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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                            W. Hao
Request for Comments: 7956                                         Y. Li
Category: Standards Track                                         Huawei
ISSN: 2070-1721                                                    A. Qu
                                                                MediaTec
                                                              M. Durrani
                                                            Equinix Inc.
                                                          P. Sivamurugan
                                                             IP Infusion
                                                          September 2016


          Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL)
                      Distributed Layer 3 Gateway

Abstract

   The base TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links)
   protocol provides optimal pair-wise data frame forwarding for Layer 2
   intra-subnet traffic but not for Layer 3 inter-subnet traffic.  A
   centralized gateway solution is typically used for Layer 3 inter-
   subnet traffic forwarding but has the following issues:

   1. Sub-optimum forwarding paths for inter-subnet traffic.

   2. A centralized gateway that may need to support a very large number
      of gateway interfaces in a Data Center, one per tenant per Data
      Label used by that tenant, to provide interconnect functionality
      for all the Layer 2 Virtual Networks in a TRILL campus.

   3. A traffic bottleneck at the gateway.

   This document specifies an optional TRILL distributed gateway
   solution that resolves these centralized gateway issues.

Status of This Memo

   This is an Internet Standards Track document.

   This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
   (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
   received public review and has been approved for publication by the
   Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Further information on
   Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841.

   Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
   and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
   http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7956.



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Table of Contents

   1. Introduction ....................................................3
      1.1. Document Organization ......................................3
   2. Conventions Used in This Document ...............................4
   3. Simplified Example and Problem Statement ........................5
      3.1. Simplified Example .........................................6
      3.2. Problem Statement Summary ..................................8
   4. Layer 3 Traffic Forwarding Model ................................9
   5. Distributed Gateway Solution Details ...........................10
      5.1. Local Routing Information .................................11
      5.2. Local Routing Information Synchronization .................12
      5.3. Active-Active Access ......................................14
      5.4. Data Traffic Forwarding Process ...........................15
   6. Distributed Layer 3 Gateway Process Example ....................16
      6.1. Control-Plane Process .....................................17
      6.2. Data-Plane Process ........................................19
   7. TRILL Protocol Extensions ......................................20
      7.1. The Tenant Label and Gateway MAC APPsub-TLV ...............20
      7.2. The SE Flag in the NickFlags APPsub-TLV ...................21
      7.3. The IPv4 Prefix APPsub-TLV ................................22
      7.4. The IPv6 Prefix APPsub-TLV ................................23
   8. Security Considerations ........................................24
   9. Management Considerations ......................................24
   10. IANA Considerations ...........................................24
   11. References ....................................................25
      11.1. Normative References .....................................25
      11.2. Informative References ...................................26
   Acknowledgments ...................................................27
   Authors' Addresses ................................................28






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1.  Introduction

   The TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) protocol
   [RFC6325] [RFC7780] provides a solution for least-cost transparent
   routing in multi-hop networks with arbitrary topologies and link
   technologies, using IS-IS [IS-IS] [RFC7176] link-state routing and a
   hop count.  TRILL switches are sometimes called RBridges (Routing
   Bridges).

   The base TRILL protocol provides optimal unicast forwarding for
   Layer 2 intra-subnet traffic but not for Layer 3 inter-subnet
   traffic, where "subnet" means a different IP address prefix and,
   typically, a different Data Label (VLAN or FGL (Fine-Grained Label)).
   This document specifies a TRILL-based distributed Layer 3 gateway
   solution that provides optimal unicast forwarding for Layer 3
   inter-subnet traffic.  With distributed gateway support, an edge
   RBridge provides routing based on the Layer 2 identity (address and
   Virtual Network (VN, i.e., Data Label)) among End Stations (ESs) that
   belong to the same subnet and also provides routing based on the
   Layer 3 identity among ESs that belong to different subnets of the
   same routing domain.  An edge RBridge supporting this feature needs
   to provide routing instances and Layer 3 gateway interfaces for
   locally connected ESs.  Such routing instances provide IP address
   isolation between tenants.  In the TRILL distributed Layer 3 gateway
   solution, inter-subnet traffic can be fully spread over edge
   RBridges, so there is no single bottleneck.

1.1.  Document Organization

   This document is organized as follows: Section 3 gives a simplified
   example and also a more detailed problem statement.  Section 4 gives
   the Layer 3 traffic forwarding model.  Section 5 provides a
   distributed gateway solution overview.  Section 6 gives a detailed
   distributed gateway solution example.  Section 7 describes the TRILL
   protocol extensions needed to support this distributed gateway
   solution.















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2.  Conventions Used in This Document

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].

   The terms and acronyms in [RFC6325] are used, with the following
   additions:

   AGG: Aggregation switch.

   ARP: Address Resolution Protocol [RFC826].

   Campus: The name for a network using the TRILL protocol in the same
      sense that a "bridged LAN" is the name for a network using
      bridging.  In TRILL, the word "campus" has no academic
      implication.

   COR: Core switch.

   Data Label: VLAN or FGL [RFC7172].

   DC: Data Center.

   Edge RBridge: An RBridge that connects to one or more ESs without any
      intervening RBridges.

   ES: End Station.  A Virtual Machine or physical server, whose address
      is either the destination or source of a data frame.

   FGL: Fine-Grained Label [RFC7172].

   Gateway interface: A Layer 3 virtual interface that terminates
      Layer 2 forwarding and forwards IP traffic to the destination
      using IP forwarding rules.  Incoming traffic from a physical port
      on a gateway will be distributed to its virtual gateway interface
      based on the Data Label (VLAN or FGL).

   Inner.MacDA: The inner MAC destination address in a TRILL Data packet
      [RFC6325].

   Inner.MacSA: The inner MAC source address in a TRILL Data packet
      [RFC6325].

   Inner.VLAN: The inner VLAN tag in a TRILL Data packet payload
      [RFC6325].





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   L2: Layer 2.

   L3: IP Layer 3.

   LSP: Link State PDU

   ND: IPv6's Neighbor Discovery [RFC4861].

