Does support for PBB make support for AAC unnecessary? The cited Internet draft says that it is for devices that "typically do not support SPBM, MAC-in-MAC (802.1ah), nor I-SID usage".
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:41:53PM +0000, Flynn, Dennis R (Dennis) wrote: > Our initial goal is to make OVS an auto attach client. > > We are watching with great interest the progress of the recently submitted > 802.1ah (PBB) patch. > PBB is the datapath on top of which the SPB control plane is layered and thus > could lay the groundwork for adding auto attach server support to OVS. > > Auto attach also defines the notion of an auto attach proxy which aggregates > auto attach clients. > This could be the logical next step for auto attach within OVS. > > Regards, > Dennis > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Ben Pfaff > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:15 PM > To: Ludovic Beliveau > Cc: dev@openvswitch.org > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 0/3] auto-attach: Add support for IETF Auto > Attach standard > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 06:42:10PM -0400, Ludovic Beliveau wrote: > > This patch sequence provides OVS support for the IETF Auto-Attach SPBM > > draft standard. This standard describes a compact method of using IEEE > > 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) together with a IEEE > > 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) network to automatically attach > > network devices to individual services in a SPB network. The intent > > here is to allow network applications and devices using OVS to be able > > to easily take advantage of features offered by industry standard SPB > > networks. Details of the Auto-Attach standard can be found here. > > > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-unbehagen-lldp-spb-00 > > > > We have modified the OVS source code to integrate basic LLDP protocol > > support as required to implement Auto-Attach (AA). We modeled our > > LLDP code changes after other protocols currently supported by OVS > > (BFD, CFM, etc.). We have chosen to base this OVS LLDP work on the > > open source LLDPD project headed by Vincent Bernat. Details of the LLDPD > > project can be found here. > > Is the goal to make OVS into an auto-attach client or server or both? > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
