Network Working Group L. DunbarInternet Draft FutureweiIntended status: Informational A. SajassiExpires: March 17, 2024 Cisco J. Drake Juniper B. Najem Bell Canada September 17, 2023 BGP Usage for SD-WAN Overlay Networksdraft-ietf-bess-bgp-sdwan-usage-15Abstract The document discusses the usage and applicability of BGP as the control plane for multiple SD-WAN scenarios. The document aims to demonstrate how the BGP-based control plane is used for large-scale SD-WAN overlay networks with little manual intervention. SD-WAN edge nodes are commonly interconnected by multiple types of underlay networks owned and managed by different network providers.Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions ofBCP 78 andBCP 79. This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions ofBCP 78 andBCP 79. This document may not be modified, and derivative works of it may not be created, except to publish it as an RFC and to translate it into languages other than English. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed athttp://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txtxxx, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 1]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed athttp://www.ietf.org/shadow.html This Internet-Draft will expire on March 17, 2009.Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2023 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject toBCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of theTrust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License.Table of Contents1. Introduction...................................................32. Conventions used in this document..............................43. Use Case Scenario Description and Requirements.................53.1. Requirements..............................................53.1.1. Supporting SD-WAN Segmentation.......................53.1.2. Client Service Requirement...........................63.1.3. SD-WAN Traffic Segmentation..........................63.1.4. Zero Touch Provisioning..............................73.1.5. Constrained Propagation of SD-WAN Edge Properties....83.2. Scenario #1: Homogeneous Encrypted SD-WAN.................93.3. Scenario #2: Differential Encrypted SD-WAN...............103.4. Scenario #3: Private VPN PE based SD-WAN.................124. Provisioning Model............................................134.1. Client Service Provisioning Model........................134.2. Policy Configuration.....................................144.3. IPsec related parameters Provisioning....................145. BGP Controlled SD-WAN.........................................145.1. Why BGP as Control Plane for SD-WAN?.....................145.2. BGP Walk Through for Homogeneous Encrypted SD-WAN........155.3. BGP Walk Through for Differential Encrypted SD-WAN.......17 5.4. BGP Walk Through for Application Flow-Based Segmentation.185.5. Benefit of Using Recursive Next Hop Resolution...........206. SD-WAN Forwarding Model.......................................20Dunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 2]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 20236.1. Forwarding Model for Homogeneous Encrypted SD-WAN........216.1.1. Network and Service Startup Procedures..............216.1.2. Packet Walk-Through.................................216.2. Forwarding Model for Hybrid Underlay SD-WAN..............226.2.1. Network and Service Startup Procedures..............226.2.2. Packet Walk-Through.................................226.3. Forwarding Model for PE based SD-WAN.....................246.3.1. Network and Service Startup Procedures..............246.3.2. Packet Walk-Through.................................247. Manageability Considerations..................................258. Security Considerations.......................................259. IANA Considerations...........................................2510. References...................................................2510.1. Normative References....................................2610.2. Informative References..................................2611. Acknowledgments..............................................271. Introduction Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) optimizes the transport of IP Packets over multiple underlay connectivity services. Here are some of the main characteristics of "SD-WAN" networks: - Transport Augmentation, referring to utilizing paths over different underlay networks. There are often multiple parallel overlay paths between any two SD-WAN edges; some are private networks over which traffic can traverse with or without encryption; others require encryption, e.g., over untrusted public networks. - Instead of all traffic hauled to Corporate HQ for centralized policy control, direct Internet breakout from remote branch offices is allowed. - Some traffic can be forwarded by edge nodes, based on their application identifiers instead of destination IP addresses, by placing the traffic onto specific overlay paths based on the application-specific policies. - The traffic forwarding can also be based on specific performance criteria (e.g., packet delay, packet loss, jitter) to provide better application performance by choosing the underlay that meets or exceeds the specified policies. [Net2Cloud-Problem] describes the network-related problems relating to connecting enterprises' branch offices to dynamic workloads in different Cloud Data Centers (DC). SD-WAN has been positioned as aDunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 3]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 flexible way to solve those issues; however, this can create significant scaling issues when hundreds or thousands of nodes need to be interconnected by SD-WAN overlay networks. This document describes using BGP as a control plane for SD-WAN