   ToR: Top of Rack.

   VN: Virtual Network.  In a TRILL campus, a unique 12-bit VLAN ID or a
      24-bit FGL [RFC7172] identifies each VN.

   VRF: Virtual Routing and Forwarding.  In IP-based computer networks,
      VRF technology supports multiple instances of routing tables
      existing within the same router at the same time.

3.  Simplified Example and Problem Statement

   There is normally a Data Label (VLAN or FGL) associated with each IP
   subnet.  For traffic within a subnet -- that is, IP traffic to
   another ES in the same Data Label attached to the TRILL campus -- the
   ES just ARPs for the MAC address of the destination ES's IP.  It then
   uses this MAC address for traffic to that destination.  TRILL routes
   the ingressed TRILL Data packets to the destination's edge RBridge
   based on the egress nickname for that destination MAC address and
   Data Label.  This is the regular TRILL base protocol [RFC6325]
   process.

   If two ESs of the same tenant are on different subnets and need to
   communicate with each other, their packets are typically forwarded to
   an IP L3 gateway that performs L3 routing and, if necessary, changes
   the Data Label.  Either a centralized L3 gateway solution or the
   distributed L3 gateway solution specified in this document can be
   used for inter-subnet traffic forwarding.

   Section 3.1 gives a simplified example in a TRILL campus with and
   without a distributed L3 gateway using VLAN Data Labels.  Section 3.2
   gives a detailed description of the issues related to using a
   centralized gateway (i.e., without a distributed L3 gateway).  The
   remainder of this document, particularly Section 5, describes the
   distributed gateway solution in detail.









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3.1.  Simplified Example

   Figure 1 depicts a TRILL DC network, where ToR switches are edge
   RBridges and the AGGs and CORs are non-edge RBridges.

                     -------                --------
                     | COR1|                | COR2 |
                     -------                --------
                        |                      |
                     -------                -------
                     |AGG1 |                |AGG2 |
                     -------                -------
                        |                      |
          -----------------------------------------------------
          |  -------------|------------------|----------------|
          |  |            |  |               |  |          |  |
        -------          -------           -------        -------
        | RB1 |          | RB2 |           | RB3 |        | RB4 |
        |ToR1 |          |ToR2 |           |ToR3 |        |ToR4 |
        -------          -------           -------        -------
         |    |           |    |            |    |         |    |
      -----  -----     -----  -----      -----  -----   -----  -----
      |ES1|  |ES2|     |ES3|  |ES4|      |ES5|  |ES6|   |ES7|  |ES8|
      -----  -----     -----  -----      -----  -----   -----  -----

                   Figure 1: A Typical TRILL DC Network

























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   ES1 through ES8 belong to one tenant network, and the tenant has
   four subnets with each subnet corresponding to one VLAN (which
   indicates one individual L2 VN).  Each ES's IP address, VLAN, and
   subnet are listed below:

           +----+----------------+-----------------+----------+
           | ES |   IP Address   |    Subnet       |  VLAN    |
           +----+----------------+-----------------+----------+
           | ES1| 192.0.2.2      | 192.0.2.0/24    |   10     |
           +----+----------------+-----------------+----------+
           | ES2| 198.51.100.2   | 198.51.100.0/24 |   11     |
           +----+----------------+-----------------+----------+
           | ES3| 192.0.2.3      | 192.0.2.0/24    |   10     |
           +----+----------------+-----------------+----------+
           | ES4| 198.51.100.3   | 198.51.100.0/24 |   11     |
           +----+----------------+-----------------+----------+
           | ES5| 203.0.113.2    | 203.0.113.0/25  |   12     |
           +----+----------------+-----------------+----------+
           | ES6| 203.0.113.130  | 203.0.113.128/25|   13     |
           +----+----------------+-----------------+----------+
           | ES7| 203.0.113.3    | 203.0.113.0/25  |   12     |
           +----+----------------+-----------------+----------+
           | ES8| 203.0.113.131  | 203.0.113.128/25|   13     |
           +----+----------------+-----------------+----------+

   Assume that a centralized gateway solution is used with both COR1 and
   COR2 acting as centralized gateways for redundancy in Figure 1.  COR1
   and COR2 each have four gateway interfaces for the four subnets in
   the tenant.  In the centralized L3 gateway solution, all traffic
   within the tenant between different VLANs must go through the
   centralized L3 gateway device of COR1 or COR2, even if the traffic is
   between two ESs connected to the same edge RBridge, because only the
   L3 gateway can change the VLAN labeling of the traffic.

   This is generally sub-optimal because the two ESs may be connected to
   the same ToR where L3 switching could have been performed locally.
   For example, in Figure 1 above, the unicast IP traffic between ES1
   and ES2 has to go through a centralized gateway of COR1 or COR2.  It
   can't be locally routed between them on ToR1.  However, if an edge
   RBridge has the distributed gateway capabilities specified in this
   document, then it can still perform optimum L2 forwarding for
   intra-subnet traffic and, in addition, optimum L3 forwarding for
   inter-subnet traffic, thus delivering optimum forwarding for unicast
   packets in all important cases.

   With a distributed L3 gateway, each edge RBridge acts as a default L3
   gateway for local connecting ESs and has IP router capabilities to
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   only needs gateway interfaces for local connecting ESs, i.e., RB1 and
   RB2 need gateway interfaces only for VLAN 10 and VLAN 11 while RB3
   and RB4 need gateway interfaces only for VLAN 12 and VLAN 13.  No
   device needs to maintain gateway interfaces for all VLANs in the
   entire network.  This will enhance scalability in terms of the number
   of tenants and subnets per tenant.

   When each ES ARPs for its L3 gateway, that is, its IP router, the
   edge RBridge to which it is connected will respond with that
   RBridge's "gateway MAC".  When the ES later sends IP traffic to the
   L3 gateway, which it does if the destination IP is outside of its
   subnet, the edge RBridge intercepts the IP packet because the
   destination MAC is its gateway MAC.  That RBridge routes the IP
   packet using the routing instance associated with that tenant,
   handling it in one of three ways:

   (1) ES1 communicates with ES2.  The destination IP is connected to
       the same edge RBridge; the RBridge of ToR1 can simply transmit
       the IP packet out the right edge port in the destination VLAN.

