[j-nsp] instance-specific filters for VPLS BUM/flood filtering

[Sebastian Wiesinger]

* Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> [2012-11-06 14:27]:
> > Just to be sure, could you try to use the "interface-specific" keyword
> > for your filter?
> 
> You should have tried that, it won't commit. It was first thing I tried
> when testing VPLS.

Yeah, you're right. I remembered that it didn't matter but I was
wrong.

> Agreed. I was surprised by my results, infact so surprised I started to
> doubt myself, so I just retested. nqe2 is sending traffic to nqe1, nqe1
> is not sending anything, so traffic is unidirectional. 
[...]
> Here is what I'm seeing: http://ip.fi/uu42m.png

Yes, cleary unshared. Btw: what traffic generator is that? Spirent?

> > At the moment I only see the "solution" to have individual flood
> > filters for every VPLS instance which makes large-scale deployment
> > complicated (I wanted to apply a standard filter in an apply-group).
> 
> Yes.

I'm considering opening a bug for this but I fear it will be labled as
"feature request".

Regards

Sebastian

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