bmp test results

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BMP(BGP Monitoring Protocol) Testing by JANOGers

BMP Test Results

16 Sep 2014


Joint Test Members and their Motivation

BIGLOBE An ISP in Japan which has about 3 million subscribers.

We have several POPs in JP, HK, SG and the US, and we connect with 150+

ASs globally.

Primary goal is to be able to detect BGP trouble and investigate quickly.

GREE One of the biggest social game providers in the mobile phone market.

They hope more oriented towards routing optimization to enhance the user

experience. e.g. Troubleshoot convergence time and latency.

Cisco The biggest network device vendor.

They want to know the operators needs and get feedback for

future development.

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Current BMP implementation(Router)

Juniper

JUNOS 9.5 and later BMP version1 http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos13.2/topics/topic-map/bgp-monitor

ing-protocol.html

JUNOS 13.3 and later BMP version3 http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos13.3/topics/task/configuration/bgp-monitoring-protocol-v3.html

Cisco IOS-XE 3.11S and later BMP version3

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_bgp/configuration/x

e-3s/irg-xe-3s-book/bgp-monitor-protocol.html

IOS 15.4(2)T and later BMP version3 http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/iproute_bgp/configuration/15-mt/irg-15-mt-book/bgp-monitor-protocol.html

IOS-XR will supports 5.2.2 (Mid of 2014)

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http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos13.3/topics/task/configuration/bgp-monitoring-protocol-v3.html









Current BMP implementation(Software)

BMP Receiver https://code.google.com/p/bmpreceiver/source/list

Developed by a Google engineer involved in writing the Internet draft for BMP.

Supported BMP version 1 only.

We requested info on updates for version 3, but apparently, it crashes after

receiving static reports.

Forhadahmed/bmp https://github.com/forhadahmed/bmp

Developed by a former Cisco engineer

Did not work properly in current state

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Existing open source software did not support BMP version3.

Luckily, Cisco was able to provide us with internal tool for testing.

https://code.google.com/p/bmpreceiver/source/list



https://github.com/forhadahmed/bmp




Test network topology

BMP Server (Cisco Internal tool)

ASR1000 (IOS XE 3.11S)

ASR9000 MX960 (JUNOS13.3R1.8)

Route Reflector


the Internet

EBGP

AS64705 AS64600

AS2518

IBGP

IBGP

IBGP Full

Route

IBGP

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Testing…

Test Period ：

16th to 27th of July 2014

Testing Place：

Cisco Tokyo Office

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So nice ice cream


BMP Server

MX960 (JUNOS13.3R1.8)

Adj-RIB-In Loc-RIB-In

Test result： Inbound filtering

Number of routes in Adj-RIBs-In: 80

Number of routes in Loc-RIB: 5

Route

Reflector

AS109

AS7521

AS55349

Inbound

Policy BGP

UPDATE AS109

AS7521

AS55349

AS7521

AS55349

deny AS109$

EBGP

Number of route

80 Number of Route

80 Number of Route

5

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BMP Server

MX960 (JUNOS13.3R1.8)

Adj-RIB-In Loc-RIB-In

Test result ： Inbound filtering

Number of routes in Adj-RIBs-In: 80

Number of routes in Loc-RIB: 5

Route

Reflector

AS109

AS7521

AS55349

Inbound

Policy BGP

UPDATE AS109

AS7521

AS55349

AS7521

AS55349

deny AS109$

EBGP

Number of route

80 Number of Route

80 Number of Route

5

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In this situation, the MX960 is receiving 80 routes

from the remote router and denying routes

by inbound filtering.

According to the BMP server log, we could find

differences in the number of routes between

Adj-RIBs-in and Local-RIB.


Test result: downed BGP session by remote router


MX960 (JUNOS13.3R1.8)

clear bgp

BMP Server

BMP msg count: Route-monitor=2 Stat-report=115 Peer-down=1 Peer-up=2

4byte-ASN

Last Peer-down: Thu Jun 26 14:03:20 2014

Remote system closed the session

NOTIFY received: cease/admin reset

EBGP

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Test result: downed BGP session by remote router


MX960 (JUNOS13.3R1.8)

clear ip bgp

BMP Server


4byte-ASN


Remote system closed the session

NOTIFY received: cease/admin reset

EBGP

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The remote router ran the “clear bgp” command,

and we saw these behaviors.

We could find the peer-down message along with

the message of the down reason.


