Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) Distributed Layer 3 Gateway
RFC 7956
| Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(September 2016; No errata)
Was draft-ietf-trill-irb (trill WG)
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| Last updated | 2018-12-20 | ||
| Replaces | draft-hao-trill-irb | ||
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| Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
| Document shepherd | Donald Eastlake | ||
| Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2016-02-08) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 7956 (Proposed Standard) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
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| IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
| IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack | ||
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) W. Hao
Request for Comments: 7956 Y. Li
Category: Standards Track Huawei
ISSN: 2070-1721 A. Qu
MediaTec
M. Durrani
Equinix Inc.
P. Sivamurugan
IP Infusion
September 2016
Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL)
Distributed Layer 3 Gateway
Abstract
The base TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links)
protocol provides optimal pair-wise data frame forwarding for Layer 2
intra-subnet traffic but not for Layer 3 inter-subnet traffic. A
centralized gateway solution is typically used for Layer 3 inter-
subnet traffic forwarding but has the following issues:
1. Sub-optimum forwarding paths for inter-subnet traffic.
2. A centralized gateway that may need to support a very large number
of gateway interfaces in a Data Center, one per tenant per Data
Label used by that tenant, to provide interconnect functionality
for all the Layer 2 Virtual Networks in a TRILL campus.
3. A traffic bottleneck at the gateway.
This document specifies an optional TRILL distributed gateway
solution that resolves these centralized gateway issues.
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 7841.
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/rfc7956.
Hao, et al. Standards Track [Page 1]
RFC 7956 TRILL Distributed Layer 3 Gateway September 2016
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................3
1.1. Document Organization ......................................3
2. Conventions Used in This Document ...............................4
3. Simplified Example and Problem Statement ........................5
3.1. Simplified Example .........................................6
3.2. Problem Statement Summary ..................................8
4. Layer 3 Traffic Forwarding Model ................................9
5. Distributed Gateway Solution Details ...........................10
5.1. Local Routing Information .................................11
5.2. Local Routing Information Synchronization .................12
5.3. Active-Active Access ......................................14
5.4. Data Traffic Forwarding Process ...........................15
6. Distributed Layer 3 Gateway Process Example ....................16
6.1. Control-Plane Process .....................................17
6.2. Data-Plane Process ........................................19
7. TRILL Protocol Extensions ......................................20
7.1. The Tenant Label and Gateway MAC APPsub-TLV ...............20
7.2. The SE Flag in the NickFlags APPsub-TLV ...................21
7.3. The IPv4 Prefix APPsub-TLV ................................22
7.4. The IPv6 Prefix APPsub-TLV ................................23
8. Security Considerations ........................................24
9. Management Considerations ......................................24
10. IANA Considerations ...........................................24
11. References ....................................................25
11.1. Normative References .....................................25
11.2. Informative References ...................................26
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