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

Steven Blake <sblake@extremenetworks.com> Thu, 19 January 2012 16:54 UTC

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On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 08:23 -0800, Ashish Dalela (adalela) wrote:

> >> "one encapsulation, please".  
> 
> How do you propose we reconcile the present scenario:
> 
> - Hypervisor based encapsulations
> - Network based encapsulations

I don't see any reason why these need to differ.

> - L2 in L2 encapsulation

IEEE owns this space.

> - L2 in L3 encapsulation

This is NVO3.  I would prefer to have to support the minimum number of
NVO3 encapsulations in HW.

> - L3 in L3 encapsulation

There are already plenty to choose from.


Regards,

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