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TRILL Working Group
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) W. Hao
INTERNET-DRAFT
Request for Comments: 7956 Y. Li
Intended Status: Standard
Category: Standards Track Huawei
ISSN: 2070-1721 A. Qu
MediaTec
M. Durrani
Cisco
Equinix Inc.
P. Sivamurugan
IP Infusion
Expires: January 4, 2017 July 4,
September 2016

TRILL

Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL)
Distributed Layer 3 Gateway
draft-ietf-trill-irb-14.txt

Abstract

The base TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links)
protocol provides optimal pair-wise data frame forwarding for layer Layer 2
intra-subnet traffic but not for layer Layer 3 inter-subnet traffic. A
centralized gateway solution is typically used for layer Layer 3 inter-
subnet traffic forwarding but has the following issues:

1. Sub-optimum forwarding paths for inter-subnet traffic.

2. A centralized gateway that may need to support a very large number
of gateway interfaces in a data center, Data Center, one per tenant per
data label Data
Label used by that tenant, to provide interconnect functionality
for all the layer Layer 2 virtual networks Virtual Networks in a TRILL campus.

3. A traffic bottleneck at the gateway.

This document specifies an optional TRILL distributed gateway
solution that resolves these centralized gateway issues.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction ................................................ 3 ....................................................3
1.1. Document Organization................................... 3 Organization ......................................3
2. Conventions used Used in this document............................ 4 This Document ...............................4
3. Simplified Example and Problem Statement..................... 5 Statement ........................5
3.1. Simplified Example...................................... 6 Example .........................................6
3.2. Problem Statement Summary............................... 8 Summary ..................................8
4. Layer 3 Traffic Forwarding Model............................. 9 Model ................................9
5. Distributed Gateway Solution Details......................... 9 Details ...........................10
5.1. Local Routing Information .............................. 10 .................................11
5.2. Local Routing Information Synchronization .............. 11 .................12
5.3. Active-active Active-Active Access ................................... 14 ......................................14
5.4. Data Traffic Forwarding Process ........................ 14 ...........................15
6. Distributed Layer 3 Gateway Process Example ................. 15 ....................16
6.1. Control plane process .................................. 16 Control-Plane Process .....................................17
6.2. Data Plane Data-Plane Process ..................................... 17 ........................................19
7. TRILL Protocol Extensions ................................... 18 ......................................20
7.1. The Tenant Label and Gateway MAC APPsub-TLV ............ 19 ...............20
7.2. "SE" The SE Flag in the NickFlags APPsub-TLV ...................... 20 ...................21
7.3. The IPv4 Prefix APPsub-TLV ............................. 20 ................................22
7.4. The IPv6 Prefix APPsub-TLV ............................. 21 ................................23
8. Security Considerations ..................................... 22 ........................................24
9. Management Considerations ................................... 22 ......................................24
10. IANA Considerations ........................................ 23 ...........................................24
11. References ....................................................25
11.1. Normative References ....................................... 23
12. .....................................25
11.2. Informative References ..................................... 24 ...................................26
Acknowledgments ............................................... 25 ...................................................27
Authors' Addresses ............................................ 25 ................................................28

1. Introduction

The TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) protocol
[RFC6325] [RFC7780] provides a solution for least cost least-cost transparent
routing in multi-hop networks with arbitrary topologies and link
technologies, using IS-IS [IS-IS] [RFC7176] link-state routing and a
hop count. TRILL switches are sometimes called RBridges (Routing
Bridges).

The base TRILL protocol provides optimal unicast forwarding for
Layer 2 intra-subnet traffic but not for Layer 3 inter-subnet
traffic, where subnet "subnet" means a different IP address prefix and
typically and,
typically, a different Data Label (VLAN or FGL (Fine Grained (Fine-Grained Label)).
In this document,
This document specifies a TRILL-based distributed Layer 3 gateway
solution
is specified that provides optimal unicast forwarding for Layer 3
inter-subnet traffic. With distributed gateway support, an edge
RBridge provides both routing based on the Layer 2 identity (address and
virtual network
Virtual Network (VN, i.e., Data Label)) among end stations End Stations (ESs) that
belong to the same subnet and also provides routing based on the
Layer 3 identity among ESs that belong to different subnets of the
same routing domain. An edge RBridge supporting this feature needs
to provide routing instances and Layer 3 gateway interfaces for
locally connected ESs. Such routing instances provide IP address
isolation between tenants. In the TRILL distributed Layer 3 gateway
solution, inter-subnet traffic can be fully spread over edge
RBridges, so there is no single bottleneck.

1.1. Document Organization

This document is organized as follows: Section 3 gives a simplified
example and also a more detailed problem statement. Section 4 gives
the Layer 3 traffic forwarding model. Section 5 provides a
distributed gateway solution overview. Section 6 gives a detailed
distributed gateway solution example. And Section 7 describes the TRILL
protocol extensions needed to support this distributed gateway
solution.

2. Conventions used Used in this document 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 [RFC2119].

The terms and acronyms in [RFC6325] are used used, with the following
additions:

AGG: Aggregation switch.

ARP: Address Resolution Protocol [RFC826].

Campus: The name for a network using the TRILL protocol in the same
sense that a ''bridged LAN'' "bridged LAN" is the name for a network using
bridging. In TRILL, the word ''campus'' "campus" has no academic
implication.

COR: Core switch.

Data Label: VLAN or FGL [RFC7172].

DC: Data Center.

Edge RBridge: An RBridges RBridge that connects to one or more End
Stations ESs without any
intervening RBridges.

FGL: Fine Grained Label [RFC7172].

ES: End Station. A VM (Virtual Machine) Virtual Machine or physical server, whose address
is either the destination or source of a data frame.

FGL: Fine-Grained Label [RFC7172].

Gateway interface: A Layer 3 virtual interface that terminates
layer
Layer 2 forwarding and forwards IP traffic to the destination
using IP forwarding rules. Incoming traffic from a physical port
on a gateway will be distributed to its virtual gateway interface
based on the Data Label (VLAN or FGL).

Inner.MacDA: The inner MAC destination address in a TRILL Data packet
[RFC6325].

Inner.MacSA: The inner MAC source address in a TRILL Data packet
[RFC6325].

Inner.VLAN: The inner VLAN tag in a TRILL Data packet payload
[RFC6325].

