[arp222] Some concerns about the MOOSE

xuxiaohu 41208 <xuxh@huawei.com> Thu, 29 July 2010 09:31 UTC

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Subject: [arp222] Some concerns about the MOOSE
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Hi,

If I understood the MOOSE correctly, the major contribution of MOOSE is to reduce the MAC forwarding table size by rewriting flat MAC addresses (i.e., source MAC addresses) to hierarchical MAC addresses on the ingress MOOSE switches. However, to introduce the address aggegation capability of IP into Ethernet, the forwarding behavior on Ethernet switch chips would have to be changed from full-matching algorithm to longest-mataching algorithm
. IMHO, this is a big obstacle for MOOSE.

Xiaohu