rfc-8596

MPLS Transport Encapsulation for the Service Function Chaining (SFC) Network Service Header (NSH)

A. Malis, S. Bryant, J. Halpern, W. Henderickx
date2019-06 streamIETF areartg wgmpls statusINFORMATIONAL pages9 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8596 doi10.17487/RFC8596
This document describes how to use a Service Function Forwarder (SFF) Label (similar to a pseudowire label or VPN label) to indicate the presence of a Service Function Chaining (SFC) Network Service Header (NSH) between an MPLS label stack and the packet original packet/ frame. This allows SFC packets using the NSH to be forwarded between SFFs over an MPLS network, and to select one of multiple SFFs in the destination MPLS node.