overlay networks and services. BGP for SD-WAN overlay is a different layer from the underlay networks' BGP control plane instances.2. Conventions used in this document Cloud DC: Third party data centers that host applications and workloads owned by different organizations or tenants. Controller: Used interchangeably with SD-WAN controller to manage SD-WAN overlay path creation/deletion and monitor the path conditions between sites. CPE: Customer Premise Equipment CPE-Based VPN: Virtual Private Secure network formed among CPEs. This differentiates from more commonly used PE-based VPNs [RFC4364]. Homogeneous Encrypted SD-WAN: A SD-WAN network in which all traffic to/from the SD-WAN edges are carried by IPsec tunnels regardless of underlay networks. I.e., the client traffic is carried by IPsec tunnel even over MPLS private networks. ISP: Internet Service Provider NSP: Network Service Provider. NSP usually provides more advanced network services, such as MPLS VPN, private leased lines, or managed Secure WAN connections, often within a private, trusted domain. In contrast, an ISP usually provides plain Internet services over public untrusted domains. PE: Provider EdgeDunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 4]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 SD-WAN Edge Node: An edge node, which can be physical or virtual, maps the attached clients' traffic to the wide area network (WAN) overlay tunnels. SD-WAN: Software Defined Wide Area Network is an overlay network that optimizes the transport of IP packets over multiple underlays, forwarding traffic based on application policies, some of which act on application identifiers recognized at ingress. SD-WAN IPsec SA: IPsec Security Association between two SD-WAN ports or nodes. SD-WAN over Hybrid Networks: SD-WAN over Hybrid Networks typically have edge nodes utilizing bandwidth resources from different types of underlay networks, some being private networks and others being public Internet. WAN Port: A Port or Interface facing an ISP or Network Service Provider (NSP), with an address allocated by the ISP or the NSP. C-PE: SD-WAN Edge node, which can be Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) for customer-managed SD-WAN, or Provider Edge (PE) for provider-managed SD-WAN services. ZTP: Zero Touch Provisioning3. Use Case Scenario Description and Requirements This section describes some essential requirements for SD-WAN networks and several SD-WAN scenarios used by the subsequent sections to explain how the BGP control plane is applied.3.1. Requirements3.1.1. Supporting SD-WAN Segmentation "SD-WAN Segmentation" is a frequently used term in SD-WAN deployment, referring to policy-driven network partitioning. An SD- WAN segment is a virtual private network (SD-WAN VPN) consisting ofDunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 5]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 a set of edge nodes interconnected by tunnels, such as IPsec tunnels and MPLS VPN tunnels. This document assumes that SD-WAN VPN configuration on PE devices will, as with MPLS VPN, make use of VRFs. Additionally, it assumes that one SD-WAN VPN can be mapped to one or multiple virtual topologies governed by the SD-WAN controller's policies. When using BGP for SD-WAN, the Client Route UPDATE is the same as MPLS VPN. Route Target in the BGP Extended Community can be used to differentiate the routes belonging to different SD-WAN VPNs. As SD-WAN is an overlay network arching over multiple types of networks, MPLS L2VPN/L3VPN or pure L2 underlay can continue using the VPN ID, VN-ID, or VLAN in the data plane to differentiate packets belonging to different SD-WAN VPNs. For packets carried by an IPsec tunnel, the IPsec tunnel's inner encapsulation header can have the SD-WAN VPN Identifier to distinguish the packets belonging to different SD-WAN VPNs.3.1.2. Client Service Requirement The client interface of SD-WAN edges can be IP or Ethernet-based. For Ethernet-based client interfaces, SD-WAN edge should support VLAN-based service interfaces (EVPN Instances), VLAN bundle service interfaces, or VLAN-Aware bundling service interfaces. EVPN service requirements apply to client traffic, as described inSection 3.1 of RFC8388. For IP-based client interfaces, L3VPN service requirements are applicable.3.1.3. SD-WAN Traffic Segmentation SD-WAN Traffic Segmentation enables the separation of the traffic based on the business and the security needs of different user groups and/or application requirements. Each user group and/or application may need different isolated topologies and/or policies to fulfill the business requirements. For example, a retail business requires the point-of-sales (PoS) application to be on a different topology from other applications. The PoS application is routed only to the payment processing entity at a hub site; other applications can be routed to all other sites.Dunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 6]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 The traffic from the PoS application follows a tree topology in the figure below, whereas other traffic can follow a multipoint-to- multipoint topology. +--------+ Payment traffic |Payment | +------+----+-+gateway +------+----+-----+ / / | +----+---+ | \ \ / / | | | \ \ +-+--+ +-+--+ +-+--+ | +-+--+ +-+--+ +-+--+ |Site| |Site| |Site| | |Site| |Site| |Site| | 1 | | 2 | | 3 | | |4 | | 5 | | 6 | +--+-+ +--+-+ +--|-+ | +--|-+ +--|-+ +--|-+ | | | | | | | ==+=======+=======+====+======+=======+=======+=== Multi-point connection for non-payment traffic Another example is an enterprise that wants to isolate the traffic from different departments, with each department having its unique topology and policy. The HR department may need to access specific applications that are not accessible by the engineering