   (2) If the destination IP is located in an outside network, the edge
       RBridge encapsulates it as a TRILL Data packet and sends it to
       the actual TRILL campus edge RBridge connecting to an external IP
       router.

   (3) ES1 communicates with ES4.  The destination ES is connected to a
       different edge RBridge; the ingress RBridge ToR1 uses TRILL
       encapsulation to route the IP packet to the correct egress
       RBridge ToR2, using the egress RBridge's gateway MAC and an
       Inner.VLAN identifying the tenant.  Finally, the egress RBridge
       terminates the TRILL encapsulation and routes the IP packet to
       the destination ES based on the routing instance for that tenant.

3.2.  Problem Statement Summary

   With FGL [RFC7172], in theory, up to 16 million L2 VNs can be
   supported in a TRILL campus.  To support inter-subnet traffic, a very
   large number of L3 gateway interfaces could be needed on a
   centralized gateway, if each VN corresponds to a subnet and there are
   many tenants with many subnets per tenant.  It is a big burden for
   the centralized gateway to support so many interfaces.  In addition,
   all inter-subnet traffic will go through a centralized gateway that
   may become a traffic bottleneck.








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   The centralized gateway has the following issues:

   1. Sub-optimum forwarding paths for inter-subnet traffic can occur
      due to the requirements to perform IP routing and possibly change
      Data Labels at a centralized gateway.

   2. The centralized gateway may need to support a very large number of
      gateway interfaces -- in a DC, one per tenant per Data Label used
      by that tenant -- to provide interconnect functionality for all
      the L2 VNs in the TRILL campus.

   3. There may be a traffic bottleneck at the centralized gateway.

   A distributed gateway on edge RBridges addresses these issues.
   Through the distributed L3 gateway solution, the inter-subnet traffic
   is fully dispersed and is transmitted along optimal pair-wise
   forwarding paths, improving network efficiency.

4.  Layer 3 Traffic Forwarding Model

   In a DC network, each tenant has one or more L2 VNs, and, in normal
   cases, each tenant corresponds to one routing domain.  Normally, each
   L2 VN uses a different Data Label and corresponds to one or more IP
   subnets.

   Each L2 VN in a TRILL campus is identified by a unique 12-bit VLAN ID
   or 24-bit FGL [RFC7172].  Different routing domains may have
   overlapping address space but need distinct and separate routes.  The
   ESs that belong to the same subnet communicate through L2 forwarding;
   ESs of the same tenant that belong to different subnets communicate
   through L3 routing.




















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   Figure 2 depicts the model where there are n VRFs corresponding to
   n tenants, with each tenant having up to m segments/subnets (VNs).

              +---------------------------------------------+
              |                                             |
              |      +-----------+         +-----------+    |
              |      | Tenant n  |---------|  VRF n    |    |
              |   +------------+ |     +------------+  |    |
              |   |  +-----+   | |     |            |  |    |
              |   |  | VN1 |   | |     |            |  |    |
              |   |  +-----+   | |     |    VRF 1   |  |    |
              |   |     ..     +-------+            |  |    |
              |   |  +-----+   | |     |            |  |    |
              |   |  | VNm |   | |     |            |  |    |
              |   |  +-----+   | |     |            |  |    |
              |   |  Tenant1   |-+     |            |  |    |
              |   +------------+       |            |  |    |
              |   +------------+       +------------+       |
              |                                             |
              |               Edge RBridge                  |
              +---------------------------------------------+

            Figure 2: Edge RBridge Model as Distributed Gateway

5.  Distributed Gateway Solution Details

   With the TRILL distributed gateway solution, an edge RBridge
   continues to perform routing based on the L2 MAC address for the ESs
   that are on the same subnet but performs IP routing for the ESs that
   are on the different subnets of the same tenant.

   As the IP address space in different routing domains can overlap, VRF
   instances need to be created on each edge RBridge to isolate the IP
   forwarding process for different routing domains present on the edge
   RBridge.  A Tenant ID unique across the TRILL campus identifies each
   routing domain.  The network operator MUST configure the Tenant IDs
   on each edge RBridge for each routing domain consistently so that the
   same ID always refers to the same tenant.  Otherwise, data might be
   delivered to the wrong tenant.  If a routing domain spreads over
   multiple edge RBridges, routing information for the routing domain is
   synchronized among these edge RBridges through the link-state
   database to ensure reachability to all ESs in that routing domain.
   The routing information is, in effect, labeled with the Tenant ID to
   differentiate the routing domains.

   From the data-plane perspective, all edge RBridges are connected to
   each other via one or more TRILL hops; however, they are always just
   a single IP hop away.  When an ingress RBridge receives inter-subnet



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   IP traffic from a local ES whose destination MAC is the edge
   RBridge's gateway MAC, that RBridge will perform Ethernet header
   termination.  The tenant involved is determined by the VLAN of the
   traffic and the port on which it arrives.  The edge RBridge looks up
   in its IP routing table for that tenant how to route the traffic to
   the IP next hop.  If the destination ES is connected to a remote edge
   RBridge, the remote RBridge will be the IP next hop for traffic
   forwarding.  For such inter-subnet traffic, the ingress RBridge will
   rewrite the original Ethernet header with the ingress RBridge's
   gateway MAC address as the Inner.MacSA and the egress RBridge's
   gateway MAC address as the Inner.MacDA and then perform TRILL
   encapsulation to the remote RBridge's nickname, setting the inner
   Data Label to indicate the tenant involved.  TRILL then routes it to
   the remote edge RBridge through the TRILL campus.

   When that remote edge RBridge receives the traffic, it will
   decapsulate the TRILL Data packet and see that the inner destination
   MAC is its gateway MAC.  It then terminates the inner Ethernet
   encapsulation and looks up the destination IP in the RBridge's IP
   forwarding table for the tenant indicated by the inner Data Label, to
   route it to the destination ES.

