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Re: MPOA & LANE V1.0.

  • From: "Johannes Krohn" <KROHN@ffm.pandacom.de>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 11:10:25 +0100

> Hi,
> Dont you think that a minimal LES ver 1.0 is required to have these TLVs
> sent across to the LECs. If the LES is version 1.0 it will truncate the LE
> ARP REQUEST and RESPONSE frames to 108 bytes missing out the tlvs. So now we
> are talking about manual configuration of the tlvs at the lec side.

Sorry for being unclear. My statement was only on the LEC side. You
are right that LES 1.0 could give a problem if the LES truncates
LE_ARP_REQ and/or LE_ARP_RESP in forwaring these over control direct
or distribute. But this depends on the implementation of LES 1.0.
The LANE 1.0 spec only states that the LES should forward ARP_REQ
(if not answering it) and ARP_RESP. The spec is not saying that the
LES should drop ARP_REQ frames if the RESERVED field on offset 52 is
not zero or truncate the frame after byte 108. I think good
implementation practice in a LES 1.0 would be to forward ARP_REQ and
ARP_RESP _unchanged_ thus not truncating LANE 2.0 TLVs.

Btw. in the LANE 1.0 spec it is explicitly stated that the RESERVED
fields (offset 52 and 76) should be ignored on receipt (by the LES).

  Johannes 
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