Basic BGP Convergence Benchmarking Methodology for Data-Plane Convergence
RFC 7747
| Document | Type | RFC - Informational (April 2016; No errata) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Authors | Rajiv Papneja , Bhavani Parise , Susan Hares , Dean Lee , Ilya Varlashkin | ||
| Last updated | 2016-04-13 | ||
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| Document shepherd | Sarah Banks | ||
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| IESG | IESG state | RFC 7747 (Informational) | |
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) R. Papneja
Request for Comments: 7747 Huawei Technologies
Category: Informational B. Parise
ISSN: 2070-1721 Skyport Systems
S. Hares
Huawei Technologies
D. Lee
IXIA
I. Varlashkin
Google
April 2016
Basic BGP Convergence Benchmarking Methodology
for Data-Plane Convergence
Abstract
BGP is widely deployed and used by several service providers as the
default inter-AS (Autonomous System) routing protocol. It is of
utmost importance to ensure that when a BGP peer or a downstream link
of a BGP peer fails, the alternate paths are rapidly used and routes
via these alternate paths are installed. This document provides the
basic BGP benchmarking methodology using existing BGP convergence
terminology as defined in RFC 4098.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
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(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
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approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see 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/rfc7747.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Benchmarking Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2. Purpose of BGP FIB (Data-Plane) Convergence . . . . . . . 4
1.3. Control-Plane Convergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.4. Benchmarking Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. Existing Definitions and Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Test Topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1. General Reference Topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4. Test Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1. Number of Peers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2. Number of Routes per Peer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.3. Policy Processing/Reconfiguration . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.4. Configured Parameters (Timers, etc.) . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.5. Interface Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.6. Measurement Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.7. Measurement Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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