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draft-ooamdt-rtgwg-demand-cc-cv-01
Routing Area  Working Group                                    G. Mirsky
Internet-Draft
Intended status: Standards Track                             E. Nordmark
Expires: April 27, 2017                                  Arista Networks
                                                                N. Kumar
                                                                D. Kumar
                                                     Cisco Systems, Inc.
                                                                 M. Chen
                                                                   Y. Li
                                                     Huawei Technologies
                                                                D. Mozes
                                              Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
                                                               D. Dolson
                                                                Sandvine
                                                             I. Bagdonas
                                                        October 24, 2016

 On-demand Continuity Check (CC) and Connectivity Verification(CV) for
                            Overlay Networks
                   draft-ooamdt-rtgwg-demand-cc-cv-01

Abstract

   This document defines Overlay Echo Request and Echo Reply that enable
   on-demand Continuity Check, Connectivity Verification among other
   operations in overlay networks.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     1.1.  Conventions used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
       1.1.1.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
       1.1.2.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  On-demand Continuity Check and Connectivity Verification  . .   3
     2.1.  Overlay Echo Request Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.2.  Overlay Echo Request Reception  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.3.  Overlay Echo Reply Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.4.  Overlay Echo Reply Reception  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   3.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.1.  Overlay Echo Request/Echo Reply Type  . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.2.  Overlay Ping Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.3.  Overlay Echo Request/Echo Reply Message Types . . . . . .   6
     3.4.  Overlay Echo Reply Modes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   4.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   5.  Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   6.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     6.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     6.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9

1.  Introduction

   Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) toolset provides
   methods for fault management and performance monitoring in each layer
   of the network, in order to improve their ability to support services
   with guaranteed and strict Service Level Agreements (SLAs) while
   reducing operational costs.

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1.1.  Conventions used in this document

1.1.1.  Terminology

   Term "Overlay OAM" used in this document interchangeably with longer
   version "set of OAM protocols, methods and tools for Overlay
   networks".  And "Overlay ping" is used intercheangeably with longer
   version Ovelay Echo Request/Reply.

   CC Continuity Check

   CV Connectivity Verification

   FM Fault Management

   Geneve Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation

   GUE Generic UDP Encapsulation

   MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching

   NVO3 Network Virtualization Overlays

   OAM Operations, Administration, and Maintenance

   SFC Service Function Chaining

   SFP Service Function Path

   VXLAN Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network

   VXLAN-GPE Generic Protocol Extension for VXLAN

1.1.2.  Requirements Language

   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
   [RFC2119].

2.  On-demand Continuity Check and Connectivity Verification

   The format of the Echo Request/Echo Reply control packet is to
   support ping and traceroute functionality in overlay networks
   Figure 1 resembles the format of MPLS LSP Ping [RFC4379] with some
   exceptions.

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        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
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |         Version Number        |         Global Flags          |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | Message Type  |   Reply mode  |  Return Code  | Return S.code |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |                        Sender's Handle                        |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |                         Sequence Number                       |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       ~                              TLVs                             ~
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                     Figure 1: Overlay OAM Ping format

   The interpretation of the fields is as following:

      The Version reflects the current version.  The version number is
      to be incremented whenever a change is made that affects the
      ability of an implementation to correctly parse or process control
      packet.

      The Global Flags is a bit vector field

      The Message Type filed reflects the type of the packet.  Value
      TBA2 identifies Echo Request and TBA3 - Echo Reply

      The Reply Mode defines the type of the return path requested by
      the sender of the Echo Request.

      Return Codes and Subcodes can be used to inform the sender about
      result of processing its request.

      The Sender's Handle is filled in by the sender, and returned
      unchanged by the receiver in the Echo Reply.

      The Sequence Number is assigned by the sender and can be (for
      example) used to detect missed replies.

      TLVs (Type-Length-Value tuples) have the two octets long Type
      field, two octets long Length field that is length of the Value
      field in octets.

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2.1.  Overlay Echo Request Transmission

   Overlay Echo Request control packet MUST use the appropriate
   encapsulation of the monitored overlay network.  Overlay network
   encpsulation MUST identify Echo Request as OAM packet.  Overlay
   encapsulation uses different methods to identify OAM payload
   [I-D.ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe], [I-D.ietf-nvo3-gue],
   [I-D.ietf-nvo3-geneve],
   [I-D.ietf-sfc-nsh],[I-D.ietf-bier-mpls-encapsulation].  Overlay
   network's header MUST be immediately followed by the Overlay OAM
   Header [I-D.ooamdt-rtgwg-ooam-header].  Message Type field in the
   Overlay OAM Header MUST be set to Overlay Echo Request value (TBA2).