Test result ：downed BGP session by local router



IBGP Interface

shutdown

BMP Server



Local system closed the session

NOTIFY sent: hold timer expired

ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

00 15 03 04 00

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Test result ：downed BGP session by local router



IBGP Interface

shutdown

BMP Server




NOTIFY sent: hold timer expired


00 15 03 04 00

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The local router ran the "Interface shutdown"

command, and we saw these behaviors.

We could find that the local system closed the

session by hold timer.


Test result： max prefix down on MX960

MX960 (JUNOS13.3R1.8)

max prefix: 50 BGP

UPDATE

iBGP

max prefix

down

BMP Server




NOTIFY sent: cease/max prefixes reached


00 1c 03 06 01 00 01 01 00 00 00 32

Route

Reflector Number of routes：

80

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Test result： max prefix down on MX960

MX960 (JUNOS13.3R1.8)

max prefix: 50 BGP

UPDATE

iBGP

max prefix

down

BMP Server




NOTIFY sent: cease/max prefixes reached


00 1c 03 06 01 00 01 01 00 00 00 32

Route

Reflector Number of routes：

80

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Here, the MX960 received 80 routes from remote

router. But MX max prefix is 50, so the BGP

session was shut.

We could find downed status and the reason

caused.



max prefix: 50 BGP

UPDATE

EBGP

MX960 (JUNOS13.3R1.8)

Number of routes：80

max prefix

down

BMP Server


4byte-ASN



FSM event code: 0

No NOTIFY sent

ASR 1000 IOS-XE 3.11S does not

support RFC4486 (BGP cease notification Messages)

sub-code1 （Maximum Number of Prefixes Reached）

*It supported from IOS-XR3.13 http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-

xml/ios/iproute_bgp/configuration/xe-3s/irg-xe-3s-book/irg-max-

prefix.html

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Test result： max prefix down on ASR1000

} ???



max prefix: 50 BGP

UPDATE

EBGP

MX960 (JUNOS13.3R1.8)

Number of routes：80

max prefix

down

BMP Server


4byte-ASN



FSM event code: 0

No NOTIFY sent

ASR 1000 does not support

RFC4486 (BGP cease notification Messages)

sub-code1 （Maximum Number of Prefixes

Reached）

*It will support from 3.13

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Test result： max prefix down on ASR1000

} ???

This situation is completely the same as previous

scenario. But the BMP server log reason was

unclear.

In our survey, this case was caused by no support

of RFC4486 (BGP cease notification messages) on IOS-XE

3.11S.

Cisco said that ASR1000 supported from IOS-XE3.13.

If you want to use BMP function, you should pay

attention for supported status of RFC4486, not only

BMP.


The test result summary

We were able to successfully implement BMP

and see how we could benefit from its use.

It allows operators to obtain valuable information that

previously required debug commands and router login.

Most Japanese ISPs forbid the use of debug command,

because of the high CPU usage.

It helps us troubleshoot complex outages.

The data gathered is based on RFC-defined standards,

so the output is consistent among various vendors.

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The test result summary

Current Implementation of BMP

Supported Routers

In recent implementations, Juniper and Cisco routers

support BMP version3.

We are hoping more vendors will support BMP

Available Software

It lacked a server-side software that was compatible with

BMP version 3.

We need Superman

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Last on the Agenda

What is BMP(BGP Monitoring Protocol)?

BIGLOBE/GREE/CISCO BMP test result summary

After JANOG34…

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JANOG34 in Takamatsu

Day July 16-18 2014

Host STNet, Incorporated

Attendee Tutorial and BoF: 93(remote 118)

Meeting 547

We presented these BMP test . Some operators take interest in it

to troubleshoot without debug command.

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Takamatsu


Opinion to IETF

We will report to IETF IDR(Inter-Domain routing)

and GROW working group about the gap between

operators expectations and vendor implementation

Timestamp

Timestamp is not mandatory requirement but operator's

expectation is pretty high.

Security

Draft is not explicitly request security for BMP it's self.

We thought this would be implementation's issue between

server-side software and router and multi vendors.

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Implementation update

After JANOG34, some software engineers have been

working on developing BMP servers.

NTT R&D Wataru Ishida published BMPv3 software

Ryu BMP Sever

https://github.com/osrg/ryu

http://osrg.github.io/bmp/

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Future Plans

BMP

Further testing for installation of our network.

Developing an automation tool triggered by BMP

messages for our daily operation.

Find other new useful technologies

We want to find and test new technologies with JANOG

operators.

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