Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) is a modern approach to traffic engineering and network programmability. It encodes instructions, called segments, directly into the IPv6 packet header. While SRv6 offers flexibility and simplifies network design, its reliance on 128-bit addresses for every segment introduces significant overhead. This can be inefficient in large-scale deployments, particularly in 5G …
An SR Policy is used to instantiate an ordered list of segments. If your path definition includes several segments, it can be encoded as a list of segment IDs. This SID List will be represented by an SR Policy. With SR Policy, there will not be state information on transit nodes because all path information …
Segment Routing (SR) is a kind of source routing technology which means that the source can define the path that the packet will take. In source routing with SR, the hosts determine the path, encodes the path information to the packet header. Segment Routing divides a network into several segments and assign a segment ID …
Segment Routing Flexible Algorithm (Flex-Algo) will provide easy way of calculating different paths with different type of constraints. It will allow us to define our own algorithm. This new algorithm can still be minimizing IGP metric but it can also be minimizing TE metric, minimizing delay metric (new metric definition added to IGP), avoiding some links or …
An SR Policy is used to instantiate an ordered list of segments. SR policy is identified with tuple; Head-end, color and End-point. The Head-end is the node where the policy is implemented. It may be an IPv4 or IPv6 address. The End-point indicates the destination of the policy. The endpoint is specified as an IPv4 …
In the IGP based IP networks we have one simple algorithm and it calculates the shortest path to the destination according to planned IGP metric.IGP metric is the only constraint we can assign to the links. We have more with MPLS TE implementations like TE Metric, link admin group, bw etc. The problem with TE, …
TI-LFA also takes into account is SRLG exist in the network. Shared Risk Link Group (SRLG) is a set of links at the same risk of faults. If a link in an SRLG fails, other links also fail. In this case, if the other link in the SRLG functions as FRR backup to protect the failed …
IGP provides mechanisms through which Segment Routing interoperate with LDP. The control plane of segment routing can co-exists with LDP. If you plan to migrate from LDP to Segment Routing, or if you have some routers which does not support Segment Routing but you still want to use Segment Routing, Interoperability of SR and LDP will …