





Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                        R. Perlman
Request for Comments: 6325                                    Intel Labs
Category: Standards Track                                D. Eastlake 3rd
ISSN: 2070-1721                                                   Huawei
                                                                 D. Dutt
                                                                  S. Gai
                                                           Cisco Systems
                                                             A. Ghanwani
                                                                 Brocade
                                                               July 2011


        Routing Bridges (RBridges): Base Protocol Specification

Abstract

   Routing Bridges (RBridges) provide optimal pair-wise forwarding
   without configuration, safe forwarding even during periods of
   temporary loops, and support for multipathing of both unicast and
   multicast traffic.  They achieve these goals using IS-IS routing and
   encapsulation of traffic with a header that includes a hop count.

   RBridges are compatible with previous IEEE 802.1 customer bridges as
   well as IPv4 and IPv6 routers and end nodes.  They are as invisible
   to current IP routers as bridges are and, like routers, they
   terminate the bridge spanning tree protocol.

   The design supports VLANs and the optimization of the distribution of
   multi-destination frames based on VLAN ID and based on IP-derived
   multicast groups.  It also allows unicast forwarding tables at
   transit RBridges to be sized according to the number of RBridges
   (rather than the number of end nodes), which allows their forwarding
   tables to be substantially smaller than in conventional customer
   bridges.

Status of This Memo

   This is an Internet Standards Track document.

   This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
   (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
   received public review and has been approved for publication by the
   Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Further information on
   Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.

   Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
   and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
   http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6325.



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Table of Contents

   1. Introduction ....................................................6
      1.1. Algorhyme V2, by Ray Perlner ...............................7
      1.2. Normative Content and Precedence ...........................7
      1.3. Terminology and Notation in This Document ..................7
      1.4. Categories of Layer 2 Frames ...............................8
      1.5. Acronyms ...................................................9
   2. RBridges .......................................................11
      2.1. General Overview ..........................................11
      2.2. End-Station Addresses .....................................12
      2.3. RBridge Encapsulation Architecture ........................13
      2.4. Forwarding Overview .......................................15
           2.4.1. Known-Unicast ......................................16
           2.4.2. Multi-Destination ..................................16
      2.5. RBridges and VLANs ........................................17
           2.5.1. Link VLAN Assumptions ..............................17
      2.6. RBridges and IEEE 802.1 Bridges ...........................18
           2.6.1. RBridge Ports and 802.1 Layering ...................18
           2.6.2. Incremental Deployment .............................20
   3. Details of the TRILL Header ....................................20
      3.1. TRILL Header Format .......................................20
      3.2. Version (V) ...............................................21
      3.3. Reserved (R) ..............................................21
      3.4. Multi-destination (M) .....................................22
      3.5. Op-Length .................................................22
      3.6. Hop Count .................................................22
      3.7. RBridge Nicknames .........................................23
           3.7.1. Egress RBridge Nickname ............................23
           3.7.2. Ingress RBridge Nickname ...........................24
           3.7.3. RBridge Nickname Selection .........................24
      3.8. TRILL Header Options ......................................26
   4. Other RBridge Design Details ...................................27
      4.1. Ethernet Data Encapsulation ...............................27
           4.1.1. VLAN Tag Information ...............................30
           4.1.2. Inner VLAN Tag .....................................31
           4.1.3. Outer VLAN Tag .....................................31
           4.1.4. Frame Check Sequence (FCS) .........................32
      4.2. Link State Protocol (IS-IS) ...............................32
           4.2.1. IS-IS RBridge Identity .............................32
           4.2.2. IS-IS Instances ....................................33
           4.2.3. TRILL IS-IS Frames .................................33
           4.2.4. TRILL Link Hellos, DRBs, and Appointed Forwarders ..34
                  4.2.4.1. P2P Hello Links ...........................35
                  4.2.4.2. Designated RBridge ........................35
                  4.2.4.3. Appointed VLAN-x Forwarder ................36
                  4.2.4.4. TRILL LSP Information .....................37
           4.2.5. The TRILL ESADI Protocol ...........................40



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                  4.2.5.1. TRILL ESADI Participation .................42
                  4.2.5.2. TRILL ESADI Information ...................42
           4.2.6. SPF, Forwarding, and Ambiguous Destinations ........43
      4.3. Inter-RBridge Link MTU Size ...............................43
           4.3.1. Determining Campus-Wide TRILL IS-IS MTU Size .......44
           4.3.2. Testing Link MTU Size ..............................44
      4.4. TRILL-Hello Protocol ......................................45
           4.4.1. TRILL-Hello Rationale ..............................45
           4.4.2. TRILL-Hello Contents and Timing ....................46
                  4.4.2.1. TRILL Neighbor List .......................48
           4.4.3. TRILL MTU-Probe and TRILL Hello VLAN Tagging .......49
           4.4.4. Multiple Ports on the Same Link ....................50
           4.4.5. VLAN Mapping within a Link .........................51
      4.5. Distribution Trees ........................................52
           4.5.1. Distribution Tree Calculation ......................54
           4.5.2. Multi-Destination Frame Checks .....................55
           4.5.3. Pruning the Distribution Tree ......................57
           4.5.4. Tree Distribution Optimization .....................58
           4.5.5. Forwarding Using a Distribution Tree ...............59
      4.6. Frame Processing Behavior .................................60
           4.6.1. Receipt of a Native Frame ..........................60
                  4.6.1.1. Native Unicast Case .......................60
                  4.6.1.2. Native Multicast and Broadcast Frames .....61
           4.6.2. Receipt of a TRILL Frame ...........................62
                  4.6.2.1. TRILL Control Frames ......................63
                  4.6.2.2. TRILL ESADI Frames ........................63
                  4.6.2.3. TRILL Data Frames .........................63
                  4.6.2.4. Known Unicast TRILL Data Frames ...........63
                  4.6.2.5. Multi-Destination TRILL Data Frames .......64
           4.6.3. Receipt of a Layer 2 Control Frame .................65
      4.7. IGMP, MLD, and MRD Learning ...............................66
      4.8. End-Station Address Details ...............................66
           4.8.1. Learning End-Station Addresses .....................67
           4.8.2. Learning Confidence Level Rationale ................68
           4.8.3. Forgetting End-Station Addresses ...................69
           4.8.4. Shared VLAN Learning ...............................70
      4.9. RBridge Ports .............................................71
           4.9.1. RBridge Port Configuration .........................71
           4.9.2. RBridge Port Structure .............................73
           4.9.3. BPDU Handling ......................................76
                  4.9.3.1. Receipt of BPDUs ..........................76
                  4.9.3.2. Root Bridge Changes .......................76
                  4.9.3.3. Transmission of BPDUs .....................77
           4.9.4. Dynamic VLAN Registration ..........................77
   5. RBridge Parameters .............................................77
      5.1. Per RBridge ...............................................78
      5.2. Per Nickname Per RBridge ..................................79
      5.3. Per Port Per RBridge ......................................79



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      5.4. Per VLAN Per RBridge ......................................80
   6. Security Considerations ........................................80
      6.1. VLAN Security Considerations ..............................81

      6.2. BPDU/Hello Denial-of-Service Considerations ...............82
   7. Assignment Considerations ......................................82
      7.1. IANA Considerations .......................................83
      7.2. IEEE Registration Authority Considerations ................83
   8. Normative References ...........................................83
   9. Informative References .........................................85
   Appendix A. Incremental Deployment Considerations .................87
      A.1. Link Cost Determination ...................................87
      A.2. Appointed Forwarders and Bridged LANs .....................87
      A.3. Wiring Closet Topology ....................................89
           A.3.1. The RBridge Solution ...............................90
           A.3.2. The VLAN Solution ..................................90
           A.3.3. The Spanning Tree Solution .........................90
           A.3.4. Comparison of Solutions ............................91
   Appendix B. Trunk and Access Port Configuration ...................92
   Appendix C. Multipathing ..........................................92
   Appendix D. Determination of VLAN and Priority ....................95
   Appendix E. Support of IEEE 802.1Q-2005 Amendments ................95
      E.1. Completed Amendments ......................................96
      E.2. In-Process Amendments .....................................97
   Appendix F. Acknowledgements ......................................98

Table of Figures

   Figure 1: Interconnected RBridges .................................14
   Figure 2: An Ethernet Encapsulated TRILL Frame ....................14
   Figure 3: A PPP Encapsulated TRILL Frame ..........................14
   Figure 4: RBridge Port Model ......................................19
   Figure 5: TRILL Header ............................................21
   Figure 6: Options Area Initial Flags Octet ........................26
   Figure 7: TRILL Data Encapsulation over Ethernet ..................29
   Figure 8: VLAN Tag Information ....................................30
   Figure 9: TRILL IS-IS Frame Format ................................34
   Figure 10: TRILL ESADI Frame Format ...............................41
   Figure 11: Detailed RBridge Port Model ............................74
   Figure 12: Link Cost of a Bridged Link ............................87
   Figure 13: Wiring Closet Topology .................................89
   Figure 14: Multi-Destination Multipath ............................93
   Figure 15: Known Unicast Multipath ................................94








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1.  Introduction

   In traditional IPv4 and IPv6 networks, each subnet has a unique
   prefix.  Therefore, a node in multiple subnets has multiple IP
   addresses, typically one per interface.  This also means that when an
   interface moves from one subnet to another, it changes its IP
   address.  Administration of IP networks is complicated because IP
   routers require per-port subnet address configuration.  Careful IP
   address management is required to avoid creating subnets that are
   sparsely populated, wasting addresses.

   IEEE 802.1 bridges avoid these problems by transparently gluing many
   physical links into what appears to IP to be a single LAN [802.1D].
   However, 802.1 bridge forwarding using the spanning tree protocol has
   some disadvantages:

   o  The spanning tree protocol works by blocking ports, limiting the
      number of forwarding links, and therefore creates bottlenecks by
      concentrating traffic onto selected links.

   o  Forwarding is not pair-wise shortest path, but is instead whatever
      path remains after the spanning tree eliminates redundant paths.

   o  The Ethernet header does not contain a hop count (or Time to Live
      (TTL)) field.  This is dangerous when there are temporary loops
      such as when spanning tree messages are lost or components such as
      repeaters are added.

   o  VLANs can partition when the spanning tree reconfigures.

   This document presents the design for RBridges (Routing Bridges
   [RBridges]) that implement the TRILL protocol and are poetically
   summarized below.  Rbridges combine the advantages of bridges and
   routers and, as specified in this document, are the application of
   link state routing to the VLAN-aware customer bridging problem.  With
   the exceptions discussed in this document, RBridges can incrementally
   replace IEEE [802.1Q-2005] or [802.1D] customer bridges.

   While RBridges can be applied to a variety of link protocols, this
   specification focuses on IEEE [802.3] links.  Use with other link
   types is expected to be covered in other documents.

   The TRILL protocol, as specified herein, is designed to be a Local
   Area Network protocol and not designed with the goal of scaling
   beyond the size of existing bridged LANs.  For further discussion of
   the problem domain addressed by RBridges, see [RFC5556].





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1.1.  Algorhyme V2, by Ray Perlner

   I hope that we shall one day see
   A graph more lovely than a tree.

   A graph to boost efficiency
   While still configuration-free.

   A network where RBridges can
   Route packets to their target LAN.

   The paths they find, to our elation,
   Are least cost paths to destination!

   With packet hop counts we now see,
   The network need not be loop-free!

   RBridges work transparently,
   Without a common spanning tree.

1.2.  Normative Content and Precedence

   The bulk of the normative material in this specification appears in
   Sections 1 through 4.  In case of conflict between provisions in
   these four sections, the provision in the higher numbered section
   prevails.

1.3.  Terminology and Notation in This Document

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

   "TRILL" is the protocol specified herein while an "RBridge" is a
   device that implements that protocol.  The second letter in Rbridge
   is case insensitive.  Both Rbridge and RBridge are correct.

   In this document, the term "link", unless otherwise qualified, means
   "bridged LAN", that is to say, the combination of one or more [802.3]
   links with zero or more bridges, hubs, repeaters, or the like.  The
   term "simple link" or the like is used indicate a point-to-point or
   multi-access link with no included bridges or RBridges.

   In this document, the term "port", unless otherwise qualified,
   includes physical, virtual [802.1AE], and pseudo [802.1X] ports.  The
   term "physical port" or the like is used to indicate the physical
   point of connection between an RBridge and a link.




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   A "campus" is to RBridges as a "bridged LAN" is to bridges.  An
   RBridge campus consists of a network of RBridges, bridges, hubs,
   repeaters, simple links, and the like and it is bounded by end
   stations and routers.

   The term "spanning tree" in this document includes both classic
   spanning tree and rapid spanning tree (as in the Rapid Spanning Tree
   Protocol).

   This document uses hexadecimal notation for MAC addresses.  Two
   hexadecimal digits represent each octet (that is, 8-bit byte), giving
   the value of the octet as an unsigned integer.  A hyphen separates
   successive octets.  This document consistently uses IETF bit
   ordering, although the physical order of bit transmission within an
   octet on an IEEE [802.3] link is from the lowest order bit to the
   highest order bit, the reverse of IETF ordering.

1.4.  Categories of Layer 2 Frames

   In this document, Layer 2 frames are divided into five categories:

   o  Layer 2 control frames (such as Bridge PDUs (BPDUs))
   o  native frames (non-TRILL-encapsulated data frames)
   o  TRILL Data frames (TRILL-encapsulated data frames)
   o  TRILL control frames
   o  TRILL other frames

   The way these five types of frames are distinguished is as follows:

   o  Layer 2 control frames are those with a multicast destination
      address in the range 01-80-C2-00-00-00 to 01-80-C2-00-00-0F or
      equal to 01-80-C2-00-00-21.  RBridges MUST NOT encapsulate and
      forward such frames, though they MAY, unless otherwise specified
      in this document, perform the Layer 2 function (such as MAC-level
      security) of the control frame.  Frames with a destination address
      of 01-80-C2-00-00-00 (BPDU) or 01-80-C2-00-00-21 (VLAN
      Registration Protocol) are called "high-level control frames" in
      this document.  All other Layer 2 control frames are called "low-
      level control frames".

   o  Native frames are those that are not control frames and have an
      Ethertype other than "TRILL" or "L2-IS-IS" and have a destination
      MAC address that is not one of the 16 multicast addresses reserved
      for TRILL.

   o  TRILL Data frames have the Ethertype "TRILL".  In addition, TRILL
      data frames, if multicast, have the multicast destination MAC
      address "All-RBridges".



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   o  TRILL control frames have the Ethertype "L2-IS-IS".  In addition,
      TRILL control frames, if multicast, have the multicast destination
      MAC addresses of "All-IS-IS-RBridges".  (Note that ESADI frames
      look on the outside like TRILL data and are so handled but, when
      decapsulated, have the L2-IS-IS Ethertype.)

   o  TRILL other frames are those with any of the 16 multicast
      destination addresses reserved for TRILL other than All-RBridges
      and All-IS-IS-RBridges.  RBridges conformant to this specification
      MUST discard TRILL other frames.

1.5.  Acronyms

   AllL1ISs - All Level 1 Intermediate Systems

   AllL2ISs - All Level 2 Intermediate Systems

   BPDU - Bridge PDU

   CHbH - Critical Hop-by-Hop

   CItE - Critical Ingress-to-Egress

   CSNP - Complete Sequence Number PDU

   DA - Destination Address

   DR - Designated Router

   DRB - Designated RBridge

   EAP - Extensible Authentication Protocol

   ECMP - Equal Cost Multipath

   EISS - Extended Internal Sublayer Service

   ESADI - End-Station Address Distribution Information

   FCS - Frame Check Sequence

   GARP - Generic Attribute Registration Protocol

   GVRP - GARP VLAN Registration Protocol

   IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

   IGMP - Internet Group Management Protocol



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   IP - Internet Protocol

   IS-IS - Intermediate System to Intermediate System

   ISS - Internal Sublayer Service

   LAN - Local Area Network

   LSP - Link State PDU

   MAC - Media Access Control

   MLD - Multicast Listener Discovery

   MRD - Multicast Router Discovery

   MTU - Maximum Transmission Unit

   MVRP - Multiple VLAN Registration Protocol

   NSAP - Network Service Access Point

   P2P - Point-to-point

   PDU - Protocol Data Unit

   PPP - Point-to-Point Protocol

   RBridge - Routing Bridge

   RPF - Reverse Path Forwarding

   SA - Source Address

   SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol

   SPF - Shortest Path First

   TLV - Type, Length, Value

   TRILL - TRansparent Interconnection of Lots of Links

   VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network

   VRP - VLAN Registration Protocol






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2.  RBridges

   This section provides a high-level overview of RBridges, which
   implement the TRILL protocol, omitting some details.  Sections 3 and
   4 below provide more detailed specifications.

   TRILL, as described in this document and with the exceptions
   discussed herein, provides [802.1Q-2005] VLAN-aware customer bridging
   service.  As described below, TRILL is layered above the ports of an
   RBridge.