department. Also, contractors may have limited access to the enterprise resources.3.1.4. Zero Touch Provisioning SD-WAN zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) allows devices to be configured and provisioned centrally. When an SD-WAN edge is installed at a remote location, ZTP automates follow-up steps, including updates to the OS, software version, and configuration, before client traffic is forwarded. The ZTP can bootstrap a remote SD-WAN edge and establish a secure connection to the local SD-WAN Controller, making it convenient to add or delete an SD-WAN edge node (virtual or physical). ZTP for a remote SD-WAN edge usually includes the following steps: - The SD-WAN edge's customer information and its device identifier, such as the device series number, are added to the SD- WAN Central Controller. - Upon power-up, the SD-WAN edge can establish the transport layer secure connection (such as TLS, DTLS) [BCP195] to its controller, whose URL (or IP address) can be preconfigured on the edge device by manufacture default, external USB or secure Email given to the installer.Dunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 7]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 - The SD-WAN Controller authenticates the ZTP request from the remote SD-WAN edge with its configurations. Once the authentication is successful, it can designate a local network controller near the SD-WAN edge to pass down the initial configurations via the secure TLS/DTLS secure channel. The local network controller manages and monitors the communication policies for traffic to/from the edge node.3.1.5. Constrained Propagation of SD-WAN Edge Properties One SD-WAN edge node may only be authorized to communicate with a small number of other SD-WAN edge nodes. In this circumstance, the property of the SD-WAN edge node cannot be propagated to other nodes that are not authorized to communicate. But a remote SD-WAN edge node, upon powering up, may not have the right policies to know which peers are authorized to communicate. Therefore, SD-WAN deployment needs to have a central point to distribute the properties of an SD-WAN edge node to its authorized peers. BGP is well suited for this purpose.RFC4684 has specified the procedure to constrain the distribution of BGP UPDATE to only a subset of nodes. Each edge node informs the Route-Reflector (RR) [RFC4456] on its interested SD-WAN VPNs. The RR only propagates the BGP UPDATE from an edge to others within the same SD-WAN VPN. As the connection between an SD-WAN edge and its RR can be over an insecure network, an SD-WAN edge must establish a secure transport layer connection (TLS, DTLS, etc.) to its designated RR upon power- up. The BGP UPDATE messages must be sent over the secure channel (TLS, DTLS, etc.) to the RR.Dunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 8]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 +---+ Peer Group 1 |RR | Peer Group 2 +======+====+=+ +======+====+=====+ / / | +---+ | \ \ / / | | \ \ +-+--+ +-+--+ +-+--+ +-+--+ +-+--+ +-+--+ |C-PE| |C-PE| |C-PE| |C-PE| |C-PE| |C-PE| | 1 | | 2 | | 3 | |4 | | 5 | | 6 | +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ +----+ Tenant 1 Tenant 2 Figure 1: Peer Groups managed by RR Tenant separation is achieved by the SD-WAN VPN identifiers represented in the control plane and data plane, respectively.3.2. Scenario #1: Homogeneous Encrypted SD-WAN Homogeneous Encrypted SD-WAN refers to an SD-WAN network with edge nodes encrypting all traffic over the WAN underlay to other edge nodes, regardless of whether the underlay is private or public. For lack of better terminology, we call this Homogeneous Encrypted SD- WAN throughout this document. Here are some typical scenarios for using Homogeneous Encryption: - A small branch office connecting to its HQ offices via the Internet. All traffic to/from this small branch office must be encrypted, usually achieved by IPsec Tunnels [RFC6071]. - A store in a shopping mall may need to securely connect to its applications in one or more Cloud DCs via the Internet. A common way of achieving this is to establish IPsec SAs to the Cloud DC gateway to carry the sensitive data to/from the store. As described in [SECURE-EVPN], the granularity of the IPsec SAs for Homogeneous Encryption can be per site, per subnet, per tenant, or per address. Once the IPsec SA is established for a specific subnet/tenant/site, all traffic to/from the subnet/tenant/site is encrypted.Dunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 9]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 +---+ +--------------|RR |------------+ / Untrusted +-+-+ \ / \ / \ +----+ +---------+ +------+ +----+ | CN3|--| P1-----+ -------------+------ P1 |--| CN3| +----+ | C-PE1 P2-----+ | | C-PE2| +----+ +----+ | P3-----+ Wide +------ P2 | +----+ | CN2|--| | | area +------ P3 |--| CN1| +-+--+ +---------+ | network | +------+ +-+--+ \ | | / \ +---------+ | all packets | +------+ / +--| P1-----+ encrypted +------ P1 |-+ | C-PE3 P2-----+ by | | C-PE4| +----+ | P3-----+ IPsec SAs +------ P2 | +----+ | CN1|--| P4-----+--------------+ | |--| CN2| +----+ +---------+ +------+ +----+ CN: Client Networks, which is same as Tenant Networks used by NVo3 Figure 2: Homogeneous Encrypted SD-WAN One of the properties of Homogeneous Encryption is that the SD-WAN Local Network Controller, e.g., RR in BGP-controlled SD-WAN, might be connected to C-PEs via an untrusted public network, therefore, requiring a secure connection between RR and C-PEs (TLS, DTLS, etc.). Homogeneous Encrypted SD-WAN has some properties similar to the commonly deployed IPsec VPN, albeit the IPsec VPN is usually point- to-point among a small number of nodes and with heavy manual configuration for IPsec between nodes. In contrast, an SD-WAN network can have many edge nodes and a central controller to manage