[rbridge] Consensus Check: Point to Point links

[Joe Touch]

Silvano Gai wrote:
> Joe,
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joe Touch [mailto:touch at ISI.EDU]
>> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 5:23 PM
>> To: Silvano Gai
>> Cc: Eastlake III Donald-LDE008; Radia Perlman; Rbridge at postel.org
>> Subject: Re: [rbridge] Consensus Check: Point to Point links
>>
>>
>>
>> Silvano Gai wrote:
>>> Joe,
>>>
>>> If there is a bridge in between two RBridges you need to have a full
>>> adjacency table.
>>>
>>> If the link is point to point, you can save the table.
>> If the link is point to point, I still need to know what to send over
>> the link, so each side still needs adjacency information.
> 
> 
> This is not correct; you need to do a lookup to find the port, that is
> it.
> Otherwise you need to do a lookup to find the MAC address, rewrite the
> MAC address and then another lookup to find the port.

So what do I save again? Yes, on the rewriting and additional lookup.
But space?

Joe

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