   The RBridges specified by this document do not supply provider
   [802.1ad] or provider backbone [802.1ah] bridging or the like.  The
   extension of TRILL to provide such provider services is left for
   future work that will be separately documented.  However, provider or
   provider backbone bridges may be used to interconnect parts of an
   RBridge campus.

2.1.  General Overview

   RBridges run a link state protocol amongst themselves.  This gives
   them enough information to compute pair-wise optimal paths for
   unicast, and calculate distribution trees for delivery of frames
   either to destinations whose location is unknown or to
   multicast/broadcast groups [RBridges] [RP1999].

   To mitigate temporary loop issues, RBridges forward based on a header
   with a hop count.  RBridges also specify the next hop RBridge as the
   frame destination when forwarding unicast frames across a shared-
   media link, which avoids spawning additional copies of frames during
   a temporary loop.  A Reverse Path Forwarding Check and other checks
   are performed on multi-destination frames to further control
   potentially looping traffic (see Section 4.5.2).

   The first RBridge that a unicast frame encounters in a campus, RB1,
   encapsulates the received frame with a TRILL header that specifies
   the last RBridge, RB2, where the frame is decapsulated.  RB1 is known
   as the "ingress RBridge" and RB2 is known as the "egress RBridge".
   To save room in the TRILL header and simplify forwarding lookups, a
   dynamic nickname acquisition protocol is run among the RBridges to
   select 2-octet nicknames for RBridges, unique within the campus,
   which are an abbreviation for the IS-IS ID of the RBridge.  The
   2-octet nicknames are used to specify the ingress and egress RBridges
   in the TRILL header.

   Multipathing of multi-destination frames through alternative
   distribution trees and ECMP (Equal Cost Multipath) of unicast frames
   are supported (see Appendix C).



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   Networks with a more mesh-like structure will benefit to a greater
   extent from the multipathing and optimal paths provided by TRILL than
   will more tree-like networks.

   RBridges run a protocol on a link to elect a "Designated RBridge"
   (DRB).  The TRILL-IS-IS election protocol on a link is a little
   different from the Layer 3 IS-IS [ISO10589] election protocol,
   because in TRILL it is essential that only one RBridge be elected
   DRB, whereas in Layer 3 IS-IS it is possible for multiple routers to
   be elected Designated Router (also known as Designated Intermediate
   System).  As with an IS-IS router, the DRB may give a pseudonode name
   to the link, issue an LSP (Link State PDU) on behalf of the
   pseudonode, and issues CSNPs (Complete Sequence Number PDUs) on the
   link.  Additionally, the DRB has some TRILL-specific duties,
   including specifying which VLAN will be the Designated VLAN used for
   communication between RBridges on that link (see Section 4.2.4.2).

   The DRB either encapsulates/decapsulates all data traffic to/from the
   link, or, for load splitting, delegates this responsibility, for one
   or more VLANs, to other RBridges on the link.  There must at all
   times be at most one RBridge on the link that
   encapsulates/decapsulates traffic for a particular VLAN.  We will
   refer to the RBridge appointed to forward VLAN-x traffic on behalf of
   the link as the "appointed VLAN-x forwarder" (see Section 4.2.4.3).
   (Section 2.5 discusses VLANs further.)

   Rbridges SHOULD support SNMPv3 [RFC3411].  The Rbridge MIB will be
   specified in a separate document.  If IP service is available to an
   RBridge, it SHOULD support SNMPv3 over UDP over IPv4 [RFC3417] and
   IPv6 [RFC3419]; however, management can be used, within a campus,
   even for an RBridge that lacks an IP or other Layer 3 transport stack
   or which does not have a Layer 3 address, by transporting SNMP with
   Ethernet [RFC4789].

2.2.  End-Station Addresses

   An RBridge, RB1, that is the VLAN-x forwarder on any of its links
   MUST learn the location of VLAN-x end nodes, both on the links for
   which it is VLAN-x forwarder and on other links in the campus.  RB1
   learns the port, VLAN, and Layer 2 (MAC) addresses of end nodes on
   links for which it is VLAN-x forwarder from the source address of
   frames received, as bridges do (for example, see Section 8.7 of
   [802.1Q-2005]), or through configuration or a Layer 2 explicit
   registration protocol such as IEEE 802.11 association and
   authentication.  RB1 learns the VLAN and Layer 2 address of distant
   VLAN-x end nodes, and the corresponding RBridge to which they are





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   attached, by looking at the ingress RBridge nickname in the TRILL
   header and the VLAN and source MAC address of the inner frame of
   TRILL Data frames that it decapsulates.

   Additionally, an RBridge that is the appointed VLAN-x forwarder on
   one or more links MAY use the End-Station Address Distribution
   Information (ESADI) protocol to announce some or all of the attached
   VLAN-x end nodes on those links.

   The ESADI protocol could be used to announce end nodes that have been
   explicitly enrolled.  Such information might be more authoritative
   than that learned from data frames being decapsulated onto the link.
   Also, the addresses enrolled and distributed in this way can be more
   secure for two reasons: (1) the enrollment might be authenticated
   (for example, by cryptographically based EAP methods via [802.1X]),
   and (2) the ESADI protocol also supports cryptographic authentication
   of its messages [RFC5304] [RFC5310] for more secure transmission.

   If an end station is unplugged from one RBridge and plugged into
   another, then, depending on circumstances, frames addressed to that
   end station can be black-holed.  That is, they can be sent just to
   the older RBridge that the end station used to be connected to until
   cached address information at some remote RBridge(s) times out,
   possibly for a number of minutes or longer.  With the ESADI protocol,
   the link interruption from the unplugging can cause an immediate
   update to be sent.

   Even if the ESADI protocol is used to announce or learn attached end
   nodes, RBridges MUST still learn from received native frames and
   decapsulated TRILL Data frames unless configured not to do so.
   Advertising end nodes using ESADI is optional, as is learning from
   these announcements.

   (See Section 4.8 for further end-station address details.)

2.3.  RBridge Encapsulation Architecture

   The Layer 2 technology used to connect Rbridges may be either IEEE
   [802.3] or some other link technology such as PPP [RFC1661].  This is
   possible since the RBridge relay function is layered on top of the
   Layer 2 technologies.  However, this document specifies only an IEEE
   802.3 encapsulation.

   Figure 1 shows two RBridges, RB1 and RB2, interconnected through an
   Ethernet cloud.  The Ethernet cloud may include hubs, point-to-point
   or shared media, IEEE 802.1D bridges, or 802.1Q bridges.





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                               ------------
                              /            \
                 +-----+     /   Ethernet   \    +-----+
                 | RB1 |----<                >---| RB2 |
                 +-----+     \    Cloud     /    +-----+
                              \            /
                               ------------

                     Figure 1: Interconnected RBridges

   Figure 2 shows the format of a TRILL data or ESADI frame traveling
   through the Ethernet cloud between RB1 and RB2.

                    +--------------------------------+
                    |     Outer Ethernet Header      |
                    +--------------------------------+
                    |          TRILL Header          |
                    +--------------------------------+
                    |     Inner Ethernet Header      |
                    +--------------------------------+
                    |        Ethernet Payload        |
                    +--------------------------------+
                    |         Ethernet FCS           |
                    +--------------------------------+

              Figure 2: An Ethernet Encapsulated TRILL Frame

   In the case of media different from Ethernet, the header specific to
   that media replaces the outer Ethernet header.  For example, Figure 3
   shows a TRILL encapsulation over PPP.

                    +--------------------------------+
                    |           PPP Header           |
                    +--------------------------------+
                    |          TRILL Header          |
                    +--------------------------------+
                    |     Inner Ethernet Header      |
                    +--------------------------------+
                    |        Ethernet Payload        |
                    +--------------------------------+
                    |             PPP FCS            |
                    +--------------------------------+

                 Figure 3: A PPP Encapsulated TRILL Frame

   The outer header is link-specific and, although this document
   specifies only [802.3] links, other links are allowed.




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   In both cases, the inner Ethernet header and the Ethernet Payload
   come from the original frame and are encapsulated with a TRILL header
   as they travel between RBridges.  Use of a TRILL header offers the
   following benefits:

   1. loop mitigation through use of a hop count field;

   2. elimination of the need for end-station VLAN and MAC address
      learning in transit RBridges;

   3. direction of unicast frames towards the egress RBridge (this
      enables unicast forwarding tables of transit RBridges to be sized
      with the number of RBridges rather than the total number of end
      nodes); and

   4. provision of a separate VLAN tag for forwarding traffic between
      RBridges, independent of the VLAN of the native frame.

   When forwarding unicast frames between RBridges, the outer header has
   the MAC destination address of the next hop Rbridge, to avoid frame
   duplication if the inter-RBridge link is multi-access.  This also
   enables multipathing of unicast, since the transmitting RBridge can
   specify the next hop.  Having the outer header specify the
   transmitting RBridge as the source address ensures that any bridges
   inside the Ethernet cloud will not get confused, as they might be if
   multipathing is in use and they were to see the original source or
   ingress RBridge in the outer header.

2.4.  Forwarding Overview

   RBridges are true routers in the sense that, in the forwarding of a
   frame by a transit RBridge, the outer Layer 2 header is replaced at
   each hop with an appropriate Layer 2 header for the next hop, and a
   hop count is decreased.  Despite these modifications of the outer
   Layer 2 header and the hop count in the TRILL header, the original
   encapsulated frame is preserved, including the original frame's VLAN
   tag.  See Section 4.6 for more details.

   From a forwarding standpoint, transit frames may be classified into
   two categories: known-unicast and multi-destination.  Layer 2 control
   frames and TRILL control and TRILL other frames are not transit
   frames, are not forwarded by RBridges, and are not included in these
   categories.








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2.4.1.  Known-Unicast

   These frames have a unicast inner MAC destination address
   (Inner.MacDA) and are those for which the ingress RBridge knows the
   egress RBridge for the destination MAC address in the frame's VLAN.

   Such frames are forwarded Rbridge hop by Rbridge hop to their egress
   Rbridge.

2.4.2.  Multi-Destination

   These are frames that must be delivered to multiple destinations.

   Multi-destination frames include the following:

   1. unicast frames for which the location of the destination is
      unknown: the Inner.MacDA is unicast, but the ingress RBridge does
      not know its location in the frame's VLAN.

   2. multicast frames for which the Layer 2 destination address is
      derived from an IP multicast address: the Inner.MacDA is
      multicast, from the set of Layer 2 multicast addresses derived
      from IPv4 [RFC1112] or IPv6 [RFC2464] multicast addresses.  These
      frames are handled somewhat differently in different subcases:

      2.1. IGMP [RFC3376] and MLD [RFC2710] multicast group membership
           reports

      2.2. IGMP [RFC3376] and MLD [RFC2710] queries and MRD [RFC4286]
           announcement messages

      2.3. other IP-derived Layer 2 multicast frames

   3. multicast frames for which the Layer 2 destination address is not
      derived from an IP multicast address: the Inner.MacDA is
      multicast, and not from the set of Layer 2 multicast addresses
      derived from IPv4 or IPv6 multicast addresses.

   4. broadcast frames: the Inner.MacDA is broadcast
      (FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF).

   RBridges build distribution trees (see Section 4.5) and use these
   trees for forwarding multi-destination frames.  Each distribution
   tree reaches all RBridges in the campus, is shared across all VLANs,
   and may be used for the distribution of a native frame that is in any
   VLAN.  However, the distribution of any particular frame on a
   distribution tree is pruned in different ways for different cases to
   avoid unnecessary propagation of the frame.



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2.5.  RBridges and VLANs

   A VLAN is a way to partition end nodes in a campus into different
   Layer 2 communities [802.1Q-2005].  Use of VLANs requires
   configuration.  By default, the port of receipt determines the VLAN
   of a frame sent by an end station.  End stations can also explicitly
   insert this information in a frame.

   IEEE [802.1Q-2005] bridges can be configured to support multiple
   customer VLANs over a single simple link by inserting/removing a VLAN
   tag in the frame.  VLAN tags used by TRILL have the same format as
   VLAN tags defined in IEEE [802.1Q-2005].  As shown in Figure 2, there
   are two places where such tags may be present in a TRILL-encapsulated
   frame sent over an IEEE [802.3] link: one in the outer header
   (Outer.VLAN) and one in the inner header (Inner.VLAN).  Inner and
   outer VLANs are further discussed in Section 4.1.

   RBridges enforce delivery of a native frame originating in a
   particular VLAN only to other links in the same VLAN; however, there
   are a few differences in the handling of VLANs between an RBridge
   campus and an 802.1 bridged LAN as described below.

   (See Section 4.2.4 for further discussion of TRILL IS-IS operation on
   a link.)

2.5.1.  Link VLAN Assumptions

   Certain configurations of bridges may cause partitions of a VLAN on a
   link.  For such configurations, a frame sent by one RBridge to a
   neighbor on that link might not arrive, if tagged with a VLAN that is
   partitioned due to bridge configuration.

   TRILL requires at least one VLAN per link that gives full
   connectivity to all the RBridges on that link.  The default VLAN is
   1, though RBridges may be configured to use a different VLAN.  The
   DRB dictates to the other RBridges which VLAN to use.

   Since there will be only one appointed forwarder for any VLAN, say,
   VLAN-x, on a link, if bridges are configured to cause VLAN-x to be
   partitioned on a link, some VLAN-x end nodes on that link may be
   orphaned (unable to communicate with the rest of the campus).

   It is possible for bridge and port configuration to cause VLAN
   mapping on a link (where a VLAN-x frame turns into a VLAN-y frame).
   TRILL detects this by inserting a copy of the outer VLAN into TRILL-
   Hello messages and checking it on receipt.  If detected, it takes





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   steps to ensure that there is at most a single appointed forwarder on
   the link, to avoid possible frame duplication or loops (see Section
   4.4.5).

   TRILL behaves as conservatively as possible, avoiding loops rather
   than avoiding partial connectivity.  As a result, lack of
   connectivity may result from bridge or port misconfiguration.

2.6.  RBridges and IEEE 802.1 Bridges

   RBridge ports are, except as described below, layered on top of IEEE
   [802.1Q-2005] port facilities.

2.6.1.  RBridge Ports and 802.1 Layering

   RBridge ports make use of [802.1Q-2005] port VLAN and priority
   processing.  In addition, they MAY implement other lower-level 802.1
   protocols as well as protocols for the link in use, such as PAUSE
   (Annex 31B of [802.3]), port-based access control [802.1X], MAC
   security [802.1AE], or link aggregation [802.1AX].

   However, RBridges do not use spanning tree and do not block ports as
   spanning tree does.  Figure 4 shows a high-level diagram of an
   RBridge with one port connected to an IEEE 802.3 link.  Single lines
   represent the flow of control information, double lines the flow of
   both frames and control information.

























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                          +-----------------------------------------
                          |                RBridge
                          |
                          |     Forwarding Engine, IS-IS, etc.
                          | Processing of native and TRILL frames
                          |
                          +----+---+--------++----------------------
                               |   |        ||         other ports...
                 +-------------+   |        ||
                 |                 |        ||
    +------------+-------------+   |        ||
    |         RBridge          |   |   +----++-------+ <- EISS
    |                          |   |   |             |
    | High-Level Control Frame |   |   | 802.1Q-2005 |
    |  Processing (BPDU, VRP)  |   |   |  Port VLAN  |
    |                          |   |   |  & Priority |
    +-----------++-------------+   |   |  Processing |
                ||                 |   |             |
      +---------++-----------------+---+-------------+ <-- ISS
      |                                              |
      |    802.1/802.3 Low-Level Control Frame       |
      |    Processing, Port/Link Control Logic       |
      |                                              |
      +-----------++---------------------------------+
                  ||
                  ||        +------------+
                  ||        | 802.3 PHY  |
                  |+--------+ (Physical  +--------- 802.3
                  +---------+ Interface) +--------- Link
                            |            |
                            +------------+

                       Figure 4: RBridge Port Model

   The upper interface to the low-level port/link control logic
   corresponds to the Internal Sublayer Service (ISS) in [802.1Q-2005].
   In RBridges, high-level control frames are processed above the ISS
   interface.

   The upper interface to the port VLAN and priority processing
   corresponds to the Extended Internal Sublayer Service (EISS) in
   [802.1Q-2005].  In RBridges, native and TRILL frames are processed
   above the EISS interface and are subject to port VLAN and priority
   processing.







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2.6.2.  Incremental Deployment

   Because RBridges are compatible with IEEE [802.1Q-2005] customer
   bridges, except as discussed in this document, a bridged LAN can be
   upgraded by incrementally replacing such bridges with RBridges.
   Bridges that have not yet been replaced are transparent to RBridge
   traffic.  The physical links directly interconnected by such bridges,
   together with the bridges themselves, constitute bridged LANs.  These
   bridged LANs appear to RBridges to be multi-access links.

   If the bridges replaced by RBridges were default configuration
   bridges, then their RBridge replacements will not require
   configuration.

