[rbridge] TTL only - was RE: New fields in shim header?

[Joe Touch]

Ed Bowen wrote:
> Joe Touch <touch at ISI.EDU> wrote on 10/12/2006 04:52:43 PM:
>>
>>
>> Silvano Gai wrote:
>> > Joe,
>> >
>> > IMHO TRILL will be valuable in HPC and Datacenters, where high
>> > bisectional bandwidth is a must, and in Enterprise Backbone.
>>
>> Sure, but that's not the only place they will be deployed. Please review
>> the P&AS.
>>
>> Joe
> 
> Joe,
> 
> What is the operational experience that indicates the requirement for
> the other environments?  I am not aware of anyone who plans to install
> TRILL outside of the environment Silvano outlines. What need would
> motivate these additional environments?
> 
> Ed

TRILL applies anytime the cross-section bandwidth of a set of deployed
bridges is constrained because of the spanning tree algorithm rather
than the link capacity.

Again, please review the problem and applicability statement and the
working group charter.

Joe

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