Typed too fast - looping wouldn't happen if the TTL is decremented. What would happen is that the packet would be dropped. I think the text change shows that but happy to poke more :-)
Alia On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Spencer Dawkins at IETF < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Alia, > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Alia Atlas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Spencer, >> >> I think that the "may not work properly" means that the packet would be >> dropped >> by the local PE. The looping issue would happen if the TTL weren't >> decremented >> and that language is being removed. >> > > So, that's two different issues? It might be be great to call them out > separately, if so ... > > Spencer > > >> Regards, >> Alia >> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Spencer Dawkins < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Spencer Dawkins has entered the following ballot position for >>> draft-ietf-bess-virtual-subnet-06: No Objection >>> >>> When responding, please keep the subject line intact and reply to all >>> email addresses included in the To and CC lines. (Feel free to cut this >>> introductory paragraph, however.) >>> >>> >>> Please refer to >>> https://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/discuss-criteria.html >>> for more information about IESG DISCUSS and COMMENT positions. >>> >>> >>> The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here: >>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bess-virtual-subnet/ >>> >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> COMMENT: >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> I support Alia's Discuss. I see that there's proposed text to resolve >>> that position. >>> >>> I will remain a No-Objection if that proposed text is adopted, but I >>> would be more comfortable if the proposed text was more specific than >>> "may not work properly" - is there anything else that can go wrong, >>> besides unbounded looping? >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> BESS mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/bess >>> >> >> >
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