   Because RBridges, as described in this document, only provide
   customer services, they cannot replace provider bridges or provider
   backbone bridges, just as a customer bridge can't replace a provider
   bridge.  However, such provider devices can be part of the bridged
   LAN between RBridges.  Extension of TRILL to support provider
   services is left for future work and will be separately documented.

   Of course, if the bridges replaced had any port level protocols
   enabled, such as port-based access control [802.1X] or MAC security
   [802.1AE], replacement RBridges would need the same port level
   protocols enabled and similarly configured.  In addition, the
   replacement RBridges would have to support the same link type and
   link level protocols as the replaced bridges.

   An RBridge campus will work best if all IEEE [802.1D] and
   [802.1Q-2005] bridges are replaced with RBridges, assuming the
   RBridges have the same speed and capacity as the bridges.  However,
   there may be intermediate states, where only some bridges have been
   replaced by RBridges, with inferior performance.

   See Appendix A for further discussion of incremental deployment.

3.  Details of the TRILL Header

   This section specifies the TRILL header.  Section 4 below provides
   other RBridge design details.

3.1.  TRILL Header Format

   The TRILL header is shown in Figure 5 and is independent of the data
   link layer used.  When that layer is IEEE [802.3], it is prefixed
   with the 16-bit TRILL Ethertype [RFC5342], making it 64-bit aligned.
   If Op-Length is a multiple of 64 bits, then 64-bit alignment is
   normally maintained for the content of an encapsulated frame.



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                                   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
                                   | V | R |M|Op-Length| Hop Count |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Egress RBridge Nickname     |  Ingress RBridge Nickname     |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |  Options...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-

                          Figure 5: TRILL Header

   The header contains the following fields that are described in the
   sections referenced:

   o  V (Version): 2-bit unsigned integer.  See Section 3.2.

   o  R (Reserved): 2 bits.  See Section 3.3.

   o  M (Multi-destination): 1 bit.  See Section 3.4.

   o  Op-Length (Options Length): 5-bit unsigned integer.  See Section
      3.5.

   o  Hop Count: 6-bit unsigned integer.  See Section 3.6.

   o  Egress RBridge Nickname: 16-bit identifier.  See Section 3.7.1.

   o  Ingress RBridge Nickname: 16-bit identifier.  See Section 3.7.2.

   o  Options: present if Op-Length is non-zero.  See Section 3.8.

3.2.  Version (V)

   Version (V) is a 2-bit field.  Version zero of TRILL is specified in
   this document.  An RBridge RB1 MUST check the V field in a received
   TRILL-encapsulated frame.  If the V field has a value not recognized
   by RB1, then RB1 MUST silently discard the frame.  The allocation of
   new TRILL Version numbers requires an IETF Standards Action.

3.3.  Reserved (R)

   The two R bits are reserved for future use in extensions to this
   version zero of the TRILL protocol.  They MUST be set to zero when
   the TRILL header is added by an ingress RBridge, transparently copied
   but otherwise ignored by transit RBridges, and ignored by egress
   RBridges.  The allocation of reserved TRILL header bits requires an
   IETF Standards Action.





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3.4.  Multi-destination (M)

   The Multi-destination bit (see Section 2.4.2) indicates that the
   frame is to be delivered to a class of destination end stations via a
   distribution tree and that the egress RBridge nickname field
   specifies this tree.  In particular:

   o  M = 0 (FALSE) - The egress RBridge nickname contains a nickname of
      the egress Rbridge for a known unicast MAC address.

   o  M = 1 (TRUE) - The egress RBridge nickname field contains a
      nickname that specifies a distribution tree.  This nickname is
      selected by the ingress RBridge for a TRILL Data frame or by the
      source RBridge for a TRILL ESADI frame.

3.5.  Op-Length

   There are provisions to express in the TRILL header that a frame is
   using an optional capability and to encode information into the
   header in connection with that capability.

   The Op-Length header field gives the length of the TRILL header
   options in units of 4 octets, which allows up to 124 octets of
   options area.  If Op-Length is zero, there are no options present.
   If options are present, they follow immediately after the Ingress
   Rbridge Nickname field.

   See Section 3.8 for more information on TRILL header options.

3.6.  Hop Count

   The Hop Count field is a 6-bit unsigned integer.  An Rbridge drops
   frames received with a hop count of zero, otherwise it decrements the
   hop count.  (This behavior is different from IPv4 and IPv6 in order
   to support the later addition of a traceroute-like facility that
   would be able to get a hop count exceeded from an egress RBridge.)

   For known unicast frames, the ingress RBridge SHOULD set the Hop
   Count in excess of the number of RBridge hops it expects to the
   egress RBridge to allow for alternate routing later in the path.

   For multi-destination frames, the Hop Count SHOULD be set by the
   ingress RBridge (or source RBridge for a TRILL ESADI frame) to at
   least the expected number of hops to the most distant RBridge.  To
   accomplish this, RBridge RBn calculates, for each branch from RBn of
   the specified distribution tree rooted at RBi, the maximum number of
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   Multi-destination frames are of particular danger because a loop
   involving one or more distribution tree forks could result in the
   rapid generation of multiple copies of the frame, even with the
   normal hop count mechanism.  It is for this reason that multi-
   destination frames are subject to a stringent Reverse Path Forwarding
   Check and other checks as described in Section 4.5.2.  As an optional
   additional traffic control measure, when forwarding a multi-
   destination frame onto a distribution tree branch, transit RBridge
   RBm MAY decrease the hop count by more than 1, unless decreasing the
   hop count by more than 1 would result in a hop count insufficient to
   reach all destinations in that branch of the tree rooted at RBi.
   Using a hop count close or equal to the minimum needed on multi-
   destination frames provides additional protection against problems
   with temporary loops when forwarding.

   Although the RBridge MAY decrease the hop count of multi-destination
   frames by more than 1, under the circumstances described above, the
   RBridge forwarding a frame MUST decrease the hop count by at least 1,
   and discards the frame if it cannot do so because the hop count is 0.
   The option to decrease the hop count by more than 1 under the
   circumstances described above applies only to multi-destination
   frames, not to known unicast frames.

3.7.  RBridge Nicknames

   Nicknames are 16-bit dynamically assigned quantities that act as
   abbreviations for RBridges' IS-IS IDs to achieve a more compact
   encoding and can be used to specify potentially different trees with
   the same root.  This assignment allows specifying up to 2**16
   RBridges; however, the value 0x0000 is reserved to indicate that a
   nickname is not specified, the values 0xFFC0 through 0xFFFE are
   reserved for future specification, and the value 0xFFFF is
   permanently reserved.  RBridges piggyback a nickname acquisition
   protocol on the link state protocol (see Section 3.7.3) to acquire
   one or more nicknames unique within the campus.

3.7.1.  Egress RBridge Nickname

   There are two cases for the contents of the egress RBridge nickname
   field, depending on the M bit (see Section 3.4).  The nickname is
   filled in by the ingress RBridge for TRILL Data frames and by the
   source RBridge for TRILL ESADI frames.

   o  For known unicast TRILL Data frames, M == 0 and the egress RBridge
      nickname field specifies the egress RBridge; that is, it specifies
      the RBridge that needs to remove the TRILL encapsulation and
      forward the native frame.  Once the egress nickname field is set,
      it MUST NOT be changed by any subsequent transit RBridge.



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   o  For multi-destination TRILL Data frames and for TRILL ESADI
      frames, M == 1.  The egress RBridge nickname field contains a
      nickname specifying the distribution tree selected to be used to
      forward the frame.  This root nickname MUST NOT be changed by
      transit RBridges.

3.7.2.  Ingress RBridge Nickname

   The ingress RBridge nickname is set to a nickname of the ingress
   RBridge for TRILL Data frames and to a nickname of the source RBridge
   for TRILL ESADI frames.  If the RBridge setting the ingress nickname
   has multiple nicknames, it SHOULD use the same nickname in the
   ingress field whenever it encapsulates a frame with any particular
   Inner.MacSA and Inner.VLAN value.  This simplifies end node learning.

   Once the ingress nickname field is set, it MUST NOT be changed by any
   subsequent transit RBridge.

3.7.3.  RBridge Nickname Selection

   The nickname selection protocol is piggybacked on TRILL IS-IS as
   follows:

   o  The nickname or nicknames being used by an RBridge are carried in
      an IS-IS TLV (type-length-value data element) along with a
      priority of use value [RFC6326].  Each RBridge chooses its own
      nickname or nicknames.

   o  Nickname values MAY be configured.  An RBridge that has been
      configured with one or more nickname values will have priority for
      those nickname values over all Rbridges with non-configured
      nicknames.

   o  The nickname value 0x0000 and the values from 0xFFC0 through
      0xFFFF are reserved and MUST NOT be selected by or configured for
      an RBridge.  The value 0x0000 is used to indicate that a nickname
      is not known.

   o  The priority of use field reported with a nickname is an unsigned
      8-bit value, where the most significant bit (0x80) indicates that
      the nickname value was configured.  The bottom 7 bits have the
      default value 0x40, but MAY be configured to be some other value.
      Additionally, an RBridge MAY increase its priority after holding a
      nickname for some amount of time.  However, the most significant
      bit of the priority MUST NOT be set unless the nickname value was
      configured.





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   o  Once an RBridge has successfully acquired a nickname, it SHOULD
      attempt to reuse it in the case of a reboot.

   o  Each RBridge is responsible for ensuring that its nickname or each
      of its nicknames is unique.  If RB1 chooses nickname x, and RB1
      discovers, through receipt of an LSP for RB2 at any later time,
      that RB2 has also chosen x, then the RBridge or pseudonode with
      the numerically higher IS-IS ID (LAN ID) keeps the nickname, or if
      there is a tie in priority, the RBridge with the numerically
      higher IS-IS System ID keeps the nickname, and the other RBridge
      MUST select a new nickname.  This can require an RBridge with a
      configured nickname to select a replacement nickname.

   o  To minimize the probability of nickname collisions, an RBridge
      selects a nickname randomly from the apparently available
      nicknames, based on its copy of the link state.  This random
      selection can be by the RBridge hashing some of its parameters,
      e.g., SystemID, time and date, and other entropy sources, such as
      those given in [RFC4086], each time or by the RBridge using such
      hashing to create a seed and making any selections based on
      pseudo-random numbers generated from that seed [RFC4086].  The
      random numbers or seed and the algorithm used SHOULD make
      uniformly distributed selections over the available nicknames.
      Convergence to a nickname-collision-free campus is accelerated by
      selecting new nicknames only from those that appear to be
      available and by having the highest priority nickname involved in
      a nickname conflict retain its value.  There is no reason for all
      Rbridges to use the same algorithm for selecting nicknames.

   o  If two RBridge campuses merge, then transient nickname collisions
      are possible.  As soon as each RBridge receives the LSPs from the
      other RBridges, the RBridges that need to change nicknames select
      new nicknames that do not, to the best of their knowledge, collide
      with any existing nicknames.  Some RBridges may need to change
      nicknames more than once before the situation is resolved.

   o  To minimize the probability of a new RBridge usurping a nickname
      already in use, an RBridge SHOULD wait to acquire the link state
      database from a neighbor before it announces any nicknames that
      were not configured.

   o  An RBridge by default has only a single nickname but MAY be
      configured to request multiple nicknames.  Each such nickname
      would specify a shortest path tree with the RBridge as root but,
      since the tree number is used in tiebreaking when there are
      multiple equal cost paths (see Section 4.5.1), the trees for the
      different nicknames will likely utilize different links.  Because
      of the potential tree computation load it imposes, this capability



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      to request multiple nicknames for an RBridge should be used
      sparingly.  For example, it should be used at a few RBridges that,
      because of campus topology, are particularly good places from
      which to calculate multiple different shortest path distribution
      trees.  Such trees need separate nicknames so traffic can be
      multipathed across them.

   o  If it is desired for a pseudonode to be a tree root, the DRB MAY
      request one or more nicknames in the pseudonode LSP.

   Every nickname in use in a campus identifies an RBridge (or
   pseudonode) and every nickname designates a distribution tree rooted
   at the RBridge (or pseudonode) it identifies.  However, only a
   limited number of these potential distribution trees are actually
   computed by all the RBridges in a campus as discussed in Section 4.5.

3.8.  TRILL Header Options

   All Rbridges MUST be able to skip the number of 4-octet chunks
   indicated by the Op-Length field (see Section 3.5) in order to find
   the inner frame, since RBridges must be able to find the destination
   MAC address and VLAN tag in the inner frame.  (Transit RBridges need
   such information to filter VLANs, IP multicast, and the like.  Egress
   Rbridges need to find the inner header to correctly decapsulate and
   handle the inner frame.)

   To ensure backward-compatible safe operation, when Op-Length is non-
   zero indicating that options are present, the top two bits of the
   first octet of the options area are specified as follows:

               +------+------+----+----+----+----+----+----+
               | CHbH | CItE |          Reserved           |
               +------+------+----+----+----+----+----+----+

                Figure 6: Options Area Initial Flags Octet

   If the CHbH (Critical Hop-by-Hop) bit is one, one or more critical
   hop-by-hop options are present.  Transit RBridges that do not support
   all of the critical hop-by-hop options present, for example, an
   RBridge that supported no options, MUST drop the frame.  If the CHbH
   bit is zero, the frame is safe, from the point of view of options
   processing, for a transit RBridge to forward, regardless of what
   options that RBridge does or does not support.  A transit RBridge
   that supports none of the options present MUST transparently forward
   the options area when it forwards a frame.

   If the CItE (Critical Ingress-to-Egress) bit is one, one or more
   critical ingress-to-egress options are present.  If it is zero, no



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   such options are present.  If either CHbH or CItE is non-zero, egress
   RBridges that don't support all critical options present, for
   example, an RBridge that supports no options, MUST drop the frame.
   If both CHbH and CItE are zero, the frame is safe, from the point of
   view of options, for any egress RBridge to process, regardless of
   what options that RBridge does or does not support.

   Options, including the meaning of the bits labeled as Reserved in
   Figure 6, will be further specified in other documents and are
   expected to include provisions for hop-by-hop and ingress-to-egress
   options as well as critical and non-critical options.

   Note: Most RBridge implementations are expected to be optimized for
      the simplest and most common cases of frame forwarding and
      processing.  The inclusion of options may, and the inclusion of
      complex or lengthy options likely will, cause frame processing
      using a "slow path" with inferior performance to "fast path"
      processing.  Limited slow path throughput may cause such frames to
      be discarded.

4.  Other RBridge Design Details

   Section 3 above specifies the TRILL header, while this section
   specifies other RBridge design details.

4.1.  Ethernet Data Encapsulation

   TRILL data and ESADI frames in transit on Ethernet links are
   encapsulated with an outer Ethernet header (see Figure 2).  This
   outer header looks, to a bridge on the path between two RBridges,
   like the header of a regular Ethernet frame; therefore, bridges
   forward the frame as they normally would.  To enable RBridges to
   distinguish such TRILL Data frames, a new TRILL Ethertype (see
   Section 7.2) is used in the outer header.

   Figure 7 details a TRILL Data frame with an outer VLAN tag traveling
   on an Ethernet link as shown at the top of the figure, that is,
   between transit RBridges RB3 and RB4.  The native frame originated at
   end station ESa, was encapsulated by ingress RBridge RB1, and will
   ultimately be decapsulated by egress RBridge RB2 and delivered to
   destination end station ESb.  The encapsulation shown has the
   advantage, if TRILL options are absent or the length of such options
   is a multiple of 64 bits, of aligning the original Ethernet frame at
   a 64-bit boundary.

   When a TRILL Data frame is carried over an Ethernet cloud, it has
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   o  Outer Ethernet Header: Outer Destination MAC Address (Outer.MacDA)
      and Outer Source MAC Address (Outer.MacSA): These addresses are
      used to specify the next hop RBridge and the transmitting RBridge,
      respectively.

   o  TRILL Header: Egress Nickname and Ingress Nickname.  These specify
      nicknames of the egress and ingress RBridges, respectively, unless
      the frame is multi-destination, in which case the Egress Nickname
      specifies the distribution tree on which the frame is being sent.

   o  Inner Ethernet Header: Inner Destination MAC Address (Inner.MacDA)
      and Inner Source MAC Address (Inner.MacSA): These addresses are as
      transmitted by the original end station, specifying, respectively,
      the destination and source of the inner frame.

   A TRILL Data frame also potentially has two VLAN tags, as discussed
   in Sections 4.1.2 and 4.1.3 below, that can carry two different VLAN
   Identifiers and specify priority.

































