Hi Annop,

This paragraph intended to clarify that (in the same section):

This document proposes that local policy determines whether MAC
   addresses and/or the Unknown MAC route are advertised into a given
   DC. As an example, when all the DC MAC addresses are learned in the
   control/management plane, it may be appropriate to advertise only the
   Unknown MAC route.

Is it not enough?

Thank you.
Jorge

From: BESS <[email protected]> on behalf of Anoop Ghanwani 
<[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at 1:47 AM
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [bess] I-D Action: draft-ietf-bess-dci-evpn-overlay-06.txt

I have a question about the following paragraph in this draft:
>>>

   The solution specified in this document uses the 'Unknown MAC' route

   which is advertised into a given DC by each of the DC's GWs.  This

   route is a regular EVPN MAC/IP Advertisement route in which the MAC

   Address Length is set to 48, the MAC address is set to

   00:00:00:00:00:00, the IP length is set to 0, and the ESI field is

   set to the DC GW's I-ESI.
>>>
How does an ingress NVE tell the difference between an unknown MAC DA that is 
reachable (but perhaps aged out) within the current DC versus a MAC DA that is 
reachable in a remote DC?  In the first case, the correct action would be to 
replicate to all NVEs that participate in the incoming packet's VN; in the 
second case the correct action is to unicast it to the DC GW.  Is this 
assumption that the DC GW will then take over the job of replicating to the 
NVEs within the DC?

It would be good if some clarification can be added to the document.

Thanks,
Anoop

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 1:11 PM, 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the BGP Enabled ServiceS WG of the IETF.

        Title           : Interconnect Solution for EVPN Overlay networks
        Authors         : Jorge Rabadan
                          Senthil Sathappan
                          Wim Henderickx
                          Ali Sajassi
                          John Drake
        Filename        : draft-ietf-bess-dci-evpn-overlay-06.txt
        Pages           : 27
        Date            : 2018-01-22

Abstract:
   This document describes how Network Virtualization Overlays (NVO) can
   be connected to a Wide Area Network (WAN) in order to extend the
   layer-2 connectivity required for some tenants. The solution analyzes
   the interaction between NVO networks running Ethernet Virtual Private
   Networks (EVPN) and other L2VPN technologies used in the WAN, such as
   Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS), VPLS extensions for Provider
   Backbone Bridging (PBB-VPLS), EVPN or PBB-EVPN. It also describes how
   the existing Technical Specifications apply to the Interconnection
   and extends the EVPN procedures needed in some cases. In particular,
   this document describes how EVPN routes are processed on Gateways
   (GWs) that interconnect EVPN-Overlay and EVPN-MPLS networks, as well
   as the Interconnect Ethernet Segment (I-ES) to provide multi-homing,
   and the use of the Unknown MAC route to avoid MAC scale issues on
   Data Center Network Virtualization Edge (NVE) devices.



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