Hi, This the question I have tried to ask during the meeting. The Introduction to draft in question<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-sajassi-bess-evpn-l3-optimized-irb-00#section-1> claims "improving MAC scalability of customer bridges and PE devices significantly". The first of these claims is easy to understand: each specific CE switch has to learn just one MAC address (that of the optimized IRB) in addition to MAC addresses of its locally attached hosts.
But I have doubts about the second of these claims: to the best of my understanding, each PE attached to the subnet in question will learn MAC addresses of all attached hosts in the subnet. What, if anything, did I miss? Regards, and lots of thanks in advance, Sasha Disclaimer This e-mail together with any attachments may contain information of Ribbon Communications Inc. and its Affiliates that is confidential and/or proprietary for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, disclosure, reliance or distribution by others or forwarding without express permission is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and then delete all copies, including any attachments.
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