L2: Layer 2.

L3: IP Layer 3.

LSP: Link State PDU

ND: IPv6's Neighbor Discovery [RFC4861].

ToR: Top of Rack.

VN: Virtual Network. In a TRILL campus, a unique 12-bit VLAN ID or a
24-bit Fine Grained Label FGL [RFC7172] identifies each virtual
network. VN.

VRF: Virtual Routing and Forwarding. In IP-based computer networks, Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)
VRF technology supports multiple instances of routing tables
existing within the same router at the same time.

3. Simplified Example and Problem Statement

There is normally a Data Label (VLAN or FGL) associated with each IP
subnet. For traffic within a subnet, subnet -- that is is, IP traffic to
another
end station ES in the same Data Label attached to the TRILL campus, campus -- the
end station
ES just ARPs for the MAC address of the destination end
station's ES's IP. It then
uses this MAC address for traffic to that destination. TRILL routes
the ingressed TRILL data Data packets to the destination's edge RBridge
based on the egress nickname for that destination MAC address and
Data Label. This is the regular TRILL base protocol [RFC6325]
process.

If two end stations ESs of the same tenant are on different subnets and need to
communicate with each other, their packets are typically forwarded to
an IP Layer 3 L3 gateway that performs L3 routing and, if necessary, changes
the Data Label. Either a centralized layer 3 L3 gateway solution or the
distributed layer 3 L3 gateway solution specified in this document can be
used for the inter-subnet traffic forwarding.

Section 3.1 gives a simplified example in a TRILL campus with and
without a distributed layer 3 L3 gateway using VLAN Data Labels. Section 3.2
gives the a detailed description of the problem issues related to using a
centralized gateway (i.e., without a distributed layer 3 gateway. L3 gateway). The
remainder of this document, particularly Section 5, describes the
distributed gateway solution in detail.

3.1. Simplified Example
------- --------

Figure 1 depicts a TRILL DC network, where ToR switches are edge
RBridges and the AGGs and CORs are non-edge RBridges.

------- --------
| COR1| | COR2 |
------- --------
| |
------- -------
|AGG1 | |AGG2 |
------- -------
| |
-----------------------------------------------------
| -------------|------------------|----------------|
| | | | | | | |
------- ------- ------- -------
| RB1 | | RB2 | | RB3 | | RB4 |
|TOR1
|ToR1 | |TOR2 |ToR2 | |TOR3 |ToR3 | |TOR4 |ToR4 |
------- ------- ------- -------
| | | | | | | |
----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
|ES1| |ES2| |ES3| |ES4| |ES5| |ES6| |ES7| |ES8|
----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----

Figure 1. 1: A Typical TRILL DC Network

Figure 1 depicts a TRILL Data Center Network where Top of Rack (ToR)
switches are edge RBridges and the aggregation (AGG) and core (COR)
switches are non-edge RBridges.
ES1 to through ES8 belong to one tenant
network network, and the tenant has
four subnets with each subnet corresponding to one VLAN (which
indicates one individual layer 2
virtual network). L2 VN). Each ES's IP address, VLAN VLAN, and
subnet are listed below:

+----+----------------+-----------------+----------+
| ES | IP Address | Subnet | VLAN |
+----+----------------+-----------------+----------+
| ES1| 192.0.2.2 | 192.0.2.0/24 | 10 |
+----+----------------+-----------------+----------+
| ES2| 198.51.100.2 | 198.51.100.0/24 | 11 |
+----+----------------+-----------------+----------+
| ES3| 192.0.2.3 | 192.0.2.0/24 | 10 |
+----+----------------+-----------------+----------+
| ES4| 198.51.100.3 | 198.51.100.0/24 | 11 |
+----+----------------+-----------------+----------+
| ES5| 203.0.113.2 | 203.0.113.0/25 | 12 |
+----+----------------+-----------------+----------+
| ES6| 203.0.113.130 | 203.0.113.128/25| 13 |
+----+----------------+-----------------+----------+
| ES7| 203.0.113.3 | 203.0.113.0/25 | 12 |
+----+----------------+-----------------+----------+
| ES8| 203.0.113.131 | 203.0.113.128/25| 13 |
+----+----------------+-----------------+----------+

Assume that a centralized gateway solution is used with both COR1 and
COR2 acting as centralized gateways for redundancy in figure Figure 1. COR1
and COR2 each have four gateway interfaces for the four subnets in
the tenant. In the centralized layer 3 L3 gateway solution, all traffic
within the tenant between different VLANs must go through the
centralized layer 3 L3 gateway device of COR1 or COR2, even if the traffic is
between two end stations ESs connected to the same edge RBridge, because only the layer 3
L3 gateway can change the VLAN labeling of the traffic.

This is generally sub-optimal because the two end stations ESs may be connected to
the same ToR where L3 switching could have been performed locally.
For example, in above Figure 1, 1 above, the unicast IP traffic between ES1
and ES2 has to go through a centralized gateway of COR1 or COR2. It
can't be locally routed between them on TOR1. ToR1. However, if an edge
RBridge has the distributed gateway capabilities specified in this
document, then it can still perform optimum L2 forwarding for
intra-subnet traffic and, in addition, optimum L3 forwarding for
inter-subnet traffic, thus delivering optimum forwarding for unicast
packets in all important cases.

With a distributed layer 3 L3 gateway, each edge RBridge acts as a default layer 3 L3
gateway for local connecting ESs and has IP router capabilities to
direct IP communications to other edge RBridges. Each edge RBridge
only needs gateway interfaces for local connecting ESs, i.e., RB1 and
RB2 need gateway interfaces only for VLAN 10 and VLAN 11 while RB3
and RB4 need gateway interfaces only for VLAN 12 and VLAN 13. No
device needs to maintain gateway interfaces for all VLANs in the
entire network. This will enhance the scalability in terms of the number
of tenants and subnets per tenant.

When each end station ES ARPs for their layer 3 its L3 gateway, that is, their its IP router, the
edge RBridge to which it is connected will respond with that
RBridge's 'gateway MAC'. "gateway MAC". When the end station ES later sends IP traffic to the layer 3
L3 gateway, which it does if the destination IP is outside of its
subnet, the edge RBridge intercepts the IP packet because the
destination MAC is its gateway MAC. That RBridge routes the IP
packet using the routing instance associated with that tenant,
handling it in one of three ways:

(1) ES1 communicates with ES2. The destination IP is connected to
the same edge RBridge, RBridge; the RBridge of TOR1 ToR1 can simply transmit
the IP packet out the right edge port in the destination VLAN.

