Re: [sfc] clarification on Service Path ID for draft-penno-sfc-packet

"Paul Quinn (paulq)" <paulq@cisco.com> Mon, 17 July 2017 12:39 UTC

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From: "Paul Quinn (paulq)" <paulq@cisco.com>
To: Sumandra Majee <S.Majee@F5.com>
CC: Dave Dolson <ddolson@sandvine.com>, James N Guichard <james.n.guichard@huawei.com>, "Kent Leung (kleung)" <kleung@cisco.com>, "sfc@ietf.org" <sfc@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: [sfc] clarification on Service Path ID for draft-penno-sfc-packet
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Subject: Re: [sfc] clarification on Service Path ID for draft-penno-sfc-packet
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On Jul 14, 2017, at 4:28 PM, Sumandra Majee <S.Majee@F5.com<mailto:S.Majee@F5.com>> wrote:

Fundamentally it is all about how divide up the SPI+SI space.
However, we like the service path SPI to be unique per direction.

I do as well.  It's simple and allows an operator to easily troubleshoot a path.