Hi, This is just a refresh of the previous version.
We do have some updates planned, but we ran out of road. Watch this space. Thanks, Adrian > -----Original Message----- > From: I-D-Announce [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: 19 April 2017 15:42 > To: [email protected] > Subject: I-D Action: draft-drake-bess-datacenter-gateway-03.txt > > > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. > > > Title : Gateway Auto-Discovery and Route Advertisement for Segment > Routing Enabled Data Center Interconnection > Authors : John Drake > Adrian Farrel > Eric Rosen > Keyur Patel > Luay Jalil > Filename : draft-drake-bess-datacenter-gateway-03.txt > Pages : 9 > Date : 2017-04-19 > > Abstract: > Data centers have become critical components of the infrastructure > used by network operators to provide services to their customers. > Data centers are attached to the Internet or a backbone network by > gateway routers. One data center typically has more than one gateway > for commercial, load balancing, and resiliency reasons. > > Segment routing is a popular protocol mechanism for operating within > a data center, but also for steering traffic that flows between two > data center sites. In order that one data center site may load > balance the traffic it sends to another data center site it needs to > know the complete set of gateway routers at the remote data center, > the points of connection from those gateways to the backbone network, > and the connectivity across the backbone network. > > This document defines a mechanism using the BGP Tunnel Encapsulation > attribute to allow each gateway router to advertise the routes to the > prefixes in the data center site to which it provides access, and > also to advertise on behalf of each other gateway to the same data > center site. > > > > The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-drake-bess-datacenter-gateway/ _______________________________________________ BESS mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/bess
