Re: [dc] draft-khasnabish-vmmi-problems-00.txt

[Melinda Shore <[e-mail]>]

On 01/19/2012 05:11 PM, Christopher LILJENSTOLPE wrote:
> 	I agree with some subset of L2-in-L2, L2-in-L3, and L3-in-L3 encaps.
 > I'm not sure what we mean by network vs hypervisor based encaps.  Do
 > we really want to have a different encap depending on where it's
 > originated or terminated?  Anyone see problems with this if one end
 > of the connection is an appliance (and connected to, say a switch)
 > and one end that's a hypervisor guest?  When folks were asking for a
 > small subset (where small is 1<=n<=3 maybe) I didn't think that they
 > were saying that this was a set of two, one for hypervisors, and one
 > for "network elements" what ever that might mean (I would tend to
 > view a hypervisor switch as an element in the network)

I'm similarly unclear on what these distinctions actually are.  It
seems to me that in either case (network vs. "hypervisor") we're really
talking about tunnel endpoints.  Can someone state clearly what
the difference is in practice?

Thanks,

Melinda