[nvo3] question and comment on gross-geneve draft

2014-03-10 Thread Lucy yong
Hi Authors, Transit device. A forwarding element along the path of the tunnel. A transit device MAY be capable of understanding the Geneve frame format but does not originate or terminate Geneve packets. Could you give an example of such transit device? I do not call a firewall device

Re: [nvo3] question and comment on gross-geneve draft

2014-03-10 Thread Tom Herbert
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Lucy yong lucy.y...@huawei.com wrote: Hi Authors, “Transit device. A forwarding element along the path of the tunnel. A transit device MAY be capable of understanding the Geneve frame format but does not originate or terminate Geneve packets.”

Re: [nvo3] question and comment on gross-geneve draft

2014-03-10 Thread AshwoodsmithPeter
Why does the header need to indicate how the packet is to be forwarded? Since the packet is terminated, how to forward it or process it is an otherwise local decision. OAM would be better served to be expressed in an EtherType to eliminate awkward semantics of the bit, so then all geneve

Re: [nvo3] question and comment on gross-geneve draft

2014-03-10 Thread Lucy yong
Please see in-line below w/ [Lucy1] -Original Message- From: Tom Herbert [mailto:therb...@google.com] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 3:23 PM To: Lucy yong Cc: draft-gross-gen...@tools.ietf.org; nvo3@ietf.org Subject: Re: [nvo3] question and comment on gross-geneve draft On Mon, Mar 10

Re: [nvo3] question and comment on gross-geneve draft

2014-03-10 Thread Tom Herbert
Subject: Re: [nvo3] question and comment on gross-geneve draft On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Lucy yong lucy.y...@huawei.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Tom Herbert [mailto:therb...@google.com] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 2:29 PM To: Lucy yong Cc: draft-gross-gen