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RFC 8333
Title: Micro-loop Prevention by Introducing a
Local Convergence Delay
Author: S. Litkowski,
B. Decraene,
C. Filsfils,
P. Francois
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: March 2018
Mailbox: stephane.litkowski@orange.com,
bruno.decraene@orange.com,
cfilsfil@cisco.com,
pfrpfr@gmail.com
Pages: 26
Characters: 63119
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-rtgwg-uloop-delay-09.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8333
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8333
This document describes a mechanism for link-state routing protocols
that prevents local transient forwarding loops in case of link
failure. This mechanism proposes a two-step convergence by
introducing a delay between the convergence of the node adjacent to
the topology change and the network-wide convergence.
Because this mechanism delays the IGP convergence, it may only be
used for planned maintenance or when Fast Reroute (FRR) protects the
traffic during the time between the link failure and the IGP
convergence.
The mechanism is limited to the link-down event in order to keep the
mechanism simple.
Simulations using real network topologies have been performed and
show that local loops are a significant portion (>50%) of the total
forwarding loops.
This document is a product of the Routing Area Working Group Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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