Hi Jorge,

Thanks for the response.

Does the flushing of M indicates a dataplane bridge-table flushing or the 
protocol-Rib flushing or implicitly both.
The control-plane Rib may still cache it while waiting for the withdraw from 
remote-vtep.

If it implies just the dataplane clearing, then procedures mentioned (count and 
timer to detect duplicate-MAC) 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-04.txt#section-15.1
may still be working over the RIB-learnings from remote-vteps, leading to 
detection of duplicate MAC again.

Whether the process should be restarted for just "loop-protection" as the 
control plane procedures will detect MAC-duplicate ?
Or if the all RIBs are also cleared, then obviously the process restart means 
both "MAC-dup-detection" and "loop-protection"

Regards,
Saumya

From: Rabadan, Jorge (Nokia - US/Sunnyvale) [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2022 1:11 PM
To: Dikshit, Saumya <[email protected]>; 
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Subject: Re: (Authors of draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis) : Query regarding Loop 
Protection

Hi,

It refers to the fact that the MAC is flushed from the bridge-table and 
therefore it is no longer duplicate. The router needs to clear the duplicate 
state and obviously, if the mac keeps moving, the router starts counting the 
moves again withing the duplication window.

The key point is that "the PE flushes M". With that in mind, I don't think 
there is any ambiguity, but let us know.

Thanks.
Jorge

From: Dikshit, Saumya <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 8:31 AM
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Subject: (Authors of draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis) : Query regarding Loop 
Protection

Hello Authors of draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis,

I have a query regarding the section of "Loop Protection" 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-04.txt#section-15.3<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-04.txt#section-15.3>
 in the document.

There is a statement regarding the "process" to be restarted after retry-timer 
expires. Which "process" is being referred to here ?
Is it just ONLY the "loop-protection"
Or
the "complete process" of "MAC Duplication Handling + Loop-protection": 
implying both sections 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-04.txt#section-15.1<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-04.txt#section-15.1>
 and  
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-04.txt#section-15.3<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-04.txt#section-15.3>
 in that order.

The reference text is as follows:

"   When the retry-timer R for M expires, the PE flushes M from the

   Bridge Table and the process is restarted."

Regards,
Saumya.
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