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   Flow:
     +-----+  +-------+   +-------+       +-------+   +-------+  +----+
     | ESa +--+  RB1  +---+  RB3  +-------+  RB4  +---+  RB2  +--+ESb |
     +-----+  |ingress|   |transit|   ^   |transit|   |egress |  +----+
              +-------+   +-------+   |   +-------+   +-------+
                                      |
   Outer Ethernet Header:             |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |             Outer Destination MAC Address  (RB4)              |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      | Outer Destination MAC Address | Outer Source MAC Address      |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                Outer Source MAC Address  (RB3)                |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |Ethertype = C-Tag [802.1Q-2005]| Outer.VLAN Tag Information    |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   TRILL Header:
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      | Ethertype = TRILL             | V | R |M|Op-Length| Hop Count |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      | Egress (RB2) Nickname         | Ingress (RB1) Nickname        |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   Inner Ethernet Header:
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |             Inner Destination MAC Address  (ESb)              |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      | Inner Destination MAC Address | Inner Source MAC Address      |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                  Inner Source MAC Address  (ESa)              |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |Ethertype = C-Tag [802.1Q-2005]| Inner.VLAN Tag Information    |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   Payload:
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      | Ethertype of Original Payload |                               |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+                               |
      |                                  Original Ethernet Payload    |
      |                                                               |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   Frame Check Sequence:
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |               New FCS (Frame Check Sequence)                  |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

             Figure 7: TRILL Data Encapsulation over Ethernet






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4.1.1.  VLAN Tag Information

   A "VLAN Tag" (formerly known as a Q-tag), also known as a "C-tag" for
   customer tag, includes a VLAN ID and a priority field as shown in
   Figure 8.  The "VLAN ID" may be zero, indicating that no VLAN is
   specified, just a priority, although such frames are called "priority
   tagged" rather than "VLAN tagged" [802.1Q-2005].

   Use of [802.1ad] S-tags, also known as service tags, and use of
   stacked tags, are beyond the scope of this document.

     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     | Priority  | C |                  VLAN ID                      |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+

                      Figure 8: VLAN Tag Information

   As recommended in [802.1Q-2005], Rbridges SHOULD be implemented so as
   to allow use of the full range of VLAN IDs from 0x001 through 0xFFE.
   Rbridges MAY support a smaller number of simultaneously active VLAN
   IDs.  VLAN ID zero is the null VLAN identifier and indicates that no
   VLAN is specified while VLAN ID 0xFFF is reserved.

   The VLAN ID 0xFFF MUST NOT be used.  Rbridges MUST discard any frame
   they receive with an Outer.VLAN ID of 0xFFF.  Rbridges MUST discard
   any frame for which they examine the Inner.VLAN ID and find it to be
   0xFFF; such examination is required at all egress Rbridges that
   decapsulate a frame.

   The "C" bit shown in Figure 8 is not used in the Inner.VLAN in TRILL.
   It MUST be set to zero there by ingress RBridges, transparently
   forwarded by transit RBridges, and is ignored by egress RBridges.

   As specified in [802.1Q-2005], the priority field contains an
   unsigned value from 0 through 7 where 1 indicates the lowest
   priority, 7 the highest priority, and the default priority zero is
   considered to be higher than priority 1 but lower than priority 2.
   The [802.1ad] amendment to [802.1Q-2005] permits mapping some
   adjacent pairs of priority levels into a single priority level with
   and without drop eligibility.  Ongoing work in IEEE 802.1 (802.1az,
   Appendix E) suggests the ability to configure "priority groups" that
   have a certain guaranteed bandwidth.  RBridges ports MAY also
   implement such options.  RBridges are not required to implement any
   particular number of distinct priority levels but may treat one or
   more adjacent priority levels in the same fashion.






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   Frames with the same source address, destination address, VLAN, and
   priority that are received on the same port as each other and are
   transmitted on the same port MUST be transmitted in the order
   received unless the RBridge classifies the frames into more fine-
   grained flows, in which case this ordering requirement applies to
   each such flow.  Frames in the same VLAN with the same priority and
   received on the same port may be sent out different ports if
   multipathing is in effect.  (See Appendix C.)

   The C-Tag Ethertype [RFC5342] is 0x8100.

4.1.2.  Inner VLAN Tag

   The "Inner VLAN Tag Information" (Inner.VLAN) field contains the VLAN
   tag information associated with the native frame when it was
   ingressed or the VLAN tag information associated with a TRILL ESADI
   frame when that frame was created.  When a TRILL frame passes through
   a transit RBridge, the Inner.VLAN MUST NOT be changed except when
   VLAN mapping is being intentionally performed within that RBridge.

   When a native frame arrives at an RBridge, the associated VLAN ID and
   priority are determined as specified in [802.1Q-2005] (see Appendix D
   and [802.1Q-2005], Section 6.7).  If the RBridge is an appointed
   forwarder for that VLAN and the delivery of the frame requires
   transmission to one or more other links, this ingress RBridge forms a
   TRILL Data frame with the associated VLAN ID and priority placed in
   the Inner.VLAN information.

   The VLAN ID is required at the ingress Rbridge as one element in
   determining the appropriate egress Rbridge for a known unicast frame
   and is needed at the ingress and every transit Rbridge for multi-
   destination frames to correctly prune the distribution tree.

4.1.3.  Outer VLAN Tag

   TRILL frames sent by an RBridge, except for some TRILL-Hello frames,
   use an Outer.VLAN ID specified by the Designated RBridge (DRB) for
   the link onto which they are being sent, referred to as the
   Designated VLAN.  For TRILL data and ESADI frames, the priority in
   the Outer.VLAN tag SHOULD be set to the priority in the Inner.VLAN
   tag.

   TRILL frames forwarded by a transit RBridge use the priority present
   in the Inner.VLAN of the frame as received.  TRILL Data frames are
   sent with the priority associated with the corresponding native frame
   when received (see Appendix D).  TRILL IS-IS frames SHOULD be sent
   with priority 7.




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   Whether an Outer.VLAN tag actually appears on the wire when a TRILL
   frame is sent depends on the configuration of the RBridge port
   through which it is sent in the same way as the appearance of a VLAN
   tag on a frame sent by an [802.1Q-2005] bridge depends on the
   configuration of the bridge port (see Section 4.9.2).

4.1.4.  Frame Check Sequence (FCS)

   Each Ethernet frame has a single Frame Check Sequence (FCS) that is
   computed to cover the entire frame, for detecting frame corruption
   due to bit errors on a link.  Thus, when a frame is encapsulated, the
   original FCS is not included but is discarded.  Any received frame
   for which the FCS check fails SHOULD be discarded (this may not be
   possible in the case of cut through forwarding).  The FCS normally
   changes on encapsulation, decapsulation, and every TRILL hop due to
   changes in the outer destination and source addresses, the
   decrementing of the hop count, etc.

   Although the FCS is normally calculated just before transmission, it
   is desirable, when practical, for an FCS to accompany a frame within
   an RBridge after receipt.  That FCS could then be dynamically updated
   to account for changes to the frame during Rbridge processing and
   used for transmission or checked against the FCS calculated for frame
   transmission.  This optional, more continuous use of an FCS would be
   helpful in detecting some internal RBridge failures such as memory
   errors.

4.2.  Link State Protocol (IS-IS)

   TRILL uses an extension of IS-IS [ISO10589] [RFC1195] as its routing
   protocol.  IS-IS has the following advantages:

   o  It runs directly over Layer 2, so therefore it may be run without
      configuration (no IP addresses need to be assigned).

   o  It is easy to extend by defining new TLV (type-length-value) data
      elements and sub-elements for carrying TRILL information.

   This section describes TRILL use of IS-IS, except for the TRILL-Hello
   protocol, which is described in Section 4.4, and the MTU-probe and
   MTU-ack messages that are described in Section 4.3.

4.2.1.  IS-IS RBridge Identity

   Each RBridge has a unique 48-bit (6-octet) IS-IS System ID.  This ID
   may be derived from any of the RBridge's unique MAC addresses.





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   A pseudonode is assigned a 7-octet ID by the DRB that created it, by
   taking a 6-octet ID owned by the DRB, and appending another octet.
   The 6-octet ID used to form a pseudonode ID SHOULD be the DRB's ID
   unless the DRB has to create IDs for pseudonodes for more than 255
   links.  The only constraint for correct operation is that the 7-octet
   ID be unique within the campus, and that the 7th octet be nonzero.
   An RBridge has a 7-octet ID consisting of its 6-octet system ID
   concatenated with a zero octet.

   In this document, we use the term "IS-IS ID" to refer to the 7-octet
   quantity that can be either the ID of an RBridge or a pseudonode.

4.2.2.  IS-IS Instances

   TRILL implements a separate IS-IS instance from any used by Layer 3,
   that is, different from the one used by routers.  Layer 3 IS-IS
   frames must be distinguished from TRILL IS-IS frames even when those
   Layer 3 IS-IS frames are transiting an RBridge campus.

   Layer 3 IS-IS native frames have special multicast destination
   addresses specified for that purpose, such as AllL1ISs or AllL2ISs.
   When they are TRILL encapsulated, these multicast addresses appear as
   the Inner.MacDA and the Outer.MacDA will be the All-RBridges
   multicast address.

   Within TRILL, there is an IS-IS instance across all Rbridges in the
   campus as described in Section 4.2.3.  This instance uses TRILL IS-IS
   frames that are distinguished by having a different Ethertype
   "L2-IS-IS".  Additionally, for TRILL IS-IS frames that are multicast,
   there is a distinct multicast destination address of
   All-IS-IS-RBridges.  TRILL IS-IS frames do not have a TRILL header.

   ESADI is a separate protocol from the IS-IS instance implemented by
   all the RBridges.  There is a separate ESADI instance for each VLAN,
   and ESADI frames are encapsulated just like TRILL Data frames.  After
   the TRILL header, the ESADI frame has an inner Ethernet header with
   the Inner.MacDA of "All-ESADI-RBridges" and the "L2-IS-IS" Ethertype
   followed by the ESADI frame.

4.2.3.  TRILL IS-IS Frames

   All Rbridges MUST participate in the TRILL IS-IS instance, which
   constitutes a single Level 1 IS-IS area using the fixed area address
   zero.  TRILL IS-IS frames are never forwarded by an RBridge but are
   locally processed on receipt.  (Such processing may cause the RBridge
   to send additional TRILL IS-IS frames.)





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   A TRILL IS-IS frame on an 802.3 link is structured as shown below.
   All such frames are Ethertype encoded.  The RBridge port out of which
   such a frame is sent will strip the outer VLAN tag if configured to
   do so.

   Outer Ethernet Header:
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |             All-IS-IS-RBridges Multicast Address              |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      | All-IS-IS-RBridges continued  | Source RBridge MAC Address    |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |             Source RBridge MAC Address continued              |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |Ethertype = C-Tag [802.1Q-2005]| Outer.VLAN Tag Information    |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |   L2-IS-IS Ethertype          |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   IS-IS Payload:
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      | IS-IS Common Header, IS-IS PDU Specific Fields, IS-IS TLVs    |

   Frame Check Sequence:
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                 FCS (Frame Check Sequence)                    |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                    Figure 9: TRILL IS-IS Frame Format

   The VLAN specified in the Outer.VLAN information will be the
   Designated VLAN for the link on which the frame is sent, except in
   the case of some TRILL Hellos.

4.2.4.  TRILL Link Hellos, DRBs, and Appointed Forwarders

   RBridges default to using TRILL Hellos unless, on a per-port basis,
   they are configured to use P2P Hellos.  TRILL-Hello frames are
   specified in Section 4.4.

   RBridges are normally configured to use P2P Hellos only when there
   are exactly two of them on a link.  However, it can occur that
   RBridges are misconfigured as to which type of hello to use.  This is
   safe but may cause lack of RBridge-to-RBridge connectivity.  An
   RBridge port configured to use P2P Hellos ignores TRILL Hellos, and
   an RBridge port configured to use TRILL Hellos ignores P2P Hellos.

   If any of the RBridge ports on a link is configured to use TRILL
   Hellos, one of such RBridge ports using TRILL Hellos is elected DRB
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   configured priority (most significant field), and source MAC address,
   as communicated by TRILL-Hello frames.  The DRB, as described in
   Section 4.2.4.2, designates the VLAN to be used on the link for
   inter-RBridge communication by the non-P2P RBridge ports and appoints
   itself or other RBridges on the link as appointed forwarder (see
   Section 4.2.4.3) for VLANs on the link.

4.2.4.1.  P2P Hello Links

   RBridge ports can be configured to use IS-IS P2P Hellos.  This
   implies that the port is a point-to-point link to another RBridge.
   An RBridge MUST NOT provide any end-station (native frame) service on
   a port configured to use P2P Hellos.

   As with Layer 3 IS-IS, such P2P ports do not participate in a DRB
   election.  They send all frames VLAN tagged as being in the Desired
   Designated VLAN configured for the port, although this tag may be
   stripped if the port is so configured.  Since all traffic through the
   port should be TRILL frames or Layer 2 control frames, such a port
   cannot be an appointed forwarder.  RBridge P2P ports MUST use the
   IS-IS three-way handshake [RFC5303] so that extended circuit IDs are
   associated with the link for tie breaking purposes (see Section
   4.5.2).

   Even if all simple links in a network are physically point-to-point,
   if some of the nodes are bridges, the bridged LANs that include those
   bridges appear to be multi-access links to attached RBridges.  This
   would necessitate using TRILL Hellos for proper operation in many
   cases.

   While it is safe to erroneously configure ports as P2P, this may
   result in lack of connectivity.

4.2.4.2.  Designated RBridge

   TRILL IS-IS elects one RBridge for each LAN link to be the Designated
   RBridge (DRB), that is, to have special duties.  The Designated
   RBridge:

   o  Chooses, for the link, and announces in its TRILL Hellos, the
      Designated VLAN ID to be used for inter-RBridge communication.
      This VLAN is used for all TRILL-encapsulated data and ESADI frames
      and TRILL IS-IS frames except some TRILL-Hello frames.

   o  If the link is represented in the IS-IS topology as a pseudonode,
      chooses a pseudonode ID and announces that in its TRILL Hellos and
      issues an LSP on behalf of the pseudonode.




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   o  Issues CSNPs.

   o  For each VLAN-x appearing on the link, chooses an RBridge on the
      link to be the appointed VLAN-x forwarder (the DRB MAY choose
      itself to be the appointed VLAN-x forwarder for all or some of the
      VLANs).

   o  Before appointing a VLAN-x forwarder (including appointing
      itself), wait at least its Holding Time (to ensure it is the DRB).

   o  If configured to send TRILL-Hello frames, continues to send them
      on all its enabled VLANs that have been configured in the
      Announcing VLANs set of the DRB, which defaults to all enabled
      VLANs.

4.2.4.3.  Appointed VLAN-x Forwarder

   The appointed VLAN-x forwarder for a link is responsible for the
   following points.  In connection with the loop avoidance points, when
   an appointed forwarder for a port is "inhibited", it drops any native
   frames it receives and does not transmit but instead drops any native
   frames it decapsulates, in the VLAN for which it is appointed.

   o  Loop avoidance:

      -  Inhibiting itself for a time, configurable per port from zero
         to 30 seconds, which defaults to 30 seconds, after it sees a
         root bridge change on the link (see Section 4.9.3.2).

      -  Inhibiting itself for VLAN-x, if it has received a Hello in
         which the sender asserts that it is appointed forwarder and
         that is either
         +  received on VLAN-x (has VLAN-x as its Outer.VLAN) or
         +  was originally sent on VLAN-x as indicated inside the body
            of the Hello.

      -  Optionally, not decapsulating a frame from ingress RBridge RBm
         unless it has RBm's LSP, and the root bridge on the link it is
         about to forward onto is not listed in RBm's list of root
         bridges for VLAN-x.  This is known as the "decapsulation check"
         or "root bridge collision check".

   o  Unless inhibited (see above), receiving VLAN-x native traffic from
      the link and forwarding it as appropriate.

   o  Receiving VLAN-x traffic for the link and, unless inhibited,
      transmitting it in native form after decapsulating it as
      appropriate.



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   o  Learning the MAC address of local VLAN-x nodes by looking at the
      source address of VLAN-x frames from the link.

   o  Optionally learning the port of local VLAN-x nodes based on any
      sort of Layer 2 registration protocols, such as IEEE 802.11
      association and authentication.

   o  Keeping track of the { egress RBridge, VLAN, MAC address } of
      distant VLAN-x end nodes, learned by looking at the fields
      { ingress RBridge, Inner.VLAN ID, Inner.MacSA } from VLAN-x frames
      being received for decapsulation onto the link.

   o  Optionally observe native IGMP [RFC3376], MLD [RFC2710], and MRD
      [RFC4286] frames to learn the presence of local multicast
      listeners and multicast routers.

   o  Optionally listening to TRILL ESADI messages for VLAN-x to learn
      { egress RBridge, VLAN-x, MAC address } triplets and the
      confidence level of such explicitly advertised end nodes.

   o  Optionally advertising VLAN-x end nodes, on links for which it is
      appointed VLAN-x forwarder, in ESADI messages.

   o  Sending TRILL-Hello frames on VLAN-x unless the Announcing VLANs
      set for the port has been configured to disable them.

   o  Listening to BPDUs on the common spanning tree to learn the root
      bridge, if any, for that link and to report in its LSP the
      complete set of root bridges seen on any of its links for which it
      is appointed forwarder for VLAN-x.

