David, Thank you. This is helpful information. Can you comment at all on extensibility & support for VXLAN-GPE & the other options?
Regards, Alia On Jul 22, 2016 3:41 PM, "David Melman" <davi...@marvell.com> wrote: > > Though if someone knows of a vendor who plans to support vxlan-gpe on > their already installed vxlan supporting hardware please speak up. I > certainly did not check with every vendor. > > > > As a silicon vendor, Marvell have the same silicon that supports both > VXLAN and VXLAN-GPE. Our customers can indeed support both on the same > hardware. > > > > David > > > > *From:* nvo3 [mailto:nvo3-boun...@ietf.org] *On Behalf Of *Jon Hudson > *Sent:* Friday, July 22, 2016 11:58 AM > *To:* Dino Farinacci > *Cc:* Matthew Bocci; Tom Herbert; nvo3@ietf.org > *Subject:* Re: [nvo3] Consensus call on encap proposals > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 1:38 AM, Dino Farinacci <farina...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > - VXLAN-GPE does not appear compatible with VXLAN-GPE. If a VXLAN host > receives a VXLAN packet for some protocol other than Ethern the payload > will be misinterpreted. A separate port number was required. I assume that > a user using VXLAN in HW must upgrade HW to use VXLAN-GPE > > Tom, one clarification. Did you really mean VXLAN-GPE is not compatible > with VXLAN-GPE or did you mean VXLAN? > > This is how a VXLAN-GPE encapsulator (an upgraded system) can talk to a > VXLAN decapsulator (an existing system) with the LISP control-plane: > > (1) The encapsulator does a lookup on a MAC address to the mapping system. > (2) What gets retunred is the decapsultor’s IP address and an > encapsulation format. In this case the encapsulation format is VXLAN. > (3) The VXLAN-GPE supuported encapsulator then encapsulates packets with > UDP port 4789. > > I am told you can do this with BGP as well by negotiating what > encapsulations are supported. > > > > However, most product managers are not nearly as clever as you are Dino, > and as far as I know Users who today have HW that supports vxlan will have > to buy new switches or line cards to support vxlan-gpe. > > > > Though if someone knows of a vendor who plans to support vxlan-gpe on > their already installed vxlan supporting hardware please speak up. I > certainly did not check with every vendor. > > > > Jon > > > > > Dino > > > _______________________________________________ > nvo3 mailing list > nvo3@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nvo3 > > > > > > -- > > "Do not lie. And do not do what you hate." > > _______________________________________________ > nvo3 mailing list > nvo3@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nvo3 > >
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