Customer MAC Address Flushing Mechanisms for Provider Backbone Bridging over VPLS
draft-sajassi-l2vpn-pbb-vpls-cmac-flush-00
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| Authors | Dr. Nabil N. Bitar , Samer Salam , Luyuan Fang , Dinesh Mohan , Ali Sajassi | ||
| Last updated | 2008-07-07 | ||
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Abstract
The scalability of H-VPLS (either with MPLS or Ethernet access network) can be improved by incorporating Provider Backbone Bridge (PBB) functionality in VPLS access. PBB introduces the notion of Backbone MAC (B-MAC) addresses vs. Customer MAC (C-MAC) addresses, thereby leading to the requirement for having MAC address flushing mechanisms for each. This document discusses a C-MAC address flushing notification mechanism to be used in VPLS networks that employ PBB technology.
Authors
Dr. Nabil N. Bitar
Samer Salam
Luyuan Fang
Dinesh Mohan
Ali Sajassi
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