Jo,

That's what it appears. Because it is in a VRF, it creates that VPN label as
it would to advertise to a regular PE. It advertises that same label when
the LDP peering comes up to R1. No split-horizon in LDP! R9 doesn't know any
better...but I think R1 should! I am still going to dig for some more
information, maybe query TAC. I'll let you know if I find anything else.

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Jo Knight <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am seeing the same thing on this IOS:
>
> Cisco IOS Software, 7200 Software (C7200-K91P-M), Version 12.2(25)S9,
> RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
>
> 00:27:36: %LDP-5-NBRCHG: LDP Neighbor 150.1.1.1:0 is DOWN
> 00:27:43: %LDP-5-NBRCHG: LDP Neighbor 150.1.1.1:0 is UP
> 00:30:43: %LDP-5-NBRCHG: LDP Neighbor 150.1.1.1:0 is DOWN
> 00:30:50: %LDP-5-NBRCHG: LDP Neighbor 150.1.1.1:0 is UP
> 00:33:50: %LDP-5-NBRCHG: LDP Neighbor 150.1.1.1:0 is DOWN
> 00:34:00: %LDP-5-NBRCHG: LDP Neighbor 150.1.1.1:0 is UP
> 00:37:00: %LDP-5-NBRCHG: LDP Neighbor 150.1.1.1:0 is DOWN
> 00:37:11: %LDP-5-NBRCHG: LDP Neighbor 150.1.1.1:0 is UP
> 00:40:11: %LDP-5-NBRCHG: LDP Neighbor 150.1.1.1:0 is DOWN
>
>
> I implemented the workaround and it seems stable now.
>
> Is it happening due to ldp being configured on an interface within a VRF in
> this case?
>
> Good spot though - thanks.
>
> Jo
>
> 2009/9/4 Bryan Bartik <[email protected]>
>
> Well I think Antoine was on to something...and I found another workaround
>> :-)
>>
>> I did a packet capture in Dynamips and just before the session drops, the
>> TCP/LDP keepalive between R1 and R9 loop between each other. I get about 254
>> packets in under a sec and I can see the TTL decrement on each one! This
>> happens every minute and eventually the timeout expires because these
>> keepalive are not received and processed locally by R9 (thus every 3 minutes
>> it drops). R1 is sending the keepalive as a labeled packet even though R9 is
>> directly connected, I think it should be an imp-null label. According to the
>> capture R1 is putting label 20 on the keepalive. Here I verified it:
>>
>> R1#sho mpls ldp bindings
>>   lib entry: 123.1.9.0/24, rev 2
>>         local binding:  label: imp-null
>>         remote binding: lsr: 123.1.9.9:0, label: 20
>>
>> R9#sho mpls forwarding-table labels 20
>> Local  Outgoing      Prefix            Bytes Label   Outgoing   Next
>> Hop
>> Label  Label or VC   or Tunnel Id      Switched
>> interface
>> 20     Pop Label     123.1.9.0/24[V] <http://123.1.9.0/24%5BV%5D>
>> 3358266       Se1/2      point2point
>> R9#
>>
>> R1 is learning the label 20 and using that to send packets onto the
>> directly connected network. R9 receives it, pops it and sends it back out of
>> the interface instead of receiving it locally. (I am using the interface as
>> ldp transport address for this example). It's hard to tell who is at fault
>> here!
>>
>> In order for the session to actually come up again, all the learned labels
>> have to get flushed so the TCP exchange can happen. Once it does, TCP
>> handshake and label exchange occurs without any label encapsulation. R9 then
>> advertises the vrf subnet (connected to R1) in a label mapping message with
>> a label of 20 (verified with capture). This label is now used by R1 and any
>> further TCP exchange uses that label and packets loop. It's funny to see it
>> happen, because as soon as R9 sends that label mapping, R1 uses the label in
>> the ACK! However this does not cause any problems at this point, because R1
>> also sends an unlabeled ACK as well, completeing the exchange (weird).
