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Configuring OSPF Support for Traffic Engineering

OSPF Support for Traffic Engineering

Traffic engineering allows you to control the path that data packets follow, bypassing the standard routing model, which uses routing tables. Traffic engineering moves flows from congested links to alternate links that would not be selected by the automatically computed destination-based shortest path.

To help provide traffic engineering and MPLS with information about network topology and loading, extensions have been added to the Junos OS implementation of OSPF. When traffic engineering is enabled on the routing device, you can enable OSPF traffic engineering support. When you enable traffic engineering for OSPF, the shortest-path-first (SPF) algorithm takes into account the various label-switched paths (LSPs) configured under MPLS and configures OSPF to generate opaque link-state advertisements (LSAs) that carry traffic engineering parameters. The parameters are used to populate the traffic engineering database. The traffic engineering database is used exclusively for calculating explicit paths for the placement of LSPs across the physical topology. The Constrained Shortest Path First (CSPF) algorithm uses the traffic engineering database to compute the paths that MPLS LSPs take. RSVP uses this path information to set up LSPs and to reserve bandwidth for them.

By default, traffic engineering support is disabled. To enable traffic engineering, include the traffic-engineering statement. You can also configure the following OSPF traffic engineering extensions:

  • advertise-unnumbered-interfaces—(OSPFv2 only) Advertises the link-local identifier in the link-local traffic engineering LSA packet. You do not need to include this statement if RSVP is able to signal unnumbered interfaces as defined in RFC 3477, Signalling Unnumbered Links in Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE).

  • credibility-protocol-preference—(OSPFv2 only) Assigns a credibility value to OSPF routes in the traffic engineering database. By default, Junos OS prefers OSPF routes in the traffic engineering database over other interior gateway protocol (IGP) routes even if the routes of another IGP are configured with a lower, that is, more preferred, preference value. The traffic engineering database assigns a credibility value to each IGP and prefers the routes of the IGP with the highest credibility value. In Junos OS Release 9.4 and later, you can configure OSPF to take protocol preference into account to determine the traffic engineering database credibility value. When protocol preference is used to determine the credibility value, OSPF routes are not automatically preferred by the traffic engineering database, depending on your configuration.

  • ignore-lsp-metrics—Ignores RSVP LSP metrics in OSPF traffic engineering shortcut calculations or when you configure LDP over RSVP LSPs. This option avoids mutual dependency between OSPF and RSVP, eliminating the time period when the RSVP metric used for tunneling traffic is not up to date. In addition, If you are using RSVP for traffic engineering, you can run LDP simultaneously to eliminate the distribution of external routes in the core. The LSPs established by LDP are tunneled through the LSPs established by RSVP. LDP effectively treats the traffic-engineered LSPs as single hops.

  • multicast-rpf-routes—(OSPFv2 only) Installs unicast IPv4 routes (not LSPs) in the multicast routing table (inet.2) for multicast reverse-path forwarding (RPF) checks. The inet.2 routing table consists of unicast routes used for multicast RPF lookup. RPF is an antispoofing mechanism used to check if the packet is coming in on an interface that is also sending data back to the packet source.

  • no-topology—(OSPFv2 only) To disable the dissemination of link-state topology information. If disabled, traffic engineering topology information is no longer distributed within the OSPF area.

  • shortcuts—Configures IGP shortcuts, which allows OSPF to use an LSP as the next hop as if it were a logical interface from the ingress routing device to the egress routing device. The address specified in the to statement at the [edit protocols mpls label-switched-path lsp-path-name] hierarchy level on the ingress routing device must match the router ID of the egress routing device for the LSP to function as a direct link to the egress routing device and to be used as input to the OSPF SPF calculations. When used in this way, LSPs are no different from Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Frame Relay virtual circuits (VCs), except that LSPS carry only IPv4 traffic.

    OSPFv2 installs the prefix for IPv4 routes in the inet.0 routing table, and the LSPs are installed by default in the inet.3 routing table.

    OSPFv3 LSPs used for shortcuts continue to be signaled using IPv4. However, by default, shortcut IPv6 routes calculated through OSPFv3 are added to the inet6.3 routing table. The default behavior is for BGP only to use LSPs in its calculations. If you configure MPLS so that both BGP and IGPs use LSPs for forwarding traffic, IPv6 shortcut routes calculated through OSPFv3 are added to the inet6.0 routing table.