   Through this method, TRILL with distributed gateways provides optimum
   pair-wise data routing for inter-subnet traffic.

5.1.  Local Routing Information

   An ES can be locally connected to an edge RBridge through an L2
   network (such as a point-to-point Ethernet link or a bridged LAN) or
   externally connected through an L3 IP network.

   If the ES is connected to an edge RBridge through an L2 network, then
   the edge RBridge acts as an L3 gateway for the ES.  A gateway
   interface is established on the edge RBridge for the connecting ES.
   Because the ESs in a subnet may be spread over multiple edge
   RBridges, each such edge RBridge that establishes its gateway
   interface for the subnet SHOULD share the same gateway MAC and
   gateway IP address configuration.  Sharing the configuration and
   insuring configuration consistency can be done by local configuration
   and Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) / YANG models.

   With a distributed gateway, the edge RBridge to which an ES is
   connected appears to be the local IP router on its link.  As in any
   IP network, before the ES starts to send inter-subnet traffic, it
   acquires its gateway's MAC through the ARP/ND process.  Local
   connecting edge RBridges that support this distributed gateway
   feature always respond with the gateway MAC address when receiving
   ARP/ND requests for the gateway IP.  Through the ARP/ND process, the



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   edge RBridge can learn the IP and MAC correspondence of a local ES
   connected to the edge RBridge by L2 and then generate local IP
   routing entries for that ES in the corresponding routing domain.

   To TRILL, an IP router connected to an edge RBridge looks like an ES.
   If a router/ES is located in an external IP network, it normally
   provides access to one or more IP prefixes.  The router/ES SHOULD run
   an IP routing protocol with the connecting TRILL edge RBridge.  The
   edge RBridge will learn the IP prefixes behind the router/ES through
   that IP routing protocol, and the RBridge will then generate local IP
   routing entries in the corresponding routing domain.  If such a
   routing protocol is not run with the edge RBridge, then only the IP
   prefixes behind the router/ES that are explicitly configured on the
   edge RBridge will be accessible.

5.2.  Local Routing Information Synchronization

   When a routing instance is created on an edge RBridge, the Tenant ID,
   tenant Data Label (VLAN or FGL), and tenant gateway MAC that
   correspond to that instance are configured and MUST be globally
   advertised (see Section 7.1).  The Tenant ID uniquely identifies that
   tenant throughout the campus.  The tenant Data Label identifies that
   tenant at the edge RBridge.  The tenant gateway MAC MAY identify that
   tenant, all tenants, or some subset of tenants at the edge RBridge.

   When an ingress RBridge performs inter-subnet traffic TRILL
   encapsulation, the ingress RBridge uses the Data Label advertised by
   the egress RBridge as the inner VLAN or FGL and uses the tenant
   gateway MAC advertised by the egress RBridge as the Inner.MacDA.  The
   egress RBridge relies on this tenant Data Label to find the local VRF
   instance for the IP forwarding process when receiving inter-subnet
   traffic from the TRILL campus.  (The role of the tenant Data Label is
   akin to an MPLS VPN Label in an MPLS IP / MPLS VPN network.)  Tenant
   Data Labels are independently allocated on each edge RBridge for each
   routing domain.  An edge RBridge can use an access Data Label from a
   routing domain to act as the inter-subnet Data Label, or the edge
   RBridge can use a Data Label different from any access Data Labels to
   be a tenant Data Label.  It is implementation dependent, and there is
   no restriction on this assignment of Data Labels.

   The tenant gateway MAC differentiates inter-subnet L3 traffic from
   intra-subnet L2 traffic on the egress RBridge.  Each tenant on an
   RBridge can use a different gateway MAC or the same tenant gateway
   MAC for inter-subnet traffic purposes.  This is also implementation
   dependent, and there is no restriction on it.






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   When a local IP prefix is learned in a routing instance on an edge
   RBridge, the edge RBridge should advertise the IP prefix information
   for the routing instance so that other edge RBridges will generate IP
   routing entries.  If the ESs in a VN are spread over multiple
   RBridges, these RBridges MUST advertise each local connecting ES's IP
   address in the VN to other RBridges.  If the ESs in a VN are only
   connected to one edge RBridge, that RBridge only needs to advertise
   the subnet corresponding to the VN to other RBridges using host
   routes.  A Tenant ID unique across the TRILL campus is also carried
   in the advertisement to differentiate IP prefixes between different
   tenants, because the IP address space of different tenants can
   overlap (see Sections 7.3 and 7.4).

   If a tenant is deleted on an edge RBridge RB1, RB1 updates the local
   tenant Data Label, tenant gateway MAC, and related IP prefix
   information it is advertising to include only the rest of the
   tenants.  It may take some time for these updates to reach all other
   RBridges, so during this period of time there may be transient route
   inconsistency among the edge RBridges.  If there is traffic in flight
   during this time, it will be dropped at the egress RBridge due to
   local tenant deletion.  When a stable state is reached, the traffic
   to the deleted tenant will be dropped by the ingress RBridge.
   Therefore, the transient route inconsistency won't cause issues other
   than wasting some network bandwidth.

   If a new tenant is created and a previously used tenant Data Label is
   assigned to the new tenant immediately, this may cause a security
   policy violation for the traffic in flight, because when the egress
   RBridge receives traffic from the old tenant, it will forward it in
   the new tenant's routing instance and deliver it to the wrong
   destination.  So, a tenant Data Label MUST NOT be reallocated until a
   reasonable amount of time -- for example, twice the IS-IS
   Holding Time generally in use in the TRILL campus -- has passed to
   allow any traffic in flight to be discarded.

   When the ARP entry in an edge RBridge for an ES times out, it will
   trigger an edge RBridge LSP advertisement to other edge RBridges with
   the corresponding IP routing entry deleted.  If the ES is an IP
   router, the edge RBridge also notifies other edge RBridges that they
   must delete the routing entries corresponding to the IP prefixes
   accessible through that IP router.  During the IP prefix deleting
   process, if there is traffic in flight, the traffic will be discarded
   at the egress RBridge because there is no local IP routing entry to
   the destination.