(2) If the destination IP is located in an outside network, the edge
RBridge encapsulates it as a TRILL Data packet and sends it to
the actual TRILL campus edge RBridge connecting to an external IP
router.

(3) ES1 communicates with ES4. The destination end station ES is connected to a
different edge RBridge, RBridge; the ingress RBridge TOR1 ToR1 uses TRILL
encapsulation to route the IP packet to the correct egress
RBridge TOR2, ToR2, using the egress RBridge's gateway MAC and an
Inner.VLAN identifying the tenant. Finally, the egress RBridge
terminates the TRILL encapsulation and routes the IP packet to
the destination end station ES based on the routing instance for that tenant.

3.2. Problem Statement Summary

With Fine Grained Labeling FGL [RFC7172], in theory, up to 16 million
Layer 2 VN L2 VNs can be
supported in a TRILL campus. To support inter-
subnet inter-subnet traffic, a very
large number of Layer 3 L3 gateway interfaces could be needed on a
centralized gateway, if each VN corresponds to a subnet and there are
many tenant tenants with many subnets per tenant. It is a big burden for
the centralized gateway to support so many interfaces. In addition addition,
all inter-subnet traffic will go through a centralized gateway that
may become the a traffic bottleneck.

The centralized gateway has the following issues:

1. Sub-optimum forwarding paths for inter-subnet traffic can occur
due to the requirements to perform IP routing and possibly change
Data Labels at a centralized gateway.

2. The centralized gateway may need to support a very large number of
gateway interfaces, interfaces -- in a data center DC, one per tenant per
data label Data Label used
by that tenant, tenant -- to provide interconnect functionality for all
the layer 2 virtual networks L2 VNs in the TRILL campus.

3. There may be a traffic bottleneck at the centralized gateway.

A distributed gateway on edge RBridges addresses these issues.
Through the distributed layer 3 L3 gateway solution, the inter-subnet traffic
is fully dispersed and is transmitted along optimal pair-
wise pair-wise
forwarding paths, improving network efficiency.

4. Layer 3 Traffic Forwarding Model

In a DC network, each tenant has one or more L2 VNs, and, in normal
cases, each tenant corresponds to one routing domain. Normally, each
L2 VN uses a different Data Label and corresponds to one or more IP
subnets.

Each L2 VN in a TRILL campus is identified by a unique 12-bit VLAN ID
or 24-bit FGL [RFC7172]. Different routing domains may have
overlapping address space but need distinct and separate routes. The
ESs that belong to the same subnet communicate through L2 forwarding;
ESs of the same tenant that belong to different subnets communicate
through L3 routing.

Figure 2 depicts the model where there are n VRFs corresponding to
n tenants, with each tenant having up to m segments/subnets (VNs).

+---------------------------------------------+
| |
| +-----------+ +-----------+ |
| | Tenant n |---------| VRF n | |
| +------------+ | +------------+ | |
| | +-----+ | | | | | |
| | | VN1 | | | | | | |
| | +-----+ | | | VRF 1 | | |
| | .. +-------+ | | |
| | +-----+ | | | | | |
| | | VNm | | | | | | |
| | +-----+ | | | | | |
| | Tenant 1 Tenant1 |-+ | | | |
| +------------+ | | | |
| +------------+ +------------+ |
| |
| Edge RBridge |
+---------------------------------------------+

Figure 2. 2: Edge RBridge Model as Distributed Gateway

In a data center network, each tenant has one or more Layer 2
virtual networks and, in normal cases, each tenant corresponds to
one routing domain. Normally each Layer 2 virtual network uses a
different Data Label and corresponds to one or more IP subnets.

Each Layer 2 virtual network in a TRILL campus is identified by a
unique 12-bit VLAN ID or 24-bit Fine Grained Label [RFC7172].
Different routing domains may have overlapping address space but
need distinct and separate routes. The end stations that belong to
the same subnet communicate through L2 forwarding, end stations of
the same tenant that belong to different subnets communicate through
L3 routing.

Figure 2 depicts the model where there are n VRFs corresponding to n
tenants with each tenant having up to m segments/subnets (virtual
network).

5. Distributed Gateway Solution Details

With the TRILL distributed gateway solution, an edge RBridge
continues to perform routing based on the Layer 2 L2 MAC address for the ESs
that are on the same subnet but performs IP routing for the ESs that
are on the different subnets of the same tenant.

As the IP address space in different routing domains can overlap, VRF
instances need to be created on each edge RBridge to isolate the IP
forwarding process for different routing domains present on the edge
RBridge. A tenant Tenant ID unique across the TRILL campus identifies each
routing domain. The network operator MUST configure the tenant Tenant IDs
on each edge RBridge for each routing domain consistently so that the
same ID always refers to the same tenant. Otherwise Otherwise, data might be
delivered to the wrong tenant. If a routing domain spreads over
multiple edge RBridges, routing information for the routing domain is
synchronized among these edge RBridges through the link
state link-state
database to ensure reachability to all ESs in that routing domain.
The routing information is, in effect, labeled with the Tenant ID to
differentiate the routing domains.

From the data plane data-plane perspective, all edge RBridges are connected to
each other via one or more TRILL hops, however hops; however, they are always just
a single IP hop away. When an ingress RBridge receives inter-subnet
IP traffic from a local ES whose destination MAC is the edge
RBridge's gateway MAC, that RBridge will perform Ethernet header
termination. The tenant involved is determined by the VLAN of the
traffic and the port on which it arrives. The edge RBridge looks up
in its IP routing table for that tenant how to route the traffic to
the IP next hop. If the destination ES is connected to a remote edge
RBridge, the remote RBridge will be the IP next hop for traffic
forwarding. For such inter-subnet traffic, the ingress RBridge will
rewrite the original Ethernet header with the ingress RBridge's
gateway MAC address as the Inner.MacSA and the egress RBridge's
gateway MAC address as the Inner.MacDA and then perform TRILL
encapsulation to the remote RBridge's nickname nickname, setting the inner
Data Label to indicate the tenant involved. TRILL then routes it to
the remote edge RBridge through the TRILL campus.

