On 28-Feb-19 14:22, Michael Richardson wrote:
>
> Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Here is a new draft for ANIMA to consider. We believe it is useful
> > to explore the idea of an autonomic control plane constructed at
> > the link layer. Comments please!
>
> Does this mean it transports L2 packets (a la spanning-tree or TRILL), or
> does this mean it uses L2 technologies like MACSEC to create a tunnel
> for L3 packets?
Well, I don't think the draft in its present form should attempt to
answer that question. In my mind I was thinking of a conventional
LAN set up, i.e. spanning tree, but that doesn't have to be the
only way. In practice that usually needs MLDv2 snooping as well.
> i.e. does L3 multicast appear to just work because it more layer-2 tricks?
L3 multicast works automatically if L2 multicast works, surely (remembering
that there is no router). How L2 multicast works is another question, of
course. I don't mean to say it's unimportant, just that it's not in scope
for this particular draft.
Brian
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