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BGP PIC HLD #1493

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1. In the 'zebra' component:
- Introduce a new Next Hop Group (PIC-NHG) specifically for the FORWARDING function. This NHG will serve as the shareable NHG in hardware.
- When a BGP next hop becomes unavailable, zebra will first update the new FORWARDING-ONLY NHG before BGP convergence takes place.
- If changes occur in the IGP NHG and these changes do not affect the reachability of individual members within the BGP NHG, there is no need to update the BGP NHG.
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I think you should specify what you mean by "these changes do not affect the reachability ...".
I have 2 use cases in mind:

  • UCMP - weighted extended community",
  • route-map configured that look for the IGP metric, will be ignored.

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Let me update the wording. I mean the case BGP NH reachability would not be changed when IGP NHG updates. zebra needs to check BGP NH's reachability and skip BGP NHG update if all members's reachability is not changed.

Currently, the update is reported back to BGP and trigger BGP update even BGP NH's reachability is unchanged.

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thanks Eddie

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Some questions (to clarify)
more will come before next Tuesday (for frr meeting).
thanks.

Can you clarify the use case: is it for ebgp single hop and multi hop ?

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we use eBGP for underlay peering and MP-BGP for overlay peering with remote PE.

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Suggested by FRR folks, I raised FRRouting/frr#14703 for tracking the discussions in FRR community.

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This PR contains two HLD now

  1. PIC core, a.ka. recursive route handling HLD
  2. PIC edge

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@eddieruan-alibaba can you please add the code PRs to this HLD PR? Thanks.

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