[ovs-dev] [PATCH 10/11] cfm: Six byte MPIDs in extended mode.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Sep 8 21:19:21 UTC 2011


[re-adding dev at openvswitch.org]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 02:13:51PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> > Why 6 bytes? ?Why not, for example, 8?
> 
> Justin and Sanjay thought 6 was a fairly standard number.  I
> personally would prefer two so we can drop this patch altogether.

:-)

> > I guess there must be a reason to use a MAC address as the MPID, but
> > is it a good enough reason to avoid just making room for a wider
> > integer field?
> 
> I think my reason for doing it this way is pretty flimsy in
> retrospect.  I'll change it.

OK, thank you.



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