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   If an edge RBridge changes its tenant gateway MAC, it will trigger an
   edge RBridge LSP advertisement to other edge RBridges, giving the new
   gateway MAC to be used as the Inner.MacDA for future traffic destined
   to the edge RBridge.  During the gateway MAC changing process, if
   there is traffic in flight using the old gateway MAC as the
   Inner.MacDA, the traffic will be discarded or will be forwarded as L2
   intra-subnet traffic on the edge RBridge.  If the inter-subnet tenant
   Data Label is a unique Data Label that is different from any access
   Data Labels, when the edge RBridge receives the traffic whose
   Inner.MacDA is different from the local tenant gateway MAC, the
   traffic will be discarded.  If the edge RBridge uses one of the
   access Data Labels as an inter-subnet tenant Data Label, the traffic
   will be forwarded as L2 intra-subnet traffic unless a special
   traffic-filtering policy is enforced on the edge RBridge.

   If there are multiple nicknames owned by an edge RBridge, the edge
   RBridge can also specify one nickname as the egress nickname for
   inter-subnet traffic forwarding.  A NickFlags APPsub-TLV with the
   SE flag set can be used for this purpose.  If the edge RBridge
   doesn't specify a nickname for this purpose, the ingress RBridge can
   use any one of the nicknames owned by the egress as the egress
   nickname for inter-subnet traffic forwarding.

   TRILL Extended Level 1 Flooding Scope (E-L1FS) FS-LSP [RFC7780]
   APPsub-TLVs are used for IP routing information synchronization in
   each routing domain among edge RBridges.  Based on the synchronized
   information from other edge RBridges, each edge RBridge generates
   routing entries in each routing domain for remote IP addresses and
   subnets.

   Through this solution, the intra-subnet forwarding and inter-subnet
   IP routing functions are integrated, and network management and
   deployment are simplified.

5.3.  Active-Active Access

   TRILL active-active service provides ESs with flow-level load balance
   and resilience against link failures at the edge of TRILL campuses,
   as described in [RFC7379].

   If an ES is connected to two TRILL RBridges, say RB1 and RB2, in
   active-active mode, RB1 and RB2 MUST both be configured to act as a
   distributed L3 gateway for the ES in order to use a distributed
   gateway.  RB1 and RB2 each learn the ES's IP address through the
   ARP/ND process, and then they announce the IP address to the TRILL
   campus independently.  The remote ingress RBridge will generate an IP
   routing entry corresponding to the IP address with two IP next hops
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   traffic from a local access network, the ingress RBridge selects RB1
   or RB2 as the IP next hop based on least cost or, if costs are equal,
   the local load-balancing algorithm.  The traffic will then be
   transmitted to the selected next-hop destination RB1 or RB2 through
   the TRILL campus.

5.4.  Data Traffic Forwarding Process

   After ES1, connected by L2 in VLAN-x, acquires its gateway's MAC, it
   can start inter-subnet data traffic transmission to ES2 in VLAN-y.

   When the edge RBridge attached to ES1 receives inter-subnet traffic
   from ES1, that RBridge performs L2 header termination; then, using
   the local VRF corresponding to VLAN-x, it performs the IP routing
   process in that VRF.

   If destination ES2 is attached to the same edge RBridge, the traffic
   will be locally forwarded to ES2 by that RBridge.  Compared to the
   centralized gateway solution, the forwarding path is optimal, and a
   traffic detour through the centralized gateway is avoided.

   If ES2 is attached to a remote edge RBridge, the remote edge RBridge
   is the IP next hop, and the inter-subnet traffic is forwarded to the
   IP next hop through TRILL encapsulation.  If there are multiple
   equal-cost shortest paths between the ingress RBridge and the egress
   RBridge, all these paths can be used for inter-subnet traffic
   forwarding, so load-spreading can be achieved for inter-subnet
   traffic.

   When the remote RBridge receives the inter-subnet TRILL-encapsulated
   traffic, the RBridge decapsulates these TRILL packets and checks the
   Inner.MacDA.  If that MAC address is the local gateway MAC
   corresponding to the inner label (VLAN or FGL), the inner label will
   be used to find the corresponding local VRF; the IP routing process
   in that VRF will then be performed, and the traffic will be locally
   forwarded to destination ES2.

   In summary, this solution avoids traffic detours through a central
   gateway.  Both inter-subnet and intra-subnet traffic can be forwarded
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6.  Distributed Layer 3 Gateway Process Example

   This section gives a detailed description of a distributed L3 gateway
   solution example for IPv4 and IPv6.

   In Figure 3, RB1 and RB2 support the distribution gateway function,
   ES1 connects to RB1, and ES2 connects to RB2.  ES1 and ES2 belong to
   Tenant1 but are in different subnets.

                     ---------             ---------
                     |  RB3  |             |  RB4  |
                     ---------             ---------
                     #   *                     #  *
                     #   **************************
                     ###########################  *
                     #                            *
                     #                            *
                     #                            *
                     ---------              ---------
                     |  RB1  |              |  RB2  |
                     ---------              ---------
                        |                       |
                      -----                   -----
                      |ES1|                   |ES2|
                      -----                   -----

                  Figure 3: Distributed Gateway Scenario

   For IPv4, the IP address, VLAN, and subnet information of ES1 and ES2
   are as follows:

    +----+----------+------------------+------------------+----------+
    | ES | Tenant   |   IP Address     |  Subnet          |  VLAN    |
    +----+----------+------------------+------------------+----------+
    | ES1| Tenant1  |   192.0.2.2      |  192.0.2.0/24    |   10     |
    +----+----------+------------------+------------------+----------+
    | ES2| Tenant1  |   198.51.100.2   |  198.51.100.0/24 |   20     |
    +----+----------+------------------+------------------+----------+

                       Figure 4: IPv4 ES Information











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   For IPv6, the IP address, VLAN, and subnet information of ES1 and ES2
   are as follows:

    +----+----------+------------------+------------------+----------+
    | ES | Tenant   | IP Address       | Subnet           |  VLAN    |
    +----+----------+------------------+------------------+----------+
    | ES1| Tenant1  | 2001:db8:0:1::2  |2001:db8:0:1::0/64|   10     |
    +----+----------+------------------+------------------+----------+
    | ES2| Tenant1  | 2001:db8:0:2::2  |2001:db8:0:2::0/64|   20     |
    +----+----------+------------------+------------------+----------+

                       Figure 5: IPv6 ES Information

   The nickname, VRF, tenant Label, and tenant gateway MAC for Tenant1
   on RB1 and RB2 are as follows:

    +----+---------+-----------+-------+--------------+--------------+
    | RB | Nickname|  Tenant   | VRF   | Tenant Label |  Gateway MAC |
    +----+---------+-----------+-------+--------------+--------------+
    | RB1|  nick1  |  Tenant1  | VRF1  |    100       |    MAC1      |
    +----+---------+-----------+-------+--------------+--------------+
    | RB2|  nick2  |  Tenant1  | VRF2  |    100       |    MAC2      |
    +----+---------+-----------+-------+--------------+--------------+

                       Figure 6: RBridge Information

6.1.  Control-Plane Process

   RB1 advertises the following local routing information to the TRILL
   campus:

                  Tenant ID: 1

                  Tenant gateway MAC: MAC1

                  Tenant Label for Tenant1: VLAN 100

                  IPv4 prefix for Tenant1: 192.0.2.0/24

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   RB2 announces the following local routing information to the TRILL
   campus:

                  Tenant ID: 1

                  Tenant gateway MAC: MAC2

                  Tenant Label for Tenant1: VLAN 100

                  IPv4 prefix for Tenant1: 198.51.100.0/24

                  IPv6 prefix for Tenant1: 2001:db8:0:2::0/64

   Relying on the routing information from RB2, remote routing entries
   on RB1 are generated as follows:

     +------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------+
     |  Prefix/Mask     | Inner.MacDA | Inner VLAN   | Egress Nickname|
     +------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------+
     |198.51.100.0/24   |    MAC2     |    100       |     nick2      |
     +------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------+
     |2001:db8:0:2::0/64|    MAC2     |    100       |     nick2      |
     +------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------+

               Figure 7: Tenant1 Remote Routing Table on RB1

   Similarly, relying on the routing information from RB1, remote
   routing entries on RB2 are generated as follows:

     +------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------+
     |   Prefix/Mask    | Inner.MacDA | Inner VLAN   | Egress Nickname|
     +------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------+
     |  192.0.2.0/24    |     MAC1    |    100       |     nick1      |
     +------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------+
     |2001:db8:0:1::0/64|     MAC1    |    100       |     nick1      |
     +------------------+-------------+--------------+----------------+

               Figure 8: Tenant1 Remote Routing Table on RB2













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6.2.  Data-Plane Process

   Assuming that ES1 sends unicast inter-subnet traffic to ES2, the
   traffic forwarding process is as follows:

   1. ES1 sends unicast inter-subnet traffic to RB1 with RB1's gateway's
      MAC as the destination MAC and the VLAN as VLAN 10.

   2. Ingress RBridge (RB1) forwarding process:

      RB1 checks the destination MAC.  If the destination MAC equals the
      local gateway MAC, the gateway function will terminate the L2
      header and perform L3 routing.

      RB1 looks up IP routing table information by destination IP and
      Tenant ID to get IP next-hop information, which includes the
      egress RBridge's gateway MAC (MAC2), tenant Label (VLAN 100), and
      egress nickname (nick2).  Using this information, RB1 will perform
      inner Ethernet header encapsulation and TRILL encapsulation.  RB1
      will use MAC2 as the Inner.MacDA, MAC1 (RB1's own gateway MAC) as
      the Inner.MacSA, VLAN 100 as the Inner.VLAN, nick2 as the egress
      nickname, and nick1 as the ingress nickname.

      RB1 looks up TRILL forwarding information by egress nickname and
      sends the traffic to the TRILL next hop as per [RFC6325].  The
      traffic will be sent to RB3 or RB4 as a result of load-balancing.

   Assuming that the traffic is forwarded to RB3, the following occurs:

   3. Transit RBridge (RB3) forwarding process:

      RB3 looks up TRILL forwarding information by egress nickname and
      forwards the traffic to RB2 as per [RFC6325].

   4. Egress RBridge forwarding process:

      As the egress nickname is RB2's own nickname, RB2 performs TRILL
      decapsulation.  It then checks the Inner.MacDA and, because that
      MAC is equal to the local gateway MAC, performs inner Ethernet
      header termination.  Using the inner VLAN, RB2 finds the local
      corresponding VRF and looks up the packet's destination IP address
      in the VRF's IP routing table.  The traffic is then locally
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7.  TRILL Protocol Extensions

   If an edge RBridge RB1 participates in the distributed gateway
   function, it announces its tenant gateway MAC and tenant Data Label
   to the TRILL campus through the tenant Label and gateway MAC
   APPsub-TLV.  It should announce its local IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes
   through the IPv4 Prefix APPsub-TLV and the IPv6 Prefix APPsub-TLV,
   respectively.  If RB1 has multiple nicknames, it can announce
   one nickname for use by the distributed gateway, by using the
   NickFlags APPsub-TLV with the SE flag set to 1.

   The remote ingress RBridges belonging to the same routing domain use
   this information to generate IP routing entries in that routing
   domain.  These RBridges use the nickname, tenant gateway MAC, and
   tenant Label of RB1 to perform inter-subnet TRILL encapsulation when
   they receive inter-subnet traffic from a local ES.  The nickname is
   used as the egress nickname, the tenant gateway MAC is used as the
   Inner.MacDA, and the tenant Data Label is used as the Inner.Label.
   The following APPsub-TLVs MUST be included in a TRILL GENINFO TLV in
   E-L1FS FS-LSPs [RFC7780].