When that remote edge RBridge receives the traffic, it will
decapsulate the TRILL data Data packet and see that the inner destination
MAC is its gateway MAC. It then terminates the inner Ethernet
encapsulation and looks up the destination IP in the RBridge's IP
forwarding table for the tenant indicated by the inner Data Label Label, to
route it to the destination ES.

Through this method, TRILL with distributed gateways provides optimum
pair-wise data routing for inter-subnet traffic.

5.1. Local Routing Information

An ES can be locally connected to an edge RBridges RBridge through a layer 2 an L2
network (such as a point-to-point Ethernet link or a bridged LAN) or
externally connected through a layer 3 an L3 IP network.

If the ES is connected to an edge RBridge through a Layer 2 an L2 network, then
the edge RBridge acts as a Layer 3 Gateway an L3 gateway for the ES. A gateway
interface is established on the edge RBridge for the connecting ES.
Because the ESs in a subnet may be spread over multiple edge
RBridges, in each of these such edge RBridges which RBridge that establishes its gateway
interface for the subnet the edge RBridges SHOULD share the same gateway MAC and
gateway IP address configuration. Sharing the configuration and
insuring configuration consistency can be done by local configuration
and netconf/Yang Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) / YANG models.

With a distributed gateway, the edge RBridge to which an end station ES is
connected appears to be the local IP router on its link. As in any
IP network, before the end station ES starts to send inter-subnet traffic, it
acquires its gateway's MAC through the ARP/ND process. Local
connecting edge RBridges that support this distributed gateway
feature always respond with the gateway MAC address when receiving
ARP/ND requests for the gateway IP. Through the ARP/ND process, the
edge RBridge can learn the IP and MAC correspondence of a local ES
connected to the edge RBridge by Layer 2 L2 and then generate local IP
routing entries for that ES in the corresponding routing domain.

To TRILL, an IP router connected to an edge RBridge looks to TRILL looks like an ES.
If a router/ES is located in an external IP network, normally it normally
provides access to one or more IP prefixes. The router/ES SHOULD run
an IP routing protocol with the connecting TRILL edge RBridge. The
edge RBridge will learn the IP prefixes behind the router/ES through
that IP routing protocol, then and the RBridge will then generate local IP
routing entries in the corresponding routing domain. If such a
routing protocol is not run with the edge RBridge, then only the IP
prefixes behind the router/ES that are explicitly configured on the
edge RBridge will be accessible.

5.2. Local Routing Information Synchronization

When a routing instance is created on an edge RBridge, the tenant Tenant ID,
tenant Data Label (VLAN or FGL), and tenant gateway MAC that
correspond to that instance are configured and MUST be globally
advertised (see Section 7.1). The Tenant ID uniquely identifies that
tenant throughout the campus. The tenant Data Label identifies that
tenant at the edge RBridge. The tenant gateway MAC MAY identify that tenant
or
tenant, all tenants tenants, or some subset of tenants at the edge RBridge.

When an ingress RBridge performs inter-subnet traffic TRILL
encapsulation, the ingress RBridge uses the Data Label advertised by
the egress RBridge as the inner VLAN or FGL and uses the tenant
gateway MAC advertised by the egress RBridge as the Inner.MacDA. The
egress RBridge relies on this tenant Data Label to find the local VRF
instance for the IP forwarding process when receiving inter-
subnet inter-subnet
traffic from the TRILL campus. (The role of the tenant Data Label is
akin to an MPLS VPN Label in an MPLS IP/MPLS IP / MPLS VPN network.) Tenant
Data Labels are independently allocated on each edge RBridge for each
routing domain. An edge RBridge can use an access Data Label from a
routing domain to act as the inter-subnet Data Label, or the edge
RBridge can use a Data Label different from any access Data Labels to
be a tenant Data Label. It is implementation dependent dependent, and there is
no restriction on this assignment of Data Labels.

The tenant gateway MAC differentiates inter-subnet Layer 3 L3 traffic from
intra-subnet Layer 2 L2 traffic on the egress RBridge. Each tenant on a an
RBridge can use a different gateway MAC or the same tenant gateway
MAC for inter-subnet traffic purposes. This is also implementation
dependent
dependent, and there is no restriction on it.

When a local IP prefix is learned in a routing instance on an edge
RBridge, the edge RBridge should advertise the IP prefix information
for the routing instance so that other edge RBridges will generate IP
routing entries. If the ESs in a VN are spread over multiple
RBridges, these RBridges MUST advertise each local connecting end
station's ES's IP
address in the VN to other RBridges. If the ESs in a VN are only
connected to one edge RBridge, that RBridge only needs to advertise
the subnet corresponding to the VN to other RBridges using host
routes. A tenant Tenant ID unique across the TRILL campus is also carried
in the advertisement to differentiate IP prefixes between different
tenants, because the IP address space of different tenants can
overlap (see Sections 7.3 and 7.4).

If a tenant is deleted on an edge RBridge RB1, RB1 updates the local
tenant Data Label, tenant gateway MAC, and related IP prefixes prefix
information it is advertising to include only the rest of the
tenants. It may take some time for the updating these updates to reach all other
RBridges, so during this period of time there may be transient route
inconsistency among the edge RBridges. If there is traffic in flight
during this time, it will be dropped at the egress RBridge due to
local tenant deletion. When a stable state is reached, the traffic
to the deleted tenant will be dropped by the ingress RBridge.
Therefore
Therefore, the transient routes consistency route inconsistency won't cause issues other
than wasting some network bandwidth.

If there is a new tenant which is created and a previously used tenant Data Label is
assigned to the new tenant immediately, it this may cause a security
policy violation for the traffic in flight, because when the egress
RBridge receives traffic from the old tenant, it will forward it in
the new tenant's routing instance and deliver it to the wrong
destination. So So, a tenant Data Label MUST NOT be re-
allocated reallocated until a
reasonable amount of time, time -- for example example, twice the IS-IS
Holding Time generally in use in the TRILL campus, campus -- has passed to
allow any traffic in flight to be discarded.

