[rbridge] Range of appllicability (was Re: TTL only - was RE: New fields in shim header?)

[Silvano Gai]

Joe,

You said:
> We had talked before about separate VLANs for broadcast, 
> multicast, and unicast groups.

Not me!

-- Silvano

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Touch [mailto:touch at ISI.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:48 PM
> To: Silvano Gai
> Cc: Dino Farinacci (dino); Erik Nordmark; rbridge at postel.org; Radia
> Perlman
> Subject: Re: [rbridge] Range of appllicability (was Re: TTL only - was
RE:
> New fields in shim header?)
> 
> 
> 
> Silvano Gai wrote:
> > Joe,
> >
> > I have hard time understanding how you can use separate VLANs for
> > unicast and broadcast, this will, for example, break IPv4, due to
ARP.
> 
> Separate for different traffic classes, not separating unicast from
> broadcast. And I'm talking about the VLAN _inside_ the rbridge
(tunneled
> traffic), which has nothing to do with the VLAN outside the rbridge
per
> se.
> 
> Joe