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Instability free routing: beyond one protocol instance

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Geoffrey G. Xie,

Hui ZhangAuthors Info & Claims

CoNEXT '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference

Article No.: 9, Pages 1 - 12

https://doi.org/10.1145/1544012.1544021

Published: 09 December 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Today, a large body of research exists regarding the correctness of routing protocols. However, many reported global disruptions of Internet connectivity, e.g., inter-AS persistent loops, cannot be explained by looking at a single routing protocol at a time. In fact, these anomalies have long been suspected in the operator community to be caused by the interactions between routing protocols. The interactions between protocol instances are governed by two procedures at the border routers: route selection (RS) ranks routes from different protocol instances; and route redistribution (RR) exchanges routes between protocol instances. Prior studies hypothesized that RR may be responsible for a portion of the observed anomalies. In this paper, we provide analytical and experimental results to link RS, RR, and their interplay to anomalies discovered in operational networks. We show that RS by itself can cause route oscillations and loops, and that in all Cisco, Quagga, and XORP implementations, non-deterministic behaviors may occur because of their incorrect modeling of the dependencies between RS and RR. We identify the root cause for each of the instabilities and derive a configuration guideline as well as a functional model to eliminate them.

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CoNEXT '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference

December 2008

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DOI:10.1145/1544012

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