   Value of the Reply Mode field MAY be set to:

   o  Do Not Reply (TBA4) if one-way monitoring is desired.  If Echo
      Request is used to measure synthetic packet loss, the receiver MAY
      report loss measurement results to a remote node.

   o  Reply via an IPv4/IPv6 UDP Packet (TBA5) value likely will be the
      most used.

   o  Reply via Application Level Control Channel (TBA6) value if the
      overlay network MAY have bi-directional paths.

   o  Reply via Specified Path (TBA7) value in order to enforce use of
      the particular return path specified in the included TLV to verify
      bi-directional continuity and also increase robustness of the
      monitoring by selecting more stable path.

2.2.  Overlay Echo Request Reception

2.3.  Overlay Echo Reply Transmission

   The Reply Mode field directs whether and how the Echo Reply message
   should be sent.  The sender of the Echo Request MAY use TLVs to
   request that corresponding Echo Reply be sent using the specified
   path.  Value TBA3 is referred as "Do not reply" mode and suppresses
   transmission of Echo Reply packet.  Default value (TBA5) for the
   Reply mode field requests the responder to send the Echo Reply packet
   out-of-band as IPv4 or IPv6 UDP packet.  [Selection of destination
   and source IP addresses and UDP port numbers to be provided in the
   next update.]

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2.4.  Overlay Echo Reply Reception

3.  IANA Considerations

3.1.  Overlay Echo Request/Echo Reply Type

   IANA is requested to assign new type from the Overlay OAM Protocol
   Types registry as follows:

        +-------+---------------------------------+---------------+
        | Value |           Description           | Reference     |
        +-------+---------------------------------+---------------+
        | TBA1  | Overlay Echo Request/Echo Reply | This document |
        +-------+---------------------------------+---------------+

               Table 1: Overlay Echo Request/Echo Reply Type

3.2.  Overlay Ping Parameters

   IANA is requested to create new Overlay Echo Request/Echo Reply
   Parameters registry.

3.3.  Overlay Echo Request/Echo Reply Message Types

   IANA is requested to create in the Overlay Echo Request/Echo Reply
   Parameters registry the new sub-registry Message Types.  All code
   points in the range 1 through 191 in this registry shall be allocated
   according to the "IETF Review" procedure as specified in [RFC5226]
   and assign values as follows:

      +------------+----------------------+-------------------------+
      | Value      |     Description      | Reference               |
      +------------+----------------------+-------------------------+
      | 0          |       Reserved       |                         |
      | TBA2       | Overlay Echo Request | This document           |
      | TBA3       |  Overlay Echo Reply  | This document           |
      | TBA3+1-191 |      Unassigned      | IETF Review             |
      | 192-251    |      Unassigned      | First Come First Served |
      | 252-254    |      Unassigned      | Private Use             |
      | 255        |       Reserved       |                         |
      +------------+----------------------+-------------------------+

          Table 2: Overlay Echo Request/Echo Reply Message Types

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3.4.  Overlay Echo Reply Modes

   IANA is requested to create in the Overlay Echo Request/Echo Reply
   Parameters registry the new sub-registry Reply Modes All code points
   in the range 1 through 191 in this registry shall be allocated
   according to the "IETF Review" procedure as specified in [RFC5226]
   and assign values as follows:

   +------------+---------------------------------+--------------------+
   | Value      |           Description           | Reference          |
   +------------+---------------------------------+--------------------+
   | 0          |             Reserved            |                    |
   | TBA4       |           Do Not Reply          | This document      |
   | TBA5       |    Reply via an IPv4/IPv6 UDP   | This document      |
   |            |              Packet             |                    |
   | TBA6       |   Reply via Application Level   | This document      |
   |            |         Control Channel         |                    |
   | TBA7       |     Reply via Specified Path    | This document      |
   | TBA7+1-191 |            Unassigned           | IETF Review        |
   | 192-251    |            Unassigned           | First Come First   |
   |            |                                 | Served             |
   | 252-254    |            Unassigned           | Private Use        |
   | 255        |             Reserved            |                    |
   +------------+---------------------------------+--------------------+

                     Table 3: Overlay Echo Reply Modes

4.  Security Considerations

   Overlay EchoRequest/Replay operates withing the domain of the overlay
   network and thus inherits any security considerations that apply to
   the use of that overlay technology and, consequently, underlay data
   plane.  Also, the security needs for Overlay Echo Request/Reply are
   similar to those of ICMP ping [RFC0792], [RFC4443] and MPLS LSP ping
   [I-D.ietf-mpls-rfc4379bis].

