[rbridge] Consensus Check: Configure ports to disable endstation traffic

[Eric Gray]

Not especially.

Personally, I think that statement may be true, but I shy away
from including it in the specification.

To a certain extent, that would be a motherhood and apple pie
statement that - unfortunately - might not be true all of the 
time.  

Plus, in this case, there is still no particular issue with 
respect to interoperability between RBridges that is addressed 
by this specific aspect of forwarding at the egress.

Given that it is not hard to determine that there are a large
number of things (implementation specific optimizations) that 
are okay (they seem to work at least in some deployments) for 
802.1 bridges that may have to be considered before we could 
make such a statement, and no really relevant reason to make 
it, the sensible thing to do would be to remain silent on that
score.

--
Eric Gray
Principal Engineer
Ericsson  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Caitlin Bestler [mailto:Caitlin.Bestler at neterion.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 3:34 PM
> To: Eric Gray; Anoop Ghanwani; James Carlson
> Cc: Rbridge at postel.org; Joe Touch
> Subject: RE: [rbridge] Consensus Check: Configure ports to 
> disable endstation traffic
> Importance: High
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rbridge-bounces at postel.org [mailto:rbridge-bounces at postel.org]
> On
> > Behalf Of Eric Gray
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 5:39 AM
> > To: Anoop Ghanwani; James Carlson
> > Cc: Rbridge at postel.org; Joe Touch
> > Subject: Re: [rbridge] Consensus Check: Configure ports to disable
> > endstation traffic
> > 
> > Anoop,
> > 
> > 	Sorry to have to disagree with your well-intended
> > suggestion, but this is a BAD idea.
> > 
> > 	The fact that we don't need to document it from a
> > interoperability perspective is sufficient reason not to
> > do so.
> > 
> 
> Would it make sense to go as far as to state that any
> implementation-specific optimizations on frame forwarding
> that are appropriate for a 802.1 Bridge are appropriate
> for an RBRidge?
> 
> 
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