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RE: Continued Poll for Adoption of Ethernet I-Ds



Hi,

I am not sure any more how we got into this discussion, but I am pretty much convinced that this does not relate to the GMPLS context.

The question was on the adoption of the draft on GMPLS for a data plane that is defined by the IEEE (802.1Qay). This is the way it is defined by the IEEE and we provide a control plane to control it. I am pretty sure that the use of the control plane for PBB-TE will ensure a consistent behavior of the PBB-TE network.

Personally I am in favor of making this draft an IETF one, and I hope you are all as well.

Best regards,

Nurit

 


From: owner-ccamp@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-ccamp@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of ext Igor Bryskin
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 18:13
To: Attila Takacs; Don Fedyk; neil.2.harrison@bt.com; adrian@olddog.co.uk; ccamp@ops.ietf.org
Subject: Re: Continued Poll for Adoption of Ethernet I-Ds

 

Hi Attila,

Please, see in line.

----- Original Message ----
From: Attila Takacs <Attila.Takacs@ericsson.com>
To: Igor Bryskin <i_bryskin@yahoo.com>; Don Fedyk <dwfedyk@nortel.com>; neil.2.harrison@bt.com; adrian@olddog.co.uk; ccamp@ops.ietf.org
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:54:21 AM
Subject: RE: Continued Poll for Adoption of Ethernet I-Ds

Hi Igor,

 

But how the separation of VLAN ID space would help in this case? If PBB packets are leaked into PBB-TE they will be immediately dropped because there will be no PBB-TE connections configured for such packets. If PBB-TE packets are leaked into PBB, than, since, PBB knows nothing about PBB-TE anyway the packets will be flooded across the PBB domain.  

 

Unfortunately, leaking from PBB to PBB-TE does not necessarily means immediate discarding of PBB frames. Due to the VLAN separation between PBB and PBB-TE, there is no clear layering here. Hence leaking can essentially mean that the VID of a bridged (PBB) frame is changed to a VID used for explicitly routed connections (PBB-TE). This does not necessarily means that the frame will be dropped. It is a valid assumption that the MAC address of the PBB frame is configured in the PBB-TE region as well and as such leakig PBB traffic will be forwarded as if it would belong to an explicitly routed connection.

IB>> In order for a packet, leaking from PBB to PBB_TE not be dropped, it is necessary for the triplet from PBB MAC header (SA-DA-VID) to match one of configured on the node PBB-TE connections. Even if one assumes that this is possible, it is highly unlikely to be the case on the next along the connection PBB-TE node. Hence the packet will be dropped either immediately or on the next PBB-TE node.

Cheers,
Igor

Note that what I just wrote is true regardless whether PBB-TE uses specially allocated ranges of VLANIDs or all VLANIDs. Hence there is no architectural need for the VLANID space separation.
  

I think this is not necessary true, if one allocates the whole VLAN space to PBB-TE then there will be no bridged traffic in the network. As a consequence no leaking and no other cross effects is to be expected.

 

Best regards,

Attila

 


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