[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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