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Request for Comments: 8671 S. Bayraktar
Updates: 7854 (if approved) Cisco Systems
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Expires: February 6, 2020
ISSN: 2070-1721 NTT Communications
P. Mi
Tencent
S. Zhuang
Huawei
August 5,
October 2019
Support for Adj-RIB-Out in the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP)
draft-ietf-grow-bmp-adj-rib-out-07
Abstract
The BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) only defines access to only the Adj-RIB-
In Routing Information Bases (RIBs). This document updates the BGP
Monitoring Protocol (BMP) RFC 7854 BMP (RFC
7854) by adding access to the Adj-RIB-
Out Adj-RIB-Out RIBs. It also adds a new
flag to the peer header to distinguish Adj-
RIB-In between Adj-RIB-In and Adj-RIB-Out. Adj-
RIB-Out.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Per-Peer Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Adj-RIB-Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5.1. Post-Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Post-policy
5.2. Pre-Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Pre-policy
6. BMP Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6.1. Route Monitoring and Route Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . 5
6.2. Statistics Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6.3. Peer Down and Up and Down Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6.3.1. Peer Up Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7. Other Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7.1. Peer and Update Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7.2. Changes to Existing BMP Session
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
9.1. Addition to BMP Peer Flags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Registry
9.2. Additions to BMP Statistics Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Registry
9.3. Peer Up Information TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Addition to BMP Initiation Message TLVs Registry
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10.2. URIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1. Introduction
The BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) defines monitoring of the received
(e.g., Adj-RIB-In) Routing Information Bases (RIBs) per peer. The
Adj-RIB-In
pre-policy Adj-RIB-In conveys to a BMP receiver all RIB data before
any policy has been applied. The Adj-RIB-In post-policy Adj-RIB-In conveys to a
BMP receiver all RIB data after policy filters and/or modifications
have been applied. An example of pre-policy versus post-policy is
when an inbound policy applies attribute modification or filters.
Pre-policy would contain information prior to the inbound policy
changes or filters of data. Post policy Post-policy would convey the changed
data or would not contain the filtered data.
Monitoring the received updates that the router received before any
policy has been applied is the primary level of monitoring for most
use-cases.
use cases. Inbound policy validation and auditing is are the primary
use-case
use cases for enabling post-policy monitoring.
In order for a BMP receiver to receive any BGP data, the BMP sender
(e.g., router) needs to have an established BGP peering session and
actively be receiving updates for an Adj-RIB-In.
Being able to only monitor the Adj-RIB-In puts a restriction on what
data is available to BMP receivers via BMP senders (e.g., routers).
This is an issue when the receiving end of the BGP peer is not
enabled for BMP or when it is not accessible for administrative
reasons. For example, a service provider advertises prefixes to a
customer, but the service provider cannot see what it advertises via
BMP. Asking the customer to enable BMP and monitoring of the Adj-
RIB-In is are not feasible.
BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) RFC 7854
BMP [RFC7854] only defines Adj-
RIB-In Adj-RIB-In being sent to BMP receivers.
This document updates the per-
peer per-peer header defined in section Section 4.2 of
[RFC7854] by adding a new flag to distinguish between Adj-RIB-In versus and
Adj-RIB-Out. BMP senders use the new flag to send either Adj-RIB-In
or Adj-RIB-Out.
Adding Adj-RIB-Out provides the ability for a BMP sender to send to
BMP receivers what it advertises to BGP peers, which can be used for
outbound policy validation and to monitor routes that were
advertised.
2. Terminology
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 RFC 2119 [RFC2119] RFC 8174 [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
capitals, as shown here.
3. Definitions
o Adj-RIB-Out:
Adj-RIB-Out
As defined in [RFC4271], "The Adj-RIBs-Out contains the routes for
advertisement to specific peers by means of the local speaker's
UPDATE messages."
o Pre-Policy Adj-RIB-Out:
Pre-policy Adj-RIB-Out
The result before applying the outbound policy to an Adj-RIB-Out.
This normally would match what is in the local RIB.
o Post-Policy Adj-RIB-Out:
Post-policy Adj-RIB-Out
The result of applying outbound policy to an Adj-RIB-Out. This
MUST convey to the BMP receiver what is actually transmitted to
the peer.
