[rbridge] "Inter-RBridge-only" port

Dinesh G Dutt ddutt at cisco.com
Sun Mar 30 22:23:07 PDT 2008


Agreed,

Dinesh
Radia Perlman wrote:
> 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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