On 6/17/2016 8:06 AM, Tom Herbert wrote: > The problem was that VXLAN defined unknown flag bits to be > ignored upon receive. So if a legacy VLXAN device ever received a > VXLAN-GPE packet (P-bit set) it would be misinterpreted as a VLXAN > packet. Effectively this makes VXLAN-GPE a new protocol not a > different version of VXLAN.
Right - the issue is that the new protocol is not a *subset* of the older one. That was not the case for VXLAN/VXLAN-GPE, but is for GUE/IP-in-UDP. Joe _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list Int-area@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