4. Per-Peer Header
The per-peer header has the same structure and flags as defined in
section
Section 4.2 of [RFC7854] with the following addition of the O flag addition: as shown
here:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|V|L|A|O| Resv |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
o
* The O flag indicates Adj-RIB-In if set to 0 and Adj-RIB-Out if set
to 1.
The existing flags are defined in section Section 4.2 of [RFC7854] [RFC7854], and the
remaining bits are reserved for future use. They MUST be transmitted
as 0 0, and their values MUST be ignored on receipt.
When the O flag is set to 1, the following fields in the Per-Peer
Header per-peer
header are redefined:
o
* Peer Address: The remote IP address associated with the TCP
session over which the encapsulated PDU Protocol Data Unit (PDU) is
sent.
o
* Peer AS: The Autonomous System number of the peer to which the
encapsulated PDU is sent.
o
* Peer BGP ID: The BGP Identifier of the peer to which the
encapsulated PDU is sent.
o
* Timestamp: The time when the encapsulated routes were advertised
(one may also think of this as the time when they were installed
in the Adj-RIB-Out), expressed in seconds and microseconds since
midnight (zero hour), January 1, 1970 (UTC). If zero, the time is
unavailable. Precision of the timestamp is implementation-
dependent.
5. Adj-RIB-Out
5.1. Post-Policy Post-policy
The primary use-case use case in monitoring Adj-RIB-Out is to monitor the
updates transmitted to a BGP peer after outbound policy has been
applied. These updates reflect the result after modifications and
filters have been applied (e.g., Adj-RIB-Out Post-Policy). post-policy Adj-RIB-Out). Some
attributes are set when the BGP message is transmitted, such as next- next
hop. Post-policy Adj-RIB-Out Post-Policy MUST convey to the BMP receiver what is
actually transmitted to the peer.
The L flag MUST be set to 1 to indicate post-policy.
5.2. Pre-Policy
Similarly Pre-policy
Similar to Adj-RIB-In policy validation, pre-policy Adj-RIB-Out can
be used to validate and audit outbound policies. For example, a
comparison between pre-policy and post-policy can be used to validate
the outbound policy.
Depending on the BGP peering session type (IBGP, -- Internal BGP (IBGP),
IBGP route reflector client, EBGP, External BGP (EBGP), BGP confederations, Route Server Client)
route server client -- the candidate routes that make up the Pre-Policy pre-
policy Adj-RIB-Out do not contain all
local-rib local RIB routes. Pre-Policy Pre-policy
Adj-RIB-Out conveys only routes that are available based on the
peering type. Post-Policy Post-policy represents the filtered/changed routes
from the available routes.
Some attributes are set only during transmission of the BGP message,
i.e., Post-Policy. post-policy. It is common that next-hop the next hop may be null,
loopback, or similar during the pre-policy phase. All mandatory
attributes, such as next-hop, next hop, MUST be either ZERO zero or have an empty
length if they are unknown at the Pre-Policy pre-policy phase completion. The
BMP receiver will treat zero or empty mandatory attributes as self-originated. self-
originated.
The L flag MUST be set to 0 to indicate pre-policy.
6. BMP Messages
Many BMP messages have a per-peer header header, but some are not applicable
to Adj-RIB-In or Adj-RIB-Out monitoring, such as peer up Peer Up and down
notifications. Down
Notifications. Unless otherwise defined, the O flag should be set to
0 in the per-peer header in BMP messages.
6.1. Route Monitoring and Route Mirroring
The O flag MUST be set accordingly to indicate if the route monitor
or route mirroring message conveys Adj-RIB-In or Adj-RIB-Out.
6.2. Statistics Report
The Statistics report Report message has a Stat Type field to indicate the
statistic carried in the Stat Data field. Statistics report messages
are not specific to Adj-RIB-In or Adj-RIB-Out and MUST have the O
flag set to zero. The O flag SHOULD be ignored by the BMP receiver.
The
This document defines the following new statistic types are added:
o statistics types:
* Stat Type = 14: (64-bit Gauge) Number of routes in Adj-RIBs-Out
Pre-Policy.
o pre-policy Adj-RIB-Out. This
statistics type is 64-bit Gauge.
* Stat Type = 15: (64-bit Gauge) Number of routes in Adj-RIBs-Out
Post-Policy.
o post-policy Adj-RIB-Out. This
statistics type is 64-bit Gauge.
