BGP: Carbon: Release Review

Contents

Features

• Feature Name: odl-bgpcep-bgp

  • Feature URL: https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/gitweb?p=bgpcep.git;a=blob_plain;f=features/bgp/src/main/features/features.xml;hb=refs/heads/stable/carbon

  • Feature Description: BGP southbound plugin

  • Top Level: Yes

  • User Facing: Yes

  • Experimental: No

  • CSIT Test: https://jenkins.opendaylight.org/releng/view/bgpcep/job/bgpcep-csit-1node-userfeatures-only-carbon/

• Feature Name: odl-bgpcep-bmp

  • Feature URL: https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/gitweb?p=bgpcep.git;a=blob_plain;f=features/bmp/src/main/features/features.xml;hb=refs/heads/stable/carbon

  • Feature Description: BMP southbound plugin

  • Top Level: Yes

  • User Facing: Yes

  • Experimental: No

  • CSIT Test: https://jenkins.opendaylight.org/releng/view/bgpcep/job/bgpcep-csit-1node-userfeatures-only-carbon/

• Feature Name: odl-bgpcep-pcep

  • Feature URL: https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/gitweb?p=bgpcep.git;a=blob_plain;f=features/pcep/src/main/features/features.xml;hb=refs/heads/stable/carbon

  • Feature Description: PCEP southbound plugin

  • Top Level: Yes

  • User Facing: Yes

  • Experimental: No

  • CSIT Test: https://jenkins.opendaylight.org/releng/view/bgpcep/job/bgpcep-csit-1node-userfeatures-only-boron/

Major Features

BGP:

• Initial configuration file loader for BGP

• Operational state for BGP OpenConfig

PCEP:

• Integrate PCEP topology provider with Cluster Singleton Service

Karaf 4:

• BGP Karaf 4 migration

• PCEP Karaf 4 migration

• BMP Karaf 4 migration

• RSVP Karaf 4 migration

• BGPCEP Extras Karaf 4 migration

Non-Code Aspects (user docs, examples, tutorials, articles)

• Release Notes

• Installation Guide

• User Guide

• Developer Guide

• Operations Guide

• How-To's/Tutorials

ASCII doc commits:

• BGP

• PCEP

• BMP

Architectural Issues

No architectural issues found

Security Considerations

None Known - all protocol implements the TCP Authentication Option (TCP MD5)

Quality Assurance (test coverage, etc)

• Java Unit test coverage reported by SonarQube ~80,8%

• 84 Issues reported by SonarQube (Technical Debt 14 days)

• System tests:

User features test

PCEP performance and scale tests

BGP Application peer performance and scale tests

BGP performance and scale test

BGP clustering

End-of-life (API/Features EOLed in Release)

Bugzilla (summary of bug situation)

Unresolved Carbon tickets:

• BUG-4113

• BUG-5619

• BUG-6562

• BUG-7935

Standards (summary of standard compliance)

• RFC4271 - A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)

• RFC4760 - Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4

• RFC1997 - BGP Communities Attribute

• RFC4360 - BGP Extended Communities Attribute

• RFC4486 - Subcodes for BGP Cease Notification Message

• RFC5004 - Avoid BGP Best Path Transitions from One External to Another

• RFC7752 - North-Bound Distribution of Link-State and TE Information using BGP

• RFC5440 - Path Computation Element (PCE) Communication Protocol (PCEP)

• RFC5541 - Encoding of Objective Functions in the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP)

• RFC5455 - Diffserv-Aware Class-Type Object for the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol

• RFC5492 - Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4

• RFC5521 - Extensions to the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) for Route Exclusions

• RFC5557 - Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) Requirements and Protocol Extensions in Support of Global Concurrent Optimization

• RFC5575 - Flow Specification

• RFC5886 - A Set of Monitoring Tools for Path Computation Element (PCE)-Based Architecture

• RFC6286 - Autonomous-System-Wide Unique BGP Identifier for BGP-4

• RFC6793 - BGP Support for Four-Octet Autonomous System (AS) Number Space

• RFC7311 - The Accumulated IGP Metric Attribute for BGP

• RFC7674 - Clarification of the Flowspec Redirect Extended Community

• RFC5668 - 4-Octet AS Specific BGP Extended Community

• RFC3107 - Carrying Label Information in BGP-4

• RFC4364 - BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

• RFC7432 - BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN

• RFC7911 - Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP

• RFC2918 - Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4

• draft-ietf-bess-evpn-overlay - A Network Virtualization Overlay Solution using EVPN

• draft-ietf-pce-pceps - Secure Transport for PCEP

• draft-gredler-idr-bgp-ls-segment-routing-ext-03 - BGP Link-State extensions for Segment Routing

• draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-segment-routing-epe-05 - Segment Routing Egress Peer Engineering BGP-LS Extensions

• draft-ietf-idr-flow-spec-v6-06 - Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules for IPv6

• draft-ietf-idr-flowspec-redirect-ip-01 - BGP Flow-Spec Redirect to IP Action

• Stateful extensions to the Path Computation Element Protocol, December 2013

  • draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce-07 - PCEP Extensions for Stateful PCE

  • draft-ietf-pce-pce-initiated-lsp-00 - PCEP Extensions for PCE-initiated LSP Setup in a Stateful PCE Model

• Segment routing extension to the Path Computation Element Protocol, October 2014

  • draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing-01 - PCEP Extension for segment routing

  • draft-ietf-pce-lsp-setup-type-01 - PCEP Extension for path setup type

• draft-ietf-pce-stateful-sync-optimizations-03 - Optimizations of Label Switched Path State Synchronization Procedures for a Stateful PCE

• draft-sivabalan-pce-binding-label-sid-01 - Carrying Binding Label/Segment-ID in PCE-based Networks

• RFC7854 - BGP Monitoring Protocol

Schedule (initial schedule and changes over the release cycle)