    Note:

    Whenever possible, use OSPF IGP shortcuts instead of traffic engineering shortcuts.

  • lsp-metric-info-summary—Advertises the LSP metric in summary LSAs to treat the LSP as a link. This configuration allows other routing devices in the network to use this LSP. To accomplish this, you need to configure MPLS and OSPF traffic engineering to advertise the LSP metric in summary LSAs.

When you enable traffic engineering on the routing device, you can also configure an OSPF metric that is used exclusively for traffic engineering. The traffic engineering metric is used for information injected into the traffic engineering database. Its value does not affect normal OSPF forwarding.

Example: Enabling OSPF Traffic Engineering Support

This example shows how to enable OSPF traffic engineering support to advertise the label-switched path (LSP) metric in summary link-state advertisements (LSAs).

Requirements

Before you begin:

Overview

You can configure OSPF to treat an LSP as a link and have other routing devices in the network use this LSP. To accomplish this, you configure MPLS and OSPF traffic engineering to advertise the LSP metric in summary LSAs.

In this example, there are four routing devices in area 0.0.0.0, and you want OSPF to treat the LSP named R1-to-R4 that goes from the ingress Device R1 to the egress Device R4 as a link.

For OSPF, you enable traffic engineering on all four routing devices in the area by including the traffic-engineering statement. This configuration ensures that the shortest-path-first (SPF) algorithm takes into account the LSPs configured under MPLS and configures OSPF to generate LSAs that carry traffic engineering parameters. You further ensure that OSPF uses the MPLS LSP as the next hop and advertises the LSP metric in summary LSAs, by including the optional shortcuts lsp-metric-into-summary statement on the ingress Device R1.

For MPLS, you enable traffic engineering so that MPLS performs traffic engineering on both BGP and IGP destinations by including the traffic-engineering bgp-igp statement, and you include the LSP named R1-to-R4 by including the label-switched-path lsp-path-name to address statement on the ingress Device R1. The address specified in the to statement on the ingress Device R1 must match the router ID of the egress Device R4 for the LSP to function as a direct link to the egress routing device and to be used as input to the OSPF SPF calculations. In this example, the router ID of the egress Device R4 is 10.0.0.4.

Configuration

The following example requires you to navigate various levels in the configuration hierarchy. For information about navigating the CLI, see Modifying the Junos OS Configuration in theCLI User Guide.

Procedure

CLI Quick Configuration

To quickly enable OSPF traffic engineering support to advertise the LSP metric in summary LSAs, copy the following commands and paste them into the CLI.

Configuration on R1:

Configuration on R2:

Configuration on R3:

Configuration on R4:

Step-by-Step Procedure

To enable OSPF traffic engineering support to advertise LSP metrics in summary LSAs:

  1. Configure the router ID.

  2. Configure the OSPF area and add the interfaces.

    Note:

    To specify OSPFv3, include the ospf3 statement at the [edit protocols] hierarchy level.

  3. Enable OSPF traffic engineering.

  4. On Device R1, configure MPLS traffic engineering.

  5. If you are done configuring the devices, commit the configuration.

Results

Confirm your configuration by entering the show routing-options, show protocols ospf, and show protocols mpls commands. If the output does not display the intended configuration, repeat the instructions in this example to correct the configuration.

Output for R1:

Output for R2:

Output for R3:

Output for R4:

To confirm your OSPFv3 configuration, enter the show routing-options, show protocols ospf3, and show protocols mpls commands.

Verification

Confirm that the configuration is working properly.

Verifying the Traffic Engineering Capability for OSPF

Purpose

Verify that traffic engineering has been enabled for OSPF. By default, traffic engineering is disabled.

Action

From operational mode, enter the show ospf overview command for OSPFv2, and enter the show ospf3 overview for OSPFv3.

Verifying OSPF Entries in the Traffic Engineering Database

Purpose

Verify the OSPF information in the traffic engineering database. The Protocol field displays OSPF and the area from which the information was learned.

Action

From operational mode, enter the show ted database command.

Verifying That the Traffic Engineering Database Is Learning Node Information from OSPF

Purpose

Verify that OSPF is reporting node information. The Protocol name field displays OSPF and the area from which the information was learned.

Action

From operational mode, enter the show ted protocol command.

Example: Configuring the Traffic Engineering Metric for a Specific OSPF Interface

This example shows how to configure the OSPF metric value used for traffic engineering.

