On Sep 19, 2012, at 7:55 AM, Lucy yong <[email protected]> wrote:

> Tom,
> 
> I am not auguring if NVO3 should support different data encapsulations. I 
> question that the proposed solution is proper in a mp2mp situation. Using a 
> gateway for this case is much simpler, which can still be done in a single 
> control plane.

Actually, I strongly disagree with the assertion that "using a gateway for this 
case is much simpler".  We (operators) build networks to scale by pushing as 
much functionality to the EDGE of the network, as possible.  If you mandate a 
GW be used as a converter that becomes a capacity planning headache, you have 
to worry about it's resiliency (fail-over), etc.  Do not go there.

-shane


> However, in NVO3, encapsulation is done at NVE not end system, right? I don't 
> know the intention of your second sentence.
> 
> Lucy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Nadeau [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 6:10 PM
> To: Lucy yong
> Cc: Kireeti Kompella; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [nvo3] draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-control-plane
> 
> 
>       There is definitely a requirement to do different encapsulations 
> simultaneously. There is even support coming from NIC vendors to support 
> multiple VMs with different encapsulations at the same time. 
> 
>       --Tom
> 
> On Sep 18, 2012:1:18 PM, at 1:18 PM, Lucy yong <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Kreeti,
>> 
>> Regarding interworking capability, Is "a given EVI can support multiple data 
>> plane encapsulation" equivalent to say "individual NVEs need to support 
>> multiple encapsulation schemas"? If one NVE only supports VXLAN and another 
>> NVE only supports MPLS-in-GRE, two will not able to work in a same EVI, is 
>> that right? Will this give more benefit than having one encapsulation in an 
>> EVI or make more complex?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Lucy
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kireeti Kompella [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 8:18 PM
>> To: Lucy yong
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [nvo3] draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-control-plane
>> 
>> Hi Lucy,
>> 
>> On Sep 17, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Lucy yong <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Read this draft.
>>> 
>>> RFC5512 applies a case where two BGP speakers are in a BGP free core. Using 
>>> encapsulation tunnel between two speakers enables one speaker to send a 
>>> packet to another speaker as the next-hop.
>>> 
>>> Using this approach in nvo3 may rise a high scalability concern because any 
>>> pair of NVEs in an NVO will need to maintain a state for the tunnel 
>>> encapsulation.  
>> 
>> They would have to in any case.  The tunnel encap is a couple of bits; the 
>> "tenant id" is also needed.
>> 
>>> If some NVEs support VXLAN and some support NVGRE, to build mcast tree for 
>>> BUM, it has to build two distinct sub-trees for each, which is more complex.
>>> 
>>> "This memo specifies that an egress PE must use the sender MAC 
>>> address to determine whether to send a received Broadcast or 
>>> Multicast packet to a given Ethernet Segment.  I.e., if the sender 
>>> MAC address is associated with a given Ethernet Segment, the egress
>>> PE must not send the packet to that Ethernet Segment."
>>> 
>>> Does it mean using BGP to exchange NVE MAC address that belong to an 
>>> Ethernet segment first? How does this impact other evpn features?
>> 
>> Yes to the first question; not at all (imo) to the second.
>> 
>>> This needs to be cooked more.
>> 
>> I think it's pretty well cooked, although I must confess a predilection for 
>> sushi.  In effect, these very capable authors saved me the trouble of 
>> writing pretty much the same draft :-)
>> 
>> The only thing I would change is the draft name: I prefer 
>> "...-nvo3-l2-in-l3-control-plane".  Oh, and add a code point for STT :-)
>> 
>> Kireeti
>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Lucy
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
>>> Aldrin Isaac
>>> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 2:18 PM
>>> To: Stiliadis, Dimitrios (Dimitri)
>>> Cc: Thomas Nadeau; [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: [nvo3] draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-control-plane
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure that the dust has fully settled on the matter.
>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-marques-l3vpn-end-system-07 suggests
>>> the use of XMPP.  The question is whether there is any sound technical
>>> reason (versus preferences) why leveraging BGP is problematic.  I
>>> personally haven't heard a convincing argument.
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Stiliadis, Dimitrios (Dimitri)
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> May be I missing something here .. but does this suggest running BGP-EVPN
>>>> on the NVE
>>>> that is located in the hypervisor?
>>>> 
>>>> Dimitri
>>>> 
>>>> On 9/17/12 8:55 AM, "Thomas Nadeau" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>   A number of us just published this draft and wanted to bring it to the
>>>>> NVO3 WG's attention.  We will be presenting/discussing this draft at the
>>>>> interim meeting this week as well, but please discuss here on the list as
>>>>> well.
>>>>> 
>>>>>   Thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>>   Tom, John, et al
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> A new version of I-D, draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-control-plane-00.txt
>>>>> has been successfully submitted by Thomas D. Nadeau and posted to the
>>>>> IETF repository.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Filename:       draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-control-plane
>>>>> Revision:       00
>>>>> Title:          A Control Plane for Network Virtualized Overlays
>>>>> Creation date:  2012-09-16
>>>>> WG ID:          Individual Submission
>>>>> Number of pages: 12
>>>>> URL:
>>>>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-control-plane-00
>>>>> .txt
>>>>> Status:
>>>>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-control-plane
>>>>> Htmlized:
>>>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-control-plane-00
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Abstract:
>>>>>   The purpose of this document is to describe how Ethernet Virtual
>>>>>   Private Network (E-VPN) can be used as the control plane for
>>>>>   Network Virtual Overlays.  Currently this protocol is defined to
>>>>>   act as the control plane for Virtual Extensible Local Area
>>>>>   Network (VXLAN), Network Virtualization using Generic Routing
>>>>>   Encapsulation (NVGRE), MPLS or VLANs while maintaining their
>>>>>   existing data plane encapsulations. The intent is that this
>>>>>   protocol will be capable of extensions in the future to handle
>>>>>   additinal data plane encapsulations and functions as needed.
>>>>> 
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