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Tue Feb 21 17:26:12 2012 UTC (12 years, 4 months ago) by misho
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    2: Changes 2002.12.20
    3: 
    4: 1. Bug fixes
    5: 
    6:   1.1 When an opaque LSA is being removed from (or added to) the LSDB,
    7:       it does not mean a change in network topology. Therefore, SPF
    8:       recalculation should not be triggered in that case.
    9:       There was an assertion failure problem "assert (rn && rn->info)"
   10:       inside the function "ospf_ase_incremental_update()", because
   11:       the upper function "ospf_lsa_maxage_walker_remover()" called it
   12:       when a type-11 opaque LSA is removed due to MaxAge.
   13: 
   14:   1.2 Type-9 LSA is defined to have "link-local" flooding scope.
   15:       In the Database exchange procedure with a new neighbor, a type-9
   16:       LSA was added in the database summary of a DD message, even if
   17:       the link is different from the one that have bound to.
   18: 
   19: 2. Feature enhancements
   20: 
   21:   2.1 Though a "wildcard" concept to handle type-9/10/11 LSAs altogether
   22:       has introduced about a year ago, it was only a symbol definition
   23:       and actual handling mechanism was not implemented. Now it works.
   24: 
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   26: Changes 2002.7.8
   27: 
   28: 1. Bug fixes
   29: 
   30:   1.1 When "ospf_delete_opaque_functab()" is called, internal structure
   31:       "oipt" remain unfreed. If register/delete functab is repeated,
   32:       illegal memory access happens due to this "oipt".
   33: 
   34:   1.2 In "free_opaque_info_per_id()", there was a crucial typo which
   35:       ignores a condition test.
   36: 
   37:       "if (oipi->lsa != NULL);" <-- semicolon!
   38: 
   39: 2. Feature enhancements
   40: 
   41:   None.
   42: 
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   44: Changes 2001.12.03
   45: 
   46: 1. Bug fixes
   47: 
   48:   1.1 Though a new member "oi" has added to "struct ospf_lsa" to control
   49:       flooding scope of type-9 Opaque-LSAs, the value was always NULL
   50:       because no one set it.
   51: 
   52:   1.2 In the function "show_ip_ospf_database_summary()" and "show_lsa_
   53:       detail_adv_router()", VTY output for type-11 Opaque-LSAs did not
   54:       work properly.
   55: 
   56:   1.3 URL for the opaque-type assignment reference has changed.
   57: 
   58:   1.4 In the file "ospf_mpls_te.c", printf formats have changed to
   59:       avoid compiler warning messages; "%lu" -> "%u", "%lx" -> "%x".
   60:       Note that this hack depends on OS, compiler and their versions. 
   61: 
   62:   1.5 One of attached documentation "opaque_lsa.txt" has changed to
   63:       reflect the latest coding.
   64: 
   65: 2. Feature enhancements
   66: 
   67:   2.1 Knowing that it is an ugly hack, an "officially unallocated"
   68:       opaque-type value 0 has newly introduced as a "wildcard",
   69:       which matches to all opaque-type.
   70:       This value must not be flooded to the network, of course.
   71: 
   72:   2.2 The Opaque-core module makes use of newly introduced hooks to
   73:       dispatch every LSDB change (LSA installation and deletion) to
   74:       preregistered opaque users.
   75:       Therefore, by providing appropriate callback functions as new
   76:       parameters of "ospf_register_opaque_functab()", an opaque user
   77:       can refer to every LSA instance to be installed into, or to be
   78:       deleted from, the LSDB.
   79: 
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   81: Changes 2001.10.31
   82: 
   83: 1. Bug fixes
   84: 
   85:   1.1 Since each LSA has their own lifetime, they will remain in a
   86:       routing domain (being stored in LSDB of each router), until their
   87:       age naturally reach to MaxAge or explicitly being flushed by the
   88:       originated router. Therefore, if a router restarted with a short
   89:       downtime, it is possible that previously flooded self-originated
   90:       LSAs might received if the NSM status is not less than Exchange.
   91: 
   92:       There were some problems in the way of handling self-originated
   93:       Opaque-LSAs if they are contained in a received LSUpd message,
   94:       but not installed to the local LSDB yet.
   95:       Regardless of some conditions to start originating Opaque-LSAs
   96:       (there should be at least one opaque-capable full-state neighbor),
   97:       the function "ospf_flood()" will be called to flood and install
   98:       this brand-new looking LSA.
   99:       As the result, when the NSM of an opaque-capable neighbor gets
  100:       full, internal state inconsistency happens; a user of Opaque-LSA
  101:       such as MPLS-TE can refer to self-originated LSAs in the local
  102:       LSDB, but cannot modify their contents...
  103: 
  104:       Above problems have fixed with a policy "flush it from the whole
  105:       routing domain and keep silent until the flushing completed".
  106:       By using this sweeping technique, we can be free from confusion
  107:       caused by self-originated LSAs received via network. 
  108: 
  109:   1.2 The function "ospf_opaque_type_name()" contained massive ifdefs
  110:       corresponding to each "opaque-type".
  111:       These unnecessary ifdefs are removed completely.
  112: 
  113:   1.3 In the function "ospf_delete_opaque_functab()", there was an
  114:       improper loop control that causes illegal memory access.
