Hi all,

Please review and provide comments for the following draft:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-adubey-bfd-service-redundancy/


Summary of draft:

This draft proposes a new BFD diag code via which a node running a BFD session 
with another node, can inform the other node after a BFD session times out, 
that it didn’t go down and did live through the failure.

Such notification is useful for a set of nodes providing Active/Standby 
redundancy. When these nodes are running multiple L2/L3/L4-L7 services  in 
non-revertive mode of redundancy, the standby node taking over as active for 
non-revertive services after BFD times out needs to indicate in the BFD packet 
that it outlived the other failed old active node. The new diag code will be 
used for this purpose. When this diag code is set in the BFD packets, it will 
provide an indication to the failed old active node that it MUST NOT activate 
the non-revertive services when it comes up.

For providing a per service level failover, a node activating certain 
non-revertive services needs to indicate that it is Active ONLY for those 
non-revertive services. This can be done by using a unique bitmap where each 
bit position is uniquely identifying a service. This unique bitmap is 
configured on all nodes by a network controller. When there is at least one 
non-revertive service for which a node is not active AND it is active for at 
least 1 non-revertive service, this node will set bits identifying the active 
services in the bitmap and send it in the payload of the BFD packet.


Thanks,
--Ankur

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