Hi Sacha,

Thanks for the thorough review of the draft and your comments  and questions. 
Please see inline.


From: Alexander Vainshtein <alexander.vainsht...@rbbn.com>
Date: Monday, November 22, 2021 at 11:18 AM
To: "Parag Jain (paragj)" <par...@cisco.com>
Cc: "bess@ietf.org" <bess@ietf.org>, 
"draft-ietf-bess-evpn-lsp-ping....@ietf.org" 
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Subject: RE: A question about draft-ietf-bess-evpn-lsp-ping

Parag and all,
A gentle reminder...

Regards,
Sasha

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From: Alexander Vainshtein
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2021 12:44 PM
To: Parag Jain (paragj) <par...@cisco.com>
Cc: bess@ietf.org; draft-ietf-bess-evpn-lsp-ping....@ietf.org
Subject: RE: A question about draft-ietf-bess-evpn-lsp-ping

Parag, and all,
A couple of additional questions dealing with the definition of  the EVPN AD 
sub-TLV in Section 4.3 of the 
draft<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-evpn-lsp-ping#section-4.3>.

  1.  I assume that this sub-TLV can be used to differentiate between per-ES 
and per-EVI EVPN Ethernet Auto-Discovery (Type 1) routes by the value of 
Ethernet Tag:
     *   For per-ES EVPN Type 1 routes the Ethernet Tag field in the sub-TLV 
must be set to the reserved MAX-ET value
     *   For per-EVI EVPN Type 1 routes the Ethernet Tag field in the sub-TLV 
must be set to the non-reserved value
If this assumption is correct, it would be nice to have this explicitly 
specified in the draft

Paragj> yes, this is right. Will update the draft to clarify.


  1.  There no references to the EVPN AD sub-TLV in the draft. Instead, there 
are two references to the Ethernet AD sub-TLV

Paragj> thanks for pointing this out. Will update the draft to replace all 
references to Ethernet AD sub-TLV  with EVPN Ethernet AD Sub-TLV.


     *   In the last para of Section 6.2.1 when it is included in the Target 
FEC TLV of an LSP Ping request while an ESI label advertised by the 
corresponding remote PE for the MH ES identified by the ESI value in the 
sub-TLV is included in the label stack. My guess is that in this case this 
sub-TLV refers to the per-ES EVPN Type 1 route – can you please confirm?

Paragj> yes, that’s right. Will update the draft to clarify.


     *   In Section 6.3 when this sub-TLV it is included in the Target FEC TLV 
of an LSP Ping request while the label stack includes the aliasing label 
advertised by the specific MAC-VRF of the remote PE for the MH ES identified by 
the ESI value in the sub-TLV is included in the label stack. My guess is that 
in this case this sub-TLV refers to the per-EVI EVPN Type 1 route – can you 
please confirm?
Paragj> yes, that’s right. Will update the draft to clarify.


  1.  Section 8.2 of RFC 
7432<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7432#section-8.2> specifies that 
a per-ES EVPN Type 1 route for a given multi-homed ES may be advertises 
multiple times with different RD values because it may carry more Route Targets 
than could be fit into a single BGP Update message. Can you please explain 
which RD value should be used in the EVPN AD sub-TLV if it is used in 
association with a per-ES EVPN Type 1 route in (2b) above?

Paragj> The RD value should correspond to the RD received for the EVI in the 
per-ES EVPN Type-1 route. Will update the draft to clarify.

Thanks
Parag

Regards,
Sasha

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From: Alexander Vainshtein
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2021 12:03 PM
To: Parag Jain (paragj) <par...@cisco.com<mailto:par...@cisco.com>>
Cc: bess@ietf.org<mailto:bess@ietf.org>; 
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Subject: RE: A question about draft-ietf-bess-evpn-lsp-ping
Importance: High

Parag,
Lots of thanks for a prompt response.

At the same time your response does not resolve my concerns, since I have 
failed to understand why in Example#1 you propose responding with “return code 
3 - Replying router is an egress for the FEC at stack-depth” while in Example#2 
you propose responding with “return code corresponding to The FEC exists on the 
PE and the behavior is to drop the packet because of Split Horizon Filtering”.

In both cases a BUM packet received by PE-1 with the label stack described 
would not be discarded:

  *   In example 1 it would be sent towards CE-2 and CE-4 (but not to CE-2 
because PE-1 is not the DF on MH ES-1)
  *   In example 2 it still would be sent towards CE-4 (because it is a 
single-homed CE).

In any case I think that explicit definition of the scenarios in which any of 
the new return codes should be used in missing in the draft.