Requirements

Before you begin:

Overview

You can configure an OSPF metric that is used exclusively for traffic engineering. To modify the default value of the traffic engineering metric, include the te-metric statement. The OSPF traffic engineering metric does not affect normal OSPF forwarding. By default, the traffic engineering metric is the same value as the OSPF metric. The range is 1 through 65,535.

In this example, you configure the OSPF traffic engineering metric on OSPF interface fe-0/1/1 in area 0.0.0.0.

Configuration

CLI Quick Configuration

To quickly configure the OSPF traffic engineering metric for a specific interface, copy the following commands, paste them into a text file, remove any line breaks, change any details necessary to match your network configuration, copy and paste the commands into the CLI at the [edit] hierarchy level, and then enter commit from configuration mode.

Procedure

Step-by-Step Procedure

To configure an OSPF traffic engineering metric for a specific interface used only for traffic engineering:

  1. Create an OSPF area.

    Note:

    To specify OSPFv3, include the ospf3 statement at the [edit protocols] hierarchy level.

  2. Configure the traffic engineering metric of the OSPF network segments.

  3. If you are done configuring the device, commit the configuration.

Results

Confirm your configuration by entering the show protocols ospf command. If the output does not display the intended configuration, repeat the instructions in this example to correct the configuration.

To confirm your OSPFv3 configuration, enter the show protocols ospf3 command.

Verification

Confirm that the configuration is working properly.

Verifying the Configured Traffic Engineering Metric

Purpose

Verify the traffic engineering metric value. Confirm that Metric field displays the configured traffic engineering metric.

Action

From operational mode, enter the show ted database extensive command.

OSPF Passive Traffic Engineering Mode

Ordinarily, interior routing protocols such as OSPF are not run on links between autonomous systems. However, for inter-AS traffic engineering to function properly, information about the inter-AS link—in particular, the address on the remote interface—must be made available inside the autonomous system (AS). This information is not normally included either in the external BGP (EBGP) reachability messages or in the OSPF routing advertisements.

To flood this link address information within the AS and make it available for traffic engineering calculations, you must configure OSPF passive mode for traffic engineering on each inter-AS interface. You must also supply the remote address for OSPF to distribute and include it in the traffic engineering database. OSPF traffic engineering mode allows MPLS label-switched paths (LSPs) to dynamically discover OSPF AS boundary routers and to allow routers to establish a traffic engineering LSP across multiple autonomous systems.

Example: Configuring OSPF Passive Traffic Engineering Mode

This example shows how to configure OSPF passive mode for traffic engineering on an inter-AS interface. The AS boundary router link between the EBGP peers must be a directly connected link and must be configured as a passive traffic engineering link.

Requirements

Before you begin:

Overview

You can configure OSPF passive mode for traffic engineering on an inter-AS interface. The address used for the remote node of the OSPF passive traffic engineering link must be the same as the address used for the EBGP link. In this example, you configure interface so-1/1/0 in area 0.0.0.1 as the inter-AS link to distribute traffic engineering information with OSPF within the AS and include the following settings:

  • passive—Advertises the direct interface addresses on an interface without actually running OSPF on that interface. A passive interface is one for which the address information is advertised as an internal route in OSPF, but on which the protocol does not run.

  • traffic-engineering—Configures an interface in OSPF passive traffic-engineering mode to enable dynamic discovery of OSPF AS boundary routers. By default, OSPF passive traffic-engineering mode is disabled.

  • remote-node-id—Specifies the IP address at the far end of the inter-AS link. In this example, the remote IP address is 192.168.207.2.

Configuration

To quickly configure OSPF passive mode for traffic engineering, copy the following command, remove any line breaks, and paste it into the CLI.

Procedure

Step-by-Step Procedure

To configure OSPF passive traffic engineering mode:

  1. Create an OSPF area.

    Note:

    To specify OSPFv3, include the ospf3 statement at the [edit protocols] hierarchy level.

  2. Configure interface so-1/1/0 as a passive interface configured for traffic engineering, and specify the IP address at the far end of the inter-AS link.

  3. If you are done configuring the device, commit the configuration.

Results

Confirm your configuration by entering the show protocols ospf command. If the output does not display the intended configuration, repeat the instructions in this example to correct the configuration.

To confirm your OSPFv3 configuration, enter the show protocols ospf3 command.

