[rbridge] "Inter-RBridge-only" port
Radia Perlman
Radia.Perlman at sun.com
Sun Mar 30 11:02:51 PDT 2008
Eastlake III Donald-LDE008 wrote:
>
> @@@ It occurs to me that if a port is configured to provide no end
> station support (ignore native frames and not decapsulate), then it
> should not contribute to the VLANs advertised by that RBridge in the
> link state database. The only reason to advertise the enablement of a
> VLAN on one or more ports at an Rbridge is to attract certain
> multi-destination encapsulated traffic to that Rbridge but such traffic
> will not be decapsulated out such a port. This needs to be mentioned in
> the base protocol document.
>
>
Yes. Good point.
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