the configurations on the edge nodes. Existing private VPNs (e.g., MPLS based) can use Homogeneous Encrypted SD-WAN to extend over the public network to remote sites to which the VPN operator does not own or lease infrastructural connectivity, as described in [SECURE-EVPN].3.3. Scenario #2: Differential Encrypted SD-WAN The Differential Encrypted SD-WAN refers to an SD-WAN network in which traffic over the existing VPN is forwarded natively without encryption, and the traffic over the Public Internet is encrypted. Differential Encrypted SD-WAN is over hybrid private VPN and public Internet underlays. Since IPsec requires additional processing powerDunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 10]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 and the encrypted traffic over the Internet does not have the premium SLA commonly offered by Private VPNs, especially over a long distance, it is more desirable for traffic over a private VPN to be forwarded without encryption. One C-PE might have the Internet-facing WAN ports managed by different ISPs/NSPs with the WAN ports' addresses assigned by the corresponding ISPs/NSPs. Clients might have policies to specify: 1) Some flows can only be forwarded over private VPNs. 2) Some flows can be forwarded over either private VPNs or the public Internet. The packets over the public Internet are encrypted. 3) Some flows, especially Internet-bound browsing ones, can be handed off to the Internet without any encryption. Suppose a flow traversing multiple segments, such as A<->B<->C<->D, has Policy 2) above. The flow can cross different underlays in different segments, such as over Private underlay between A<->B without encryption or over the public Internet between B<->C protected by an IPsec SA. As shown in the figure below, C-PE-1 has two different types of interfaces (A1 to Internet and A2 & A3 to VPN). The C-PE's loopback address and the attached client addresses may or may not be visible to the ISPs/NSPs. The WAN ports' addresses can be allocated by the service providers or dynamically assigned (e.g., by DHCP).Dunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 11]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 +---+ +--------------|RR |----------+ / Untrusted +-+-+ \ / \ / \ +----+ +---------+ packets encrypted over +------+ +----+ | CN3|--| A1-----+ Untrusted +------ B1 |--| CN1| +----+ | C-PE1 A2-\ | C-PE2| +----+ +----+ | A3--+--+ +---+---B2 | +----+ | CN2|--| | |PE+--------------+PE |---B3 |--| CN3| +----+ +---------+ +--+ trusted +---+ +------+ +----+ | WAN | +----+ +---------+ +--+ packets +---+ +------+ +----+ | CN1|--| C1--|PE| go natively |PE |-- D1 |--| CN1| +----+ | C-PE3 C2--+--+ without encry+---+ | C-PE4| +----+ | | +--------------+ | | | | | | +----+ | | without encrypt over | | +----+ | CN2|--| C3--+---- Untrusted --+------D2 |--| CN2| +----+ +---------+ +------+ +----+ CN: Client Network Figure 3: SD-WAN with Hybrid Underlays Also, the connection between C-PEs and their Controller (RR) might be via the untrusted public network. It is necessary to encrypt the communication between RR and C-PEs, by TLS, DTLS, etc. There could be multiple SD-WAN edges (C-PEs) sharing common property, such as a geographic location. Some applications over SD-WAN may need to traverse specific geographic areas for various reasons, such as to comply with regulatory rules, to utilize specific value-added services, or others. Services may not be congruent, i.e., the packets from A-> B may traverse one underlay network, and the packets from B -> A may go over a different underlay.3.4. Scenario #3: Private VPN PE based SD-WAN This scenario refers to the existing VPN (e.g., EVPN or IPVPN) being expanded by adding extra ports facing the untrusted Internet for PEs to offload low-priority traffic when the VPN paths are congested.Dunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 12]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 Throughout this document, this scenario is also called Internet Offload for Private VPN, or PE-based SD-WAN. Here are some differences from the Hybrid Underlay scenario (Section3.3): - For MPLS-based VPN, PEs would have MPLS as payload encapsulated within the IPsec tunnel egressing the Internet WAN ports, MPLS-in-IP/GRE-in-IPsec. - The BGP RR is connected to PEs in the same way as VPN, i.e., via the trusted network. PE-based SD-WAN can be used by VPN service providers to temporarily increase bandwidth between sites when not sure if the demand will sustain for an extended period or as a temporary solution before the permanent infrastructure is built or leased. +---+ +======>|PE2| // +---+ // ^ // || VPN // VPN v ++--+ ++-+ +---+ |PE1| <====> |RR| <===> |PE3| +-+-+ +--+ +-+-+ | | +--- Public Internet -- + Offload Figure 4: Additional Internet paths added to the VPN4. Provisioning Model4.1. Client Service Provisioning Model Client service provisioning can follow the same approach as MPLS VRFs. A client VPN can establish the communication policy by specifying the Route Targets to be imported and exported. Alternatively, traditional Match and Action ACLs can identify the specific routes allowed or denied to or from the client VPN.Dunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 13]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 When an SD-WAN edge node is dedicated to one client with a single virtual network, all prefixes attached to the client port(s) on the edge node can be considered to be inside a single VRF, and the RR can manage the policies for import/export policies for that VRF.4.2. Policy Configuration One of the characteristics of an SD-WAN service is that packets can be forwarded over multiple types of underlays. Policies are needed to govern which underlay paths can carry an application flow, as described bySection 8 of MEF70.1. An Application