* Stat Type = 16: Number of routes in per-AFI/SAFI Adj-RIB-Out Pre-
Policy. pre-policy Adj-
RIB-Out. The value is structured as: 2-byte Address Family
Identifier (AFI), 1-byte Subsequent Address Family Identifier
(SAFI), followed by a 64-bit Gauge.
o
* Stat Type = 17: Number of routes in per-AFI/SAFI Adj-RIB-Out Post-
Policy. post-policy Adj-
RIB-Out. The value is structured as: 2-byte Address Family
Identifier (AFI), 1-byte Subsequent Address Family Identifier
(SAFI), followed by a 64-bit Gauge.
6.3. Peer Down and Up and Down Notifications
Peer Up and Down notifications Notifications convey BGP peering session state to
BMP receivers. The state is independent of whether or not route
monitoring or route mirroring messages will be sent for Adj-RIB-In,
Adj-RIB-Out, or both. BMP receiver implementations SHOULD ignore the
O flag in Peer Up and Down notifications. Notifications.
6.3.1. Peer Up Information
The
This document defines the following Peer Up message Information TLV type is added:
o type:
* Type = 4: Admin Label. The Information field contains a free-form
UTF-8 string whose byte length is given by the Information Length
field. The value is administratively assigned. There is no
requirement to terminate the string with null or any other
character.
Multiple admin labels Admin Labels can be included in the Peer Up notification. Notification.
When multiple admin labels Admin Labels are included included, the BMP receiver MUST
preserve their order.
The TLV Admin Label is optional.
7. Other Considerations
7.1. Peer and Update Groups
Peer and update groups are used to group updates shared by many
peers. This is a level of efficiency in implementations, not a true
representation of what is conveyed to a peer in either Pre-Policy pre-policy or
Post-Policy.
post-policy.
One of the use-cases use cases to monitor post-policy Adj-RIB-Out Post-Policy is to
validate and continually ensure the egress updates match what is
expected. For example, wholesale peers should never have routes with
community X:Y sent to them. In this use-case, use case, there may be hundreds
of wholesale peers peers, but a single peer could have represented the
group.
From a BMP perspective, this it should be simple to include a group name
in the Peer Up, but it is more complex than that. BGP
implementations have evolved to provide comprehensive and structured
policy grouping, such as session, AFI/SAFI, and template-based based group
policy inheritances.
This level of structure and inheritance of polices does not provide a
simple peer group name or ID, such as wholesale peer.
Instead of requiring a group name to be used,
This document defines a new administrative
label informational TLV (Section 6.3.1) is added to the Admin Label type for Peer Up
message. Information
TLVs (Section 6.3.1) that can be used instead of requiring a group
name. These labels have administrative scope relevance. For
example, labels "type=wholesale" and "region=west" could be used to
monitor expected policies.
Configuration and assignment of labels to peers is are BGP implementation
specific.
implementation-specific.
7.2. Changes to Existing BMP Session
In case of any change that results in the alteration of behavior of
an existing BMP session (i.e., changes to filtering and table names),
the session MUST be bounced with a Peer Down/Peer Up sequence.
8. Security Considerations
The same considerations as in section Section 11 of [RFC7854] apply to this document.
Implementations of this protocol SHOULD require to
establish establishing sessions
with authorized and trusted monitoring devices. It is also believed
that this document does not add any additional security
considerations.
9. IANA Considerations
This document requests that
IANA assign has assigned the following new parameters to the BMP parameters name space [1]. "BGP Monitoring
Protocol (BMP) Parameters" registry
(https://www.iana.org/assignments/bmp-parameters/).
9.1. Addition to BMP Peer Flags
This document defines Registry
IANA has made the following assignment for the per-peer header flags
(Section 4):
o flag
defined in Section 4 of this document:
+------+-------------+-----------+
| Flag | Description | Reference |
+======+=============+===========+
| 3 as O flag: The | O flag indicates Adj-RIB-In if set to 0 and
Adj-RIB-Out if set | RFC 8671 |
+------+-------------+-----------+
Table 1: Addition to 1. the "BMP
Peer Flags" Registry
9.2. Additions to BMP Statistics Types
This document defines four statistic types Registry
IANA has made the following assignment for the four statistics reporting
(Section 6.2):
o types
defined in Section 6.2 of this document:
+-----------+------------------------------+-----------+
| Stat Type = 14: (64-bit Gauge) | Description | Reference |
+===========+==============================+===========+
| 14 | Number of routes in Adj-RIBs-Out
Pre-Policy.