>>
>> To fix this, I have configured the following on R1:
>>
>> access-list 1 deny   123.1.9.0 0.0.0.255
>> access-list 1 permit any
>> mpls ldp neighbor 123.1.9.9 labels accept 1
>>
>> On R3 I did similar:
>>
>> access-list 1 deny   123.3.8.0 0.0.0.255
>> access-list 1 permit any
>> mpls ldp neighbor 123.3.8.8 labels accept 1
>>
>> It's been up for more than 3 minutes:
>>
>> R1#sho mpls ldp neighbor
>>     Peer LDP Ident: 123.1.9.9:0; Local LDP Ident 123.123.123.1:0
>>         TCP connection: 123.1.9.9.11032 - 123.1.9.1.646
>>         State: Oper; Msgs sent/rcvd: 13/13; Downstream
>>         Up time: 00:04:55
>>         LDP discovery sources:
>>           Serial1/0, Src IP addr: 123.1.9.9
>>         Addresses bound to peer LDP Ident:
>>           123.1.9.9
>>
>> R3#sho mpls ldp neighbor
>>     Peer LDP Ident: 123.3.8.8:0; Local LDP Ident 123.123.123.3:0
>>         TCP connection: 123.3.8.8.11036 - 123.3.8.3.646
>>         State: Oper; Msgs sent/rcvd: 15/15; Downstream
>>         Up time: 00:06:13
>>         LDP discovery sources:
>>           Serial1/0, Src IP addr: 123.3.8.8
>>         Addresses bound to peer LDP Ident:
>>           123.3.8.8
>>
>> Can't believe that is they way it should be designed (I still think bug),
>> but for now it is stable :-)
>>
>> thanks all,
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Rick Mur <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> True, the CSC code can be buggy sometimes. As this 3 minute marker is
>>> definitely a bug. I recall I also had some issues where it worked only some
>>> period of time, so maybe I ran into that same issue. Still it's sometimes
>>> buggy and I don't think that will happen on your lab.
>>>
>>>     --
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Rick Mur
>>> CCIE2 #21946 (R&S / Service Provider)
>>> Sr. Support Engineer – IPexpert, Inc.
>>> URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
>>>
>>> On 4 sep 2009, at 14:11, Bryan Bartik wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks Guys, I am using 7200s in dynamips with 12.2S code. In fact, this
>>> is a mock set up of vol 2 lab 4, I just took everything else out of the
>>> equation. I started from scratch just doing the MPLS VPN scenarios. Even R2
>>> is not doing anything (ospf or ldp) right now. I am also just using physical
>>> interfaces on my frame relay cloud :) I don't see the client tagging the
>>> packets but I could look deeper into this. It's just amazing that is every 3
>>> minutes pretty much on the dot! I wonder if it's some type of CSC bug having
>>> to do with MPLS on the VRF interface...I will do some more testing and let
>>> you know.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Antonie Henning - MWEB <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Had a similar issue. I narrowed it down to point to point frame-relay
>>>> subinterface with csc igp (ospf) and ldp enabled.
>>>>
>>>> What I saw was a loop. The client would tag packets to the carrier for
>>>> the directly connected subnet. I was expecting to see it pop the label:
>>>>
>>>> R2(config-subif)#do sh ip cef 123.2.6.6
>>>> 123.2.6.0/24
>>>>  attached to Serial4/0.206 label 614
>>>>
>>>> The 614 label then sends the packet back to the client and a loop forms:
>>>>
>>>> R2(config)#do trace 123.2.6.6
>>>>
>>>> Type escape sequence to abort.
>>>> Tracing the route to 123.2.6.6
>>>>
>>>>  1 123.2.6.6 [MPLS: Label 614 Exp 0] 8 msec 32 msec 12 msec
>>>>  2 123.2.6.2 20 msec 40 msec 40 msec
>>>>  3 123.2.6.6 [MPLS: Label 614 Exp 0] 44 msec 24 msec 44 msec
>>>>  4 123.2.6.2 20 msec 48 msec 64 msec
>>>>  5 123.2.6.6 [MPLS: Label 614 Exp 0] 40 msec 24 msec 40 msec
>>>>  6 123.2.6.2 48 msec 72 msec 60 msec
>>>>  7 123.2.6.6 [MPLS: Label 614 Exp 0] 60 msec 36 msec 64 msec
>>>>  8 123.2.6.2 56 msec 60 msec 88 msec
>>>>  9 123.2.6.6 [MPLS: Label 614 Exp 0] 60 msec 108 msec 60 msec
>>>>
>>>> Changing the frame-relay config to use the main interface solved the
>>>> problem.
>>>>
>>>> Hth
>>>> 21500.net
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>>>> Francisco Baena
>>>> Sent: 04 September 2009 08:11 AM
>>>> To: 'Bryan Bartik'; [email protected]; [email protected]
>>>> Subject: RE: Carrier Supporting Carrier (CSC) - LDP peering between SPs
>>>> drops every 3 minutes
>>>>
>>>> Make it two. I had the same problem with vol II - Lab 4 (I think), but
>>>> from
>>>> R2 to R6.
>>>>
>>>> At that point I blamed on dynamips being buggy as all the routing/MPLS
>>>> tables seem fine.
>>>>
>>>> I look forward to a resolution on this. The interesting thing is that
>>>> when I
>>>> shut down the connection from R1 to R2, the problem went away, so it
>>>> sounds
>>>> like an IGP issue. However even making a Sham link between r6 and r9 and
>>>> increasing the OSPF cost from R1 to R2 (to ensure AS200 was the exit
>>>> point),
>>>> made no difference.
>>>>
>>>> I would say that a possible workaround could be to make the R1-R9 LDP
>>>> sessions targeted, but obviously what we all want to know is what the
>>>> heck
>>>> happened there in the first place.
