> >1. the NVO3 ping uses 3503 as the destination port, then the transport
> >path of NVO3 Ping would be different with NVO3 tunnel (I am referring
> >to VXLAN tunnel), which means NVO3 ping could not detect the NVO3
> >tunnel dataplane failure. Do you want to only detect the IP layer
> >failure for the overlay network?
> <Nagendra> You are right that the NVO3 ping uses a different destination
> port. But it also provides a way to perform ECMP pat validation. So when
> there are multiple paths between the ingress/egress, it provides a way to
> validate all paths.
[Lizhong] It would be better if NVO3 tunnel could be verified. And I believe
NVO3 would require the tool to achieve that.

> 
> >2. The purpose of this draft is to validate the L2/L3 VN context. But
> >as my understanding, you could only detect the existence of the L2/L3
> >VN context.
> >The validation of L2/L3 VN context would not only include the existence
> >of the entry, but also include the correctness of the output.
> >Maybe I have missed something important in the draft.
> <Nagendra> This is an initial draft where we just mentioned the L2/L3 VN
ID.
> It not only provides a way to check the presence of the VN but can be
> extended to carry relevant information like MAC that can be used by the
> egress to perform the validation. We will include the details and TLV in
future
> version.
[Lizhong] I mean you could not check the dataplane validation of L2/L3 VN
entry. I am not sure if it is useful for such validation.

> 
> Please let me know if this answers your query.

Thanks
Lizhong

> 
> Thanks,
> Nagendra
> 
> >
> >Regards
> >Lizhong
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Nagendra Kumar Nainar (naikumar) [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: 2013年12月4日 7:41
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Cc: Carlos Pignataro (cpignata)
> >> Subject: [nvo3] FW: I-D Action: draft-kumar-nvo3-overlay-ping-00.txt
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Below is the draft we published on NVO3 path ping. Please read the
> >> same and share your comments.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Nagendra
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> >A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> >> >directories.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >  Title           : Detecting NVO3 Overlay Data Plane failures
> >> >  Author(s)       : Nagendra Kumar
> >> >                          Carlos Pignataro
> >> >                          Dhananjaya Rao
> >> >  Filename        : draft-kumar-nvo3-overlay-ping-00.txt
> >> >  Pages           : 14
> >> >  Date            : 2013-07-15
> >> >
> >> >Abstract:
> >> >   This document describes a simple and efficient mechanism to perform
> >> >   L2 or L3 VN Context validation and to detect any data plane
failures
> >> >   in IPv4 or IPv6 based overlay network providing L2 or L3
virtualized
> >> >   network.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> >> >https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kumar-nvo3-overlay-ping
> >> >
> >> >There's also a htmlized version available at:
> >> >http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kumar-nvo3-overlay-ping-00
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
> >> >ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
> >> >
> >> >_______________________________________________
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> >> >Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or
> >> >ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt
> >>
> >
> >


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