   When an appointed forwarder observes that the DRB on a link has
   changed, it no longer considers itself appointed for that link until
   appointed by the new DRB.

4.2.4.4.  TRILL LSP Information

   The information items in the TRILL IS-IS LSP that are mentioned
   elsewhere in this document are listed below.  Unless an item is
   stated in the list below to be optional, it MUST be included.  Other
   items MAY be included unless their inclusion is prohibited elsewhere
   in this document.  The actual encoding of this information and the
   IS-IS Type or sub-Type values for any new IS-IS TLV or sub-TLV data
   elements are specified in separate documents [RFC6165] [RFC6326].

   1. The IS-IS IDs of neighbors (pseudonodes as well as RBridges) of
      RBridge RBn, and the cost of the link to each of those neighbors.
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      known as "wide metric" [RFC5305]) and MUST NOT use the IS
      Reachability TLV (#2, also known as "narrow metric").  To
      facilitate efficient operation without configuration and
      consistent with [802.1D], RBridges SHOULD, by default, set the
      cost of a link to the integer part of twenty trillion
      (20,000,000,000,000) divided by the RBridge port's bit rate but
      not more than 2**24-2 (16,777,214); for example, the cost for a
      link accessed by a 1Gbps port would default to 20,000.  (Note that
      2**24-1 has a special meaning in IS-IS and would exclude the link
      from SPF routes.)  However, the link cost MAY, by default, be
      decreased for aggregated links and/or increased to not more than
      2**24-2 if the link appears to be a bridged LAN.  The tested MTU
      for the link (see Section 4.3) MAY be included via a sub-TLV.

   2. The following information in connection with the nickname or each
      of the nicknames of RBridge RBn:

      2.1. The nickname value (2 octets).

      2.2. The unsigned 8-bit priority for RBn to have that nickname
           (see Section 3.7.3).

      2.3. The 16-bit unsigned priority of that nickname to becoming a
           distribution tree root.

   3. The maximum TRILL Header Version supported by RBridge RBn.

   4. The following information, in addition to the per-nickname tree
      root priority, in connection with distribution tree determination
      and announcement.  (See Section 4.5 for further details on how
      this information is used.)

      4.1. An unsigned 16-bit number that is the number of trees all
           RBridges in the campus calculate if RBn has the highest
           priority tree root.

      4.2. A second unsigned 16-bit number that is the number of trees
           RBn would like to use.

      4.3. A third unsigned 16-bit number that is the maximum number of
           distribution trees that RBn is able to calculate.

      4.4. A first list of nicknames that are intended distribution
           trees for all RBridges in the campus to calculate.

      4.5. A second list of nicknames that are distribution trees RBn
           would like to use when ingressing multi-destination frames.




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   5. The list of VLAN IDs of VLANs directly connected to RBn for links
      on which RBn is the appointed forwarder for that VLAN.  (Note: An
      RBridge may advertise that it is connected to additional VLANs in
      order to receive additional frames to support certain VLAN-based
      features beyond the scope of this specification as mentioned in
      Section 4.8.4 and in a separate document concerning VLAN mapping
      inside RBridges.) RBridges may associate advertised connectivity
      to different groups of VLANs with specific nicknames they hold.
      In addition, the LSP contains the following information on a per-
      VLAN basis:

      5.1. Per-VLAN Multicast Router attached flags: This is two bits of
           information that indicate whether there is an IPv4 and/or
           IPv6 multicast router attached to the Rbridge on that VLAN.
           An RBridge that does not do IP multicast control snooping
           MUST set both of these bits (see Section 4.5.4).  This
           information is used because IGMP [RFC3376] and MLD [RFC2710]
           Membership Reports MUST be transmitted to all links with IP
           multicast routers, and SHOULD NOT be transmitted to links
           without such routers.  Also, all frames for IP-derived
           multicast addresses MUST be transmitted to all links with IP
           multicast routers (within a VLAN), in addition to links from
           which an IP node has explicitly asked to join the group the
           frame is for, except for some IP multicast addresses that
           MUST be treated as broadcast.

      5.2. Per-VLAN mandatory announcement of the set of IDs of Root
           bridges for any of RBn's links on which RBn is appointed
           forwarder for that VLAN.  Where MSTP (Multiple Spanning Tree
           Protocol) is running on a link, this is the root bridge of
           the CIST (Common and Internal Spanning Tree).  This is to
           quickly detect cases where two Layer 2 clouds accidentally
           get merged, and where there might otherwise temporarily be
           two DRBs for the same VLAN on the same link.  (See Section
           4.2.4.3.)

      5.3. Optionally, per-VLAN Layer 2 multicast addresses derived from
           IPv4 IGMP and IPv6 MLD notification messages received from
           attached end nodes on that VLAN, indicating the location of
           listeners for these multicast addresses (see Section 4.5.5).

      5.4. Per-VLAN ESADI protocol participation flag, priority, and
           holding time.  If this flag is one, it indicates that the
           RBridge wishes to receive such TRILL ESADI frames (see
           Section 4.2.5.1).

      5.5. Per-VLAN appointed forwarder status lost counter (see Section
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   6. Optionally, the largest TRILL IS-IS frame that the RBridge can
      handle using the originatingLSPBufferSize TLV #14 (see Section
      4.3).

   7. Optionally, a list of VLAN groups where address learning is shared
      across that VLAN group (see Section 4.8.4).  Each VLAN group is a
      list of VLAN IDs, where the first VLAN ID listed in a group, if
      present, is the "primary" and the others are "secondary".  This is
      to detect misconfiguration of features outside the scope of this
      document.  RBridges that do not support features such as "shared
      VLAN learning" ignore this field.

   8. Optionally, the Authentication TLV #10 (see Section 6).

4.2.5.  The TRILL ESADI Protocol

   RBridges that are the appointed VLAN-x forwarder for a link MAY
   participate in the TRILL ESADI protocol for that VLAN.  But all
   transit RBridges MUST properly forward TRILL ESADI frames as if they
   were multicast TRILL Data frames.  TRILL ESADI frames are structured
   like IS-IS frames but are always TRILL encapsulated on the wire as if
   they were TRILL Data frames.

   Because of this forwarding, it appears to the ESADI protocol at an
   RBridge that it is directly connected by a shared virtual link to all
   other RBridges in the campus running ESADI for that VLAN.  RBridges
   that do not implement the ESADI protocol or are not appointed
   forwarder for that VLAN do not decapsulate or locally process any
   TRILL ESADI frames they receive for that VLAN.  In other words, these
   frames are transparently tunneled through transit RBridges.  Such
   transit RBridges treat them exactly as multicast TRILL Data frames
   and no special processing is invoked due to such forwarding.

   TRILL ESADI frames sent on an IEEE 802.3 link are structured as shown
   below.  The outer VLAN tag will not be present if it was stripped by
   the port out of which the frame was sent.















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   Outer Ethernet Header:
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                Next Hop Destination Address                   |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      | Next Hop Destination Address  | Sending RBridge MAC Address   |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |               Sending RBridge Port MAC Address                |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |Ethertype = C-Tag [802.1Q-2005]| Outer.VLAN Tag Information    |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   TRILL Header:
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      | Ethertype = TRILL             | V | R |M|Op-Length| Hop Count |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      | Egress (Dist. Tree) Nickname  | Ingress (Origin) Nickname     |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   Inner Ethernet Header:
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |             All-ESADI-RBridges Multicast Address              |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      | All-ESADI-RBridges continued  | Origin RBridge MAC Address    |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                Origin RBridge MAC Address continued           |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |Ethertype = C-Tag [802.1Q-2005]| Inner.VLAN Tag Information    |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      | Ethertype = L2-IS-IS          |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   ESADI Payload (formatted as IS-IS):
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      | IS-IS Common Header, IS-IS PDU Specific Fields, IS-IS TLVs    |

   Frame Check Sequence:
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                  FCS (Frame Check Sequence)                   |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                    Figure 10: TRILL ESADI Frame Format

   The Next Hop Destination Address or Outer.MacDA is the All-RBridges
   multicast address.  The VLAN specified in the Outer.VLAN information
   will always be the Designated VLAN for the link on which the frame is
   sent.  The V and R fields will be zero while the M field will be one.
   The VLAN specified in the Inner.VLAN information will be the VLAN to
   which the ESADI frame applies.  The Origin RBridge MAC Address or
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   RBridge originating the ESADI frame, for example, any of its port MAC
   addresses, and each RBridge MUST use the same Inner.MacSA for all of
   the ESADI frames that RBridge originates.

4.2.5.1.  TRILL ESADI Participation

   An RBridge does not send any Hellos because of participation in the
   ESADI protocol.  The information available in the TRILL IS-IS link
   state database is sufficient to determine the ESADI DRB on the
   virtual link for the ESADI protocol for each VLAN.  In particular,
   the link state database information for each RBridge includes the
   VLANs, if any, for which that RBridge is participating in the ESADI
   protocol, its priority for being selected as DRB for the ESADI
   protocol for each of those VLANs, its holding time, and its IS-IS
   system ID for breaking ties in priority.

   An RBridge need not perform any routing calculation because of
   participation in the ESADI protocol.  Since all RBridges
   participating in ESADI for a particular VLAN appear to be connected
   to the same single virtual link, there are no routing decisions to be
   made.  A participating RBridge merely transmits the ESADI frames it
   originates on this virtual link.

   The ESADI DRB sends TRILL-ESADI-CSNP frames on the ESADI virtual
   link.  For robustness, a participating RBridge that determines that
   some other RBridge should be ESADI DRB on such a virtual link but has
   not received or sent a TRILL-ESADI-CSNP in at least the ESADI DRB
   holding time MAY also send a TRILL-ESADI-CSNP on the virtual link.  A
   participating RBridge that determines that no other RBridges are
   participating in the ESADI protocol for a particular VLAN SHOULD NOT
   send ESADI information or TRILL-ESADI-CSNPs on the virtual link for
   that VLAN.

4.2.5.2.  TRILL ESADI Information

   The information distributed with the ESADI protocol is the list of
   local end-station MAC addresses known to the originating RBridge and,
   for each such address, a one-octet unsigned "confidence" rating in
   the range 0-254 (see Section 4.8).

   It is intended to optionally provide for VLAN ID translation within
   RBridges, as specified in [VLAN-MAPPING].  This includes translating
   TRILL ESADI frames.  If TRILL ESADI frames could contain VLAN IDs in
   arbitrary internal locations, such translation would be impractical.
   Thus, TRILL ESADI frames MUST NOT contain the VLAN ID of the VLAN to
   which they apply in the body of the frame after the Inner.VLAN tag.





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4.2.6.  SPF, Forwarding, and Ambiguous Destinations

   This section describes the logical result desired.  Alternative
   implementation methods may be used as long as they produce the same
   forwarding behavior.

   When building a forwarding table, an RBridge RB1 calculates shortest
   paths from itself as described in Appendix C.1 of [RFC1195].
   Nicknames are added into the shortest path calculation as a final
   step, just as with an end node.  If multiple RBridges, say, RBa and
   RBb, claim the same nickname, this is a transitory condition and one
   of RBa or RBb will defer and choose a new nickname.  However, RB1
   simply adds that nickname as if it were attached to both RBa and RBb,
   and uses its standard shortest path calculation to choose the next
   hop.

   An ingress RBridge RB2 maps a native frame's known unicast
   destination MAC address and VLAN into an egress RBridge nickname.  If
   RB2 learns addresses only from the observation of received and
   decapsulated frames, then such MAC addresses cannot be duplicated
   within a VLAN in RB2 tables because more recent learned information,
   if of a higher or equal confidence, overwrites previous information
   and, if of a lower confidence, is ignored.  However, duplicates of
   the same MAC within a VLAN can appear in ESADI data and between ESADI
   data and addresses learned from the observation of received and
   decapsulated frames, entered by manual configuration, or learned
   through Layer 2 registration protocols.  If duplicate MAC addresses
   occur within a VLAN, RB2 sends frames to the MAC with the highest
   confidence.  If confidences are also tied between the duplicates, for
   consistency it is suggested that RB2 direct all such frames (or all
   such frames in the same ECMP flow) toward the same egress RBridge;
   however, the use of other policies will not cause a network problem
   since transit RBridges do not examine the Inner.MacDA for known
   unicast frames.

4.3.  Inter-RBridge Link MTU Size

   There are two reasons why it is important to know what size of frame
   each inter-RBridge link in the campus can support:

   1. RBridge RB1 must know the size of link state information messages
      it can generate that will be guaranteed to be forwardable across
      all inter-RBridge links in the campus.

   2. If traffic engineering tools know which links support larger than
      minimally acceptable data packet sizes, paths can be computed that
      can support large data packets.




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4.3.1.  Determining Campus-Wide TRILL IS-IS MTU Size

   In a stable campus, there must ultimately be agreement among all
   RBridges on the value of "Sz", the minimum acceptable inter-RBridge
   link size for the campus, for the proper operation of TRILL IS-IS.
   All RBridges MUST format their link state information messages to be
   in chunks of size no larger than what they believe Sz to be.  Also,
   every RBridge RB1 SHOULD test each of its RBridge adjacencies, say,
   to RB2, to ensure that the RB1-RB2 link can forward packets of at
   least size Sz.

   Sz has no direct effect on end stations and is not directly related
   to any end-station-to-end-station "path MTU".  Methods of using Sz or
   any link MTU information gathered by TRILL IS-IS in the traffic
   engineering of routes or the determination of any path MTU is beyond
   the scope of this document.  Native frames that, after TRILL
   encapsulation, exceed the MTU of a link on which they are sent will
   generally be discarded.

   Sz is determined by having each RBridge (optionally) advertise, in
   its LSP, its assumption of the value of the campus-wide Sz.  This LSP
   element is known in IS-IS as the originatingLSPBufferSize, TLV #14.
   The default and minimum value for Sz, and the implicitly advertised
   value of Sz if the TLV is absent, is 1470 octets.  This length (which
   is also the maximum size of a TRILL-Hello) was chosen to make it
   extremely unlikely that a TRILL control frame, even with reasonable
   additional headers, tags, and/or encapsulation, would encounter MTU
   problems on an inter-RBridge link.

   The campus-wide value of Sz is the smallest value of Sz advertised by
   any RBridge.

4.3.2.  Testing Link MTU Size

   There are two new TRILL IS-IS message types for use between pairs of
   RBridge neighbors to test the bidirectional packet size capacity of
   their connection.  These messages are:

      -- MTU-probe
      -- MTU-ack

   Both the MTU-probe and the MTU-ack are padded to the size being
   tested.

   Sending of MTU-probes is optional; however, an RBridge RB2 that
   receives an MTU-probe from RB1 MUST respond with an MTU-ack padded to
   the same size as the MTU-probe.  The MTU-probe MAY be multicast to




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   All-RBridges, or unicast to a specific RBridge.  The MTU-ack is
   normally unicast to the source of the MTU-probe to which it responds
   but MAY be multicast to All-RBridges.

   If RB1 fails to receive an MTU-ack to a probe of size X from RB2
   after k tries (where k is a configurable parameter whose default is
   3), then RB1 assumes the RB1-RB2 link cannot support size X.  If X is
   not greater than Sz, then RB1 sets the "failed minimum MTU test" flag
   for RB2 in RB1's Hello.  If size X succeeds, and X > Sz, then RB1
   advertises the largest tested X for each adjacency in the TRILL
   Hellos RB1 sends on that link, and RB1 MAY advertise X as an
   attribute of the link to RB2 in RB1's LSP.

4.4.  TRILL-Hello Protocol

   The TRILL-Hello protocol is a little different from the Layer 3 IS-IS
   LAN Hello protocol and uses a new type of IS-IS message known as a
   TRILL-Hello.

4.4.1.  TRILL-Hello Rationale

   The reason for defining this new type of link in TRILL is that in
   Layer 3 IS-IS, the LAN Hello protocol may elect multiple Designated
   Routers (DRs) since, when choosing a DR, routers ignore other routers
   with whom they do not have 2-way connectivity.  Also, Layer 3 IS-IS
   LAN Hellos are padded, to avoid forming adjacencies between neighbors
   that can't speak the maximum-sized packet to each other.  This means,
   in Layer 3 IS-IS, that neighbors that have connectivity to each
   other, but with an MTU on that connection less than what they
   perceive as maximum sized packets, will not see each other's Hellos.
   The result is that routers might form cliques, resulting in the link
   turning into multiple pseudonodes.

   This behavior is fine for Layer 3, but not for Layer 2, where loops
   may form if there are multiple DRBs.  Therefore, the TRILL-Hello
   protocol is a little different from Layer 3 IS-IS's LAN Hello
   protocol.

