On 12/6/2012 12:21 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>     > From: Lou Berger <[email protected]>
> 
>     >> How about 'network interface', though?
> 
>     > Why not data plane interface?
> 
> The problem is that that's facially ambiguous: does it mean 'an interface to
> the data plane to allow control plane entities to manage the operation of the
> data plane', or does it mean 'an interface over which the data plane
> transfers user data'?

I intended the latter, i.e. an interface used to transmit traffic in the
data plane

> 
> I know, I know, technically "network interface" has the same potential
> ambiguities, but I think there's enough history in that term that most
> people's first thought on seeing it is "thing that attaches a box into a
> particulr network"

so where do virtual interfaces (e.g., supported via tunnels) fit in?

Lou


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