[rbridge] "Inter-RBridge-only" port
Dinesh G Dutt
ddutt at cisco.com
Sun Mar 30 22:21:51 PDT 2008
Hi Donald,
Eastlake III Donald-LDE008 wrote:
> If port p is configured to be inter-RBridge-only on RB1, then RB1:
> a) ignores all traffic that is not TRILL-encapsulated
>
> @@@ Actually, it still has to pay attention to control frames like PAUSE
> or, if implemented, local link discovery, etc. It just ignores native
> frames.
>
This is where I see a need for a clear demarcation between TRILL and
IEEE functionality. It's useful to talk about the frames the TRILL
functionality is concerned with. "Native frames" is not a clear enough
term IMO.
Dinesh
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