Re: [trill] Poll for WG adoption of draft-zhang-trill-aa-multi-attach

[Mingui Zhang <[e-mail]>]

Hi Ting

Thanks for the comments. Please find the responses inline.

Mingui

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Hi authors,

I have some questions about this draft：

1、How to check all the RBs'MC-LAG-GROUP-RBRIDGES tlvs are received by remote RBs？

2、If the MC-LAG-GROUP-RBRIDGES tlvs of one member are lost, the remote RB how to install the MAC tabel will have issues.

[Mingui] These TLVs are carried in ISIS LSPs and ISIS provides the _reliable_ flooding to its peers. As we know, PSNP and CSNP are designed for this purpose.

3、Section 5.5, load balance on remote RB, does the fib on the hardware only install one entry？

[Mingui] Yes, it does.

Then how to differ the flip-flop if it can be randomly selected.

[Mingui] Exactly, it is a pseudo-random selection method (See bullet 1, Section 5.3 of draft-ietf-trill-esadi-09 ). For this method, the output (i.e., the egress RBridge) for each MACx  at a specific ingress RBridge is unique. This is why we don’t worry about the flip-flop. Having said that, for different MACx in a specific DL, the egress RBridge can be different. So the load balance is achieved.

4、As shown in Figure 3.1, RB1/RB2/RB3 learn the MAC of H1-4, if each RB in the same MC-LAG has to advertise the MC-LAG-GROUP-MAC tlv,
   it seems unnecessary and adds the difficulty of RB4's control plane processing; alternatively, we could let only one RB advertises the MC-LAG-GROUP-MAC tlv,

[Mingui] Due to the hashing function, MACx may only be learned by a unique receiver RBridge rather than all of them. So each RBridge has to advertise the MC-LAG-GROUP-MAC tlv. For those MACy that has already been advertised, implementations could let only one member RBridge to advertise it. But it will undermine the reliability and introduce the complexity on the selection of the one RBridge.

This is actually not new for this draft. For a MACz which is attached to multiple edge RBridges, the plain ESADI will let those multiple edge RBridges advertise it as well.

   as described in question 2, how to install the MAC table arises.

[Mingui] I think this issue had been cleared  above.


Thanks&BR.
Ting