Hi all, We submitted a new draft on proxying VXLAN. The details and the draft link are given below.
Your comments will be appreciated. Regards, Behcet On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 11:41 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > A new version of I-D, draft-sarikaya-proxy-vxlan-00.txt > has been successfully submitted by Behcet Sarikaya and posted to the > IETF repository. > > Filename: draft-sarikaya-proxy-vxlan > Revision: 00 > Title: Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network over IEEE 802.1Qbg > Creation date: 2013-11-06 > Group: Individual Submission > Number of pages: 9 > URL: > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-sarikaya-proxy-vxlan-00.txt > Status: > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sarikaya-proxy-vxlan > Htmlized: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sarikaya-proxy-vxlan-00 > > > Abstract: > In data centers there is interest in offloading network functions to > the switches in order to keep the server focused on computation not > networking. IEEE 802.1Qbg or Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) > at the hypervisor simply forces each VM frame sent out to the > external switch regardless of destination. In this case, the > eXtensible Local Area Network operation or proxying at a higher level > switch is needed. Communication functions of the eXtensible Local > Area Network are moved above to the Top of Rack switches. Top of > Rack switch encapsulates the packets and directs them to their > destination. Packets from the eXtensible Local Area Network servers > are decapsulated before sending it to the destination proxy servers. > > > > > Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of > submission > until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. > > The IETF Secretariat > >
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