Hi Jorge,

Thanks for the comments.
I will bump-up the mode value in the next-version,
while, I am in middle of assessing the usage of "Default Gateway extended 
community" in the use-case mentioned in this draft.

Thanks
Saumya.

From: Rabadan, Jorge (Nokia - US/Sunnyvale) [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2022 6:46 PM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: draft-saumvinayak-bess-all-df-bum

Dear Saumya and authors,

I wanted to follow up on what I mentioned at the mic this morning during the 
BESS session:

1)  You are requesting DF Alg codepoint 2 for this draft, which clashes with 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-evpn-pref-df-08#section-6<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-evpn-pref-df-08#section-6>
 - a Working Group draft with multiple implementations, so please remove that 
from the draft.

2)  The use of an Ethernet Segment in this application is weird, and IMHO there 
are better ways to approach the issue. This is the rationale behind that 
statement:


a.  Eth Segment is defined as a group of links, multi-homed to the same network 
or CE. I don't think that fits the use-case.
b.  If I understood the use-case, the only part of the multi-homing procedures 
you are interested in is the advertisement of the Firewall MAC/IPs in a MAC/IP 
route that is not subject to mobility, and you want to apply aliasing on the 
remote PEs. BUM traffic is forwarded by all the PEs.
c.  If (b) is true, I don't think Ethernet Segments are the correct way to 
address this. As I mentioned, we use the Default Gateway extended community to 
indicate a MAC/IP route belongs to a default gateway that is not subject to 
mobility procedures - 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-04#section-10.1<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-04#section-10.1>.
 Note that this section even talks about MAC aliasing.
d.  So if I may, my suggestion would be:

                      i.   do not use Eth Segments

                     ii.   Use the default-gateway ext community for the 
firewall MAC/IP routes. That naturally excludes these MACs from the mobility 
procedures

                   iii.   Based on the reception on the MAC/IP routes with the 
def gateway ext community, do MAC aliasing on the remote nodes

Let me know if you have comments.
Thank you.
Jorge



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