On May 23, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Balus, Florin Stelian (Florin) wrote:

> Peter,
> We were not trying to exclude any solutions, we tried to really focus on what 
> the requirements should be. Note that the text does not exclude NVGRE 
> anyhow.. We said "...and/or tunnelling methods" and I believe there was a 
> NVGRE thread on this list where the authors discussed how this can be done 
> using tunneling header. There was also some hall discussion in IETF on how 
> this can be done with part of a GRE key. 
> 

One way is described in http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5640 in the context of 
tunneling for softwires.

Thanks,

-- Carlos.

> On the other hand we would like to hear from cloud providers on this: i.e. Is 
> it a MUST or a SHOULD? 
> Florin
> 
> On May 23, 2012, at 8:38 AM, "AshwoodsmithPeter" 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> In section 3.3.2.1 LAG and ECMP
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> “encpsulation headers and/or tunneling methods MUST contain a ‘entropy 
>> field’ or ‘entropy label’ “
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> This of course explicitly excludes NVGRE.  I suppose for VXLAN the UDP 
>> SourcePort would be considered the entropy field.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Was it the intention to exclude NVGRE?
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
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