RFC 9541: Flush Mechanism for Customer MAC Addresses Based on Service Instance Identifier (I-SID) in Provider Backbone Bridging EVPN (PBB-EVPN)
Recent RFCs 2024-03-21
Summary:
Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) can be combined with Ethernet
Virtual Private Networks (EVPNs) to deploy Ethernet Local Area
Network (E-LAN) services in large Multiprotocol Label Switching
(MPLS) networks. That combination is what we refer to as "PBB-EVPN."
Single-Active multihoming and per Service Instance Identifier (I-SID)
load-balancing can be provided to access devices and aggregation
networks. In order to speed up the network convergence in case of
failures on Single-Active multihomed Ethernet Segments (ESs),
PBB-EVPN defines a flush mechanism for Customer MACs (C-MACs) called
"C-MAC flush" that works for different Ethernet Segment Backbone MAC
(B-MAC) address allocation models. This document complements those
C-MAC flush procedures for cases in which no PBB-EVPN ESs are defined
(i.e., the attachment circuit is associated with a zero Ethernet
Segment Identifier (ESI)) and the C-MAC flush requires I-SID-level
granularity.