Hi authors, EVPN experts,

Any feedback?

Regards,
Muthu

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:19 AM Muthu Arul Mozhi Perumal <
muthu.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

> draft-ietf-bess-evpn-inter-subnet-forwarding says the following in section
> 3.2.2:
>
> <snip>
>    If the receiving PE receives this route with both the MAC-VRF and IP-
>    VRF route targets but the MAC/IP Advertisement route does not include
>    MPLS label2 field and if the receiving PE supports asymmetric IRB
>    mode, then the receiving PE installs the MAC address in the
>    corresponding MAC-VRF and <IP, MAC> association in the ARP table for
>    that tenant (identified by the corresponding IP-VRF route target).
> </snip>
>
> Further below it says:
>
> <snip>
>    If the receiving PE receives this route with both the MAC-VRF and IP-
>    VRF route targets but the MAC/IP Advertisement route does not include
>    MPLS label2 field and if the receiving PE does not support either
>    asymmetric or symmetric IRB modes, then if it has the corresponding
>    MAC-VRF, it only imports the MAC address
> </snip>
>
> How should "does not support either asymmetric or symmetric IRB" be
> interpreted? Should it be interpreted as "supports neither asymmetric nor
> symmetric"? Or should it be interpreted as "does not support one of them"?
>
> If it is the former, then the case where the receiving PE supports only
> symmetric (but not asymmetric) IRB isn't described. It it is the later then
> it includes the case where the receiving PE supports only asymmetric (but
> not symmetric) IRB and what is described in that paragraph conflicts with
> the first paragraph mentioned above.
>
> Regards,
> Muthu
>
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