   One other issue with TRILL-Hellos is to ensure that subsets of the
   information can appear in any single message, and be processable, in
   the spirit of IS-IS LSPs and CSNPs.  TRILL-Hello frames, even though
   they are not padded, can become very large.  An example where this
   might be the case is when some sort of backbone technology
   interconnects hundreds of TRILL sites over what would appear to TRILL
   to be a giant Ethernet, where the RBridges connected to that cloud
   will perceive that backbone to be a single link with hundreds of
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   In TRILL (unlike in Layer 3 IS-IS), the DRB is selected based solely
   on priority and MAC address.  In other words, if RB2 receives a
   TRILL-Hello from RB1 with higher (priority, MAC), RB2 defers to RB1
   as DRB, regardless of whether RB1 lists RB2 in RB1's TRILL-Hello.

   Although the neighbor list in a TRILL-Hello does not influence the
   DRB election, it does determine what is announced in LSPs.  RB1 only
   reports links to RBridges with which it has two-way connectivity.  If
   RB1 is the DRB on a link, and for whatever reason (MTU mismatch, or
   one-way connectivity) RB1 and RB2 do not have two-way connectivity,
   then RB2 does not report a link to RB1 (or the pseudonode), and RB1
   (or RB1 on behalf of the pseudonode) does not report a link to RB2.

4.4.2.  TRILL-Hello Contents and Timing

   The TRILL-Hello has a new IS-IS message type.  It starts with the
   same fixed header as an IS-IS LAN Hello, which includes the 7-bit
   priority for the issuing RBridge to be DRB on that link.  TRILL-
   Hellos are sent with the same timing as IS-IS LAN Hellos.

   TRILL-Hello messages, including their Outer.MacDA and Outer.MacSA,
   but excluding any Outer.VLAN or other tags, MUST NOT exceed 1470
   octets in length and SHOULD NOT be padded.  The following information
   MUST appear in every TRILL-Hello.  References to "TLV" may actually
   be a "sub-TLV" as specified in separate documents [RFC6165]
   [RFC6326].

   1. The VLAN ID of the Designated VLAN for the link.

   2. A copy of the Outer.VLAN ID with which the Hello was tagged on
      sending.

   3. A 16-bit port ID assigned by the sending RBridge to the port the
      TRILL-Hello is sent on such that no two ports of that RBridge have
      the same port ID.

   4. A nickname of the sending RBridge.

   5. Two flags as follows:

      5.a. A flag that, if set, indicates that the sender has detected
           VLAN mapping on the link, within the past 2 of its Holding
           Times.

      5.b. A flag that, if set, indicates that the sender believes it is
           appointed forwarder for the VLAN and port on which the TRILL-
           Hello was sent.




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   The following information MAY appear:

   1. The set of VLANs for which end-station service is enabled on the
      port.

   2. Several flags as follows:

      2.a. A flag that, if set, indicates that the sender's port was
           configured as an access port.

      2.b. A flag that, if set, indicates that the sender's port was
           configured as a trunk port.

      2.c. A bypass pseudonode flag, as described below in this section.

   3. If the sender is the DRB, the Rbridges (excluding itself) that it
      appoints as forwarders for that link and the VLANs for which it
      appoints them.  As described below, this TLV is designed so that
      not all the appointment information need be included in each
      Hello.  Its absence means that appointed forwarders should
      continue as previously assigned.

   4. The TRILL neighbor list.  This is a new TLV, not the same as the
      IS-IS Neighbor TLV, in order to accommodate fragmentation and
      reporting MTU on the link (see Section 4.4.2.1).

   The Appointed Forwarders TLV specifies a range of VLANs and, within
   that range, specifies which Rbridge, if any, other than the DRB, is
   appointed forwarder for the VLANs in that range [RFC6326].
   Appointing an RBridge as forwarder on a port for a VLAN that is not
   enabled on that port has no effect.

   It is anticipated that many links between RBridges will be point-to-
   point, in which case using a pseudonode merely adds to the
   complexity.  If the DRB specifies the bypass pseudonode bit in its
   TRILL-Hellos, the RBridges on the link just report their adjacencies
   as point-to-point.  This has no effect on how LSPs are flooded on a
   link.  It only affects what LSPs are generated.

   For example, if RB1 and RB2 are the only RBridges on the link and RB1
   is the DRB, then if RB1 creates a pseudonode that is used, there are
   3 LSPs: for, say, RB1.25 (the pseudonode), RB1, and RB2, where RB1.25
   reports connectivity to RB1 and RB2, and RB1 and RB2 each just say
   they are connected to RB1.25.  Whereas if DRB RB1 sets the bypass
   pseudonode bit in its Hellos, then there will be only 2 LSPs: RB1 and
   RB2 each reporting connectivity to each other.





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   A DRB SHOULD set the bypass pseudonode bit for its links unless, for
   a particular link, it has seen at least two simultaneous adjacencies
   on the link at some point since it last rebooted.

4.4.2.1.  TRILL Neighbor List

   The new TRILL Neighbor TLV includes the following information for
   each neighbor it lists:

   1.  The neighbor's MAC address.

   2.  MTU size to this neighbor as a 2-octet unsigned integer in units
      of 4-octet chunks.  The value zero indicates that the MTU is
      untested.

   3.  A flag for "failed minimum MTU test".

   To allow partial reporting of neighbors, the neighbor IDs MUST be
   sorted by ID.  If a set of neighbors { X1, X2, X3, ...  Xn } is
   reported in RB1's Hello, then X1 < X2 < X3, ...  < Xn.  If RBridge
   RB2's ID is between X1 and Xn, and does not appear in RB1's Hello,
   then RB2 knows that RB1 has not heard RB2's Hello.

   Additionally there are two overall TRILL Neighbor List TLV flags:
   "the smallest ID I reported in this Hello is the smallest ID of any
   neighbor", and "the largest ID I reported in this Hello is the
   largest ID of any neighbor".  If all the neighbors fit in RB1's
   TRILL-Hello, both flags will be set.

   If RB1 reports { X1, ...  Xn } in its Hello, with the "smallest" flag
   set, and RB2's ID is smaller than X1, then RB2 knows that RB1 has not
   heard RB2's Hello.  Similarly, if RB2's ID is larger than Xn and the
   "largest" flag is set, then RB2 knows that RB1 has not heard RB2's
   Hello.

   To ensure that any RBridge RB2 can definitively determine whether RB1
   can hear RB2, RB1's neighbor list MUST eventually cover every
   possible range of IDs, that is, within a period that depends on RB1's
   policy and not necessarily within any specific period such as the
   holding time.  In other words, if X1 is the smallest ID reported in
   one of RB1's neighbor lists, and the "smallest" flag is not set, then
   X1 MUST also appear as the largest ID reported in a different TRILL-
   Hello neighbor list.  Or, fragments may overlap, as long as there is
   no gap, such that some range, say, between Xi and Xj, never appears
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4.4.3.  TRILL MTU-Probe and TRILL Hello VLAN Tagging

   The MTU-probe mechanism is designed to determine the MTU for
   transmissions between RBridges.  MTU-probes and probe
   acknowledgements are only sent on the Designated VLAN.

   An RBridge RBn maintains for each port the same VLAN information as a
   customer IEEE [802.1Q-2005] bridge, including the set of VLANs
   enabled for output through that port (see Section 4.9.2).  In
   addition, RBn maintains the following TRILL-specific VLAN parameters
   per port:

      a) Desired Designated VLAN: the VLAN that RBn, if it is the DRB,
         will specify in its TRILL-Hellos as the VLAN to be used by all
         RBridges on the link to communicate all TRILL frames, except
         some TRILL-Hellos.  This MUST be a VLAN enabled on RBn's port.
         It defaults to the numerically lowest enabled VLAN ID, which is
         VLAN 1 for a default configuration RBridge.

      b) Designated VLAN: the VLAN being used on the link for all TRILL
         frames except some TRILL Hellos.  This is RBn's Desired
         Designated VLAN if RBn believes it is the DRB or the Designated
         VLAN in the DRB's Hellos if RBn is not the DRB.

      c) Announcing VLANs set.  This defaults to the enabled VLANs set
         on the port but may be configured to be a subset of the enabled
         VLANs.

      d) Forwarding VLANs set: the set of VLANs for which an RBridge
         port is appointed VLAN forwarder on the port.  This MUST
         contain only enabled VLANs for the port, possibly all enabled
         VLANs.

   On each of its ports that is not configured to use P2P Hellos, an
   RBridge sends TRILL-Hellos Outer.VLAN tagged with each VLAN in a set
   of VLANs.  This set depends on the RBridge's DRB status and the above
   VLAN parameters.  RBridges send TRILL Hellos Outer.VLAN tagged with
   the Designated VLAN, unless that VLAN is not enabled on the port.  In
   addition, the DRB sends TRILL Hellos Outer.VLAN tagged with each
   enabled VLAN in its Announcing VLANs set.  All non-DRB RBridges send
   TRILL-Hellos Outer.VLAN tagged with all enabled VLANs that are in the
   intersection of their Forwarding VLANs set and their Announcing VLANs
   set.  More symbolically, TRILL-Hello frames, when sent, are sent as
   follows:

   If sender is DRB
      intersection ( Enabled VLANs,
      union ( Designated VLAN, Announcing VLANs ) )



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   If sender is not DRB
      intersection ( Enabled VLANs,
      union ( Designated VLAN,
      intersection ( Forwarding VLANs, Announcing VLANs ) ) )

   Configuring the Announcing VLANs set to be null minimizes the number
   of TRILL-Hellos.  In that case, TRILL-Hellos are only tagged with the
   Designated VLAN.  Great care should be taken in configuring an
   RBridge to not send TRILL Hellos on any VLAN where that RBridge is
   appointed forwarder as, under some circumstances, failure to send
   such Hellos can lead to loops.

   The number of TRILL-Hellos is maximized, within this specification,
   by configuring the Announcing VLANs set to be the set of all enabled
   VLAN IDs, which is the default.  In that case, the DRB will send
   TRILL-Hello frames tagged with all its Enabled VLAN tags; in
   addition, any non-DRB RBridge RBn will send TRILL-Hello frames tagged
   with the Designated VLAN, if enabled, and tagged with all VLANs for
   which RBn is an appointed forwarder.  (It is possible to send even
   more TRILL-Hellos.  In particular, non-DRB RBridges could send TRILL-
   Hellos on enabled VLANs for which they are not an appointed forwarder
   and which are not the Designated VLAN.  This would cause no harm
   other than a further communications and processing burden.)

   When an RBridge port comes up, until it has heard a TRILL-Hello from
   a higher priority RBridge, it considers itself to be DRB on that port
   and sends TRILL-Hellos on that basis.  Similarly, even if it has at
   some time recognized some other RBridge on the link as DRB, if it
   receives no TRILL-Hellos on that port from an RBridge with higher
   priority as DRB for a long enough time, as specified by IS-IS, it
   will revert to believing itself DRB.

4.4.4.  Multiple Ports on the Same Link

   It is possible for an RBridge RB1 to have multiple ports to the same
   link.  It is important for RB1 to recognize which of its ports are on
   the same link, so, for instance, if RB1 is appointed forwarder for
   VLAN A, RB1 knows that only one of its ports acts as appointed
   forwarder for VLAN A on that link.

   RB1 detects this condition based on receiving TRILL-Hello messages
   with the same IS-IS pseudonode ID on multiple ports.  RB1 might have
   one set of ports, say, { p1, p2, p3 } on one link, and another set of
   ports { p4, p5 } on a second link, and yet other ports, say, p6, p7,
   p8, that are each on distinct links.  Let us call a set of ports on
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   If RB1 detects that a set of ports, say, { p1, p2, p3 }, is a port
   group on a link, then RB1 MUST ensure that it does not cause loops
   when it encapsulates and decapsulates traffic from/to that link.  If
   RB1 is appointed forwarder for VLAN A on that Ethernet link, RB1 MUST
   encapsulate/decapsulate VLAN A on only one of the ports.  However, if
   RB1 is appointed forwarder for more than one VLAN, RB1 MAY choose to
   load split among its ports, using one port for some set of VLANs, and
   another port for a disjoint set of VLANs.

   If RB1 detects VLAN mapping occurring (see Section 4.4.5), then RB1
   MUST NOT load split as appointed forwarder, and instead MUST act as
   appointed VLAN forwarder on that link on only one of its ports in the
   port group.

   When forwarding TRILL-encapsulated multi-destination frames to/from a
   link on which RB1 has a port group, RB1 MAY choose to load split
   among its ports, provided that it does not duplicate frames, and
   provided that it keeps frames for the same flow on the same port.  If
   RB1's neighbor on that link, RB2, accepts multi-destination frames on
   that tree on that link from RB1, RB2 MUST accept the frame from any
   of RB2's adjacencies to RB1 on that link.

   If an RBridge has more than one port connected to a link and those
   ports have the same MAC address, they can be distinguished by the
   port ID contained in TRILL-Hellos.

4.4.5.  VLAN Mapping within a Link

   IEEE [802.1Q-2005] does not provide for bridges changing the C-tag
   VLAN ID for a tagged frame they receive, that is, mapping VLANs.
   Nevertheless, some bridge products provide this capability and, in
   any case, bridged LANs can be configured to display this behavior.
   For example, a bridge port can be configured to strip VLAN tags on
   output and send the resulting untagged frames onto a link leading to
   another bridge's port configured to tag these frames with a different
   VLAN.  Although each port's configuration is legal under
   [802.1Q-2005], in the aggregate they perform manipulations not
   permitted on a single customer [802.1Q-2005] bridge.  Since RBridge
   ports have the same VLAN capabilities as customer [802.1Q-2005]
   bridges, this can occur even in the absence of bridges.  (VLAN
   mapping is referred to in IEEE 802.1 as "VLAN ID translation".)

   RBridges include the Outer.VLAN ID inside every TRILL-Hello message.
   When a TRILL-Hello is received, RBridges compare this saved copy with
   the Outer.VLAN ID information associated with the received frame.  If
   these differ and the VLAN ID inside the Hello is X and the Outer.VLAN
   is Y, it can be assumed that VLAN ID X is being mapped into VLAN ID
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   When non-DRB RB2 detects VLAN mapping, based on receiving a TRILL-
   Hello where the VLAN tag in the body of the Hello differs from the
   one in the outer header, it sets a flag in all of its TRILL-Hellos
   for a period of two of its Holding Times since the last time RB2
   detected VLAN mapping.  When DRB RB1 is informed of VLAN mapping,
   either because of receiving a TRILL-Hello that has been VLAN-mapped,
   or because of seeing the "VLAN mapping detected" flag in a neighbor's
   TRILL-Hello on the link, RB1 re-assigns VLAN forwarders to ensure
   there is only a single forwarder on the link for all VLANs.

4.5.  Distribution Trees

   RBridges use distribution trees to forward multi-destination frames
   (see Section 2.4.2).  Distribution trees are bidirectional.  Although
   a single tree is logically sufficient for the entire campus, the
   computation of additional distribution trees is warranted for the
   following reasons: it enables multipathing of multi-destination
   frames and enables the choice of a tree root closer to or, in the
   limit, identical with the ingress RBridge.  Such a closer tree root
   improves the efficiency of the delivery of multi-destination frames
   that are being delivered to a subset of the links in the campus and
   reduces out-of-order delivery when a unicast address transitions
   between unknown and known.  If applications are in use where
   occasional out-of-order unicast frames due to such transitions are a
   problem, the RBridge campus should be engineered to make sure they
   are of extremely low probability, such as by using the ESADI
   protocol, configuring addresses to eliminate unknown destination
   unicast frames, or using keep alive frames.

   An additional level of flexibility is the ability of an RBridge to
   acquire multiple nicknames, and therefore have multiple trees rooted
   at the same RBridge.  Since the tree number is used as a tiebreaker
   for equal cost paths, the different trees, even if rooted at the same
   RBridge, will likely utilize different equal cost paths.

   How an ingress RBridge chooses the distribution tree or trees that it
   uses for multi-destination frames is beyond the scope of this
   document.  However, for the reasons stated above, in the absence of
   other factors, a good choice is the tree whose root is least cost
   from the ingress RBridge and that is the default for an ingress
   RBridge that uses a single tree to distribute multi-destination
   frames.

   RBridges will precompute all the trees that might be used, and keep
   state for Reverse Path Forwarding Check filters (see Section 4.5.2).
   Also, since the tree number is used as a tiebreaker, it is important
   for all RBridges to know:




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   o  how many trees to compute
   o  which trees to compute
   o  what the tree number for each tree is
   o  which trees each ingress RBridge might choose (for building
      Reverse Path Forwarding Check filters)

   Each RBridge advertises in its LSP a "tree root" priority for its
   nickname or for each of its nicknames if it has been configured to
   have more than one.  This is a 16-bit unsigned integer that defaults,
   for an unconfigured RBridge, to 0x8000.  Tree roots are ordered with
   highest numerical priority being highest priority, then with system
   ID of the RBridge (numerically higher = higher priority) as
   tiebreaker, and if that is equal, by the numerically higher nickname
   value, as an unsigned integer, having priority.

