2-----+CE2|
+---+ (Root) | | | | | | | |BD1| | (Leaf) +---+
| +---+ | | | | | | | +---+
+---------+ | MPLS/| | | |--+----AC3-----|CE3|
| IP | | +---+ | (Leaf) +---+
| Net | +---------+
| |
| | +---------+
| | | PE3 |
| | | +---+ | +---+
+------| | | |--+----AC4-----+CE4|
| |BD1| | (Leaf) +---+
| | | |
| +---+ |
+---------+
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 5.6.¶
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 5.6 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).¶
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) +---+
| | | |
| +---+ |
+---------+
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 5.6. 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.¶
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.¶
+---------+ +---------+
| PE1 | | PE2 |
+---+ | +---+ | +------+ | +---+ | +---+
|CE1+---AC1----+--|BD1| | | | | | |--+----AC2------+CE2|
+---+ (Root) | | | | | | | |BD1| | (Leaf&Root) +---+
| +---+ | | | | | | | +---+
+---------+ | MPLS/| | | |--+----AC3------|CE3|
| IP | | +---+ | (Leaf) +---+
| Net | +---------+
| |
| | +---------+
| | | PE3 |
| | | +---+ | +---+
+------| | | |--+----AC4------+CE4|
| |BD1| | (Leaf&Root) +---+
| | | |
| +---+ |
+---------+
[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.¶
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 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.¶
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].¶
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.¶
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.¶
In this scenario, the ingress PE does not add any ESI or Leaf labels and it operates per the procedures in [RFC7432].¶
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.¶
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.¶
This section specifies the procedure for egress filtering of BUM traffic with overlay encapsulation for IP tunnels 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 such as VxLAN, GPE, or 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 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.¶
This section specifies the procedure for egress filtering of BUM traffic with SRv6 encapsulation. The procedure is analogous to the one described in Section 5.2 for MPLS tunnels and ingress replication, only replacing the Leaf labels in MPLS-encapsulated frames with SRv6 encapsulated frames with ultimate destination being the SRv6 SID of End.DT2M behavior [RFC8986] along with the Arg.FE2 arguments encoded in it.¶
The Arg.FE2 argument is allocated by the egress PE and, as in Section 5.2, signaled in Ethernet A-D per ES routes with ESI of zero and a set of route targets corresponding to all BDs on the PE where each BD has at least one Leaf site.¶
In the cases where the ingress PE needs to send BUM traffic to the egress PE that advertised the Arg.FE2 argument, and that traffic is coming from a Leaf Attachment Circuit, the ingress PE encodes the Arg.FE2 value as part of the SID value that is used as the ultimate destination of the SRv6 encapsulated BUM frame. Those are the same cases as in Section 5.2 for traffic originated from a Leaf AC (single or multi-homed).¶
The encoding of the Arg.FE2 argument in Ethernet A-D per ES routes, the encoding of the End.DT2M SID without the ARG part in the IMET routes, as well as the processing of the routes on the ingress PE and error handling on reception are specified in [I-D.ietf-bess-bgp-srv6-args].¶
Per [RFC7387], a generic E-Tree service supports all of the following traffic flows:¶
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.¶
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.¶
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.¶
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.¶
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 advertised with E-Tree EC in order to support adaptive ingress and egress filtering as highlighted below.¶
+---------+---------+---------+-------------------------------+ |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 | +---------+---------+---------+-------------------------------+
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 with E-Tree EC that has only Leaf-Indication set and with a valid VNI, then:¶
For ingress replication:¶
For P2MP or MP2MP tunnels:¶
For all multicast tunnels, imposition PEs:¶
For all multicast tunnels, disposition PEs:¶
+---------+---------+---------+-------------------------------+ |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 | +---------+---------+---------+-------------------------------+
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.¶
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.¶
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:¶
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.¶
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).¶
This document defines a new BGP extended community for EVPN.¶
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 |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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.¶
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.¶
[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) |
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, 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].¶
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.¶
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:¶
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¶
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.¶
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.¶