[c-nsp] NX-OS - Fabric Path

Manu Chao linux.yahoo at gmail.com
Mon Jul 19 18:16:50 EDT 2010


IETF TRILL like CISCO OTV uses an extension of IS-IS as its routing protocol
and because Fabric Path is presented as a pre IETF implementation, i assume
FP and OTV share the same control plane, no?

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Phil Bedard <philxor at gmail.com> wrote:

> >From my understanding the initial FP is proprietary and uses 802.1ah
> (mac-in-mac) encapsulation which is very different from TRILL which has its
> own header format which is not MAC address based (canonical nicknames
> instead.)  Cisco has said they will support standard TRILL at a later date.
>
> Phil
>
> On Jul 19, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Maxwell Reid wrote:
>
> > Fabric Path is based on an proposed IETF standard known as TRILL.
> >
> > ~Max
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:56 PM, bas <kilobit at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Manu Chao <linux.yahoo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> DRILL...
> >>>
> >>> *Will Fabric Path* be based on OTV?
> >>
> >> Have you read Cisco's pages on FP?
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