  115:       Original coding was "next = nextnode (node)".
  116: 
  117:   1.4 The function "ospf_mpls_te_ism_change()" could not handle the
  118:       case when the ISM changes from Waiting to DR/BDR/Other.
  119:       So, there was a case that even if one of an ISM become
  120:       operational and MPLS-TE module has started, the corresponding
  121:       Opaque-LSA cannot be originated.
  122: 
  123:   1.5 The function "ospf_opaque_lsa_reoriginate_schedule()" did not
  124:       allow to be called multiple times, simply because handling
  125:       module for the given "lsa-type & opaque-type" already exists.
  126:       But this assumption seems to be wrong.
  127:       Change the policy to allow this function to be called multiple
  128:       times and let the caller to decide what should do when the
  129:       corresponding callback function "(* functab->lsa_originator)()"
  130:       is called.
  131: 
  132: 2. Feature enhancements
  133: 
  134:   2.1 The global bitmap "opaque" has introduced instead of former flag
  135:       "OpaqueCapable", to store complex conditions to handle Opaque-LSAs.
  136: 
  137:   2.2 The MPLS-TE module now referes to "draft-katz-yeung-ospf-traffic
  138:       -06.txt", no significant changes with 05 version, though.
  139: 
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  141: Changes 2001.08.03
  142: 
  143: 1. Bug fixes
  144: 
  145:   1.1 Even if the ospfd started with opaque capability enabled, when
  146:       the ospfd receives an unknown opaque-type (unregistered by the
  147:       function "ospf_register_opaque_functab()" beforehand), the LSA
  148:       was discarded. As the result, only the opaque-LSAs that have
  149:       commonly registered by opaque-capable ospf routers can be
  150:       flooded in a routing domain.
  151: 
  152:       This behavior has fixed so that arbitrary opaque-type LSAs can
  153:       be flooded among opaque-capable ospf routers.
  154:       If the ospfd has opaque-LSA capability but disabled at runtime,
  155:       received opaque-LSAs can be accepted and registered to LSDB as
  156:       is, but not be flooded to the network; those opaque LSAs will
  157:       remain in LSDB until explicitly flushed by incoming LSUpd
  158:       messages with MaxAge, or their age naturally reaches to MaxAge.
  159: 
  160:   1.2 The function "ospf_register_opaque_functab()" did not check
  161:       if the entry corresponding to the given "lsa-type, opaque-type"
  162:       combination already exists or not.
  163:       This problem has fixed not to allow multiple registration.
  164: 
  165:   1.3 Since type-11 (AS external) LSAs will be flooded beyond areas,
  166:       there is little relationship between "struct lsa" and "struct
  167:       area". More specifically, the pointer address "lsa->area" can
  168:       be NULL if the lsa-type is 11, thus an illegal memory access
  169:       will happen. This problem has fixed.
  170: 
  171:   1.4 When self-originated opaque-LSAs are received via network and
  172:       if the corresponding opaque-type functions are not available
  173:       (they have already deleted) at that time, those LSAs were
  174:       dropped due to "unknown opaque-type" error.
  175:       After the problem 1.1 has fixed, those "self-originated" LSAs
  176:       were registered to LSDB and then flooded to the network, even
  177:       if the processing functions did not exist...
  178: 
  179:       After all, this problem has fixed so that those LSAs should
  180:       explicitly be flushed from the routing domain immediately, if
  181:       the processing functions cannot find at that time.
  182: 
  183:   1.5 Some typo have fixed.
  184: 
  185:       --- EXAMPLE ---
  186:       static int
  187:       opaque_lsa_originate_callback (list funclist, void *lsa_type_dependent)
  188:                                                           ^^^^^
  189:       --- EXAMPLE ---
  190: 
  191: 2. Feature enhancements
  192: 
  193:   2.1 According to the description of rfc2328 in section 10.8, any
  194:       change in the router's optional capabilities should trigger
  195:       the option re-negotiation procedures with neighbors.
  196: 
  197:       --- EXCERPT ---
  198:                               If for some reason the router's optional
  199:         capabilities change, the Database Exchange procedure should be
  200:         restarted by reverting to neighbor state ExStart.
  201:       --- EXCERPT ---
  202: 
  203:       For the opaque-capability changes, this feature has implemented.
  204:       More specifically, if "ospf opaque-lsa" or "no ospf opaque-lsa"
  205:       VTY command is given at runtime, all self-originated LSAs will
  206:       be flushed immediately and then all neighbor status will be
  207:       forced to ExStart by generating SeqNumberMismatch events.
  208: 
  209:   2.1 When we change opaque-capability dynamically (ON -> OFF -> ON),
  210:       there was no trigger at "OFF->ON" timing to reactivate opaque
  211:       LSA handling modules (such as MPLS-TE) that have once forcibly
  212:       stopped at "ON->OFF" timing.
  213:       Now this dynamic reactivation feature has added.
  214: 
  215:   2.2 The MPLS-TE module now referes to "draft-katz-yeung-ospf-traffic
  216:       -05.txt", no significant changes with 04 version, though.
  217: 
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  219: Changes 2001.03.28
  220: 
  221:   Initial release of Opaque-LSA/MPLS-TE extensions for the zebra/ospfd.

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