   There are at least three approaches of attacking a node in the
   overlay network using the mechanisms defined in the document.  One is
   a Denial-of-Service attack, by sending Overlay ping to overload a
   node in the overlay network.  The second may use spoofing, hijacking,
   replaying, or otherwise tampering with Overlay Echo Requests and/or
   Replies to misrepresent, alter operator's view of the state of the
   overlay network.  The third is an unauthorized source using an
   Overlay Echo Request/Reply to obtain information about the overlay
   and/or underlay network.

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   To mitigate potential Denial-of-Service attacks, it is RECOMMENDED
   that implementations throttle the Overlay ping traffic going to the
   control plane.

   Replay and spoofing attacks involving faking or replaying Overlay
   Echo Reply messages would have to match the Sender's Handle and
   Sequence Number of an outstanding Overlay Echo Request message which
   is highl unlikely.  Thus the non-matching replay would be discarded.
   But since "even a broken clock is right twice a day" implementions
   MAY use Timestamp control block [I-D.ooamdt-rtgwg-ooam-header] to
   validate the TimeStamp Sent by requiring an exact match on this
   field.

   To protect against unauthorized sources trying to obtain information
   about the overlay and/or underlay an implementation MAY check that
   the source of the Echo Request is indeed part of the overlay domain.

5.  Acknowledgement

   TBD

6.  References

6.1.  Normative References

   [I-D.ietf-bier-mpls-encapsulation]
              Wijnands, I., Rosen, E., Dolganow, A., Tantsura, J.,
              Aldrin, S., and I. Meilik, "Encapsulation for Bit Index
              Explicit Replication in MPLS Networks", draft-ietf-bier-
              mpls-encapsulation-05 (work in progress), July 2016.

   [I-D.ietf-nvo3-geneve]
              Gross, J., Ganga, I., and T. Sridhar, "Geneve: Generic
              Network Virtualization Encapsulation", draft-ietf-
              nvo3-geneve-03 (work in progress), September 2016.

   [I-D.ietf-nvo3-gue]
              Herbert, T., Yong, L., and O. Zia, "Generic UDP
              Encapsulation", draft-ietf-nvo3-gue-04 (work in progress),
              July 2016.

   [I-D.ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe]
              Kreeger, L. and U. Elzur, "Generic Protocol Extension for
              VXLAN", draft-ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe-02 (work in progress),
              April 2016.

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   [I-D.ietf-sfc-nsh]
              Quinn, P. and U. Elzur, "Network Service Header", draft-
              ietf-sfc-nsh-10 (work in progress), September 2016.

   [I-D.ooamdt-rtgwg-ooam-header]
              Mirsky, G., Nordmark, E., Kumar, N., Kumar, D., Chen, M.,
              Yizhou, L., Mozes, D., Dolson, D., and I. Bagdonas, "OAM
              Header for use in Overlay Networks", draft-ooamdt-rtgwg-
              ooam-header-01 (work in progress), October 2016.

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

6.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-mpls-rfc4379bis]
              Kompella, K., Pignataro, C., Kumar, N., Aldrin, S., and M.
              Chen, "Detecting Multi-Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) Data
              Plane Failures", draft-ietf-mpls-rfc4379bis-07 (work in
              progress), September 2016.

   [RFC0792]  Postel, J., "Internet Control Message Protocol", STD 5,
              RFC 792, DOI 10.17487/RFC0792, September 1981,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc792>.

   [RFC4379]  Kompella, K. and G. Swallow, "Detecting Multi-Protocol
              Label Switched (MPLS) Data Plane Failures", RFC 4379,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4379, February 2006,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4379>.

   [RFC4443]  Conta, A., Deering, S., and M. Gupta, Ed., "Internet
              Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet
              Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification", RFC 4443,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4443, March 2006,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4443>.

   [RFC5226]  Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
              IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5226, May 2008,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5226>.

Authors' Addresses

   Greg Mirsky

   Email: gregimirsky@gmail.com

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   Erik Nordmark
   Arista Networks

   Email: nordmark@acm.org

   Nagendra Kumar
   Cisco Systems, Inc.

   Email: naikumar@cisco.com

   Deepak Kumar
   Cisco Systems, Inc.

   Email: dekumar@cisco.com

   Mach Chen
   Huawei Technologies

   Email: mach.chen@huawei.com

   Yizhou Li
   Huawei Technologies

   Email: liyizhou@huawei.com

   David Mozes
   Mellanox Technologies Ltd.

   Email: davidm@mellanox.com

   David Dolson
   Sandvine

   Email: ddolson@sandvine.com

   Ignas Bagdonas

   Email: ibagdona@gmail.com

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