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

Silvano Gai sgai at nuovasystems.com
Mon Oct 16 14:20:49 PDT 2006


Joe,

.....

> 
> The enclosed source MAC indicates the source rbridge at the time it
was
> encapsulated; 

Not true if the source MAC was spoofed by a host connected to another
RBridge. Do you agree?


> the appropriate source rbridge for that packet may change
> by the time the packet arrives elsewhere in the rbridge campus.

If you put the source RBridge address in the frame, why should it
change?

-- Silvano

> That's
> another reason it's not useful to know the source - it is ephemeral
> anyway.
> 
> Joe




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