+1 Regards, Jeff
On Jul 23, 2013, at 7:46 AM, "Kireeti Kompella" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Xuxiaohu, > > Sorry for the previous empty email. > > On Jul 23, 2013, at 4:51, Xuxiaohu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The reason that I started this discussion is to make sure whether the >> Virtual Network Context Identification contained in the data packet is >> REALLY required to be globally unique in some cases. > > No. There's nothing useful that I know that one can do with global IDs in the > data plane that one cannot do with local IDs, and local IDs are easier to > allocate and manage. So, I'd be going the other way and advocate locally > significant VNIDs for VXLAN and NVGRE, not global IDs for VPNs. (And I do) > > Kireeti > _______________________________________________ > nvo3 mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nvo3
