Good question. Two answers: 1) Doing so, means we can reuse existing encapsulation
2) Doing do enables us tunneling PTP messages. Thx Shahram ----- Original Message ----- From: Stewart Bryant [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 07:19 AM To: Shahram Davari Cc: '[email protected]' <[email protected]>; '[email protected]' <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TICTOC] FW: I-D Action: draft-ietf-tictoc-1588overmpls-02.txt On 27/11/2011 15:13, Shahram Davari wrote: > Note that the offset provided in Signaling is to the start of PTP PDU after > all IP, UDP or Ethernet encapsulation and doesn't need to track it back to > find out what is the encapsulation. > Ah well that gets to the question of why you are carrying the L2/L3 headers at all? All that is needed is the PTP payload itself. Stewart _______________________________________________ TICTOC mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tictoc
