Network Working Group J.He Internet Draft Huawei Technologies Intended status: Standard Track H.Li China Mobile E. Bellagamba Ericsson Expires: March 2012 September 13, 2011 Indication of Client Failure in MPLS-TP draft-ietf-mpls-tp-csf-02.txt Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted to IETF in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." 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Abstract This document describes a Multi-Protocol Label Switching Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) protocol to propagate a client failure indication across an MPLS-TP network in the case that propagation of failure status in the client layer is not supported as required in [RFC5860]. Table of Contents 1. Introduction ................................................ 2 2. Conventions used in this document............................ 3 2.1. Terminology ............................................ 3 3. Mechanisms of CSF ........................................... 4 3.1. General ................................................ 4 3.2. Transmission of CSF..................................... 5 3.3. Reception of CSF........................................ 6 3.4. Configuration of CSF.................................... 6 4. Frame format of CSF ......................................... 7 5. Consequent actions .......................................... 8 6. Security Considerations...................................... 9 7. IANA Considerations ......................................... 9 8. Acknowledgments ............................................. 9 9. References .................................................. 9 9.1. Normative References.................................... 9 9.2. Informative References................................. 10 10. Authors' Addresses ........................................ 10 1. Introduction In transport networks, OAM functions are important and fundamental to ease operational complexity, enhance network availability and meet service performance objectives. This is achieved through automatic detection, handling, diagnosis, appropriate reporting of defects and performance monitoring. As defined in [RFC 5860] MPLS-TP OAM MUST provide a function to enable the propagation, from edge to edge of an MPLS-TP network, of information pertaining to a client (i.e., external to the MPLS-TP network) defect or fault condition detected at an End Point of a PW or LSP, if the client layer OAM functionality does not provide an alarm notification/propagation functionality (e.g. not needed in the He, et al. Expires March 13, 2012 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Indication of Client Failure in MPLS-TP September 2011 original application of the client signal, or the signal was originally at the bottom of the layer stack and it was not expected to be transported over a server layer), while such an indication is needed by the downstream. This document defines a Client Signal Fail (CSF) indication protocol in order to propagate client failures and their clearance across a MPLS-TP domain. According to [RFC 5921], MPLS-TP supports two native service adaptation mechanisms via: 1) a Pseudowire, to emulate certain services, for example, Ethernet, Frame Relay, or PPP / High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC). 2) an LSP, to provide adaptation for any native service traffic type supported by [RFC3031] and [RFC3032]. Examples of such traffic types include IP packets and MPLS-labeled packets (i.e.: PW over LSP, or IP over LSP). As to the first adaptation mechanism via a PW, the mechanism of CSF function to support propagation of client failure indication follows [static-pw-status]. The PW status relevant to CSF function is AC fault as defined in [RFC 4447] and [RFC 4446]. As to the second adaptation mechanism via LSP, the mechanism is detailed in this draft and is used in case the client of MPLS-TP can not provide itself with such failure notification/propagation. 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 [RFC 2119]. 2.1. Terminology The reader is assumed to be familiar with the terminology in MPLS-TP. The relationship between ITU-T and IETF terminologies on MPLS-TP can be found in [Rosetta stone]. ACH: Associated Channel Header AIS: Alarm Indication Signal CSF: Client Signal Fail indication He, et al. Expires March 13, 2012 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Indication of Client Failure in MPLS-TP September 2011 FDI: Forward Defect Indication G-ACh: Generic Associated Channel GAL: G-ACh Label LSR: Label Switching Router MEP: Maintenance Entity Group End Point MIP: Maintenance Entity Group Intermediate Point OAM: Operations, Administration, and Maintenance MPLS-TP: MPLS Transport Profile PW: Pseudowire RDI: Remote Defect Indication 3. Mechanisms of CSF 3.1. General Client Signal Fail(CSF) indication provides a function to enable a MEP to propagate a client failure indication to its peer MEP across a MPLS-TP network in case the client service itself does not