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RFC 7782
Title: Transparent Interconnection of Lots of
Links (TRILL) Active-Active Edge Using Multiple
MAC Attachments
Author: M. Zhang, R. Perlman,
H. Zhai, M. Durrani,
S. Gupta
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: February 2016
Mailbox: zhangmingui@huawei.com,
radia@alum.mit.edu,
honjun.zhai@tom.com,
mdurrani@cisco.com,
sujay.gupta@ipinfusion.com
Pages: 22
Characters: 47989
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-trill-aa-multi-attach-06.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7782
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7782
TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) active-active
service provides end stations with flow-level load balance and
resilience against link failures at the edge of TRILL campuses, as
described in RFC 7379.
This document specifies a method by which member RBridges (also
referred to as Routing Bridges or TRILL switches) in an active-active
edge RBridge group use their own nicknames as ingress RBridge
nicknames to encapsulate frames from attached end systems. Thus,
remote edge RBridges (who are not in the group) will see one host
Media Access Control (MAC) address being associated with the multiple
RBridges in the group. Such remote edge RBridges are required to
maintain all those associations (i.e., MAC attachments) and to not
flip-flop among them (as would occur prior to the implementation of
this specification). The design goals of this specification are
discussed herein.
This document is a product of the Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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