Verification

Confirm that the configuration is working properly.

Verifying the Status of OSPF Interfaces

Purpose

Verify the status of OSPF interfaces. If the interface is passive, the Adj count field is 0 because no adjacencies have been formed. Next to this field, you might also see the word Passive.

Action

From operational mode, enter the show ospf interface detail command for OSPFv2, and enter the show ospf3 interface detail command for OSPFv3.

Advertising Label-Switched Paths into OSPFv2

One main reason to configure label-switched paths (LSPs) in your network is to control the shortest path between two points on the network. You can advertise LSPs into OSPFv2 as point-to-point links so that all participating routing devices can take the LSP into account when performing SPF calculations. The advertisement contains a local address (the from address of the LSP), a remote address (the to address of the LSP), and a metric with the following precedence:

  1. Use the LSP metric defined under OSPFv2.

  2. Use the LSP metric configured for the label-switched path under MPLS.

  3. If you do not configure any of the above, use the default OSPFv2 metric of 1.

Note:

If you want an LSP that is announced into OSPFv2 to be used in SPF calculations, there must be a reverse link (that is, a link from the tail end of the LSP to the head end). You can accomplish this by configuring an LSP in the reverse direction and also announcing it in OSPFv2.

Example: Advertising Label-Switched Paths into OSPFv2

This example shows how to advertise LSPs into OSPFv2.

Requirements

Before you begin, configure the device interfaces. See the Junos OS Network Interfaces Library for Routing Devices.

Overview

To advertise an LSP into OSPFv2, you define the LSP and configure OSPFv2 to route traffic using the LSP. By doing this, you can use the LSP to control the shortest path between two points on the network. You might choose to do this if you want to have OSPF traffic routed along the LSP instead of having OSPF use the default best-effort routing.

In this example, you configure the following to advertise an LSP into OSPFv2:

  • BGP

    For all routing devices, configure the local AS number 65000 and define the IBGP group that recognizes the specified BGP systems as peers. All members are internal to the local AS, so you configure an internal group with a full list of peers. You also include the peer AS group, which is the same as the local AS number that you configure.

  • MPLS

    For all routing devices, configure the protocol family on each transit logical interface and enable MPLS on all interfaces, except for the management interface (fxp0.0). Specify the mpls protocol family type.

  • RSVP

    For all routing devices, enable RSVP on all interfaces, except for the management interface (fxp0.0). You enable RSVP on the devices in this network to ensure that the interfaces can signal the LSP.

  • OSPFv2

    For all routing devices, use the loopback address to assign the router ID, administratively group all of the devices into OSPF area 0.0.0.0, add all of the interfaces participating in OSPF to area 0.0.0.0, and disable OSPF on the management interface (fxp0.0).

  • Label-switched path

    On the ingress routing device R1, which is the beginning (or head end) of the LSP, configure an LSP with an explicit path. The explicit path indicates that the LSP must go to the next specified IP address in the path without traversing other nodes. In this example, you create an LSP named R1-to-R6, and you specify the IP address of the egress routing device R6.

  • Advertise the LSP in OSPFv2

    On the ingress routing device R1, you advertise the LSP as a point-to-point link into OSPFv2. You can optionally assign a metric to have the LSP be the more or less preferred path to the destination.

Topology

Figure 1 shows a sample network topology that consists of the following:

  • BGP is configured on all routing devices, with one local autonomous system (AS) 65000 that contains three routing devices:

    • R1—Device R1 is the ingress device with a router ID of 10.0.0.1. Interface so-0/0/2 connects to Device R3.

    • R3—Device R3 is the transit device with a router ID of 10.0.0.3. Interface so-0/0/2 connects to Device R1, and interface so-0/0/3 connects to Device R6.

    • R6—Device R6 is the egress device with a router ID of 10.0.0.6. Interface so-0/0/3 connects to Device R3.

  • OSPFv2 is configured on all routing devices.

  • MPLS and RSVP are enabled on all routing devices.

  • One RSVP-signaled LSP is configured on Device R1.

Figure 1: Advertising an LSP into OSPFv2Advertising an LSP into OSPFv2

Configuration

The following examples require you to navigate various levels in the configuration hierarchy. For information about navigating the CLI, see Modifying the Junos OS Configuration in CLI User Guide.

