BIER-TE Ping and Trace
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Networking Working Group                                       Ran. Chen
Internet-Draft                                              Greg. Mirsky
Intended status: Standards Track                            Shaofu. Peng
Expires: August 30, 2019                                 ZTE Corporation
                                                       February 26, 2019

                         BIER-TE Ping and Trace
                       draft-chen-bier-te-ping-04

Abstract

   Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER)-TE shares architecture and
   packet formats with BIER-TE forwards and replicates packets based on
   a BitString in the packet header, but every BitPosition of the
   BitString of a BIER-TE packet indicates one or more adjacencies.

   This document describes the mechanism and basic BIER-TE OAM packet
   format that can be used to perform Ping and Traceroute on the BIER-TE
   network.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Conventions used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  BIER-TE OAM Packet format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.1.  Target FEC Stack  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
       3.1.1.  BIER-TE forward-connected TLV . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
       3.1.2.  BIER-TE local-decap sub-TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
       3.1.3.  BIER-TE forward-routed TLV  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.2.  Downstream Mapping TLV  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
       3.2.1.  FEC Stack Change Sub-TLV  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.3.  Reply-To TLV  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   4.  BIER-TE OAM Processing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.1.  Sending BIER Echo Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.2.  Receiving BIER Echo Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     4.3.  Sending Echo Reply  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     4.4.  Receiving Echo Reply  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   5.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   6.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     6.1.  TLVs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     6.2.  Target FEC Stack  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     6.3.  Downstream Detailed Mapping Sub-TLVs  . . . . . . . . . .  12
   7.  Normative references  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14

1.  Introduction

   [I-D.ietf-bier-te-arch] introduces and explains BIER-TE architecture
   that provides policy-based multicast forwarding through a "BIER-TE
   domain" without requiring intermediate routers to maintain any
   multicast related per-flow state.  BIER-TE forwards and replicates
   packets based on a BitString in the packet header, but every
   BitPosition of the BitString of a BIER-TE packet indicates one or
   more adjacencies.

   This document describes the mechanism and the basic BIER-TE OAM
   packet format that can be used to perform Ping and Traceroute on the
   BIER-TE network.

   This document enhances the BIER Ping and Traceroute, as defined in
   [I-D.ietf-bier-ping].  [RFC8296] defines a 4-bit field as "Proto" to
   identify the payload following BIER header.  When the payload is

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