When the ARP entry in an edge RBridge for an ES times out, it will
trigger an edge RBridge LSP advertisement to other edge RBridges with
the corresponding IP routing entry deleted. If the ES is an IP
router, the edge RBridge also notifies other edge RBridges that they
must delete the routing entries corresponding to the IP prefixes
accessible through that IP router. During the IP prefix deleting
process, if there is traffic in flight, the traffic will be discarded
at the egress RBridge because there is no local IP routing entry to
the destination.

If an edge RBridge changes its tenant gateway MAC, it will trigger an
edge RBridge LSP advertisement to other edge RBridges RBridges, giving the new
gateway MAC to be used as the Inner.MacDA for future traffic destined
to the edge RBridge. During the gateway MAC changing process, if
there is traffic in flight using the old gateway MAC as the
Inner.MacDA, the traffic will be discarded or will be forwarded as layer
2 L2
intra-subnet traffic on the edge RBridge. If the inter-subnet tenant
Data Label is a unique Data Label that is different from any access
Data Labels, when the edge RBridge receives the traffic whose
Inner.MacDA is different from the local tenant gateway MAC, the
traffic will be discarded. If the edge RBridge uses one of the
access Data Labels as an inter-subnet tenant Data Label, the traffic
will be forwarded as layer 2 L2 intra-subnet traffic unless a special traffic
filtering
traffic-filtering policy is enforced on the edge RBridge.

If there are multiple nicknames owned by an edge RBridge, the edge
RBridge also can also specify one nickname as the egress nickname for
inter-subnet traffic forwarding. A NickFlags APPsub-TLV with the SE-
SE flag set can be used for this purpose. If the edge RBridge
doesn't specify a nickname for this purpose, the ingress RBridge can
use any one of the nicknames owned by the egress as the egress
nickname for inter-subnet traffic forwarding.

TRILL E-L1FS Extended Level 1 Flooding Scope (E-L1FS) FS-LSP [RFC7780]
APPsub-TLVs are used for IP routing information synchronization in
each routing domain among edge RBridges. Based on the synchronized
information from other edge RBridges, each edge RBridge generates
routing entries in each routing domain for remote IP addresses and
subnets.

Through this solution, the intra-subnet forwarding function and inter-subnet
IP routing functions are integrated integrated, and network management and
deployment is are simplified.

5.3. Active-active Active-Active Access

TRILL active-active service provides end stations ESs with flow level flow-level load balance
and resilience against link failures at the edge of TRILL campuses campuses,
as described in [RFC7379].

If an ES is connected to two TRILL RBridges, say RB1 and RB2, in
active-active mode, RB1 and RB2 MUST both be configured to act as a
distributed layer 3 L3 gateway for the ES in order to use a distributed
gateway. RB1 and RB2 each learn the ES's IP address through the
ARP/ND process process, and then they announce the IP address to the TRILL
campus independently. The remote ingress RBridge will generate an IP
routing entry corresponding with to the IP address with two IP next hops
of RB1 and RB2. When the ingress RBridge receives inter-subnet
traffic from a local access network, the ingress RBridge selects RB1
or RB2 as the IP next hop based on least cost or, if costs are equal,
the local load balancing load-balancing algorithm. Then the The traffic will then be
transmitted to the selected next hop next-hop destination RB1 or RB2 through
the TRILL campus.

5.4. Data Traffic Forwarding Process

After a Layer 2 ES1, connected ES1 by L2 in VLAN-x VLAN-x, acquires its gateway's MAC, it
can start inter-subnet data traffic transmission to ES2 in VLAN-y.

When the edge RBridge attached to ES1 receives inter-subnet traffic
from ES1, that RBridge performs Layer 2 L2 header termination, termination; then, using
the local VRF corresponding to VLAN-x, it performs the IP routing
process in that VRF.

If destination ES2 is attached to the same edge RBridge, the traffic
will be locally forwarded to ES2 by that RBridge. Compared to the
centralized gateway solution, the forwarding path is optimal optimal, and a
traffic detour through the centralized gateway is avoided.

If ES2 is attached to a remote edge RBridge, the remote edge RBridge
is the IP next hop hop, and the inter-subnet traffic is forwarded to the
IP next hop through TRILL encapsulation. If there are multiple equal
cost
equal-cost shortest paths between the ingress RBridge and the egress
RBridge, all these paths can be used for inter-subnet traffic
forwarding, so load
spreading load-spreading can be achieved for inter-subnet
traffic.

When the remote RBridge receives the inter-subnet TRILL encapsulated TRILL-encapsulated
traffic, the RBridge decapsulates the these TRILL encapsulation packets and check checks the
Inner.MacDA. If that MAC address is the local gateway MAC
corresponding to the inner Label label (VLAN or FGL), the inner Label label will
be used to find the corresponding local VRF, then VRF; the IP routing process
in that VRF will then be performed, and the traffic will be locally
forwarded to the destination ES2.

In summary, this solution avoids traffic detours through a central
gateway, both
gateway. Both inter-subnet and intra-subnet traffic can be forwarded
along pair-wise shortest paths, and network bandwidth is conserved.

6. Distributed Layer 3 Gateway Process Example

This section gives a detailed description of a distributed layer 3 L3 gateway
solution example for IPv4 and IPv6.

In Figure 3, RB1 and RB2 support the distribution gateway function,
ES1 connects to RB1, and ES2 connects to RB2. ES1 and ES2 belong to
Tenant1 but are in different subnets.

--------- ---------
| RB3 | | RB4 |
--------- ---------
# * # *
# **************************
########################### *
# *
# *
# *
--------- ---------
| RB1 | | RB2 |
--------- ---------
| |
----- -----
|ES1| |ES2|
----- -----

Figure 3. 3: Distributed gateway scenario

In figure 3, RB1 and RB2 support the distribution gateway function,
ES1 connects to RB1, ES2 connects to RB2. ES1 and ES2 belong to
Tenant1, but are in different subnets. Gateway Scenario

For IPv4, the IP address, VLAN, and subnet information of ES1 and ES2
are as follows:

+----+---------+------------------+------------------+----------+

+----+----------+------------------+------------------+----------+
| ES | Tenant | IP Address | Subnet | VLAN |
+----+---------+------------------+------------------+----------+
+----+----------+------------------+------------------+----------+
| ES1| Tenant1 | 192.0.2.2 | 192.0.2.0/24 | 10 |
+----+---------+------------------+------------------+----------+
+----+----------+------------------+------------------+----------+
| ES2| Tenant1 | 198.51.100.2 | 198.51.100.0/24 | 20 |
+----+---------+------------------+------------------+----------+
+----+----------+------------------+------------------+----------+