Flow consists of packets that match specific criteria. For example, client-prefix-x can only be mapped to MPLS topology.4.3. IPsec related parameters Provisioning SD-WAN edge nodes must negotiate the supported IPsec encryption algorithms (AES256, AES192, AES128, etc.), the hash algorithm (SHA2 512, SHA2 384, SHA2256, etc.), and the DH groups to establish IPsec tunnels between them. Each SD-WAN edge may have the default values assigned to them for the respective attributes, or alternatively, retrieve the values for those attributes from its controller to minimize the configuration. For a BGP-controlled SD-WAN, BGP UPDATE messages can propagate each node's IPsec-related attribute values for peers to choose the common values supported, traditionally done by IPsec IKEv2 [RFC7296].5. BGP Controlled SD-WAN5.1. Why BGP as Control Plane for SD-WAN? For an SD-WAN network with a small number of nodes, the traditional hub and spoke model utilizing Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) or Dynamic Smart VPN (DSVPN)/Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN) protocol has been found to work reasonably well. DSVPN/DMVPN has a hub node (or controller) managing the edge nodes, including local & public addresses and tunnel identifiers mapping. However, for a sizeable SD-WAN network, say more than 100 nodes with different underlays, the traditional approach becomes very messy, complex, and error- prone. Here are some of the compelling reasons for using BGP: - Simplified peer authentication process: With a secure management channel established between an edge node and an RR, the RR can perform peer authentication on behalf of theDunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 14]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 edge node. The RR has policies on peer communication and the built-in capability to constrain the propagation of the UPDATE messages to the authorized edge nodes [RFC4684]. - Scalable IPsec tunnel management When multiple IPsec tunnels are established between two pairwise edge nodes, BGP Tunnel Attribute Update can associate multiple IPsec tunnels with the client routes. In a traditional IPsec VPN, separate routing protocols must run in parallel in each IPsec Tunnel if the client routes can be load shared among the IPsec tunnels. - Simplified IPsec tunnel traffic selection configurations The IPsec tunnel's traffic selector or admission control can be inherently realized by specifying importing/exporting the Route Targets representing the SD-WAN VPNs.5.2. BGP Walk Through for Homogeneous Encrypted SD-WAN For the BGP-controlled Homogeneous Encrypted SD-WAN, a C-PE can advertise its attached client routes and the properties of the IPsec SA in one BGP UPDATE message. In the figure below, the BGP UPDATE message from C-PE2 to RR can have the client routes encoded in the MP-NLRI Path Attribute and the IPsec Tunnel associated information encoded in the Tunnel-Encap [RFC9012] Path Attributes as described in the [SECURE-EVPN].Dunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 15]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 +---+ +---------|RR |----------+ / Untrusted+---+ \ / \ / \ +---------+ +---------+ --+ |-----------------------| |-192.0.2.4/30 | | | C-PE2 |- VLAN = 15 | C-PE1 | +-|192.0.2.2| --|192.0.2.1| | | |-192.0.2.8/30 +---------+ | +---------+ | | | +---------+ | --| |---------------------+ | | | C-PE3 | --|192.0.2.3| +---------+ Figure 5: Homogeneous Encrypted SD-WAN Alternatively, the C-PE2 can use two separate BGP UPDATE messages to reduce the size of the BGP UPDATE messages, especially for IPsec tunnels terminated at edge nodes or WAN ports, as IPsec SA tunnels have many attributes which can change at different frequencies than clients' routes updates, such as IPsec SA keys periodical changes. When using two separate BGP UPDATE messages, which is described bySection 4 and 8 of [RFC9012], UPDATE U1 has its Nexthop to the node loopback address and is recursively resolved to the IPsec SA tunnel detailed attributes advertised by the UPDATE U2 for the Node Loopback address. Here are the details of the UPDATE messages: - Suppose that a given packet "C" destined towards the client addresses attached to C-PE2 (e.g., prefix 192.0.2.4/30) can be carried by any IPsec tunnels terminated at C-PE2. - The path along which "C" is to be forwarded is determined by BGP UPDATE U1. - UPDATE U1 does not have a Tunnel Encapsulation attribute. - UPDATE U1 can include the Encapsulation Extended Community with the option to have the Color Extended Community. - The address of the next-hop of UPDATE U1 is router C-PE2.Dunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 16]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 - UPDATE U2 has a Tunnel Encapsulation attribute to describe the IPsec SA detailed attributes. UPDATE U1: - MP-NLRI Path Attribute: 192.0.2.4/30 192.0.2.8/30 - Nexthop: 192.0.2.2 (C-PE2) - Encapsulation Extended Community: TYPE = IPsec UPDATE U2: - MP-NLRI Path Attribute: 192.0.2.2 (C-PE2) - Tunnel Encapsulation Path Attributes (as described in the [SECURE-EVPN]) for IPsec SA detailed attributes, including the WAN address to be used as the IP address of the IPsec encrypted packets. If different client routes attached to C-PE2 need to be reached by separate IPsec tunnels, the Color-Extended-Community [RFC9012] is used to associate routes with the tunnels. SeeSection 8 of [RFC9012]. Suppose C-PE2 does not have a policy on the authorized peers for the specific client routes. Then, the RR then needs to check the client routes policies to constrain the BGP UPDATE messages propagation only to the remote authorized edge nodes.5.3. BGP Walk Through for Differential Encrypted SD-WAN In this scenario, some client routes can be forwarded over any one of the tunnels terminating at the edge