Re: [sfc] Doubt about draft-ietf-sfc-nsh-12

"lizho.jin" <lizho.jin@gmail.com> Thu, 23 March 2017 15:52 UTC

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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 23:55:15 +0800
From: "lizho.jin" <lizho.jin@gmail.com>
To: "Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com>
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Subject: Re: [sfc] Doubt about draft-ietf-sfc-nsh-12
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Joel,
Thanks for the reply. See inline below.

Regards
Lizhong

On 03/23/2017 23:24Joel M. Halpern<jmh@joelhalpern.com> wrote:
The content of the inner payload may change.  Lots of service functions 
change the content.  NAT, HTTP annotators, ...
THe semantics of the inner protocol (TCP is still TCP,...) remain the 
same.  if the semantics are changing, then the service function 
terminates one chain and starts another. 
[Lizhong] then do you mean, a service chain is represented not only by the SPI, but also the Next protocol? There does exist some case to change the Next protocol after function process.

Yours,
Joel

On 3/23/17 11:15 AM, lizho.jin wrote:
> Hi Authors,
> I have a doubt with following description:
>
>    Next Protocol: indicates the protocol type of the encapsulated data.
>    NSH does not alter the inner payload, and the semantics on the inner
>    protocol remain unchanged due to NSH service function chaining.
>    Please see IANA Considerations section below.
>
> It says NSH does not alter the inner payload, but what if the SF is NAT,
>
> then the payload will be changed, right?
>
> Regards
>
> Lizhong
>
>
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