[rbridge] Consensus Check: Egress processing of unicast not locally known
Eastlake III Donald-LDE008
Donald.Eastlake at motorola.com
Tue Oct 2 20:25:16 PDT 2007
This is a check via the mailing list to confirm or refute an apparent
consensus from the minutes of the Chicago meeting for a change from
protocol draft -05:
Egress RBridges that receive a known unicast TRILL data frame whose
inner destination address is not known locally should send the
native form of the frame out on every link for which the RBridge
is DRB for the frame's VLAN unless it knows that an end station
with that MAC address could not be on that link. (For example,
there is a layer-2 registration procedure for end stations on that
link and the destination MAC address in question is not
registered.) This is a local decision. No "error" message will be
defined for this condition at this time.
If no particular controversy arises over this in the next two weeks, we
will declare it to be the working group consensus.
Thanks,
Donald & Erik
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