Re: [nvo3] Draft NVO3 WG Charter

John E Drake <jdrake@juniper.net> Fri, 17 February 2012 17:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [nvo3] Draft NVO3 WG Charter
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Robert,

As an example, please see: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-marques-l3vpn-end-system/

Thanks,

John  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Raszuk [mailto:robert@raszuk.net]
> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 8:50 AM
> To: John E Drake
> Cc: david.black@emc.com; narten@us.ibm.com; nvo3@ietf.org; Ronald
> Bonica; Nitin Bahadur; Adrian Farrel
> Subject: Re: [nvo3] Draft NVO3 WG Charter
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> > [JD]  This is an assertion.  It is also the misses the fact that MPLS
> > is only required to mux/demux packets at the edges of the VPN
> > network.
> 
> Let me observe that at least in some data centers the "edge of VPN" is
> likely to be the hypervisor (with OVS) on the host machine. The reason
> being that VMs residing on such host may belong to different customers.
> 
> Could you describe how existing technologies would work in such case ?
> Are you proposing to turn each host to be a PE ? Or are you worried
> that
> host has not sufficient forwarding power to act as PE so one would need
> a dedicated hardware to be a PE ?
> 
> Best regards,
> R.