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Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Authors:

Y. Li
D. Eastlake 3rd
L. Dunbar
R. Perlman
M. Umair

Stream:

IETF

Source:

trill (rtg)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8302

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Abstract

This document describes mechanisms to optimize the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) and Neighbor Discovery (ND) traffic in a Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) campus. TRILL switches maintain a cache of IP / Media Access Control (MAC) address / Data Label bindings that are learned from ARP/ND requests and responses that pass through them. In many cases, this cache allows an edge Routing Bridge (RBridge) to avoid flooding an ARP/ND request by either responding to it directly or encapsulating it and unicasting it. Such optimization reduces packet flooding over a TRILL campus.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.