Feature List
November 2, 2020 ยท View on GitHub
Supported version
RIFT draft version: draft-ietf-rift-rift-12
Thrift data model version: 4.1
Adjacencies
| Feature | Supported |
|---|---|
| Link Information Element (LIE) Packet | Yes |
| Link Information Element (LIE) Finite State Machine (FSM) | Yes |
| Adjacencies using IPv4 Link and Multicast Addresses | Yes |
| Adjacencies using IPv6 Link and Multicast Addresses | Yes |
Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
| Feature | Supported |
|---|---|
| Automatic SystemID Selection | Yes |
| Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) Finite State Machine (FSM) | Yes |
| Automatic Level Determination Procedure | Yes |
Flooding
| Feature | Supported | GitHub Issue |
|---|---|---|
| Receive all types of TIE packets | Yes | |
| Store received TIE packets in TIE-DB | Yes | |
| Age TIE packets in TIE-DB and remove when they expire | Yes | |
| Add neighbor's newer TIEs to request queue | Yes | |
| Add neighbor's older TIEs to send queue | Yes | |
| Add neighbor's same TIEs to acknowledge queue | Yes | |
| Re-transmit TIEs if they are not acknowledged | Yes | |
| Periodically serve all queues (TX, RTX, REQ, ACK) | Yes | |
| Propagate TIE packets without decoding and re-encoding | Yes | |
| Send / Process Node TIE packets | Yes | |
| Send / Process North Prefix TIE packets (configured prefixes) | Yes | |
| Send / Process South Prefix TIE packets (default prefixes) | Yes | |
| Send / Process Positive Disaggregation TIE packets | Yes | |
| Send / Process Negative Disaggregation TIE packets | Yes | |
| Send / Process Policy Guided Prefix TIE packets | No | 32 |
| Send / Process Key Value TIE packets | No | 33 |
| Process received TIDE packets | Yes | |
| Request missing TIEs based on received TIDE packets | Yes | |
| Send newer TIEs based on received TIDE packets | Yes | |
| Detect extra TIEs based on gaps inside received TIDE packets | Yes | |
| Detect extra TIEs based on gaps between received TIDE packets | Yes | |
| Acknowledge same TIEs based on received TIDE packets | Yes | |
| Periodically originate TIDE packets | Yes | |
| Process received TIRE packets | Yes | |
| Start sending TIES requested in received TIRE packet | Yes | |
| Stop sending TIES acknowledged in received TIRE packet | Yes | |
| Apply flooding scope rules when sending TIE packets | Yes | |
| Apply flooding scope rules when sending TIDE packets | Yes | |
| Apply flooding scope rules when sending TIRE packets | Yes | |
| Southbound Default Route Origination | Yes | |
| Northbound TIE Flooding Reduction | Yes | |
| Applying Policy | No | 32 |
| Store Policy-Guided Prefix for Route Computation and Regeneration | No | 32 |
| Re-origination | Yes | |
| Flood IPv4 Prefixes | Yes | |
| Flood IPv6 Prefixes | Yes |
Route Calculation
| Feature | Supported | GitHub Issue |
|---|---|---|
| Reachability Computation | Yes | |
| Northbound SPF | Yes | |
| Southbound SPF | Yes | |
| Leaf-to-leaf shortcuts | No | 40 |
| Equal-Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) | Yes | |
| Fabric bandwidth balancing / Non-Equal-Cost Multi-Path (NECMP) | Yes | |
| Use non-best paths (Eppstein k-shortest) | No | 41 |
| Route Calculation for Positive Disaggregation | Yes | |
| Route Calculation for Negative Disaggregation | Yes | |
| Routing Information Base (RIB) | Yes | |
| Forwarding Information Base (FIB) abstraction | Yes | |
| Store FIB routes into kernel route table (on Linux only) | Yes |
Additional Features
| Feature | Supported | GitHub Issue |
|---|---|---|
| Attaching Prefixes | Yes | |
| Attaching Policy-Guided Prefixes | No | 32 |
| Positive Disaggregation on Link & Node Failures | Yes | |
| Negative Disaggregation on Link & Node Failures | Yes | |
| Overload Bit | No | 42 |
| Optimized Route Computation on Leafs | No | 43 |
| Mobility | No | 44 |
| Anycast | No | 45 |
| Overlays and Signaling | Yes | |
| Key/Value Store | No | 33 |
| Interactions with BFD | No | 46 |
| Fabric Bandwidth Balancing | No | 38 |
| Label Binding | No | 47 |
| Segment Routing Support with RIFT | No | 48 |
| Leaf to Leaf Procedures | No | 40 |
| Address Family and Multi Topology Considerations | Yes | |
| Reachability of Internal Nodes in the Fabric | Yes | |
| One-Hop Healing of Levels with East-West Links | No | 40 |
| Considerations for Leaf-Only Implementation | Yes | |
| Adaptations to Other Proposed Data Center Topologies | Yes | |
| Originating Non-Default Route Southbound | No | 49 |
| Multicast Routing | No | 39 |
Management
| Feature | Supported | GitHub Issue |
|---|---|---|
| Telnet client | Yes | |
| SSH client | No | 31 |
| Command Line Interface (CLI) | Yes | |
| CLI Command History | Yes | |
| CLI Tab Completion | No | 50 |
| CLI Context-Sensitive Help | Partial | 51 |
| Logging | Yes | |
| YANG support | No | 52 |
| Startup Configuration File | Yes | |
| Run-time Configuration Changes | Partial | 53 |
| Multi-Node Topologies | Yes |
Infrastructure
Finite State Machine
| Feature | Supported |
|---|---|
| Formal Finite State Machine (FSM) framework | Yes |
| Generate FSM documentation from code | Yes |
| Report history of transitions | Yes |
| Visualize history of FSM transitions | Yes |
| Distinguish boring (verbose) vs interesting (non-verbose) transactions | Yes |
Continuous Integration (CI)
| Feature | Supported |
|---|---|
| Travis Continuous Integration | Yes |
| Codecov code coverage measuring and reporting | Yes |
| Automated Pylint | Yes |
| Automated Pytest Unit Tests | Yes |
| Automated System Tests | Yes |
| Automated Interoperability Tests | Yes, with Juniper RIFT |
| Automated Chaos Tests | Yes |