   Each RBridge advertises in its LSP the maximum number of distribution
   trees that it can compute and the number of trees that it wants all
   RBridges in the campus to compute.  The number of trees, k, that are
   computed for the campus is the number wanted by the RBridge RB1,
   which has the nickname with the highest "tree root" priority, but no
   more than the number of trees supported by the RBridge in the campus
   that supports the fewest trees.  If RB1 does not specify the specific
   distribution tree roots as described below, then the k highest
   priority trees are the trees that will be computed by all RBridges.
   Note that some of these k highest priority trees might be rooted at
   the same RBridge, if that RBridge has multiple nicknames.

   If an RBridge specifies the number of trees it can compute, or the
   number of trees it wants computed for the campus, as 0, it is treated
   as specifying them as 1.  Thus, k defaults to 1.

   In addition, the RBridge RB1 having the highest root priority
   nickname might explicitly advertise a set of s trees by providing a
   list of s nicknames.  In that case, the first k of those s trees will
   be computed.  If s is less than k, or if any of the s nicknames
   associated with the trees RB1 is advertising does not exist within
   the LSP database, then the RBridges still compute k trees, but the
   remaining trees they select are the highest priority trees, such that
   k trees are computed.

   There are two exceptions to the above, which can cause fewer
   distribution trees to be computed, as follows:

   o  A nickname whose tree root priority is zero is not selected as a
      tree root based on priority, although it may be selected by being
      listed by the RBridge holding the highest priority tree root
      nickname.  The one exception to this is that if all nicknames have
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      by the tiebreakers is used as a tree root so that there is always
      guaranteed to be at least one distribution tree.

   o  As a transient condition, two or more identical nicknames can
      appear in the list of roots for trees to be computed.  In such a
      case, it is useless to compute a tree for the nickname(s) that are
      about to be lost by the RBridges holding them.  So a distribution
      tree is only computed for the instance of the nickname where the
      priority to hold that nickname value is highest, reducing the
      total number of trees computed.  (It would also be of little use
      to go further down the priority ordered list of possible tree root
      nicknames to maintain the number of trees as the additional tree
      roots found this way would only be valid for a very brief nickname
      transition period.)

   The k trees calculated for a campus are ordered and numbered from 1
   to k.  In addition to advertising the number k, RB1 might explicitly
   advertise a set of s trees by providing a list of s nicknames as
   described above.

   - If s == k, then the trees are numbered in the order that RB1
     advertises them.

   - If s == 0, then the trees are numbered in order of decreasing
     priority.  For example, if RB1 advertises only that k=2, then the
     highest priority tree is number 1 and the 2nd highest priority tree
     is number 2.

   - If s < k, then those advertised by RB1 are numbered from 1 in the
     order advertised.  Then the remainder are chosen by priority order
     from among the remaining possible trees with the numbering
     continuing.  For example, if RB1 advertises k=4, advertises
     { Tx, Ty } as the nicknames of the root of the trees, and the
     campus-wide priority ordering of trees in decreasing order is Ty >
     Ta > Tc > Tb > Tx, the numbering will be as follows: Tx is 1 and Ty
     is 2 since that is the order they are advertised in by RB1.  Then
     Ta is 3 and Tc is 4 because they are the highest priority trees
     that have not already been numbered.

4.5.1.  Distribution Tree Calculation

   RBridges do not use spanning tree to calculate distribution trees.
   Instead, distribution trees are calculated based on the link state
   information, selecting a particular RBridge nickname as the root.
   Each RBridge RBn independently calculates a tree rooted at RBi by
   performing the SPF (Shortest Path First) calculation with RBi as the
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   It is important, when building a distribution tree, that all RBridges
   choose the same links for that tree.  Therefore, when there are equal
   cost paths for a particular tree, all RBridges need to use the same
   tiebreakers.  It is also desirable to allow splitting of traffic on
   as many links as possible.  For this reason, a simple tiebreaker such
   as "always choose the parent with lower ID" would not be desirable.
   Instead, TRILL uses the tree number as a parameter in the tiebreaking
   algorithm.

   When building the tree number j, remember all possible equal cost
   parents for node N.  After calculating the entire "tree" (actually,
   directed graph), for each node N, if N has "p" parents, then order
   the parents in ascending order according to the 7-octet IS-IS ID
   considered as an unsigned integer, and number them starting at zero.
   For tree j, choose N's parent as choice j mod p.

   Note that there might be multiple equal cost links between N and
   potential parent P that have no pseudonodes, because they are either
   point-to-point links or pseudonode-suppressed links.  Such links will
   be treated as a single link for the purpose of tree building, because
   they all have the same parent P, whose IS-IS ID is "P.0".

   In other words, the set of potential parents for N, for the tree
   rooted at R, consists of those that give equally minimal cost paths
   from N to R and that have distinct IS-IS IDs, based on what is
   reported in LSPs.

4.5.2.  Multi-Destination Frame Checks

   When a multi-destination TRILL-encapsulated frame is received by an
   RBridge, there are four checks performed, each of which may cause the
   frame to be discarded:

   1. Tree Adjacency Check: Each RBridge RBn keeps a set of adjacencies
      ( { port, neighbor } pairs ) for each distribution tree it is
      calculating.  One of these adjacencies is toward the tree root
      RBi, and the others are toward the leaves.  Once the adjacencies
      are chosen, it is irrelevant which ones are towards the root RBi
      and which are away from RBi.  RBridges MUST drop a multi-
      destination frame that arrives at a port from an RBridge that is
      not an adjacency for the tree on which the frame is being
      distributed.  Let's suppose that RBn has calculated that
      adjacencies a, c, and f are in the RBi tree.  A multi-destination
      frame for the distribution tree RBi is received only from one of
      the adjacencies a, c, or f (otherwise it is discarded) and
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      ports on a link, a multi-destination frame it sends on one of
      these ports will be received by the others but will be discarded
      as an RBridge is not adjacent to itself.

   2. RPF Check: Another technique used by RBridges for avoiding
      temporary multicast loops during topology changes is the Reverse
      Path Forwarding Check.  It involves checking that a multi-
      destination frame, based on the tree and the ingress RBridge,
      arrives from the expected link.  RBridges MUST drop multi-
      destination frames that fail the RPF check.

      To limit the amount of state necessary to perform the RPF check,
      each RBridge RB2 MUST announce which trees RB2 may choose when RB2
      ingresses a multi-destination packet.  When any RBridge, say, RB3,
      is computing the tree from nickname X, RB3 computes, for each
      RBridge RB2 that might act as ingress for tree X, the link on
      which RB3 should receive a packet from ingress RB2 on tree X, and
      note for that link that RB2 is a legal ingress RBridge for tree X.

      The information to determine which trees RB2 might choose is
      included in RB2's LSP.  Similarly to how the highest priority
      RBridge RB1 specifies the k trees that will be computed by all
      RBridges, RB2 specifies a number j, which is the total number of
      different trees RB2 might specify, and the specific trees RB2
      might specify are a combination of specified trees and trees
      selected from highest priority trees.  If RB2 specifies any trees
      that are not in the k trees as specified by RB1, they are ignored.

      The j potential ingress trees for RB2 are the ones with nicknames
      that RB2 has explicitly specified in "specified ingress tree
      nicknames" (and that are included in the k campus-wide trees
      selected by highest priority RBridge RB1), with the remainder (up
      to the maximum of {j,k}) being the highest priority of the k
      campus-wide trees.

      The default value for j is 1.  The value 0 for j is special and
      means that RB2 can pick any of the k trees being computed for the
      campus.

   3. Parallel Links Check: If the tree-building and tiebreaking for a
      particular multi-destination frame distribution tree selects a
      non-pseudonode link between RB1 and RB2, that "RB1-RB2 link" might
      actually consist of multiple links.  These parallel links would be
      visible to RB1 and RB2, but not to the rest of the campus (because
      the links are not represented by pseudonodes).  If this bundle of
      parallel links is included in a tree, it is important for RB1 and
      RB2 to decide which link to use, but is irrelevant to other
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      visible to any RBridges other than RB1 and RB2.  In this case,
      RB1-RB2 adjacencies are ordered as follows, with the one "most
      preferred" adjacency being the one on which RB1 and RB2 transmit
      to and receive multi-destination frames from each other.

      a) Most preferred are those established by P2P Hellos.
         Tiebreaking among those is based on preferring the one with the
         numerically highest Extended Circuit ID as associated with the
         adjacency by the RBridge with the highest System ID.

      b) Next considered are those established through TRILL-Hello
         frames, with suppressed pseudonodes.  Note that the pseudonode
         is suppressed in LSPs, but still appears in the TRILL-Hello,
         and therefore is available for this tiebreaking.  Among these
         links, the one with the numerically largest pseudonode ID is
         preferred.

   4. Port Group Check: If an RBridge has multiple ports attached to the
      same link, a multi-destination frame it is receiving will arrive
      on all of them.  All but one received copy of such a frame MUST be
      discarded to avoid duplication.  All such frames that are part of
      the same flow must be accepted on the same port to avoid re-
      ordering.

   When a topology change occurs (including apparent changes during
   start up), an RBridge MUST adjust its input distribution tree filters
   no later than it adjusts its output forwarding.

4.5.3.  Pruning the Distribution Tree

   Each distribution tree SHOULD be pruned per VLAN, eliminating
   branches that have no potential receivers downstream.  Multi-
   destination TRILL Data frames SHOULD only be forwarded on branches
   that are not pruned.

   Further pruning SHOULD be done in two cases: (1) IGMP [RFC3376], MLD
   [RFC2710], and MRD [RFC4286] messages, where these are to be
   delivered only to links with IP multicast routers; and (2) other
   multicast frames derived from an IP multicast address that should be
   delivered only to links that have registered listeners, plus links
   that have IP multicast routers, except for IP multicast addresses
   that must be broadcast.  Each of these cases is scoped per VLAN.

   Let's assume that RBridge RBn knows that adjacencies (a, c, and f)
   are in the nickname1 distribution tree.  RBn marks pruning
   information for each of the adjacencies in the nickname1-tree.  For
   each adjacency and for each tree, RBn marks:




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   o  the set of VLANs reachable downstream,

   o  for each one of those VLANs, flags indicating whether there are
      IPv4 or IPv6 multicast routers downstream, and

   o  the set of Layer 2 multicast addresses derived from IP multicast
      groups for which there are receivers downstream.

4.5.4.  Tree Distribution Optimization

   RBridges MUST determine the VLAN associated with all native frames
   they ingress and properly enforce VLAN rules on the emission of
   native frames at egress RBridge ports according to how those ports
   are configured and designated as appointed forwarders.  RBridges
   SHOULD also prune the distribution tree of multi-destination frames
   according to VLAN.  But, since they are not required to do such
   pruning, they may receive TRILL data or ESADI frames that should have
   been VLAN pruned earlier in the tree distribution.  They silently
   discard such frames.  A campus may contain some Rbridges that prune
   distribution trees on VLAN and some that do not.

   The situation is more complex for multicast.  RBridges SHOULD analyze
   IP-derived native multicast frames, and learn and announce listeners
   and IP multicast routers for such frames as discussed in Section 4.7
   below.  And they SHOULD prune the distribution of IP-derived
   multicast frames based on such learning and announcements.  But, they
   are not required to prune based on IP multicast listener and router
   attachment state.  And, unlike VLANs, where VLAN attachment state of
   ports MUST be maintained and honored, RBridges are not required to
   maintain IP multicast listener and router attachment state.

   An RBridge that does not examine native IGMP [RFC3376], MLD
   [RFC2710], or MRD [RFC4286] frames that it ingresses MUST advertise
   that it has IPv4 and IPv6 IP multicast routers attached for all the
   VLANs for which it is an appointed forwarder.  It need not advertise
   any IP-derived multicast listeners.  This will cause all IP-derived
   multicast traffic to be sent to this RBridge for those VLANs.  It
   then egresses that traffic onto the links for which it is appointed
   forwarder where the VLAN of the traffic matches the VLAN for which it
   is appointed forwarder on that link.  (This may cause the suppression
   of certain IGMP membership report messages from end stations, but
   that is not significant because any multicast traffic that such
   reports would be requesting will be sent to such end stations under
   these circumstances.)







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   A campus may contain a mixture of Rbridges with different levels of
   IP-derived multicast optimization.  An RBridge may receive IP-derived
   multicast frames that should have been pruned earlier in the tree
   distribution.  It silently discards such frames.

   See also "Considerations for Internet Group Management Protocol
   (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping Switches"
   [RFC4541].

4.5.5.  Forwarding Using a Distribution Tree

   With full optimization, forwarding a multi-destination data frame is
   done as follows.  References to adjacencies below do not include the
   adjacency on which a frame was received.

   o  The RBridge RBn receives a multi-destination TRILL Data frame with
      inner VLAN-x and a TRILL header indicating that the selected tree
      is the nickname1 tree;

   o  if the source from which the frame was received is not one of the
      adjacencies in the nickname1 tree for the specified ingress
      RBridge, the frame is dropped (see Section 4.5.1);

   o  else, if the frame is an IGMP or MLD announcement message or an
      MRD query message, then the encapsulated frame is forwarded onto
      adjacencies in the nickname1 tree that indicate there are
      downstream VLAN-x IPv4 or IPv6 multicast routers as appropriate;

   o  else, if the frame is for a Layer 2 multicast address derived from
      an IP multicast group, but its IP address is not the range of IP
      multicast addresses that must be treated as broadcast, the frame
      is forwarded onto adjacencies in the nickname1 tree that indicate
      there are downstream VLAN-x IP multicast routers of the
      corresponding type (IPv4 or IPv6), as well as adjacencies that
      indicate there are downstream VLAN-x receivers for that group
      address;

   o  else (the inner frame is for a Layer 2 multicast address not
      derived from an IP multicast group or an unknown destination or
      broadcast or an IP multicast address that is required to be
      treated as broadcast), the frame is forwarded onto an adjacency if
      and only if that adjacency is in the nickname1 tree, and marked as
      reaching VLAN-x links.

   For each link for which RBn is appointed forwarder, RBn additionally
   checks to see if it should decapsulate the frame and send it to the
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   TRILL ESADI frames will be delivered only to RBridges that are
   appointed forwarders for their VLAN.  Such frames will be multicast
   throughout the campus, like other non-IP-derived multicast data
   frames, on the distribution tree chosen by the RBridge that created
   the TRILL ESADI frame, and pruned according to the Inner.VLAN ID.
   Thus, all the RBridges that are appointed forwarders for a link in
   that VLAN receive them.

4.6.  Frame Processing Behavior

   This section describes RBridge behavior for all varieties of received
   frames, including how they are forwarded when appropriate.  Section
   4.6.1 covers native frames, Section 4.6.2 covers TRILL frames, and
   Section 4.6.3 covers Layer 2 control frames.  Processing may be
   organized or sequenced in a different way than described here as long
   as the result is the same.  See Section 1.4 for frame type
   definitions.

   Corrupt frames, for example, frames that are not a multiple of 8
   bits, are too short or long for the link protocol/hardware in use, or
   have a bad FCS are discarded on receipt by an RBridge port as they
   are discarded on receipt at an IEEE 802.1 bridge port.

   Source address information ( { VLAN, Outer.MacSA, port } ) is learned
   by default from any frame with a unicast source address (see Section
   4.8).

4.6.1.  Receipt of a Native Frame

   If the port is configured as disabled or if end-station service is
   disabled on the port by configuring it as a trunk port or configuring
   it to use P2P Hellos, the frame is discarded.

   The ingress Rbridge RB1 determines the VLAN ID for a native frame
   according to the same rules as IEEE [802.1Q-2005] bridges do (see
   Appendix D and Section 4.9.2).  Once the VLAN is determined, if RB1
   is not the appointed forwarder for that VLAN on the port where the
   frame was received or is inhibited, the frame is discarded.  If it is
   appointed forwarder for that VLAN and is not inhibited (see Section
   4.2.4.3), then the native frame is forwarded according to Section
   4.6.1.1 if it is unicast and according to Section 4.6.1.2 if it is
   multicast or broadcast.

4.6.1.1.  Native Unicast Case

   If the destination MAC address of the native frame is a unicast
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   The Layer 2 destination address and VLAN are looked up in the ingress
   RBridge's database of MAC addresses and VLANs to find the egress
   RBridge RBm or the local egress port or to discover that the
   destination is the receiving RBridge or is unknown.  One of the
   following four cases will apply:

   1. If the destination is the receiving RBridge, the frame is locally
      processed.

   2. If the destination is known to be on the same link from which the
      native frame was received but is not the receiving RBridge, the
      RBridge silently discards the frame, since the destination should
      already have received it.