Figure 4a. 4: IPv4 ES information Information
For IPv6, the IP address, VLAN, and subnet information of ES1 and ES2
are as follows:

+----+---------+------------------+------------------+----------+

+----+----------+------------------+------------------+----------+
| ES | Tenant | IP Address | Subnet | VLAN |
+----+---------+------------------+------------------+----------+
+----+----------+------------------+------------------+----------+
| ES1| Tenant1 | 2001:db8:0:1::2 |2001:db8:0:1::0/64| 10 |
+----+---------+------------------+------------------+----------+
+----+----------+------------------+------------------+----------+
| ES2| Tenant1 | 2001:db8:0:2::2 |2001:db8:0:2::0/64| 20 |
+----+---------+------------------+------------------+----------+
+----+----------+------------------+------------------+----------+

Figure 4b. 5: IPv6 ES information Information

The nickname, VRF, tenant Label, and tenant gateway MAC for Tenant1
on RB1 and RB2 are as follows:
+----+---------+----------+-------+--------------+--------------+

+----+---------+-----------+-------+--------------+--------------+
| RB | Nickname| Tenant | VRF | Tenant Label | Gateway MAC |
+----+---------+----------+-------+--------------+--------------+
+----+---------+-----------+-------+--------------+--------------+
| RB1| nick1 | Tenant1 | VRF1 | 100 | MAC1 |
+----+---------+----------+-------+--------------+--------------+
+----+---------+-----------+-------+--------------+--------------+
| RB2| nick2 | Tenant1 | VRF2 | 100 | MAC2 |
+----+---------+----------+-------+--------------+--------------+
+----+---------+-----------+-------+--------------+--------------+

Figure 5. 6: RBridge information Information

6.1. Control plane process Control-Plane Process

RB1 advertises the following local routing information to the
campus: TRILL
campus:

Tenant ID: 1

Tenant gateway MAC: MAC1

Tenant Label for Tenant1: VLAN 100. 100

IPv4 prefix for Tenant1: 192.0.2.0/24

IPv6 prefix for Tenant1: 2001:db8:0:1::0/64
RB2 announces the following local routing information to the TRILL
campus:

Tenant ID: 1

Tenant gateway MAC: MAC2

Tenant Label for Tenant1: VLAN 100. 100

IPv4 prefix for Tenant1: 198.51.100.0/24

IPv6 prefix for Tenant1: 2001:db8:0:2::0/64

Relying on the routing information from RB2, remote routing entries
on RB1 are generated as follows:

+------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------+
| Prefix/Mask | Inner.MacDA | Inner VLAN | Egress Nickname|
+------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------+
|198.51.100.0/24 | MAC2 | 100 | nick2 |
+------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------+
|2001:db8:0:2::0/64| MAC2 | 100 | nick2 |
+------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------+

Figure 6. Tenant 1 remote routing table 7: Tenant1 Remote Routing Table on RB1

Similarly, relying on the routing information from RB1, remote
routing entries on RB2 are generated as follows:

+------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------+
| Prefix/Mask | Inner.MacDA | Inner VLAN | Egress Nickname|
+------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------+
| 192.0.2.0/24 | MAC1 | 100 | nick1 |
+------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------+
|2001:db8:0:1::0/64| MAC1 | 100 | nick1 |
+------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------+

Figure 7. Tenant 1 remote routing table 8: Tenant1 Remote Routing Table on RB2

6.2. Data Plane Data-Plane Process

Assuming that ES1 sends unicast inter-subnet traffic to ES2, the
traffic forwarding process is as follows:

1. ES1 sends unicast inter-subnet traffic to RB1 with RB1's gateway's
MAC as the destination MAC and the VLAN as VLAN 10.

2. Ingress RBridge (RB1) forwarding process:

RB1 checks the destination MAC, if MAC. If the destination MAC equals the
local gateway MAC, the gateway function will terminate the Layer 2 L2
header and perform L3 routing.

RB1 looks up IP routing table information by destination IP and
Tenant ID to get IP next hop next-hop information, which includes the
egress RBridge's gateway MAC (MAC2), tenant Label (VLAN 100) 100), and
egress nickname (nick2). Using this information, RB1 will perform
inner Ethernet header encapsulation and TRILL encapsulation. RB1
will use MAC2 as the Inner.MacDA, MAC1 (RB1's own gateway MAC) as
the Inner.MacSA, VLAN 100 as the Inner.VLAN, nick2 as the egress
nickname
nickname, and nick1 as the ingress nickname.

RB1 looks up TRILL forwarding information by egress nickname and
sends the traffic to the TRILL next hop as per [RFC6325]. The
traffic will be sent to RB3 or RB4 as a result of load balancing. load-balancing.

Assuming that the traffic is forwarded to RB3, the following occurs:

3. Transit RBridge (RB3) forwarding process:

RB3 looks up TRILL forwarding information by egress nickname and
forwards the traffic to RB2 as per [RFC6325].

4. Egress RBridge forwarding process:

As the egress nickname is RB2's own nickname, RB2 performs TRILL
decapsulation. Then it It then checks the Inner.MacDA and, because that
MAC is equal to the local gateway MAC, performs inner Ethernet
header termination. Using the inner VLAN, RB2 finds the local
corresponding VRF and looks up the packets packet's destination IP address
in the VRF's IP routing table. The traffic is then be locally
forwarded to ES2 with VLAN 20.

7. TRILL Protocol Extensions

If an edge RBridge RB1 participates in the distributed gateway
function, it announces its tenant gateway MAC and tenant Data Label
to the TRILL campus through the tenant Label and gateway MAC APPsub-
TLV, it
APPsub-TLV. It should announce its local IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes
through the IPv4 Prefix APPsub-TLV and the IPv6 Prefix APPsub-TLV APPsub-TLV,
respectively. If RB1 has multiple nicknames, it can announce
one nickname for
distributed gateway use by the distributed gateway, by using Nickname Flags the
NickFlags APPsub-TLV with "SE"
Flag the SE flag set to one. 1.