To configure the devices to advertise an LSP into OSPFv2, perform the following tasks:

Configuring BGP

CLI Quick Configuration

To quickly configure BGP on each routing device, copy the following commands and paste them into the CLI.

Configuration on Device R1:

Configuration on Device R3:

Configuration on Device R6:

Step-by-Step Procedure

To configure BGP:

  1. On each routing device, configure the local AS number.

  2. On each routing device, configure the internal BGP neighbor connections.

  3. If you are done configuring the devices, commit the configuration.

Results

Confirm your configuration by entering the show routing-options and show protocols bgp commands. If the output does not display the intended configuration, repeat the instructions in this example to correct the configuration.

Configuration on R1:

Configuration on R3:

Configuration on R6:

Configuring MPLS

CLI Quick Configuration

To quickly configure MPLS on all of the routing devices in AS 65000, copy the following commands and paste them into the CLI.

Configuration on Device R1:

Configuration on Device R3:

Configuration on Device R6:

Step-by-Step Procedure

To configure MPLS:

  1. Configure the transit interfaces for MPLS.

  2. Enable MPLS.

  3. Disable MPLS on the management interface (fxp0.0).

  4. If you are done configuring the devices, commit the configuration.

Results

Confirm your configuration by entering the show interfaces and show protocols mpls commands. If the output does not display the intended configuration, repeat the instructions in this example to correct the configuration.

Configuration on Device R1:

Configuration on Device R3:

Configuration on Device R6:

Configuring RSVP

CLI Quick Configuration

To quickly configure RSVP on all of the routing devices in AS 65000, copy the following commands and paste them into the CLI.

Configuration on Device R1:

Configuration on Device R3:

Configuration on Device R6:

Step-by-Step Procedure

To configure RSVP:

  1. Enable RSVP.

  2. Disable RSVP on the management interface (fxp0.0).

  3. If you are done configuring the devices, commit the configuration.

Results

Confirm your configuration by entering the show protocols rsvp command. If the output does not display the intended configuration, repeat the instructions in this example to correct the configuration.

Configuration on Device R1:

Configuration on Device R3:

Configuration on Device R6:

Configuring OSPF

CLI Quick Configuration

To quickly configure OSPF, copy the following commands and paste them into the CLI.

Configuration on Device R1:

Configuration on Device R3:

Configuration on Device R6:

Step-by-Step Procedure

To configure OSPF:

  1. Configure the router ID.

  2. Configure the OSPF area and the interfaces.

  3. Disable OSPF on the management interface (fxp0.0).

  4. If you are done configuring the devices, commit the configuration.

Results

Confirm your configuration by entering the show routing-options and the show protocols ospf commands. If the output does not display the intended configuration, repeat the instructions in this example to correct the configuration.

Configuration on Device R1:

Configuration on Device R3:

Configuration on Device R6:

Configuring the LSP

CLI Quick Configuration

To quickly configure the LSP on the ingress routing device Router R1, copy the following command and paste it into the CLI.

Step-by-Step Procedure

To configure the LSP on Device R1:

  1. Enter MPLS configuration mode.

  2. Create the LSP.

  3. If you are done configuring the device, commit the configuration.

Results

Confirm your configuration by entering the show protocols mpls command. If the output does not display the intended configuration, repeat the instructions in this example to correct the configuration.

Advertising the LSP into OSPFv2

CLI Quick Configuration

To quickly advertise the LSP into OSPFv2 and optionally include a metric for the LSP on Device R1, copy the following commands and paste them into the CLI.

Step-by-Step Procedure

To advertise the LSP into OSPFv2 on Router R1:

  1. Enter OSPF configuration mode.

  2. Include the label-switched-path statement, and specify the LSP R1-to-R6 that you created.

  3. (Optional) Specify a metric for the LSP.

  4. If you are done configuring the device, commit the configuration.

Results

Confirm your configuration by entering the show protocols ospf command. If the output does not display the intended configuration, repeat the instructions in this example to correct the configuration.

Verification

Confirm that the configuration is working properly.

Verifying the OSPF Neighbor

Purpose

Verify that another neighbor is listed and is reachable over the LSP. The interface field indicates the name of the LSP.

Action

From operational mode, enter the show ospf neighbor command.

Static Adjacency Segment Identifier for OSPF

Adjacency segment is a strict forwarded single-hop tunnel that carries packets over a specific link between two nodes, irrespective of the link cost. You can configure static adjacency segment identifier (SID) labels for an interface.