node. Some client routes can only be forwarded over specific tunnels (such as only MPLS VPN). An edge node can use the Color Extended Community (Section 4 & 8 of [RFC9012]) in its BGP UPDATE message to associate the client routes with the specific tunnels.Dunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 17]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 For example, in Figure 5 above, suppose that Route 192.0.2.4/30 can be carried by either MPLS or IPsec and Route 192.0.2.8/30 can only be carried by MPLS; C-PE2 can use the following UPDATE messages: UPDATE #1a for Route 192.0.2.4/30: - MP-NLRI Path Attribute: 192.0.2.4/30 Nexthop: 192.0.2.2 (C-PE2) - Encapsulation Extended Community: TYPE = SD-WAN-Hybrid - Color Extended Community: RED UPDATE #1b for Route 192.0.2.8/30: - MP-NLRI Path Attribute: 192.0.2.8/30 Nexthop: 192.0.2.2 (C-PE2) - Encapsulation Extended Community: TYPE = MPLS-in-GRE - Color Extended Community: YELLOW UPDATE #2a: for IPsec tunnels terminated at the node: - MP-NLRI Path Attribute: 192.0.2.2 (C-PE2) - Tunnel Encapsulation Path Attributes: TYPE=SD-WAN-Hybrid Including the information about the WAN ports for receiving IPsec encrypted packets, the IPsec properties, etc. - Color Extended Community: RED UPDATE #2b: for MPLS-in-GRE terminated at the node: - MP-NLRI Path Attribute: 192.0.2.2 (C-PE2) - Tunnel Encapsulation Path Attributes: TYPE=SD-WAN-Hybrid - Color Extended Community: YELLOW SD-WAN-Hybrid Tunnel Type is specified by [SD-WAN-EDGE-Discovery].5.4. BGP Walk Through for Application Flow-Based Segmentation Suppose an application flow is identified by source or destination IP addresses. Application Flow-based Segmentation described in 3.1.2 can be realized by constraining the BGP UPDATE messages, such that only the nodes that meet the criteria of the application flowDunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 18]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 receive these updates. The following BGP Update messages can be advertised to ensure that the Payment Application only communicates with the Payment Gateway shown in Figure 6: BGP UPDATE #1a from C-PE2 to RR for the P2P topology that is only propagated to Payment GW node: - MP-NLRI Path Attribute: - 192.0.2.9/30 - Nexthop: 192.0.2.2 - Encapsulation extended community: TYPE = IPsec - Color Extended Community: BLUE BGP UPDATE #1b from C-PE2 to RR is propagated to C-PE1 & C-PE3 for the routes to be reached by C-PE1 and C-PE3: - MP-NLRI Path Attribute: - 192.0.2.4/30 - 192.0.2.8/30 - Nexthop:192.0.2.2 - Encapsulation extended community: TYPE =IPsec - Color Extended Community: RED BGP UPDATE #2a for the detailed IPsec attributes for IPsec tunnels terminated at C-PE2 192.0.2.2 is propagated to C-PE1 & C-PE3. - MP-NLRI Path Attribute: 192.0.2.2 (C-PE2) - Tunnel Encapsulation Path Attributes: TYPE=IPsec (for all IPsec SAs) - Color Extended Community: RED UPDATE #2b for the IPsec SA to the Payment GW is only propagated to Payment GW: - MP-NLRI Path Attribute: 192.0.2.2 (C-PE2) - Tunnel Encapsulation Path Attributes: TYPE=IPsec (for the IPsec SA to Payment GW). - Color Extended Community: BlueDunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 19]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 +-------+ |Payment| +------->| GW |<----+ / +-------+ \ / Blue Tunnel \ /for Payment App:192.0.2.9/30\ / \ +------/--+ +------\--+ --|-----+ | | +-| 192.0.2.9/30 | | Red Tunnels | | --| C-PE1 |----------------------| |-192.0.2.4/30 |192.0.2.1| | C-PE2 | --| |----------------------|192.0.2.2|-192.0.2.8/30 | | | | +---------+ +| |- VLAN=25; / | |192.0.2.10/30 +---------+ / +---------+ --| |------------------+ | C-PE3 | / |192.0.2.3| / --| |---------------+ +---------+ Figure 6: Application Based SD-WAN Segmentation5.5. Benefit of Using Recursive Next Hop Resolution Using the Recursive Next Hop Resolution described inSection 8 of [RFC9012], the clients' route UPDATE messages become very compact, and any attribute changes of the underlay network tunnels, such as IPsec key refreshing, can be advertised independently of the client route update. This method is handy when the underlay tunnels are IPsec based, which requires periodic message exchange for the pairwise re-keying process.6. SD-WAN Forwarding Model This section describes how client traffic is forwarded in BGP Controlled SD-WAN for the use cases described inSection 3. The procedures described inSection 6 of RFC8388 are applicable for the SD-WAN client traffic. Like the BGP-based VPN/EVPN client routes UPDATE message, Route Target can distinguish routes from different clients.Dunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 20]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 20236.1. Forwarding Model for Homogeneous Encrypted SD-WAN6.1.1. Network and Service Startup Procedures A single IPsec security association (SA) protects data in one direction. In the Homogeneous Encrypted SD-WAN Scenario, two SAs must be present to secure traffic in both directions between two C- PE nodes, two client ports, or two prefixes. Using Figure 2 ofSection 3.2 as an example, for client CN2 attached to C-PE1, C-PE3, and C-PE4 to have a full-mesh connection, six one-directional IPsec SAs must be established: C-PE1 <-> C-PE3; C-PE1 <-> C-PE4; C-PE3 <-> C-PE4. SD-WAN services to clients can be IP-based or Ethernet-based. An SD- WAN edge can learn client routes from the client-facing ports via OSPF, RIP, BGP, or static configuration for its IP-based services. For Layer-2 SD-WAN services, the relevant EVPN parameters, such as the ESI (Ethernet Segment Identifier), EVI, and CE-VID (Customer Edge Virtual Instance Identifier) to EVI mapping, can be configured similarly to EVPN described inRFC8388. Instead of running IGP within each IPsec tunnel done by the traditional IPsec VPN, BGP RR can propagate UPDATE messages