Basic BGP Convergence Benchmarking Methodology for Data-Plane Convergence
RFC 7747
Document | Type | RFC - Informational (April 2016; No errata) | |
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Authors | Rajiv Papneja , Bhavani Parise , Susan Hares , Dean Lee , Ilya Varlashkin | ||
Last updated | 2016-04-13 | ||
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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. 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). Not all documents 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. Papneja, et al. Informational [Page 1] RFC 7747 BGP Convergence Methodology April 2016 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2016 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. This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published or made publicly available before November 10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process. Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other than English. Papneja, et al. Informational [Page 2] RFC 7747 BGP Convergence Methodology April 2016 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Show full document text