7.1.  The Tenant Label and Gateway MAC APPsub-TLV

     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |   Type                        | (2 bytes)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |   Length                      | (2 bytes)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                     Tenant ID   (4 bytes)                     |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     | Resv1 |     Label1            | (2 bytes)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     | Resv2 |     Label2            | (2 bytes)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+....-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |            Tenant Gateway MAC   (6 bytes)                     |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+....-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

     o  Type: Set to the TENANT-GWMAC-LABEL sub-TLV type (7).  2 bytes,
        because this APPsub-TLV appears in an extended TLV [RFC7356].

     o  Length: If the Label1 field is used to represent a VLAN, the
        value of the Length field is 12.  If the Label1 and Label2
        fields are used to represent an FGL, the value of the
        Length field is 14.

     o  Tenant ID: This identifies a Tenant ID unique across the TRILL
        campus.




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     o  Resv1: 4 bits that MUST be sent as zero and ignored on receipt.

     o  Label1: If the value of the Length field is 12, it identifies a
        tenant Label corresponding to a VLAN ID.  If the value of the
        Length field is 14, it identifies the higher 12 bits of a tenant
        Label corresponding to an FGL.

     o  Resv2: 4 bits that MUST be sent as zero and ignored on receipt.
        Only present if the Length field is 14.

     o  Label2: This field has the lower 12 bits of the tenant Label
        corresponding to an FGL.  Only present if the Length field
        is 14.

     o  Tenant Gateway MAC: This identifies the local gateway MAC
        corresponding to the Tenant ID.  The remote ingress RBridges use
        the gateway MAC as the Inner.MacDA.  The advertising TRILL
        RBridge uses the gateway MAC to differentiate L2 intra-subnet
        traffic and L3 inter-subnet traffic in the egress direction.

7.2.  The SE Flag in the NickFlags APPsub-TLV

   The NickFlags APPsub-TLV is specified in [RFC7780], where the IN flag
   is described.  The SE Flag is assigned as follows:

               +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
               |   Nickname                                    |
               +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
               |IN|SE|         RESV                            |
               +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
                                NICKFLAG RECORD

   o  SE: If the SE flag is set to 1, it indicates that the advertising
      RBridge suggests that the Nickname SHOULD be used as the
      Inter-Subnet Egress nickname for inter-subnet traffic forwarding.
      If the SE flag is set to 0, that Nickname SHOULD NOT be used for
      that purpose.  The SE flag is ignored if the NickFlags APPsub-TLV
      is advertised by an RBridge that does not own the Nickname.













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7.3.  The IPv4 Prefix APPsub-TLV

     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |   Type                        |                    (2 bytes)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |   Total Length                |                    (2 bytes)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                     Tenant ID                    | (4 bytes)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |PrefixLength(1)|                                    (1 byte)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                     Prefix (1)                   | (variable)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |     .....     |                                    (1 byte)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                    .....                         | (variable)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |PrefixLength(N)|                                    (1 byte)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                     Prefix (N)                   | (variable)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

     o  Type: Set to the IPV4-PREFIX sub-TLV type (8).  2 bytes, because
        this APPsub-TLV appears in an extended TLV [RFC7356].

     o  Total Length: This 2-byte unsigned integer indicates the total
        length of the Tenant ID, Prefix Length, and Prefix fields,
        in octets.  A value of 0 indicates that no IPv4 prefix is being
        advertised.

     o  Tenant ID: This identifies a Tenant ID unique across the TRILL
        campus.

     o  Prefix Length: The Prefix Length field indicates the length,
        in bits, of the IPv4 address prefix.  A length of 0 (i.e., the
        prefix itself is 0 octets) indicates a prefix that matches all
        IPv4 addresses.

     o  Prefix: The Prefix field contains an IPv4 address prefix,
        followed by enough trailing bits to make the end of the field
        fall on an octet boundary.  Note that the value of the trailing
        bits is irrelevant.  For example, if the Prefix Length is 12,
        indicating 12 bits, then the Prefix is 2 octets and the
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7.4.  The IPv6 Prefix APPsub-TLV

     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |   Type                        |                    (2 bytes)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |   Total Length                |                    (2 bytes)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                     Tenant ID                    | (4 bytes)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |PrefixLength(1)|                                    (1 byte)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                     Prefix (1)                   | (variable)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |     .....       |                                  (1 byte)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                    .....                         | (variable)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |PrefixLength(N)|                                    (1 byte)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                     Prefix (N)                   | (variable)
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

     o  Type: Set to the IPV6-PREFIX sub-TLV type (9).  2 bytes, because
        this APPsub-TLV appears in an extended TLV [RFC7356].

     o  Total Length: This 2-byte unsigned integer indicates the total
        length of the Tenant ID, Prefix Length, and Prefix fields,
        in octets.  A value of 0 indicates that no IPv6 prefix is being
        advertised.

     o  Tenant ID: This identifies a Tenant ID unique across the TRILL
        campus.

     o  Prefix Length: The Prefix Length field indicates the length,
        in bits, of the IPv6 address prefix.  A length of 0 (i.e., the
        prefix itself is 0 octets) indicates a prefix that matches all
        IPv6 addresses.

     o  Prefix: The Prefix field contains an IPv6 address prefix,
        followed by enough trailing bits to make the end of the field
        fall on an octet boundary.  Note that the value of the trailing
        bits is irrelevant.  For example, if the Prefix Length is 100,
        indicating 100 bits, then the Prefix is 13 octets and the
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8.  Security Considerations

   Correct configuration of the participating edge RBridges is important
   to assure that data is not delivered to the wrong tenant, as such
   incorrect delivery would violate security constraints.  IS-IS
   security [RFC5310] can be used to secure the information advertised
   by the edge RBridges in LSPs and FS-LSPs.

   To avoid the mishandling of data in flight, see Section 5.2 for
   constraints on the reuse of a tenant Label and on tenant gateway MAC
   changes.  Selecting tenant Labels and IDs in a pseudorandom fashion
   [RFC4086] can make it more difficult for an adversary to guess a
   tenant Label or ID that is in use.