support propagation of its failure status. A MIP is not intended to generate or process CSF information. Packets with CSF information can be issued by a MEP, upon receiving failure information from its client service. Detection rules for client failure events are client-specific and are therefore outside the scope of this document. +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ | | | |-->CSF | | | | | A |--X--| B |-----------------| C |------| D | +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ |<--MPLS-TP domain-->| Figure 1 Use case of CSF Figure 1 depicts a typical connection scenario between two client network elements (Node A and Node D) interconnected through MPLS-TP transport network. Client Node A connects to MPLS-TP Node B and He, et al. Expires March 13, 2012 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Indication of Client Failure in MPLS-TP September 2011 Client Node D connects to MPLS-TP Node C. Node B and C support MPLS- TP MEP function. If a failure is detected between Node A and Node B and is taken as a native client failure condition, the MEP function in Node B will initiate CSF signal and it will be sent to Node C through MPLS-TP network. CSF signal will be extracted at Node C as an indication of client signal failure. Further, this may be mapped back into native client failure indication and regenerated towards client Node D. Node B learns the failure between A and B either by direct detection of signal fail (e.g. loss of signal) or by some fault indications between A and B (e.g. RDI, AIS/FDI). If the connection between Node A and B recovers, Node B may stop sending CSF signals to Node C (implicit failure clearance mechanism) or explicitly send failure clearance indication (e.g. by flags in CSF PDU format) to Node C to help expedite clearance of native client failure conditions. Accordingly, Node C will clear client failure condition when a valid client data frame is received and no CSF is received (implicit failure clearance mechanism) or upon receiving explicit failure clearance indication. 3.2. Transmission of CSF When CSF function is enabled, upon learning signal failure condition of its client-layer, the MEP can immediately start transmitting periodic packets with CSF information to its peer MEP. A MEP continues to transmit periodic packets with CSF information until the client-layer signal failure condition is cleared. The clearance of CSF condition can be communicated to the peer MEP via: - Stopping of the transmission of CSF signal but forwarding client data frames, or - Forwarding CSF PDUs with a clearance indication. Transmission of packets with CSF information can be enabled or disabled on a MEP (e.g. through management plane). He, et al. Expires March 13, 2012 [Page 5] Internet-Draft Indication of Client Failure in MPLS-TP September 2011 Detection and clearance rules for CSF events are client and application specific and outside the scope of this draft. The period of CSF transmission is client and application specific. Examples are as follows: - 3.33ms: for protection switching application. - 1s: for fault management application. However, the value 0 is invalid. 3.3. Reception of CSF Upon receiving a packet with CSF information a MEP either declares or clears a client-layer signal fail condition according to the received CSF information and propagates this as a signal fail indication to its client-layer. CSF condition is cleared when the receiving MEP - does not receive CSF signal within an interval of N times the CSF transmission period (Suggested value of N is 3.5), or - receives a valid client data frame, or - receives CSF PDU with CSF-Clear information 3.4. Configuration of CSF Specific configuration information required by a MEP to support CSF transmission is the following: CSF transmission period - this is application dependent. Examples are 3.3 ms and 1s. PHB - identifies the per-hop behavior of packet with CSF information. A MIP is transparent to packets with CSF information and therefore does not require any information to support CSF functionality. He, et al. Expires March 13, 2012 [Page 6] Internet-Draft Indication of Client Failure in MPLS-TP September 2011 4. Frame format of CSF Figure 2 depicts the frame format of CSF. CSF PDUs are encapsulated using the ACH, according to [RFC 5586]. GAL is used as an alert based exception mechanism to differentiate CSF packets (with ACH as G-ACh packets) from user-plane packets as defined in [RFC 5586]. 