On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Thomas Narten <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Another way of looking at it is that the TSI is an attachement
> point/interface to the TS. The point where the TSI attaches to the TS
> has two sides. On the tenant facing side, it appears to be a NIC. It
> looks like a NIC, behaves like a NIC, etc. On the side facing away
> from the tenant (e.g., the hypervisor in the case of a virtualized
> system) we call it a TSI. The TSI side will have attributes that are
> specific to NVO3.
>
> Does that make sense?


I don't agree that it always appears as a NIC.  It appears as some
sort of protocol interface, but that is not necessarily a NIC to the
tenant system.   For example, in the physical world, a VLAN doesn't
look like a NIC to the host OS.

Anoop
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