[rbridge] Final outcome of outer VLAN tagsonRBridge-RBridgepackets?

[Dinesh G Dutt]

I have always thought that we need only Hellos to be per active VLAN so
that we can achieve reachability. I was not planning on sending LSPs per
VLAN. 

Dinesh
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 10:04 -0700, Anoop Ghanwani wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dinesh G Dutt [mailto:ddutt at cisco.com] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 7:21 AM
> > To: Silvano Gai
> > Cc: Anoop Ghanwani; Radia Perlman; Developing a hybrid router/bridge.
> > Subject: Re: [rbridge] Final outcome of outer VLAN 
> > tagsonRBridge-RBridgepackets?
> > 
> > I agree that using a single VLAN solution for IS-IS DRB is weak.
> > However, I'm skeptical that another protocol that also just 
> > sends Hellos is much more scalabale or better than IS-IS 
> > sending only Hellos on all configured VLANs. 
> 
> Dinesh,
> 
> The key here is just sending hellos as opposed to maintaining
> a full IS-IS adjacency on the VLAN.  As long maintaining the
> adjancency and sending LSPs on every VLAN is not required, the
> protocol that is used for it doesn't matter.
> 
> Anoop
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