   Particularly sensitive data should be encrypted end-to-end --
   that is, from the source ES to the destination ES.  Since the TRILL
   campus is, for the most part, transparent to ES traffic, such ESs are
   free to use whatever end-to-end security protocol they would like.

   For general TRILL security considerations, see [RFC6325].

9.  Management Considerations

   The configuration at each RBridge to support the distributed L3
   gateway feature is visible, via the link-state database, to all other
   RBridges in the campus.  Operations, Administration, and Maintenance
   (OAM) facilities for TRILL are primarily specified in [RFC7455]
   and [RFC7456].

10.  IANA Considerations

   IANA has assigned three APPsub-TLV type numbers that are lower than
   255 in the "TRILL APPsub-TLV Types under IS-IS TLV 251 Application
   Identifier 1" registry.  The registry has been updated as follows:

         Type         Name            Reference
         ----   ------------------   -------------
          7     TENANT-GWMAC-LABEL   this document

          8     IPV4-PREFIX          this document

          9     IPV6-PREFIX          this document









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   IANA has assigned a flag bit in the NickFlags APPsub-TLV as described
   in Section 7.2 and updated the "NickFlags Bits" registry, created by
   [RFC7780], as follows:

          Bit   Mnemonic      Description        Reference
         -----  --------  -------------------   -------------
           1       SE     Inter-Subnet Egress   this document

11.  References

11.1.  Normative References

   [IS-IS]    International Organization for Standardization,
              "Intermediate System to Intermediate System intra-domain
              routeing information exchange protocol for use in
              conjunction with the protocol for providing the
              connectionless-mode network service (ISO 8473)",
              ISO Standard 10589, 2002.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC6325]  Perlman, R., Eastlake 3rd, D., Dutt, D., Gai, S., and A.
              Ghanwani, "Routing Bridges (RBridges): Base Protocol
              Specification", RFC 6325, DOI 10.17487/RFC6325, July 2011,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6325>.

   [RFC7172]  Eastlake 3rd, D., Zhang, M., Agarwal, P., Perlman, R., and
              D. Dutt, "Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links
              (TRILL): Fine-Grained Labeling", RFC 7172,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7172, May 2014,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7172>.

   [RFC7176]  Eastlake 3rd, D., Senevirathne, T., Ghanwani, A., Dutt,
              D., and A. Banerjee, "Transparent Interconnection of Lots
              of Links (TRILL) Use of IS-IS", RFC 7176,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7176, May 2014,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7176>.











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   [RFC7356]  Ginsberg, L., Previdi, S., and Y. Yang, "IS-IS Flooding
              Scope Link State PDUs (LSPs)", RFC 7356,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7356, September 2014,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7356>.

   [RFC7780]  Eastlake 3rd, D., Zhang, M., Perlman, R., Banerjee, A.,
              Ghanwani, A., and S. Gupta, "Transparent Interconnection
              of Lots of Links (TRILL): Clarifications, Corrections, and
              Updates", RFC 7780, DOI 10.17487/RFC7780, February 2016,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7780>.

11.2.  Informative References

   [RFC826]   Plummer, D., "Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol: Or
              Converting Network Protocol Addresses to 48.bit Ethernet
              Address for Transmission on Ethernet Hardware", STD 37,
              RFC 826, DOI 10.17487/RFC0826, November 1982,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc826>.

   [RFC4086]  Eastlake 3rd, D., Schiller, J., and S. Crocker,
              "Randomness Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC 4086,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4086, June 2005,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4086>.

   [RFC4861]  Narten, T., Nordmark, E., Simpson, W., and H. Soliman,
              "Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 4861,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4861, September 2007,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4861>.

   [RFC5310]  Bhatia, M., Manral, V., Li, T., Atkinson, R., White, R.,
              and M. Fanto, "IS-IS Generic Cryptographic
              Authentication", RFC 5310, DOI 10.17487/RFC5310,
              February 2009, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5310>.

   [RFC7379]  Li, Y., Hao, W., Perlman, R., Hudson, J., and H. Zhai,
              "Problem Statement and Goals for Active-Active Connection
              at the Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links
              (TRILL) Edge", RFC 7379, DOI 10.17487/RFC7379,
              October 2014, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7379>.












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   [RFC7455]  Senevirathne, T., Finn, N., Salam, S., Kumar, D., Eastlake
              3rd, D., Aldrin, S., and Y. Li, "Transparent
              Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): Fault
              Management", RFC 7455, DOI 10.17487/RFC7455, March 2015,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7455>.

   [RFC7456]  Mizrahi, T., Senevirathne, T., Salam, S., Kumar, D., and
              D. Eastlake 3rd, "Loss and Delay Measurement in
              Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL)",
              RFC 7456, DOI 10.17487/RFC7456, March 2015,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7456>.

Acknowledgments

   The authors wish to acknowledge the important contributions of Donald
   Eastlake, Gayle Noble, Mohammed Umair, Susan Hares, Guangrui Wu,
   Zhenbin Li, Zhibo Hu, Liang Xia, Scott Bradner, Stephen Farrell,
   Shawn Emery, Ben Campbell, Russ White, Kathleen Moriarty, Suresh
   Krishnan, Mirja Kuehlewind, and Francis Dupont.
































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Authors' Addresses

   Weiguo Hao
   Huawei Technologies
   101 Software Avenue
   Nanjing  210012
   China

   Phone: +86-25-56623144
   Email: haoweiguo@huawei.com


   Yizhou Li
   Huawei Technologies
   101 Software Avenue
   Nanjing  210012
   China

   Phone: +86-25-56625375
   Email: liyizhou@huawei.com


   Andrew Qu
   MediaTec

   Email: laodulaodu@gmail.com


   Muhammad Durrani
   Equinix Inc.

   Email: mdurrani@equinix.com


   Ponkarthick Sivamurugan
   IP Infusion
   RMZ Centennial
   Mahadevapura Post
   Bangalore  560048

   Email: Ponkarthick.sivamurugan@ipinfusion.com










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