of the client routes attached to an SD-WAN edge node to its authorized peers. In addition, the BGP-RR (SD-WAN Controller) facilitates the IPsec SA establishment and rekey management as described in [SECURE-EVPN]. The controller manages how clients' routes are associated with individual IPsec SA. Therefore, it is no longer necessary to manually configure the IPsec tunnel's endpoint addresses on each SD- WAN edge node and set up policies for the allowed client prefixes.6.1.2. Packet Walk-Through For unicast packets forwarding: An IPsec SA terminated at a C-PE node can have multiple client routes multiplexed in the IPsec SA (or tunnel). Packets to/from the client prefixes are encapsulated in an inner tunnel, such as GRE or VxLAN. Different client traffic can be differentiated by a unique value in the inner encapsulation key or ID field. The GRE or VxLAN tunnel is encapsulated by an outer IP header whose destination & source addresses are the C-PE nodes loopback addresses and most likely has the Protocol-code = ESP (50). C-PE Node-based IPsec tunnel is inherently protected when the C-PE has multiple WAN ports to different underlay paths. As shown inDunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 21]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 Figure 2, when one of the underlay paths fails, the IPsec traffic can be forwarded to or received from a different physical port. When a C-PE receives an IPsec encrypted packet from its WAN ports, it decrypts the packet and forwards the inner packet to the client port based on the inner packet's destination address. For multicast packets forwarding: IPsec was created to be a security protocol between two and only two devices, so multicast service using IPsec is problematic. An IPsec peer encrypts a packet so that only one other IPsec peer can successfully perform the de-encryption. A straightforward way to forward a multicast packet for the Homogeneous Encrypted SD-WAN is to encapsulate the multicast packet in separate unicast IPsec SA tunnels. More optimized forwarding multicast packets for the Homogeneous Encrypted SD-WAN is out of the scope of this document.6.2. Forwarding Model for Hybrid Underlay SD-WAN In this scenario, as shown in Figure 3 ofSection 3.3, traffic forwarded over the trusted VPN paths can be native (i.e., unencrypted). The traffic forwarded over untrusted networks need to be protected by IPsec SA.6.2.1. Network and Service Startup Procedures Infrastructure setup: The proper MPLS infrastructure must be configured among the edge nodes, i.e., the C-PE1/C-PE2/C-PE3/C-PE4 of Figure 3. The IPsec SA between WAN ports or nodes must be set up as well. IPsec SA related attributes on edge nodes can be distributed by BGP UPDATE messages as described inSection 5. There could be policies governing how flows can be forwarded, as specified by MEF70.1. For example, "Private-only" indicates that the flows can only traverse the MPLS VPN underlay paths.6.2.2. Packet Walk-Through For unicast packets forwarding: Upon receiving a packet from a client port, if the packet belongs to a flow that can only be forwarded over the MPLS VPN, the forwarding processing is the same as the MPLS VPN. Otherwise, the C-PE node can make the local decision in choosing the least cost path, including the prior established MPLS paths and IPsecDunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 22]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 Tunnels, to forward the packet. Packets forwarded over the trusted MPLS VPN can be native without any additional encryption, while the packets sent over the untrusted networks need to be encrypted by IPsec SA. For a C-PE with multiple WAN ports provided by different ISPs, separate IPsec SAs can be established for the different WAN ports. In this case, the C-PE have multiple IPsec tunnels in addition to the MPLS path to choose from to forward the packets from the client ports. If the IPsec SA is chosen, the packet is encapsulated by the IPsec header and encrypted by the IPsec SA before forwarding it to the WAN. For packets received from an MPLS path, processing is the same as MPLS VPN. For IPsec SA encrypted packets received from the WAN ports, the packets are decrypted, and the inner payload is decapsulated and forwarded per the forwarding table of the C-PE. For all packets from the Internet-facing WAN ports, the additional anti-DDoS mechanism has to be enabled to prevent potential attacks from the Internet-facing ports. Control Plane should not learn routes from the Internet-facing WAN ports. +---+ +--------------|RR |----------+ / +-+-+ \ / \ / \ +----+ +---------+ packets encrypted over +---------+ +----+ | CN3|--| A1-----+ Untrusted +----- B1 |--| CN1| +----+ | C-PE-a A2-----+ +------B2 C-PE-b | +----+ |192.0.2.1| |192.0.2.2| +----+ | | +--+ +---+ | | +----+ | CN2|--| A3 |PE+--------------+PE |--B3 |--| CN3| +----+ +---------+ +--+ trusted +---+ +---------+ +----+ | VPN | +--------------+ Figure 8: SD-WAN with Hybrid Underlays For multicast packets forwarding: For multicast traffic, MPLS multicast [RFC6513,RFC6514, orRFC7988] can be used to forward multicast traffic.Dunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 23]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 If IPsec tunnels are chosen for a multicast packet, the packet is encapsulated and encrypted by multiple separate IPsec tunnels to the desired destinations.6.3. Forwarding Model for PE based SD-WAN6.3.1. Network and Service Startup Procedures In this scenario, all PEs have secure interfaces facing the clients and facing the MPLS backbone, with some PEs having extra ports to the untrusted public Internet. The public Internet paths are for offloading low priority traffic when the MPLS paths get congested. The PEs are already connected to their RRs, and the configurations for the clients and