Mankamana,
Lots of thanks for your email.

Grom my POV the marked is a valid response to my Q2.


Regards,
Sasha

From: Mankamana Mishra (mankamis) <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2025 9:55 AM
To: Alexander Vainshtein <[email protected]>; 
[email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: A couple of question about 
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-ac-aware-bundling

Hi Sasha,
Thanks for extra information, but in this case problem statement described in 
this draft does not seems to be applicable for this case.

Mankamana

From: BESS <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of 
Alexander Vainshtein 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 5:55 AM
To: 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [bess] A couple of question about 
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-ac-aware-bundling
Hi,
Regarding my Q2:

I have encountered deployments in which an EVPN IRB is configured with multiple 
IP subnets while the single attachment circuit of the broadcast domain it uses 
is delimited by a single VLAN.

Regards,
Sasha

From: Alexander Vainshtein
Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 3:51 PM
To: 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: A couple of question about draft-ietf-bess-evpn-ac-aware-bundling
Importance: High

Hi,
I have a couple of question about the AC-aware bundling 
draft<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-evpn-ac-aware-bundling-04>
 .
The background for these questions is given below.


Section 6.2 of RFC 
7432<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7432#section-6.2> that defines 
VLAN Bundle Service Interface says that “MAC addresses MUST be unique across 
all VLANs for that EVI in order for this service to work” .

This requirement is not limited to multihomed PEs

No mechanisms for enforcement of this requirement (e.g., by detecting and 
handling of possible violations) are defined

Any manipulation of VLAN tags is strictly prohibited with this service interface

The draft in question defines a similar requirement and effectively provides a 
way to enforce it. However:

Detection of misconfiguration is explicitly limited to just multihomed PEs (as 
can be seen from the title of Section 5)

The draft does not impose any limitations on VLAN manipulation (this is 
expected in the case of inter-subnet traffic (with each subnet differentiated 
by a VLAN) within a single broadcast domain)

The draft seems to deal just with the situation in which multiple subnets in 
the same broadcast domain are differentiated by VLANs.

And now my questions:

Q1: What is the rationale for restricting detection and handling of violation 
of the above-mentioned rule to just multi-homed PEs?
Q2: Does the draft support the situations in which multiple IP subnets in the 
same broadcast domain are NOT differentiated by different VLANs?
Q3: Is VLAN translation with AC-aware bundling service interface allowed for 
intra-subnet traffic that undergoes “pure Layer 2 switching” in the single 
broadcast domain?

Your feedback would be highly appreciated.

Regards, and lots of thanks in advance,
Sasha



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