Dino, > >> If the destination NVEs don't >> exist, those packets go to black hole. >> >> Yes, it is. But a NVE could be unreachable and if the encapsulating NVE >> has a choice to select another NVE to encapsulate to, it should. This >> makes the architecture more robust. > > You don't need control plane protocol to achieve what you are asking here. A > simple TCP session among NVEs can do the job. When a NVE can't reach the > egress NVE to which the target is attached, drop the packet.
That is a form of a control-plane protocol. And you will have to same scaling challenges with TCP and arguably it is worse, since TCP, inherently, does not have keepalives. Dino > > > Linda > _______________________________________________ nvo3 mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nvo3
