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Requirements for multicast to unicast optimization in Trill
draft-liyz-trill-reqs-mlt2uni-opt-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
Author Yizhou Li
Last updated 2010-07-04
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https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-liyz-trill-reqs-mlt2uni-opt-00.txt

Abstract

Instead of always blindly forwarding multicast/broadcast frames through a distribution tree in Trill, some optimizations can be done to convert multicast/broadcast to unicast for certain IP controlling packets. This draft shows the scenarios in which such optimizations are needed.

Authors

Yizhou Li

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