The remote ingress RBridges belonging to the same routing domain use
this information to generate IP routing entries in that routing
domain. These RBridges use the nickname, tenant gateway MAC, and
tenant Label of RB1 to perform inter-subnet traffic TRILL encapsulation when
they receive inter-subnet traffic from a local ES. The nickname is
used as the egress nickname, the tenant gateway MAC is used as the
Inner.MacDA, and the tenant Data Label is used as the Inner.Label.
The following APPsub-TLVs MUST be included in a TRILL GENINFO TLV in
E-L1FS FS-LSPs [RFC7780].

7.1. The Tenant Label and Gateway MAC APPsub-TLV

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | (2 bytes)
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Length | (2 bytes)
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Tenant ID (4 bytes) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Resv1 | Label1 | (2 bytes)
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Resv2 | Label2 | (2 bytes)
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+....-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+....-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Tenant Gateway Mac MAC (6 bytes) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+....-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+....-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

o Type: Set to TENANT- GWMAC-LABEL the TENANT-GWMAC-LABEL sub-TLV type (TBD1). Two (7). 2 bytes,
because this APPsub-TLV appears in an extended TLV [RFC7356].

o Length: If the Label1 field is used to represent a VLAN, the
value of the length Length field is 12. If the Label1 and Label2 field
fields are used to represent an FGL, the value of the length
Length field is 14.

o Tenant ID: This identifies a tenant Tenant ID unique across the TRILL
campus.

o Resv1: 4 bits that MUST be sent as zero and ignored on receipt.

o Label1: If the value of the length Length field is 12, it identifies a
tenant Label corresponding to a VLAN ID. If the value of the length
Length field is 14, it identifies the higher 12 bits of a tenant
Label corresponding to a an FGL.

o Resv2: 4 bits that MUST be sent as zero and ignored on receipt.
Only present if the length Length field is 14.

o Label2: This field has the lower 12 bits of the tenant Label
corresponding to a an FGL. Only present if the length Length field
is 14.

o Tenant Gateway MAC: This identifies the local gateway MAC
corresponding to the tenant Tenant ID. The remote ingress RBridges uses use
the Gateway gateway MAC as the Inner.MacDA. The advertising TRILL
RBridge uses the gateway MAC to differentiate layer 2 L2 intra-subnet
traffic and
layer 3 L3 inter-subnet traffic in the egress direction.

7.2. "SE" The SE Flag in the NickFlags APPsub-TLV

The NickFlags APPsub-TLV is specified in [RFC7780] [RFC7780], where the IN flag
is described. The SE Flag is assigned as follows:

+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
| Nickname |
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|IN|SE| RESV |
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
NICKFLAG RECORD

o SE. SE: If the SE flag is one, set to 1, it indicates that the advertising
RBridge suggests that the nickname Nickname SHOULD be used as the
Inter-Subnet Egress nickname for inter-subnet traffic forwarding.
If the SE flag is
zero, set to 0, that nickname Nickname SHOULD NOT be used for
that purpose. The SE flag is ignored if the NickFlags APPsub-TLV
is advertised by an RBridge that does not own the Nickname.

7.3. The IPv4 Prefix APPsub-TLV

o Type: Set to the IPV4-PREFIX sub-TLV type (TBD2). Two (8). 2 bytes, because
this APPsub-TLV appears in an extended TLV [RFC7356].

o Total Length: This 2-byte unsigned integer indicates the total
length of the Tenant ID, the Prefix Length, and the Prefix fields fields,
in octets. A value of 0 indicates that no IPv4 prefix is being
advertised.

o Tenant ID: This identifies a tenant Tenant ID unique across the TRILL
campus.

o Prefix Length: The Prefix Length field indicates the length length,
in bits bits, of the IPv4 address prefix. A length of zero 0 (i.e., the
prefix itself is 0 octets) indicates a prefix that matches all
IPv4 addresses (with prefix, itself, of zero
octets). addresses.

o Prefix: The Prefix field contains an IPv4 address prefix,
followed by enough trailing bits to make the end of the field
fall on an octet boundary. Note that the value of the trailing
bits is irrelevant. For example, if the Prefix Length is 12,
indicating 12 bits, then the Prefix is 2 octets and the low order
low-order 4 bits of the Prefix are irrelevant.

7.4. The IPv6 Prefix APPsub-TLV

o Type: Set to the IPV6-PREFIX sub-TLV type (TBD3). Two (9). 2 bytes, because
this APPsub-TLV appears in an extended TLV [RFC7356].

o Tenant ID: This identifies a tenant Tenant ID unique across the TRILL
campus.

o Prefix Length: The Prefix Length field indicates the length length,
in bits bits, of the IPv6 address prefix. A length of zero 0 (i.e., the
prefix itself is 0 octets) indicates a prefix that matches all
IPv6 addresses (with prefix, itself, of zero
octets). addresses.

o Prefix: The Prefix field contains an IPv6 address prefix,
followed by enough trailing bits to make the end of the field
fall on an octet boundary. Note that the value of the trailing
bits is irrelevant. For example, if the Prefix Length is 100,
indicating 100 bits, then the Prefix is 13 octets and the low order
low-order 4 bits of the Prefix are irrelevant.

8. Security Considerations

Correct configuration of the participating edge RBridges participating is important
to assure that data is not delivered to the wrong tenant,
which as such
incorrect delivery would violate security constrains. constraints. IS-IS
security [RFC5310] can be used to secure the information advertised
by the edge RBridges in LSPs and FS-LSPs.

See

To avoid the mishandling of data in flight, see Section 5.2 for
constraints on re-use the reuse of a tenant ID Label and on tenant gateway MAC change to avoid the mishandling of data
changes. Selecting tenant Labels and IDs in flight.
It a pseudorandom fashion
[RFC4086] can be made make it more difficult for an adversary to guess a
tenant Label or ID that is in use by selecting tenant IDs in a pseudo-random fashion
[RFC4086]. use.

Particularly sensitive data should be encrypted end-to-end, end-to-end --
that is, from the source end station ES to the destination end station. ES. Since the TRILL
campus is, for the most part, transparent to end station ES traffic, such end stations ESs are
free to use whatever end-to-end security protocol they would like.

For general TRILL Security Considerations, security considerations, see [RFC6325].