policies are already established.6.3.2. Packet Walk-Through For PEs to offload some MPLS packets to the Internet path, each MPLS packet is wrapped by an outer IP header as MPLS-in-IP or MPLS-in-GRE [RFC4023]. The outer IP address can be an interface address or the PE's loopback address. When IPsec Tunnel mode is used to protect an MPLS-in-IP packet, the entire MPLS-in-IP packet is placed after the IPsec tunnel header. When IPsec transport mode is used to protect the MPLS packet, the MPLS-in-IP packet's IP header becomes the outer IP header of the IPsec packet, followed by an IPsec header, and then followed by the MPLS label stack. The IPsec header must set the payload type to MPLS by using the IP protocol number specified insection 3 of RFC4023. If IPsec transport mode is applied to an MPLS-in-GRE packet, the GRE header follows the IPsec header. The IPsec SA's endpoints should not be the client-facing interface addresses unless the traffic to/from those clients always goes through the IPsec SA even when the MPLS backbone has enough capacity to transport the traffic. When the PEs' Internet-facing ports are behind the NAT [RFC3715], an outer UDP field can be added outside the encrypted payload [RFC3948]. Three UDP ports must be open on the PEs: UDP port 4500 (used for NAT traversal), UDP port 500 (used for IKE), and IP protocol 50 (ESP). IPsec IKE (Internet Key Exchange) between the two PEs would be over the NAT [RFC3947] as well.Dunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 24]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 Upon receiving a packet from a client port, the forwarding processing is the same as the MPLS VPN. If the MPLS backbone path to the destination is deemed congested, the IPsec tunnel towards the target PEs is used to encrypt the MPLS-in-IP packet. Upon receiving a packet from the Internet-facing WAN port, the packet is decrypted, and the inner MPLS payload is extracted to be sent to the MPLS VPN engine. Same as Scenario #2, the additional anti-DDoS mechanism must be enabled to prevent potential attacks from the Internet-facing port. Control Plane should not learn routes from the Internet-facing WAN ports.7. Manageability Considerations BGP-controlled SD-WAN utilizes the BGP RR to facilitate the routes and underlay properties distribution among the authorized edge nodes. With RR having the preconfigured policies about the authorized peers, the peer-wise authentications of the IPsec IKE (Internet Key Exchange) are significantly simplified.8. Security Considerations Adding an Internet-facing WAN port to a C-PE can introduce the following security risks: 1) Potential DDoS attacks from the Internet-facing ports. 2) Potential risk of illegal traffic being injected via the Internet-facing WAN ports. Therefore, the additional anti-DDoS mechanism must be enabled on all Internet-facing ports to prevent potential attacks from those ports. Control Plane should not learn any routes from the Internet-facing WAN ports.9. IANA Considerations No Action is needed.10. ReferencesDunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 25]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 202310.1. Normative References [BCP195]RFC8996,RFC9325. [RFC3715] B. Aboba, W. Dixon, "IPsec-Network Address Translation (NAT) Compatibility Requirements", March 2004. [RFC3947] T. Kivinen, et al, "Negotiation of NAT Traversal in the IKE", Jan. 2005. [RFC3948] A. Huttunen, et al, "UDP Encapsulation of IPsec ESP Packets", Jan 2005. [RFC4023] T. Worster, Y. Rekhter, E. Rosen, "Encapsulating MPLS in IP or Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)", March 2005. [RFC4364] E. Rosen, Y. Rekhter, "BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private networks (VPNs)", Feb 2006. [RFC4456] T. Bates, E. Chen, R. Chandra, "BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP (IBGP)", April 2006. [RFC4684] P. Marques, et al, "Constrained Route Distribution for BGP/MPLS IP VPNs", November 2006. [RFC6071] S. Frankel, S. Krishan, "IP Security (IPsec) and Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Document Roadmap", Feb 2011. [RFC7296] C. Kaufman, et al, "Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)", Oct 2014. [RFC9012] K.Patel, et al "The BGP Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute",RFC9012, April 2021.10.2. Informative References [SD-WAN-EDGE-Discovery] L. Dunbar, S. Hares, R. Raszuk, K. Majumdar, "BGP UPDATE for SD-WAN Edge Discovery",draft-ietf-idr-sdwan-edge-discovery-10, June 2023.Dunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 26]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023 [SECURE-EVPN] A. Sajassi, et al, "Secure EVPN",draft-ietf-bess-secure-evpn-00, Work-in-progress, June 2023. [Net2Cloud-Problem] L. Dunbar and A. Malis, "Seamless Interconnect Underlay to Cloud Overlay Problem Statement",draft-ietf-rtgwg-net2cloud-problem-statement-26, April 2023. [MEF70.1] SD-WAN Service Attributes and Service Framework, Nov 2021.11. Acknowledgments Acknowledgements to Andrew Alston, Adrian Farrel, Jim Guichard, Joel Halpern, John Scudder, Darren Dukes, Andy Malis, Donald Eastlake, and Victo Sheng for their review and contributions. This document was prepared using 2-Word-v2.0.template.dot.Dunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 27]
Internet-Draft BGP Usage for SD-WAN September 17, 2023Authors' Addresses Linda Dunbar Futurewei Email: ldunbar@futurewei.com James Guichard Futurewei Email: james.n.guichard@futurewei.com Ali Sajassi Cisco Email: sajassi@cisco.com John Drake Juniper Email: jdrake@juniper.net Basil Najem Bell Canada Email: basil.najem@bell.caContributor's Addresses David Carrel Graphiant Email: carrel@graphiant.com Ayan Banerjee Cisco Email: ayabaner@cisco.comDunbar, et al. Expires March 17, 2024 [Page 28]Datatracker
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