Technical Summary
TRILL active-active service provides end stations with flow level
load balance and resilience against link failures at the edge of
TRILL campuses as described in RFC 7379.
This draft specifies a method by which member RBridges in an
active-active edge RBridge group use their own nicknames as the
ingress RBridge nickname to encapsulate frames from attached end
systems. Thus, remote edge RBridges are required to keep multiple
point of attachment for one MAC address within a Data Label.
Working Group Summary
Although early discussion in the TRILL WG favored a pseudo-node
nickname approach similar to that in draft-ietf-trill-pseudonode-
nickname, later analysis resulting in the alternatives described in
the Introduction of this document. Two alternatives, which can be
deployed simultaneously in a TRILL campus, are being advanced by
the WG, the other using a pseudo-nickname in draft-ietf-trill-
pseudonode-nickname.
There was good WG support for this draft in WG LC (2/11-2/25)
Document Quality
The document is well written.
Personnel
Document Shepherd: Donald E. Eastlake, 3rd
Responsible Area Director: Alia Atlas
WG chairs: Susan Hares, Jon Hudson