9. Management Considerations

The configuration at each RBridge to support the distributed Layer 3 L3
gateway feature is visible visible, via the link-state database, to all other
RBridges in the campus in
the link state database. OAM campus. Operations, Administration, and Maintenance
(OAM) facilities for TRILL are primarily specified in [RFC7455]
and [RFC7456].

10. IANA Considerations

IANA is requested to assign has assigned three APPsub-TLV type numbers from the
range less that are lower than
255 and update in the "TRILL APPsub-TLV Types under IS-
IS IS-IS TLV 251 Application
Identifier 1" registry. The registry has been updated as follows:

Type Name References Reference
---- ---------------- ------------

TBD1 ------------------ -------------
7 TENANT-GWMAC-LABEL [this document]

TBD2 this document

8 IPV4-PREFIX [this document]

TBD3 this document

9 IPV6-PREFIX [this document] this document
IANA is requested to assign has assigned a flag bit in the NickFlags APPsub-TLV as described
in Section 7.2 and update updated the ''Nick Flags'' "NickFlags Bits" registry, created by
[RFC7780], as follows:

Bit Mnemonic Description Reference
----- -------- ------------------- ----------- -------------
1 SE Inter-Subnet Egress [this document] this document

11. References

11.1. Normative References

[IS-IS] - ISO/IEC, International Organization for Standardization,
"Intermediate system System to Intermediate system System intra-domain
routeing information exchange protocol for use in
conjunction with the Protocol protocol for providing the Connectionless-mode Network Service
connectionless-mode network service (ISO 8473)", ISO/IEC 10589:2002.
ISO Standard 10589, 2002.

[RFC2119] - Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, April 1997.
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

[RFC6325] - Perlman, R., Eastlake 3rd, D., Dutt, D., Gai, S., and
A.Ghanwani, A.
Ghanwani, "Routing Bridges (RBridges): Base Protocol
Specification", RFC 6325, DOI 10.17487/RFC6325, July 2011. 2011,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6325>.

[RFC7172] - Eastlake, Eastlake 3rd, D., M. Zhang, P. M., Agarwal, R. P., Perlman, R., and
D. Dutt,
"TRILL (Transparent "Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links): Links
(TRILL): Fine-Grained Labeling", RFC7172, RFC 7172,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7172, May 2014. 2014,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7172>.

[RFC7176] - Eastlake, Eastlake 3rd, D., T. Senevirathne, A. T., Ghanwani, D. Dutt A., Dutt,
D., and A. Banerjee" Transparent Banerjee, "Transparent Interconnection of Lots
of Links (TRILL) Use of IS-IS", RFC7176, RFC 7176,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7176, May 2014. 2014,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7176>.

[RFC7356] - Ginsberg, L., Previdi, S., and Y. Yang, "IS-IS Flooding
Scope Link State PDUs (LSPs)", RFC 7356,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7356, September 2014,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7356>.

[RFC7780] - Eastlake 3rd, D., Zhang, M., Perlman, R., Banerjee, A.,
Ghanwani, A., and S. Gupta, "Transparent Interconnection
of Lots of Links (TRILL): Clarifications, Corrections, and
Updates", RFC 7780, DOI 10.17487/RFC7780, February 2016, <http://www.rfc-
editor.org/info/rfc7780>.

12.
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7780>.

11.2. Informative References

[RFC826] - Plummer, D., "Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol: Or
Converting Network Protocol Addresses to 48.bit Ethernet
Address for Transmission on Ethernet Hardware", STD 37,
RFC 826, DOI 10.17487/RFC0826, November 1982,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc826>.

[RFC4086] - Eastlake 3rd, D., Schiller, J., and S. Crocker,
"Randomness Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC 4086,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4086, June 2005,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4086>.

[RFC4861] - Narten, T., Nordmark, E., Simpson, W., and H. Soliman,
"Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 4861,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4861, September 2007,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4861>.

[RFC5310] - Bhatia, M., Manral, V., Li, T., Atkinson, R., White, R.,
and M. Fanto, "IS-IS Generic Cryptographic
Authentication", RFC 5310, DOI 10.17487/RFC5310,
February 2009. 2009, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5310>.

[RFC7379] - Li, Y., Hao, W., Perlman, R., Hudson, J., and H. Zhai,
"Problem Statement and Goals for Active-Active Connection
at the Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links
(TRILL) Edge", RFC 7379, DOI 10.17487/RFC7379,
October 2014, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7379>.

[RFC7455] - Senevirathne, T., Finn, N., Salam, S., Kumar, D., Eastlake
3rd, D., Aldrin, S., and Y. Li, "Transparent
Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): Fault
Management", RFC 7455, DOI 10.17487/RFC7455, March 2015, <http://www.rfc-
editor.org/info/rfc7455>.
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7455>.

[RFC7456] - Mizrahi, T., Senevirathne, T., Salam, S., Kumar, D., and
D. Eastlake 3rd, "Loss and Delay Measurement in
Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL)",
RFC 7456, DOI 10.17487/RFC7456, March 2015, <http://www.rfc-
editor.org/info/rfc7456>.
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7456>.

Acknowledgments

The authors wish to acknowledge the important contributions of Donald
Eastlake, Gayle Noble, Muhammed Mohammed Umair, Susan Hares, Guangrui Wu,
Zhenbin Li, Zhibo Hu, Liang Xia, Scott Bradner, Stephen Farrell,
Shawn Emery, Ben Campbell, Russ White, Kathleen Moriarty, Suresh
Krishnan, Mirja Kuhlewind, Kuehlewind, and Francis Dupont.

Authors' Addresses

Weiguo Hao
Huawei Technologies
101 Software Avenue, Avenue
Nanjing 210012, 210012
China

Phone: +86-25-56623144
Email: haoweiguo@huawei.com

Yizhou Li
Huawei Technologies
101 Software Avenue, Avenue
Nanjing 210012, 210012
China

Phone: +86-25-56625375
Email: liyizhou@huawei.com

Andrew Qu
MediaTec

Email: laodulaodu@gmail.com

Muhammad Durrani
Cisco
Equinix Inc.

Email: mdurrani@cisco.com mdurrani@equinix.com

Ponkarthick Sivamurugan
Address:
IP Infusion, Infusion
RMZ Centennial
Mahadevapura Post
Bangalore - 560048

Email: Ponkarthick.sivamurugan@ipinfusion.com