Configuring a static adjacency SID on an interface causes the existing dynamically allocated adjacency SID to be removed along with the transit route for the same.

For static adjacency SIDs, the labels are picked from either a static reserved label pool or from an OSPF segment routing global block (SRGB).

You can reserve a label range to be used for static allocation of labels using the following configuration:

user@host# set protocols mpls label-range static-label-range start-value end-value

The static pool can be used by any protocol to allocate a label in this range. You need to ensure that no two protocols use the same static label. OSPF adjacency SIDs can be allocated from this label block through the configuration using keyword label. The label value for the specific adjacency SIDs need to be explicitly configured. The following is a sample configuration:

Note:

When you use ipv4-adjacency-segment command, the underlying interface must be point-to-point.

SRGB is a global label space that is allocated for the protocol based on configuration. The labels in the entire SRGB is available for OSPF to use and are not allocated to other applications/protocols. Prefix SIDs (and Node SIDs) are indexed from this SRGB.

OSPF Adj-SIDs can be allocated from OSPF SRGB using keyword ‘index’ in the configuration. In such cases, it should be ensured that the Adj-SID index does not conflict with any other prefix SID in the domain. Like Prefix-SIDs, Adj-SIDs will also be configured by mentioning the index with respect to the SRGB. However, the Adj-SID subtlv will still have the SID as a value and the L and V flags are set. The following is a sample configuration:

Static adjacency SIDs can be configured per area and also based on whether the protection is required or not. Adjacency SIDs should be configured per interface at the [edit protocols ospf area area interface interface-name] hierarchy level.

  • Protected—Ensures adjacency SID is eligible to have a backup path and a B-flag is set in an adjacency SID advertisement.

  • Unprotected—Ensures no backup path is calculated for a specific adjacency SID and a B-flag is not set in an adjacency SID advertisement.

The following is a sample configuration:

When segment routing is used in LAN subnetworks, each router in the LAN may advertise the adjacency SID of each of its neighbors. To configure adjacency SID for a LAN interface to a specific neighbor, you should configure the adjacency SIDs under the lan-neighbor configuration at the [edit protocols ospf area 0.0.0.0 interface interface_name lan-neighbor neighbor-routerid] hierarchy level. The following is a sample configuration:

Use the following CLI hierarchy for configuring adjacency SID:

Use the following operational CLI commands to verify the configuration:

show ospf neighbor detail

The following sample output displays the details of configured and dynamic adjacency SID.

Understanding Source Packet Routing in Networking (SPRING)

Source packet routing or segment routing is a control-plane architecture that enables an ingress router to steer a packet through a specific set of nodes and links in the network without relying on the intermediate nodes in the network to determine the actual path it should take. In this context, the term ’source’ means ’the point at which the explicit route is imposed’. Starting with Junos OS Release 17.2R1, segment routing for IS-IS and OSPFv2 is supported on QFX5100 and QFX10000 switches.

Starting in Junos OS Release 20.3R1, Segment routing support for OSPF and IS-IS protocols to provide basic functionality with Source Packet Routing in Networking (SPRING).

Essentially segment routing engages IGPs like IS-IS and OSPF for advertising two types of network segments or tunnels:

  • First, a strict forwarded single-hop tunnel that carries packets over a specific link between two nodes, irrespective of the link cost, referred to as adjacency segments.

  • Second, a multihop tunnel using shortest path links between two specific nodes, referred to as node segments.

Ingress routers can steer a packet through a desired set of nodes and links by pre-appending the packet with an appropriate combination of tunnels.

Segment routing leverages the source routing paradigm. A node steers a packet through an ordered list of instructions, called segments. A segment can represent any instruction, topological or service-based. A segment can have a local semantic to a segment routing node or to a global node within a segment routing domain. Segment routing enforces a flow through any topological path and service chain while maintaining per-flow state only at the ingress node to the segment routing domain. Segment routing can be directly applied to the MPLS architecture with no change on the forwarding plane. A segment is encoded as an MPLS label. An ordered list of segments is encoded as a stack of labels. The segment to process is on the top of the stack. Upon completion of a segment, the related label is popped from the stack. Segment routing can be applied to the IPv6 architecture, with a new type of routing extension header. A segment is encoded as an IPv6 address. An ordered list of segments is encoded as an ordered list of IPv6 addresses in the routing extension header. The segment to process is indicated by a pointer in the routing extension header. Upon completion of a segment, the pointer is incremented.

