Re: [trill] [rbridge] TRILL Multi-topology encoding draft

Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> Tue, 01 May 2012 19:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [trill] [rbridge] TRILL Multi-topology encoding draft
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While this certainly encodes topology into frames, it is not clear to
me that the technique using a new tag is generally supported by
existing TRILL silicon.

Thanks,
Donald
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Tissa Senevirathne (tsenevir)
<tsenevir@cisco.com> wrote:
> Dear All
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> We have posted draft-tissa-trill-mt-encode-00. This draft discuss methods
> that can be used to encode multi topology id without exhausting nickname
> space or adding additional control plane extensions to abbreviate absolute
> topology. Please let us know your comments.
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> Abstract:
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>    Two alternative methods of encoding Multi Topology Identifier within
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>    the TRILL data frames are presented. Methods proposed herein do not
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>    require overloading TRILL RBridge nickname to encode Multi Topology
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>    Identifier.
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> Thanks
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> Tissa
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