Re: [bess] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC8365 (7735)

2024-02-12 Thread John Scudder
Thanks, Ali. By the way, 7432bis has expired. Please consider refreshing it. —John > On Feb 11, 2024, at 2:49 PM, Ali Sajassi (sajassi) wrote: > > Hi John, > RFC8365 relies heavily on base MPLS-EVPN RFC (i.e., RFC7432/RFC7432bis) and > assumes the reader is very familiar with

Re: [bess] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC8365 (7735)

2024-02-12 Thread Ali Sajassi (sajassi)
Hi John, RFC8365 relies heavily on base MPLS-EVPN RFC (i.e., RFC7432/RFC7432bis) and assumes the reader is very familiar with RFC7432/7432bis. ESI label as described in RFC7432/RFC7432bis is used for split-horizon filtering; however, VxLAN-EVPN (RFC8365) doesn’t use split-horizon filtering

Re: [bess] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC8365 (7735)

2024-02-12 Thread John Scudder
Hi All, I started to look at this and pretty quickly got lost in a maze of twisty passages. RFC 8365 doesn’t mention the "ESI Label" Extended Community at all, I suppose it gets dragged in through the reliance on RFC 7432 as an underlying mechanism. Since the erratum proposes a new requirement

Re: [bess] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC8365 (7735)

2024-02-11 Thread Ali Sajassi (sajassi)
Hi John, RFC8365 relies heavily on base MPLS-EVPN RFC (i.e., RFC7432/RFC7432bis) and assumes the reader is very familiar with RFC7432/7432bis. ESI label as described in RFC7432/RFC7432bis is used for split-horizon filtering; however, VxLAN-EVPN (RFC8365) doesn’t use split-horizon filtering but