Traffic engineering shortcuts are enabled for labeled IS-IS segment routes, when you configure shortcuts at the following hierarchy levels:

  • [edit protocols is-is traffic-engineering family inet] for IPv4 traffic.

  • [edit protocols is-is traffic-engineering family inet6] for IPv6 traffic.

When source packet routing is deployed in the network, the data center, backbone, and peering devices, switch MPLS packets with a label stack built by the source of the traffic; for example, data center servers. In Junos OS Release 17.4R1, the source-routed traffic co-exists with traffic taking RSVP signaled paths, and source routing is implemented as regular label switching through mpls.0 table using the label operations – pop, swap (to the same label value), and swap-push (for interface protection). In all the cases, traffic can be load balanced between multiple Layer 3 interfaces, or within an aggregate interface. Starting in Junos OS Release 17.4R1, the traffic statistics in a segment routing network can be recorded in an OpenConfig compliant format for the Layer 3 interfaces. The statistics is recorded for the Source Packet Routing in Networking (SPRING) traffic only, excluding RSVP and LDP-signaled traffic, and the family MPLS statistics per interface is accounted for separately. The SR statistics also includes SPRING traffic statistics per link aggregation group (LAG) member, and per segment identifier (SID). To enable recording of segment routing statistics, include sensor-based-stats statement at the [edit protocol isis source-packet-routing] hierarchy level.

Prior to Junos OS Release 19.1R1, sensors were available for collecting segment routing statistics for MPLS transit traffic only, which is MPLS-to-MPLS in nature. Starting in Junos OS Release 19.1R1, on MX Series routers with MPC and MIC interfaces and PTX Series routers, additional sensors are introduced to collect segment routing statistics for MPLS ingress traffic, which is IP-to-MPLS in nature. With this feature, you can enable sensors for label IS-IS segment routing traffic only, and stream the statistics to a gRPC client.

You can enable the segment routing statistics for MPLS ingress traffic using the egress option under the per-sid configuration statement. The resource name for the per-sid egress functionality is:

/junos/services/segment-routing/sid/egress/usage/

You can view the label IS-IS route association with the sensors using the show isis spring sensor info command output. This command does not display counter values of the actual sensors.

The segment routing statistics records are exported to a server. You can view segment routing statistics data from the following the OpenConfig paths:

  • /mpls/signalling-protocols/segment-routing/aggregate-sid-counters/aggregate-sid-counter[ip-addr='L-ISIS-10.1.1.1']/state/counters[name='oc-xxx']/out-pkts

  • /mpls/signalling-protocols/segment-routing/aggregate-sid-counters/aggregate-sid-counter[ip-addr='L-ISIS-10.1.1.1']/state/counters[name='oc-xxx']/out-pkts

Note:
  • Graceful Routing Engine switchover (GRES) is not supported for segment routing statistics.

    Nonstop active routing (NSR) is not supported for label IS-IS. During a Routing Engine switchover, a new sensor is created in the new primary Routing Engine, replacing the sensor created by the previous primary Routing Engine. As a result, at the time of a Routing Engine switchover, the segment routing statistics counter start from zero.

  • Graceful restart is not support for label IS-IS.

    In case of graceful restart, the existing sensor is deleted and a new sensor is created during IS-IS initialization. The segment routing statistics counter restarts from zero.

  • In-service software upgrade (ISSU) and nonstop software upgrade (NSSU) are not supported. In such cases, the segment routing statistics counter is restarted.

  • Zero-statistics segment routing data is suppresses and does not get streamed to the gRPC clients.

Release History Table
Release
Description
20.3R1
Starting in Junos OS Release 20.3R1, Segment routing support for OSPF and IS-IS protocols to provide basic functionality with Source Packet Routing in Networking (SPRING).
19.1R1
Starting in Junos OS Release 19.1R1, on MX Series routers with MPC and MIC interfaces and PTX Series routers, additional sensors are introduced to collect segment routing statistics for MPLS ingress traffic, which is IP-to-MPLS in nature. With this feature, you can enable sensors for label IS-IS segment routing traffic only, and stream the statistics to a gRPC client.
17.4R1
Starting in Junos OS Release 17.4R1, the traffic statistics in a segment routing network can be recorded in an OpenConfig compliant format for the Layer 3 interfaces.