Hi,
In order to look at what has been done already, the advice is to look at
YANG search <https://www.yangcatalog.org/yang-search/yang-search.php>.
I searched on "ether.type" with the regex flag.
Don't pay attention to the last entry, this will be fixed.
However, specifically pay attention to the second entry, the IEEE one.
It points to
https://www.yangcatalog.org/yang-search/show_node.php?module=ieee802-dot1q-types&path=%2Fdot1q-types%3Aether-type&revision=2016-09-22
Regards, Benoit
Created issue #3 in github
<https://github.com/netmod-wg/acl-model/issues/3> as "The model
defines 'ether-type' node as a string.” with the following description.
The model defines 'ether-type' node as a string. Ideally, this should
be a well defined list of all Ethernet Types assigned by IEEE. This
requires collaborating with IEEE.
One suggestion was to define ether-type as identities. That works for
when the identities themselves are distributed and need to be made
extensible.
But Ethernet Types are doled out in IEEE by Registration Authority
Committee (RAC), so they could choose to centrally define it as an
enum and give each hex string a name that could be used by models. If
a user wants to configure a particular ether-type, the server must
import a version of the IEEE 8021q model that has that enumeration.
Alternatively, as @mbj4668 <https://github.com/mbj4668> has suggested,
it could also be a typedef like this:
|typedef ether-type { type union { type
ieee-ether-type:ether-type-enum; type uint16; // or a hex-based number
} } |
Finally, the suggestion is to have ether-type defined as a number (or
hex based). This is flexible, but requires users/operators to read and
write numbers which are harder to remember than symbolic names.
My personal preference would be for IEEE to define and publish the
YANG model with the definitions.
Mahesh Jethanandani
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