On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 01:39:56PM +0800, Liuyongqiang(A) wrote: > From: liuyongqiang <liu.liuyongqi...@huawei.com> > > this patch work for the ovs serporting the IEEE 802.1ah > protocol(Mac in Mac or PBB) > > IEEE 802.1ah (PBB or MAC-in-MAC): > PBB (also known as MAC-in-MAC) is used by SPs to resolve these problems. > PBB introduces a hierarchical network architecture with associated new > frame formats which extend the work completed by Provider Bridges (IEEE > 802.1ad). In PBB architecture, Customer networks (using 802.1q bridging) > are aggregated into Provider Bridged networks (using 802.1ad). These, in > turn, are aggregated into PBB networks which utilize the 802.1ah frame > format. The frame format employs a MAC tunneling encapsulation scheme for > tunneling customer Ethernet frames within provider Ethernet frames across > the PBBN. A VLAN ID is used to segregate the backbone into broadcast > domains and a new 24-bit service identifier (I-SID) is defined and used to > associate a given Customer MAC frame with a provider service instance. > There is a clear segregation between I-SIDs and B-VLANs which was missing > in 802.1ad. > PBB network (PBBN) has following benefits: > 1.Imposes no change to Ethernet switching process in the core bridges. > 2.Supports Ethernet private line (E-Line), Ethernet Transparent (E-LAN) > and Ethernet Tree (E-Tree) services. > 3.Provides a clear demarcation point between the customer and provider > domain. > 4.Learns customer MAC addresses only through the backbone edge bridges > (BEB). > 5.Supports upto 2^24 service instances. > 6.Achieves additional PBBN scaling and interconnection using hierarchical > and peer PBBN features. > > this patch defined the basic data structure and basic function of PBB > actions. > > Signed-off-by: liuyongqiang <liu.liuyongqi...@huawei.com>
The basic structure looks correct. We should not modify any of the datapath definitions (e.g. openvswitch.h) until there is an implementation. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