o Stat Type = 15: (64-bit Gauge) pre- | RFC 8671 |
| | policy Adj-RIB-Out | |
+-----------+------------------------------+-----------+
| 15 | Number of routes in Adj-RIBs-Out
Post-Policy.
o Stat Type = 16: post- | RFC 8671 |
| | policy Adj-RIB-Out | |
+-----------+------------------------------+-----------+
| 16 | Number of routes in per-AFI/SAFI per-AFI/ | RFC 8671 |
| | SAFI pre-policy Adj-RIB-Out Pre-
Policy. The value is structured as: 2-byte Address Family
Identifier (AFI), 1-byte Subsequent Address Family Identifier
(SAFI), followed by a 64-bit Gauge.
o Stat Type = 17: | |
+-----------+------------------------------+-----------+
| 17 | Number of routes in per-AFI/SAFI per-AFI/ | RFC 8671 |
| | SAFI post-policy Adj-RIB-Out Post-
Policy. The value is structured as: 2-byte Address Family
Identifier (AFI), 1-byte Subsequent Address Family Identifier
(SAFI), followed by a 64-bit Gauge. | |
+-----------+------------------------------+-----------+
Table 2: Additions to the "BMP Statistics Types"
Registry
9.3. Peer Up Information TLV
This document defines Addition to BMP Initiation Message TLVs Registry
IANA has made the following BMP Peer Up Information TLV types
(Section 6.3.1):
o assignment per Section 6.3.1 of this
document:
+------+-------------+-----------+
| Type = 4: | Description | Reference |
+======+=============+===========+
| 4 | Admin Label. The Information field contains a free-form
UTF-8 string whose byte length is given by the Information Length
field. The value is administratively assigned. There is no
requirement Label | RFC 8671 |
+------+-------------+-----------+
Table 3: Addition to terminate the string with null or any other
character.
Multiple admin labels can be included in the Peer Up notification.
When multiple admin labels are included the BMP receiver MUST
preserve their order.
The TLV is optional. "BMP
Initiation Message TLVs"
Registry
10. References
10.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
[RFC4271] Rekhter, Y., Ed., Li, T., Ed., and S. Hares, Ed., "A
Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", RFC 4271,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4271, January 2006,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4271>.
[RFC7854] Scudder, J., Ed., Fernando, R., and S. Stuart, "BGP
Monitoring Protocol (BMP)", RFC 7854,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7854, June 2016,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7854>.
[RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.
10.2. URIs
[1] https://www.iana.org/assignments/bmp-parameters/bmp-
parameters.xhtml
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank John Scudder and Mukul Srivastava for
their valuable input.
Contributors
The following individuals contributed to this document:
* Manish Bhardwaj Bhardwaj, Cisco Systems
3700 Cisco Way
San Jose, CA 95134
USA
Email: manbhard@cisco.com
Xianyuzheng
* Xianyu Zheng, Tencent
* Wei Guo, Tencent Building, Kejizhongyi Avenue,
Hi-techPark, Nanshan District,Shenzhen 518057, P.R.China
Weiguo
Tencent
Tencent Building, Kejizhongyi Avenue,
Hi-techPark, Nanshan District,Shenzhen 518057, P.R.China
* Shugang cheng Cheng, H3C
Authors' Addresses
Tim Evens
Cisco Systems
2901 Third Avenue, Suite 600
Seattle, WA 98121
USA
United States of America
Email: tievens@cisco.com
Serpil Bayraktar
Cisco Systems
3700 Cisco Way
San Jose, CA 95134
USA
United States of America
Email: serpil@cisco.com
Paolo Lucente
NTT Communications
Siriusdreef 70-72
Hoofddorp, WT
2132
NL Hoofddorp
Netherlands
Email: paolo@ntt.net
Penghui Mi
Tencent
China
200233
Shanghai
Tengyun Building,Tower A ,No. Building, Tower A, No. 397 Tianlin Road
Shanghai 200233
China
Tencent
Email: kevinmi@tencent.com Penghui.Mi@gmail.com
Shunwan Zhuang
China
100095
Beijing
Huawei
Huawei Bld., Building, No.156 Beiqing Rd.
Beijing 100095
China
Huawei
Email: zhuangshunwan@huawei.com