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authorRenato Westphal <renato@opensourcerouting.org>2021-05-31 10:27:51 -0300
committerRenato Westphal <renato@opensourcerouting.org>2021-07-05 11:43:02 -0300
commit1051417011b98dcebba527e0c9053db6fc7c6e30 (patch)
tree4e07b4e25d3de792d20c6a78eb095b45a77ae731 /doc/user/ospfd.rst
parentcd52c44c009dad73ad65e0f0daf7855095121cdb (diff)
ospfd: introduce support for Graceful Restart (restarting mode)
RFC 3623 specifies the Graceful Restart enhancement to the OSPF routing protocol. This PR implements support for the restarting mode, whereas the helper mode was implemented by #6811. This work is based on #6782, which implemented the pre-restart part and settled the foundations for the post-restart part (behavioral changes, GR exit conditions, and on-exit actions). Here's a quick summary of how the GR restarting mode works: * GR can be enabled on a per-instance basis using the `graceful-restart [grace-period (1-1800)]` command; * To perform a graceful shutdown, the `graceful-restart prepare ospf` EXEC-level command needs to be issued before restarting the ospfd daemon (there's no specific requirement on how the daemon should be restarted); * `graceful-restart prepare ospf` will initiate the graceful restart for all GR-enabled instances by taking the following actions: o Flooding Grace-LSAs over all interfaces o Freezing the OSPF routes in the RIB o Saving the end of the grace period in non-volatile memory (a JSON file stored in `$frr_statedir`) * Once ospfd is started again, it will follow the procedures described in RFC 3623 until it detects it's time to exit the graceful restart (either successfully or unsuccessfully). Testing done: * New topotest featuring a multi-area OSPF topology (including stub and NSSA areas); * Successful interop tests against IOS-XR routers acting as helpers. Co-authored-by: GalaxyGorilla <sascha@netdef.org> Signed-off-by: Renato Westphal <renato@opensourcerouting.org>
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@@ -710,8 +710,17 @@ Redistribution
-Graceful Restart Helper
-=======================
+Graceful Restart
+================
+
+.. clicmd:: graceful-restart [grace-period (1-1800)]
+
+
+ Configure Graceful Restart (RFC 3623) restarting support.
+ When enabled, the default grace period is 120 seconds.
+
+ To perform a graceful shutdown, the "graceful-restart prepare ip ospf"
+ EXEC-level command needs to be issued before restarting the ospfd daemon.
.. clicmd:: graceful-restart helper-only [A.B.C.D]
@@ -743,6 +752,17 @@ Graceful Restart Helper
restarts. By default, it supports both planned and
unplanned outages.
+
+.. clicmd:: graceful-restart prepare ip ospf
+
+
+ Initiate a graceful restart for all OSPF instances configured with the
+ "graceful-restart" command. The ospfd daemon should be restarted during
+ the instance-specific grace period, otherwise the graceful restart will fail.
+
+ This is an EXEC-level command.
+
+
.. _showing-ospf-information:
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