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RFC 7956
Title: Transparent Interconnection of Lots of
Links (TRILL) Distributed Layer 3 Gateway
Author: W. Hao, Y. Li,
A. Qu, M. Durrani,
P. Sivamurugan
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: September 2016
Mailbox: haoweiguo@huawei.com,
liyizhou@huawei.com,
laodulaodu@gmail.com,
mdurrani@equinix.com,
ponkarthick.sivamurugan@ipinfusion.com
Pages: 28
Characters: 62104
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-trill-irb-14.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7956
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7956
The base TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links)
protocol provides optimal pair-wise data frame forwarding for Layer 2
intra-subnet traffic but not for Layer 3 inter-subnet traffic. A
centralized gateway solution is typically used for Layer 3
inter-subnet traffic forwarding but has the following issues:
1. Sub-optimum forwarding paths for inter-subnet traffic.
2. A centralized gateway that may need to support a very large
number of gateway interfaces in a Data Center, one per tenant per
Data Label used by that tenant, to provide interconnect functionality
for all the Layer 2 Virtual Networks in a TRILL campus.
3. A traffic bottleneck at the gateway.
This document specifies an optional TRILL distributed gateway
solution that resolves these centralized gateway issues.
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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