Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): RBridge Channel Support
RFC 7178
Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(May 2014; No errata)
Updated by RFC 7978
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Authors | Donald Eastlake , Vishwas Manral , Li Yizhou , Sam Aldrin , David Ward | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Replaces | draft-eastlake-trill-rbridge-channel, draft-eastlake-trill-rbridge-bfd | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
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Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 7178 (Proposed Standard) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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Responsible AD | Ralph Droms | ||
IESG note | Erik Nordmark (nordmark@acm.org) is the document shepherd. | ||
Send notices to | (None) |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) D. Eastlake 3rd Request for Comments: 7178 Huawei Category: Standards Track V. Manral ISSN: 2070-1721 Ionos Corp. Y. Li S. Aldrin Huawei D. Ward Cisco May 2014 Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): RBridge Channel Support Abstract This document specifies a general channel mechanism for sending messages, such as Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) messages, between Routing Bridges (RBridges) and between RBridges and end stations in an RBridge campus through extensions to the Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) protocol. Status of This Memo This is an Internet Standards Track document. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7178. Eastlake, et al. Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 7178 TRILL: RBridge Channel Support May 2014 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2014 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................3 1.1. RBridge Channel Requirements ...............................3 1.2. Relation to the MPLS Generic Associated Channel ............4 1.3. Terminology ................................................4 2. Inter-RBridge Channel Messages ..................................4 2.1. RBridge Channel Message Inner Frame ........................6 2.1.1. RBridge Channel Header ..............................6 2.1.2. Inner Ethernet Header ...............................8 2.1.3. Inner.VLAN Tag ......................................8 2.2. TRILL Header for RBridge Channel Messages ..................9 2.3. Ethernet Link Header and Trailer ..........................10 2.4. Special Transmission and Rate Considerations ..............10 3. Processing RBridge Channel TRILL Data Messages .................11 3.1. Processing the RBridge Channel Header .....................12 3.2. RBridge Channel Errors ....................................13 4. Native RBridge Channel Frames ..................................14 5. Indicating Support for RBridge Channel Protocols ...............16 6. Congestion Considerations ......................................16 7. Allocation Considerations ......................................17 7.1. IANA Considerations .......................................17 7.2. IEEE Registration Authority Considerations ................18 8. Security Considerations ........................................18 9. References .....................................................19 9.1. Normative References ......................................19 9.2. Informative References ....................................20 10. Acknowledgments ...............................................20 Eastlake, et al. Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 7178 TRILL: RBridge Channel Support May 2014 1. Introduction RBridge campuses provide transparent least-cost forwarding using the Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) protocol that builds on Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) routing [IS-IS] [RFC1195] [RFC7176]. Devices that implement TRILL are calledShow full document text