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BFD-triggered Fast Reroute (FRR) in IOS XR

jbaraona
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I'm migrating the configuration from a Cisco 12416 router running Cisco IOS, to a CRS1 router running IOS-XR.

In IOS I have configured the following command for FRR "ip rsvp signalling hello bfd". I cannot find the way to configure this parameter using IOS-XR.

I don't know if anyone can help me with this request.

Thanks.

Jose.

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Atif Awan
Cisco Employee
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In IOS-XR BFD triggered FRR is enabled under the mpls traffic-eng configuration mode. A sample is:

mpls traffic-eng

interface POS0/0/0/0

  backup-path tunnel-te XXXX

  bfd fast-detect

!

bfd minimum-interval 150

bfd multiplier 3

!

I will suggest you read the IOS-XR BFD configuration guide just to get up to speed with the details:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios_xr_sw/iosxr_r3.6/interfaces/configuration/guide/hc36bifw.html (Release 3.6 ... You can find this for subsequent releases on Cisco's website as well using the master link http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5845/products_installation_and_configuration_guides_list.html)

Atif

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Atif Awan
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

In IOS-XR BFD triggered FRR is enabled under the mpls traffic-eng configuration mode. A sample is:

mpls traffic-eng

interface POS0/0/0/0

  backup-path tunnel-te XXXX

  bfd fast-detect

!

bfd minimum-interval 150

bfd multiplier 3

!

I will suggest you read the IOS-XR BFD configuration guide just to get up to speed with the details:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios_xr_sw/iosxr_r3.6/interfaces/configuration/guide/hc36bifw.html (Release 3.6 ... You can find this for subsequent releases on Cisco's website as well using the master link http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5845/products_installation_and_configuration_guides_list.html)

Atif

Thanks a lot for your help Atif.

I will test the configuration in my lab environment and post the results.

Thanks again for your help.

Jose

Hi,

and results?

How was the test and have you got sub-second failover?

I am trying to achieve fast convergence with IP fast reroute (IP FRR) without MPLS TE.

The problem is that I don't know how to test it. With ICMP I don't get any packets lost when I shut down the interface

that is forwarding the traffic. But I don't know how to find out the time for reconvergence.

I am using BFD, too, but looks like that I get the same failover time without BFD.

The OSPF timers are these on CRS8 IOS-XR 4.0.3:

timers throttle lsa all 0 20 5000

timers throttle spf 24 24 5000

timers lsa min-arrival 20

Hello,

I you want convergence times of 10-20ms you need MPLS TE.

we also change OSPF timers to have fast IGP convergence, this is the configuration we use based on Cisco recommendations:

!

router ospf

ispf

nsf ietf

mpls ldp sync

timers throttle lsa all 0 20 5000

timers throttle spf 50 50 5000

timers lsa arrival 15

timers pacing flood 15

!

mpls ldp igp sync holddown 60000

!

hope this helps.

Thank you for the config.

We have similar timers, but I deleted timers pacing flood because I read that it is not recommended to change it.

Do you lose a packet after a failover? When I do an ICMP test and after I administravly shut down the forwarding interface no packets get lost, but when I simulate a link down so that I shut down the interface on the other side I lose one packet.

Maybe my understanding of sub-second convergence is wrong, maybe it is ok that a packet gets lost!

OSPF needs only 28msec to steer the traffic over the backup path but I can not measure the link down time detection. 

Hello,

You have to combine other things like:

ip routing protocol purge interface (global configuration)

interface GigabitEthernet x/y

carrier-delay up msec 500

carrier-delay down msec 0

let me know how that works.

Hi,

still one packet loss. I typed carrier-delay on both routers IOS and IOS-XR but "ip routing protocol purge interface" only on IOS because I could not find it on IOS-XR.

I have to say that the router are connected via DWDM and distance is maybe 30km, not sure if this is that important?

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