Because L2 Ethernet Service has the nature of "plug and play" and much less configuration and maintenance. It has no request to the host. An IP host uses arp to find the destination MAC and everything goes.
Lucy > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Robert Raszuk > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 11:14 AM > To: Lucy yong > Cc: Vivek Kumar; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [nvo3] Multi-subnet VNs [was Re: FW: New Version > Notification for draft-yong-nvo3-frwk-dpreq-addition-00.txt] > > > Very good question. I am confused too. All the traffic from a > VM/server has IP and MAC header. Thus, they are all IP packets. > > Lucy > > Interesting ... if they are *all* IP packets then why do we need EVPN > at all ??? > > Cheers, > R. > _______________________________________________ > nvo3 mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nvo3 _______________________________________________ nvo3 mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nvo3
