Segment Routing Architecture
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) C. Filsfils, Ed.
Request for Comments: 8402 S. Previdi, Ed.
Category: Standards Track L. Ginsberg
ISSN: 2070-1721 Cisco Systems, Inc.
B. Decraene
S. Litkowski
Orange
R. Shakir
Google, Inc.
July 2018
Segment Routing Architecture
Abstract
Segment Routing (SR) leverages the source routing paradigm. A node
steers a packet through an ordered list of instructions, called
"segments". A segment can represent any instruction, topological or
service based. A segment can have a semantic local to an SR node or
global within an SR domain. SR provides a mechanism that allows a
flow to be restricted to a specific topological path, while
maintaining per-flow state only at the ingress node(s) to the SR
domain.
SR can be directly applied to the MPLS architecture with no change to
the forwarding plane. A segment is encoded as an MPLS label. An
ordered list of segments is encoded as a stack of labels. The
segment to process is on the top of the stack. Upon completion of a
segment, the related label is popped from the stack.
SR can be applied to the IPv6 architecture, with a new type of
routing header. A segment is encoded as an IPv6 address. An ordered
list of segments is encoded as an ordered list of IPv6 addresses in
the routing header. The active segment is indicated by the
Destination Address (DA) of the packet. The next active segment is
indicated by a pointer in the new routing header.
Filsfils, et al. Standards Track [Page 1]
RFC 8402 Segment Routing July 2018
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Filsfils, et al. Standards Track [Page 2]
RFC 8402 Segment Routing July 2018
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3. Link-State IGP Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1. IGP-Prefix Segment (Prefix-SID) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1.1. Prefix-SID Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1.2. SR-MPLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.1.3. SRv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.2. IGP-Node Segment (Node-SID) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.3. IGP-Anycast Segment (Anycast-SID) . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.3.1. Anycast-SID in SR-MPLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.4. IGP-Adjacency Segment (Adj-SID) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.4.1. Parallel Adjacencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.4.2. LAN Adjacency Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.5. Inter-Area Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4. BGP Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.1. BGP-Prefix Segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.2. BGP Peering Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5. Binding Segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5.1. IGP Mirroring Context Segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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