How does a node know it should copy these packet to CPU?

Is it by looking inside the packet without terminating the outer layer? Why not 
use TTL expiry?



Regards,
Shahram


> On Jul 5, 2015, at 8:12 PM, Liyizhou <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Lizhong,
> 
> I believe "copy" here means replicate. The original data packet will be 
> keeping going to the final destination.
> 
> Thank,
> Yizhou
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nvo3 [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lizhong Jin
> Sent: Monday, July 06, 2015 9:59 AM
> To: 'Tom Herbert'; 'Deepak Kumar (dekumar)'
> Cc: [email protected]; 'Dapeng Liu'
> Subject: Re: [nvo3] New draft: Path Detection in VXLAN Overlay Network
> 
> Hi guys,
> In the draft, it says:
> Each network device receives the Path Tracking packet from its upstream 
> device, makes a copy of it and passes the copy to its CPU.
> 
> That means the OAM packet will have different data path with the normal 
> packet. The normal packet will not have "copy" action in the datapath. Then 
> how could the OAM packet detect the liveness of the datapath? Did I missed 
> something?
> 
> Regards
> Lizhong
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tom Herbert [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: 2015年6月29日 23:37
>> To: Deepak Kumar (dekumar)
>> Cc: [email protected]; Dapeng Liu
>> Subject: Re: [nvo3] New draft: Path Detection in VXLAN Overlay Network
>> 
>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 6:48 AM, Deepak Kumar (dekumar) 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi Dapeng Liu,
>>> 
>>> I support idea of hardware and controller based Path detection and 
>>> tracking where whole network is OAM capable and packet keeps 
>>> forwarding
>> in hardware.
>>> I believe you guys presented this solution in ONS summit also.
>>> You should explicitly call out in draft that this solution is not 
>>> backward compatible and all switches require to be OAM capable in 
>>> hardware to look at new bit to punt and copy the packet even in underlay.
>> VXLAN-GPE already defines an OAM bit. If all the hardware needs to be 
>> updated anyway, why not just move to that and avoid having to worry 
>> about the compatibility problem?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Deepak
>>> 
>>> From: Dapeng Liu <[email protected]>
>>> Date: Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 10:04 AM
>>> To: <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: [nvo3] New draft: Path Detection in VXLAN Overlay Network
>>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> We have submitted a draft for path detection in VXLAN  overlay network.
>>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-pang-nvo3-vxlan-path-detection
>>> /
>>> 
>>> The draft proposes a method for path detection in VXLAN network and 
>>> it defines the path detection packet format by using one reserve bit 
>>> in the VXLAN header.
>>> 
>>> Comments & suggestions are welcomed.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Dapeng Liu
>>> 
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