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 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |0 0 0 1|0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0| MPLS-TP CSF(0xXX) | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Version | Reserved 1 | Flags | Reserved 2 | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Total TLV Len | ~ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ TLVs ~ ~ | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Figure 2 Frame format of CSF The first four bytes represent the Generic ACH ([RFC 5586]): - first nibble: set to 0001b to indicate a control channel associated with a PW, a LSP or a Section; - ACH Version(bits 4 to 7): set to 0, as specified in [RFC 5586] - ACH Reserved (bits 8 to 15): set to 0 and ignored on reception, as specified in [RFC 5586]; - ACH Channel Type (Bits 16 to 31): value 0xXX identifies the payload as CSF PDU. To be assigned by IANA. - CSF Version (Bits 32 to 39): Set to 0; - CSF Reserved 1 (Bits 40 to 47): This field MUST be set to zero on transmission and ignored on receipt; - CSF Reserved 2 (Bits 56 to 63): This field MUST be set to zero on transmission and ignored on receipt; - Total TLV Length: Total of all included TLVs. No TLVs are defined currently. The value is 0. He, et al. Expires March 13, 2012 [Page 7] Internet-Draft Indication of Client Failure in MPLS-TP September 2011 - TLVs: No TLVs are defined currently. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | Res | Type | Period | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Figure 3 Format of Flags in CSF PDU Figure 3 depicts the format of Flags in CSF PDU. - Flag Reserved (Bits 48 to 49): Set to 0; - Type (Bits 50 to 52): Set to the following values to indicate CSF types Value Type 111 Client Signal Fail - Loss of Signal (CSF-LOS) 001 Client Signal Fail - Forward Defect Indication (CSF-FDI) 010 Client Signal Fail - Reverse Defect Indication (CSF-RDI) 000 Clearance of Client Signal Fail - (CSF-Clear) - Period (Bits 53 to 55): CSF transmission period and can be configured. 5. Consequent actions The primary intention of CSF is to transport a client signal fail condition at the input of the MPLS-TP network to the output port of the MPLS-TP network for clients that do not have alarm notification/propagation mechanism defined. Further, CSF allows creating a condition at the output port of the MPLS-TP network such that the customer input port is able to detect and alarm that there is no data arriving i.e. the connection is interrupted. In this case, customers may choose another transport network or another port to continue communication. He, et al. Expires March 13, 2012 [Page 8] Internet-Draft Indication of Client Failure in MPLS-TP September 2011 6. Security Considerations Malicious insertion of spurious CSF signals (e.g. DoS) is not quite likely in a transport network since transport networks are usually self-managed by operators and providers. 7. IANA Considerations MPLS-TP CSF function requires a new Associated Channel Type to be assigned by IANA from the Pseudowire Associated Channel Types Registry. Registry: Value Description ----- ----------------------- 0xXX MPLS-TP Client Signal Fail indication (CSF) 8. Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Haiyan Zhang, Adrian Farrel, Loa Andersson, Matthew Bocci, Andy Malis and Thomas D. Nadeau for their guidance and input to this work. 9. References 9.1. Normative References [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC3031] Rosen, E., Viswanathan, A., and R. Callon, "Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture", RFC 3031, January 2001. [RFC3032] Rosen, E., Tappan, D., Fedorkow, G., Rekhter, Y., Farinacci, D., Li, T., and A. Conta, "MPLS Label Stack Encoding", RFC 3032, January 2001. [RFC4446] Martini, L., "IANA Allocations for Pseudowire Edge to Edge Emulation (PWE3)", RFC4446, April 2006 He, et al. Expires March 13, 2012 [Page 9] Internet-Draft Indication of Client Failure in MPLS-TP September 2011 [RFC4447] Martini, L., et al., "Pseudowire Setup and Maintenance Using the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)", RFC4447, April 2006. [RFC5586] Vigoureux, M., Bocci, M., Swallow, G., Ward, D., and R. Aggarwal, "MPLS Generic Associated Channel", RFC5586, June 2009 [ITU-T Recommendation G.7041] "Generic framing procedure (GFP)", ITU- T G.7041, October 2008 [RFC 5654] Niven-Jenkins, B., Brungard, D., and M. Betts, "Requirements of an MPLS Transport Profile", RFC 5654, September 2009 [RFC 5860] Vigoureux, M., Ward, D., and M. Betts, "Requirements for OAM in MPLS Transport Networks", RFC5860, May 2010 [RFC 5921] Bocci, M., Bryant, S., and D. Frost, "A Framework for MPLS in Transport Networks", RFC 5921, July 2010 [static-pw-status] Martini, L., Swallow, G., Heron, G., and M. Bocci, "Pseudowire Status for Static Pseudowires", draft-ietf- pwe3-static-pw-status-06 (work in progress), July 2011 9.2. Informative References [MPLS-TP OAM Frmk] Busi,I., and D. Allan, "MPLS-TP OAM Framework and Overview", draft-ietf-mpls-tp-oam-framework-11(work in progress), February 2011 [Rosetta stone] Van Helvoort, H., Andersson, L., Sprecher, N., "A Thesaurus for the Terminology used in Multiprotocol Label Switching Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) drafts/RFCs and ITU- T's Transport Network Recommendations", draft-ietf-mpls-tp- rosetta-stone-04 (work in progress), June 2011 10. Authors' Addresses Jia He Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Email: hejia@huawei.com He, et al. 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