True. I would be a NIC for an untagged interface, and a NIC+VLAN sub interface 
for a tagged VLAN. - Larry

From: Anoop Ghanwani <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Friday, April 19, 2013 4:22 PM
To: Thomas Narten <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: Pat Thaler <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, 
"[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, 
Qin Wu <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [nvo3] vNICs and pNics in draft-wu-nvo3-nve2nve-04.txt

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