>>>>
>>>> During my testing I disabled MPLS TE too in AS200, just in case, but no
>>>> cigar....
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Francisco
>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/fbaena
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>>>> Bryan Bartik
>>>> Sent: 04 September 2009 05:14
>>>> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Carrier Supporting Carrier (CSC) - LDP peering between SPs
>>>> drops
>>>> every 3 minutes
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am running an inter-as + CSC scenario with OSPF and MPLS between the
>>>> SPs.
>>>> The LDP peering is dropping exactly every 3 minutes and coming back up.
>>>> Connectivity is fine throughout the VPN when the session is up. I don't
>>>> see
>>>> any route flapping in the debugs.
>>>>
>>>> AS65123[R3]---------[R8]AS100---------AS200[R9]---------[R1]AS65123
>>>>
>>>> AS100 and AS200 have an inter-as VPN supporting the 2nd level carrier
>>>> AS65123.
>>>> R9 and R8 have vrf interfaces connected to R1 and R3 respectively.
>>>> R1 has an LDP/OSPF peering with R9 (in the vrf) in AS100
>>>> R3 has an LDP/OSPF peering with R8 (in the vrf) in AS200
>>>>
>>>> Both LDP sessions are bouncing on queue every 3 minutes! Here is R8 for
>>>> example:
>>>>
>>>> R8#
>>>> *Sep  3 21:50:49.575: %LDP-5-NBRCHG: LDP Neighbor 123.123.123.3:0 is
>>>> DOWN
>>>> *Sep  3 21:50:59.475: %LDP-5-NBRCHG: LDP Neighbor 123.123.123.3:0 is UP
>>>> *Sep  3 21:53:59.491: %LDP-5-NBRCHG: LDP Neighbor 123.123.123.3:0 is
>>>> DOWN
>>>> *Sep  3 21:54:09.291: %LDP-5-NBRCHG: LDP Neighbor 123.123.123.3:0 is UP
>>>> *Sep  3 21:57:09.311: %LDP-5-NBRCHG: LDP Neighbor 123.123.123.3:0 is
>>>> DOWN
>>>> *Sep  3 21:57:19.331: %LDP-5-NBRCHG: LDP Neighbor 123.123.123.3:0 is UP
>>>> *Sep  3 22:00:19.351: %LDP-5-NBRCHG: LDP Neighbor 123.123.123.3:0 is
>>>> DOWN
>>>> *Sep  3 22:00:29.239: %LDP-5-NBRCHG: LDP Neighbor 123.123.123.3:0 is UP
>>>>
>>>> Now just before the session dies I get the following from "debug mpls
>>>> ldp
>>>> transport events interface x/x". This is from R9:
>>>>
>>>> R9#
>>>> *Sep  3 22:09:27.295: ldp: Send ldp hello; Serial1/2, src/dst
>>>> 123.1.9.9/224.0.0.2, inst_id 0
>>>> *Sep  3 22:09:28.787: ldp: Rcvd ldp hello; Serial1/2, from 123.1.9.1 (
>>>> 123.123.123.1:0), intf_id 0, opt 0xC
>>>> *Sep  3 22:09:32.127: ldp: Send ldp hello; Serial1/2, src/dst
>>>> 123.1.9.9/224.0.0.2, inst_id 0
>>>> *Sep  3 22:09:33.239: ldp: Rcvd ldp hello; Serial1/2, from 123.1.9.1 (
>>>> 123.123.123.1:0), intf_id 0, opt 0xC
>>>> *Sep  3 22:09:36.111: ldp: Send ldp hello; Serial1/2, src/dst
>>>> 123.1.9.9/224.0.0.2, inst_id 0
>>>> *Sep  3 22:09:36.907: tagcon: Session KeepAlive timer expired, peer
>>>> 123.123.123.1:0 (pp 0x64027BD8)
>>>> *Sep  3 22:09:36.911: ldp: Close LDP transport conn for adj 0x63486648
>>>> *Sep  3 22:09:36.915: ldp: Closing ldp conn 123.1.9.9:646 <->
>>>> 123.123.123.1:11015, adj 0x63486648
>>>> *Sep  3 22:09:36.919: ldp: Adj 0x63486648; state set to closed
>>>> *Sep  3 22:09:36.923: %LDP-5-NBRCHG: LDP Neighbor 123.123.123.1:0 is
>>>> DOWN
>>>>
>>>> Even though I am sending and receiving hellos, I am getting the session
>>>> keepalive timer expired. Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> --
>>>> Bryan Bartik
>>>> CCIE #23707 (R&S), CCNP
>>>> Sr. Support Engineer - IPexpert, Inc.
>>>> URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
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>>> Bryan Bartik
>>> CCIE #23707 (R&S), CCNP
>>> Sr. Support Engineer - IPexpert, Inc.
>>> URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Bryan Bartik
>> CCIE #23707 (R&S), CCNP
>> Sr. Support Engineer - IPexpert, Inc.
>> URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>>
>


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