Regards,
Sasha

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From: Parag Jain (paragj) <par...@cisco.com<mailto:par...@cisco.com>>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2021 5:34 AM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: A question about draft-ietf-bess-evpn-lsp-ping
Importance: High

Hi Alexander,

Please see inline.


From: Alexander Vainshtein 
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Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at 11:51 AM
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Hi,
A have a question about usage of the new return codes defined in the latest 
version of draft-ietf-bess-evpn-lsp-ping.
Section 8.2 of the 
draft<https://clicktime.symantec.com/3Jca2eC7hH1xm34XuNuqi9A6H2?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdatatracker.ietf.org%2Fdoc%2Fhtml%2Fdraft-ietf-bess-evpn-lsp-ping%23section-8.2>
 requests IANA to define two new return codes as explained below:

   o  The FEC exists on the PE and the behavior is to drop the packet
      because of not DF.

   o  The FEC exists on the PE and the behavior is to drop the packet
      because of Split Horizon Filtering.

Section 6.2.1 of the 
draft<https://clicktime.symantec.com/3FCJxL7BmTpcsrv8pCBcWUm6H2?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdatatracker.ietf.org%2Fdoc%2Fhtml%2Fdraft-ietf-bess-evpn-lsp-ping%23section-6.2.1>
 describes how these codes may be used in a very simple scenario.
My question deals with a sightly more complicated scenario that is shown in the 
embedded diagram below (and also in the attached PDF file).
It still deals with an EVI that uses ingress replication for delivery of BUM 
traffic and is instantiated in PE-1, PE-2, and PE-3 (same as in the draft) that 
exchange and receive Inclusive Multicast Ethernet (IMET) Tag EVPN  routes.
However, in my example the EVI in PE-1 and PE-2 are each attached to two 
dual-homed CEs (CE-2 and CE-3) via two different All-Active multi-homed 
Ethernet segments in such a way that:

  1.  The EVI in PE-2 is selected as the DF on MH ES-1
  2.  The ECI in PE-1 is selected as the DF on MH ES-2
(quite easy to achieve, say, with the default DF election procedure, VLAN-based 
service interface and egress VLAN translation).
In addition, the EVI in PE-1 is attached to a single-homed CE-4.



Just as in the example in the draft, an operator sends an LSP Ping request from 
PE-3 to PE-1 for the FEC associated with IMET route that has been advertised by 
the EVI in this  PE.
But, to differentiate from the example in the draft, the EVI in PE-1 is 
attached to 3 different Ethernet segments:

  *   To a single homed Ethernet segment that attaches it to CE-4
  *   To a multi-homed Ethernet segment MH ES-1 on which it is not elected as 
the DF
  *   To a multi-homed Ethernet segment MH ES-2 on which it is elected as the 
DF.

Which return code is supposed to be used in the reply to this request?

Paragj> for the example above, the PE-1 should reply with return code 3 - 
"Replying router is an egress for the FEC at stack-depth" as per RFC8209. LSP 
Echo Request is used to test a particular LSP identified by the FEC Stack 
included in the packet. The response by PE-1 for FEC associated with IMET route 
is dependent on EVI (and bridge table) and independent of ESI (and ACs).

Paragj> in Section 6.2.1 of the draft-ietf-bess-evpn-lsp-ping draft, we will 
also update the text that ISID in ethernet tag field is used to determine the 
bridge table and that the processing of Echo Request packet on PE2 will be 
similar to that on PE1.


In another scenario, suppose that the operator sends an LSP Ping request from 
PE-2 to PE-1 1 for the FEC associated with IMET route that has been advertised 
by the EVI in this  PE and includes the ESI label that PE-1 has advertised in 
the per-ES Ethernet Auto-Discovery EVPN route for MH ES-2 (for which the ESI in 
PE-1 is the DF).

Which return code is supposed to be used in the reply to this request?

Paragj> since an Ethernet AD sub-TLV corresponding to ES-2 and the associated 
MPLS Split Horizon Label  is carried in the LSP Ping packet from PE-2, the PE-1 
should reply with return code corresponding to “


  1.  code 3 - "Replying router is an egress for the FEC at stack-depth" as per 
RFC8209
  2.  Replying router is egress for the FEC at the stack depth as per rfc 8029. 
In addition, the multicast packets are dropped on the ES corresponding to the 
SHG Label because of the Split Horizon filtering”.


  1.  Replying router is egress for the FEC at the stack depth as per rfc 8029. 
In addition, the multicast packets are forwarded because there is no ES 
corresponding to the SHG label”

1,2 for ingress replication
2,3 for p2mp

Replying router ios egress of Fec exist on the PE and the behavior is to 
forward the packet as there is no ES corresponding to the SHG label

Thanks
Parag

Your timely feedback would be highly appreciated.

Regards, and lots of thanks in advance,
Sasha

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