Re: Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-clausen-ipdvb-enc-00.txt

[Gorry Fairhurst <gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk>]

Looks like some good input to the next rev. Can I clarify
a couple of things?

Patrick Cipiere wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> My first comments:
> 
> > 0x???? : Bridged Ethernet Frame
> 
> I would recommend 0x6558 (Transparent Ethernet Bridging)
>
What do you think the FCS should contain? 
Should the SNDU include an Ethernet padding (I assume this doesn't matter)?

> What about 0x0806 : ARP
> 
OK, but you don't need Ethernet-ARP if there is no MAC address, so am I
right in thinking this only applies for bridging. If so, does that mean
we should carry arp's natively or in "bridged SNDUs" - the latter would
seem to be more simple.

>
> More generally speaking, why not allow any defined IEEE Ether Type?
> 

I am not sure we need to do this in the "native" encapsulation, may be
others think so?

We MUST I think allow this as the "type" field of a bridged SNDU - i.e.
one which carries MAC destination & source address in the header.


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