   3. If the destination is known to be on a different local link for
      which RBm is the appointed forwarder, then RB1 converts the native
      frame to a TRILL Data frame with an Outer.MacDA of the next hop
      RBridge towards RBm, a TRILL header with M = 0, an ingress
      nickname for RB1, and the egress nickname for RBm.  If ingress RB1
      has multiple nicknames, it SHOULD use the same nickname in the
      ingress nickname field whenever it encapsulates a native frame
      from any particular source MAC address and VLAN.  This simplifies
      end node learning.  If RBm is RB1, processing then proceeds as in
      Section 4.6.2.4; otherwise, the Outer.MacSA is set to the MAC
      address of the RB1 port on the path to the next hop RBridge
      towards RBm and the frame is queued for transmission out of that
      port.

   4. If a unicast destination MAC is unknown in the frame's VLAN, RB1
      handles the frame as described in Section 4.6.1.2 for a broadcast
      frame except that the Inner.MacDA is the original native frame's
      unicast destination address.

4.6.1.2.  Native Multicast and Broadcast Frames

   If the RBridge has multiple ports attached to the same link, all but
   one received copy of a native multicast or broadcast frame is
   discarded to avoid duplication.  All such frames that are part of the
   same flow must be accepted on the same port to avoid re-ordering.

   If the frame is a native IGMP [RFC3376], MLD [RFC2710], or MRD
   [RFC4286] frame, then RB1 SHOULD analyze it, learn any group
   membership or IP multicast router presence indicated, and announce
   that information for the appropriate VLAN in its LSP (see Section
   4.7).

   For all multi-destination native frames, RB1 forwards the frame in
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   frame's VLAN, subject to further pruning and inhibition.  In
   addition, it converts the native frame to a TRILL Data frame with the
   All-RBridges multicast address as Outer.MacDA, a TRILL header with
   the multi-destination bit M = 1, the ingress nickname for RB1, and
   the egress nickname for the distribution tree it decides to use.  It
   then forwards the frame on the pruned distribution tree (see Section
   4.5) setting the Outer.MacSA of each copy sent to the MAC address of
   the RB1 port on which it is sent.

   The default is for RB1 to write into the egress nickname field the
   nickname for a distribution tree, from the set of distribution trees
   RB1 has announced it might use, whose root is least cost from RB1.
   RB1 MAY choose different distribution trees for different frames if
   RB1 has been configured to path-split multicast.  In that case, RB1
   MUST select a tree by specifying a nickname that is a distribution
   tree root (see Section 4.5).  Also, RB1 MUST select a nickname that
   RB1 has announced (in RB1's own LSP) to be one of those that RB1
   might use.  The strategy RB1 uses to select distribution trees in
   multipathing multi-destination frames is beyond the scope of this
   document.

4.6.2.  Receipt of a TRILL Frame

   A TRILL frame either has the TRILL or L2-IS-IS Ethertype or has a
   multicast Outer.MacDA allocated to TRILL (see Section 7.2).  The
   following tests are performed sequentially, and the first that
   matches controls the handling of the frame:

   1. If the Outer.MacDA is All-IS-IS-RBridges and the Ethertype is
      L2-IS-IS, the frame is handled as described in Section 4.6.2.1.

   2. If the Outer.MacDA is a multicast address allocated to TRILL other
      than All-RBridges, the frame is discarded.

   3. If the Outer.MacDA is a unicast address other than the receiving
      Rbridge port MAC address, the frame is discarded.  (Such discarded
      frames are most likely addressed to another RBridge on a multi-
      access link and that other Rbridge will handle them.)

   4. If the Ethertype is not TRILL, the frame is discarded.

   5. If the Version field in the TRILL header is greater than 0, the
      frame is discarded.

   6. If the hop count is 0, the frame is discarded.

   7. If the Outer.MacDA is multicast and the M bit is zero or if the
      Outer.MacDA is unicast and M bit is one, the frame is discarded.



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   8. By default, an RBridge MUST NOT forward TRILL-encapsulated frames
      from a neighbor with which it does not have a TRILL IS-IS
      adjacency.  RBridges MAY be configured per port to accept these
      frames for forwarding in cases where it is known that a non-
      peering device (such as an end station) is configured to originate
      TRILL-encapsulated frames that can be safely forwarded.

   9. The Inner.MacDA is then tested.  If it is the All-ESADI-RBridges
      multicast address and RBn implements the ESADI protocol,
      processing proceeds as in Section 4.6.2.2 below.  If it is any
      other address or RBn does not implement ESADI, processing proceeds
      as in Section 4.6.2.3.

4.6.2.1.  TRILL Control Frames

   The frame is processed by the TRILL IS-IS instance on RBn and is not
   forwarded.

4.6.2.2.  TRILL ESADI Frames

   If M == 0, the frame is silently discarded.

   The egress nickname designates the distribution tree.  The frame is
   forwarded as described in Section 4.6.2.5.  In addition, if the
   forwarding Rbridge is an appointed forwarder for a link in the
   specified VLAN and implements the TRILL ESADI protocol and ESADI is
   enabled at the forwarding Rbridge for that VLAN, the inner frame is
   decapsulated and provided to that local ESADI protocol.

4.6.2.3.  TRILL Data Frames

   The M flag is then checked.  If it is zero, processing continues as
   described in Section 4.6.2.4, if it is one, processing continues as
   described in Section 4.6.2.5.

4.6.2.4.  Known Unicast TRILL Data Frames

   The egress nickname in the TRILL header is examined, and if it is
   unknown or reserved, the frame is discarded.

   If RBn is a transit RBridge, the hop count is decremented by one and
   the frame is forwarded to the next hop RBridge towards the egress
   RBridge.  (The provision permitting RBridges to decrease the hop
   count by more than one under some circumstances (see Section 3.6)
   applies only to multi-destination frames, not to the known unicast
   frames considered in this subsection.)  The Inner.VLAN is not
   examined by a transit RBridge when it forwards a known unicast TRILL
   Data frame.  For the forwarded frame, the Outer.MacSA is the MAC



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   address of the transmitting port, the Outer.MacDA is the unicast
   address of the next hop RBridge, and the VLAN is the Designated VLAN
   on the link onto which the frame is being transmitted.

   If RBn is not a transit RBridge, that is, if the egress RBridge
   indicated is the RBridge performing the processing, the Inner.MacSA
   and Inner.VLAN ID are, by default, learned as associated with the
   ingress nickname unless that nickname is unknown or reserved or the
   Inner.MacSA is not unicast.  Then the frame being forwarded is
   decapsulated to native form, and the following checks are performed:

   o  The Inner.MacDA is checked.  If it is not unicast, the frame is
      discarded.

   o  If the Inner.MacDA corresponds to the RBridge doing the
      processing, the frame is locally delivered.

   o  The Inner.VLAN ID is checked.  If it is 0x0 or 0xFFF, the frame is
      discarded.

   o  The Inner.MacDA and Inner.VLAN ID are looked up in RBn's local
      address cache and the frame is then either sent onto the link
      containing the destination, if the RBridge is appointed forwarder
      for that link for the frame's VLAN and is not inhibited (or
      discarded if it is inhibited), or processed as in one of the
      following two paragraphs.

   A known unicast TRILL Data frame can arrive at the egress Rbridge
   only to find that the combination of Inner.MacDA and Inner.VLAN is
   not actually known by that RBridge.  One way this can happen is that
   the address information may have timed out in the egress RBridge MAC
   address cache.  In this case, the egress RBridge sends the native
   frame out on all links that are in the frame's VLAN for which the
   RBridge is appointed forwarder and has not been inhibited, except
   that it MAY refrain from sending the frame on links where it knows
   there cannot be an end station with the destination MAC address, for
   example, the link port is configured as a trunk (see Section 4.9.1).

   If, due to manual configuration or learning from Layer 2
   registration, the destination MAC and VLAN appear in RBn's local
   address cache for two or more links for which RBn is an uninhibited
   appointed forwarder for the frame's VLAN, RBn sends the native frame
   on all such links.

4.6.2.5.  Multi-Destination TRILL Data Frames

   The egress and ingress nicknames in the TRILL header are examined
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   The Outer.MacSA is checked and the frame discarded if it is not a
   tree adjacency for the tree indicated by the egress RBridge nickname
   on the port where the frame was received.  The Reverse Path
   Forwarding Check is performed on the ingress and egress nicknames and
   the frame discarded if it fails.  If there are multiple TRILL-Hello
   pseudonode suppressed parallel links to the previous hop RBridge, the
   frame is discarded if it has been received on the wrong one.  If the
   RBridge has multiple ports connected to the link, the frame is
   discarded unless it was received on the right one.  For more
   information on the checks in this paragraph, see Section 4.5.2.

   If the Inner.VLAN ID of the frame is 0x0 or 0xFFF, the frame is
   discarded.

   If the RBridge is an appointed forwarder for the Inner.VLAN ID of the
   frame, the Inner.MacSA and Inner.VLAN ID are, by default, learned as
   associated with the ingress nickname unless that nickname is unknown
   or reserved or the Inner.MacSA is not unicast.  A copy of the frame
   is then decapsulated, sent in native form on those links in its VLAN
   for which the RBridge is appointed forwarder subject to additional
   pruning and inhibition as described in Section 4.2.4.3, and/or
   locally processed as appropriate.

   The hop count is decreased (possibly by more than one; see Section
   3.6), and the frame is forwarded down the tree specified by the
   egress RBridge nickname pruned as described in Section 4.5.

   For the forwarded frame, the Outer.MacSA is set to that of the port
   on which the frame is being transmitted, the Outer.MacDA is the
   All-RBridges multicast address, and the VLAN is the Designated VLAN
   of the link on which the frame is being transmitted.

4.6.3.  Receipt of a Layer 2 Control Frame

   Low-level control frames received by an RBridge are handled within
   the port where they are received as described in Section 4.9.

   There are two types of high-level control frames, distinguished by
   their destination address, which are handled as described in the
   sections referenced below.

      Name   Section   Destination Address

      BPDU   4.9.3     01-80-C2-00-00-00
      VRP    4.9.4     01-80-C2-00-00-21






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4.7.  IGMP, MLD, and MRD Learning

   Ingress RBridges SHOULD learn, based on native IGMP [RFC3376], MLD
   [RFC2710], and MRD [RFC4286] frames they receive in VLANs for which
   they are an uninhibited appointed forwarder, which IP-derived
   multicast messages should be forwarded onto which links.  Such frames
   are also, in general, encapsulated as TRILL Data frames and
   distributed as described below and in Section 4.5.

   An IGMP or MLD membership report received in native form from a link
   indicates a multicast group listener for that group on that link.  An
   IGMP or MLD query or an MRD advertisement received in native form
   from a link indicates the presence of an IP multicast router on that
   link.

   IP multicast group membership reports have to be sent throughout the
   campus and delivered to all IP multicast routers, distinguishing IPv4
   and IPv6.  All IP-derived multicast traffic must also be sent to all
   IP multicast routers for the same version of IP.

   IP multicast data SHOULD only be sent on links where there is either
   an IP multicast router for that IP type (IPv4 or IPv6) or an IP
   multicast group listener for that IP-derived multicast MAC address,
   unless the IP multicast address is in the range required to be
   treated as broadcast.

   RBridges do not need to announce themselves as listeners to the IPv4
   All-Snoopers multicast group (the group used for MRD reports
   [RFC4286]), because the IPv4 multicast address for that group is in
   the range where all frames sent to that IP multicast address must be
   broadcast (see [RFC4541], Section 2.1.2).  However, RBridges that are
   performing IPv6-derived multicast optimization MUST announce
   themselves as listeners to the IPv6 All-Snoopers multicast group.

   See also "Considerations for Internet Group Management Protocol
   (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping Switches"
   [RFC4541].

4.8.  End-Station Address Details

   RBridges have to learn the MAC addresses and VLANs of their locally
   attached end stations for link/VLAN pairs for which they are the
   appointed forwarder.  Learning this enables them to do the following:

   o  Forward the native form of incoming known unicast TRILL Data
      frames onto the correct link.





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   o  Decide, for an incoming native unicast frame from a link, where
      the RBridge is the appointed forwarder for the frame's VLAN,
      whether the frame is

      -  known to have been destined for another end station on the same
         link, so the RBridge need do nothing, or

      -  has to be converted to a TRILL Data frame and forwarded.

   RBridges need to learn the MAC addresses, VLANs, and remote RBridges
   of remotely attached end stations for VLANs for which they and the
   remote RBridge are an appointed forwarder, so they can efficiently
   direct native frames they receive that are unicast to those addresses
   and VLANs.

4.8.1.  Learning End-Station Addresses

   There are five independent ways an RBridge can learn end-station
   addresses as follows:

   1. From the observation of VLAN-x frames received on ports where it
      is appointed VLAN-x forwarder, learning the { source MAC, VLAN,
      port } triplet of received frames.

   2. The { source MAC, VLAN, ingress RBridge nickname } triplet of any
      native frames that it decapsulates.

   3. By Layer 2 registration protocols learning the { source MAC, VLAN,
      port } of end stations registering at a local port.

   4. By running the TRILL ESADI protocol for one or more VLANs and
      thereby receiving remote address information and/or transmitting
      local address information.

   5. By management configuration.

   RBridges MUST implement capabilities 1 and 2 above.  RBridges use
   these capabilities unless configured, for one or more particular
   VLANs and/or ports, not to learn from either received frames or from
   decapsulating native frames to be transmitted or both.

   RBridges MAY implement capabilities 3 and 4 above.  If capability 4
   is implemented, the ESADI protocol is run only when the RBridge is
   configured to do so on a per-VLAN basis.

   RBridges SHOULD implement capability 5.





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   Entries in the table of learned MAC and VLAN addresses and associated
   information also have a one-octet unsigned confidence level
   associated with each entry whose rationale is given below.  Such
   information learned from the observation of data has a confidence of
   0x20 unless configured to have a different confidence.  This
   confidence level can be configured on a per-RBridge basis separately
   for information learned from local native frames and that learned
   from remotely originated encapsulated frames.  Such information
   received via the TRILL ESADI protocol is accompanied by a confidence
   level in the range 0 to 254.  Such information configured by
   management defaults to a confidence level of 255 but may be
   configured to have another value.

   The table of learned MAC addresses includes (1) { confidence, VLAN,
   MAC address, local port } for addresses learned from local native
   frames and local registration protocols, (2) { confidence, VLAN, MAC
   address, egress RBridge nickname } for addresses learned from remote
   encapsulated frames and ESADI link state databases, and (3)
   additional information to implement timeout of learned addresses,
   statically configured addresses, and the like.

   When a new address and related information learned from observing
   data frames are to be entered into the local database, there are
   three possibilities:

   A. If this is a new { address, VLAN } pair, the information is
      entered accompanied by the confidence level.

   B. If there is already an entry for this { address, VLAN } pair with
      the same accompanying delivery information, the confidence level
      in the local database is set to the maximum of its existing
      confidence level and the confidence level with which it is being
      learned.  In addition, if the information is being learned with
      the same or a higher confidence level than its existing confidence
      level, timer information is reset.

   C. If there is already an entry for this { address, VLAN } pair with
      different information, the learned information replaces the older
      information only if it is being learned with higher or equal
      confidence than that in the database entry.  If it replaces older
      information, timer information is also reset.

4.8.2.  Learning Confidence Level Rationale

   The confidence level mechanism allows an RBridge campus manager to
   cause certain address learning sources to prevail over others.  In a
   default configuration, without the optional ESADI protocol, addresses
   are only learned from observing local native frames and the



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   decapsulation of received TRILL Data frames.  Both of these sources
   default to confidence level 0x20 so, since learning at an equal or
   high confidence overrides previous learning, the learning in such a
   default case mimics default 802.1 bridge learning.

   While RBridge campus management policies are beyond the scope of this
   document, here are some example types of policies that can be
   implemented with the confidence mechanism and the rationale for each:

   o  Locally received native frames might be considered more reliable
      than decapsulated frames received from remote parts of the campus.
      To stop MAC addresses learned from such local frames from being
      usurped by remotely received forged frames, the confidence in
      locally learned addresses could be increased or that in addresses
      learned from remotely sourced decapsulated frames decreased.

   o  MAC address information learned through a cryptographically
      authenticated Layer 2 registration protocol, such as 802.1X with a
      cryptographically based EAP method, might be considered more
      reliable than information learned through the mere observation of
      data frames.  When such authenticated learned address information
      is transmitted via the ESADI protocol, the use of authentication
      in the TRILL ESADI LSP frames could make tampering with it in
      transit very difficult.  As a result, it might be reasonable to
      announce such authenticated information via the ESADI protocol
      with a high confidence, so it would override any alternative
      learning from data observation.

   Manually configured address information is generally considered
   static and so defaults to a confidence of 0xFF while no other source
   of such information can be configured to a confidence any higher than
   0xFE.  However, for other cases, such as where the manual
   configuration is just a starting point that the Rbridge campus
   manager wishes to be dynamically overridable, the confidence of such
   manually configured information may be configured to a lower value.

4.8.3.  Forgetting End-Station Addresses

   While RBridges need to learn end-station addresses as described
   above, it is equally important that they be able to forget such
   information.  Otherwise, frames for end stations that have moved to a
   different part of the campus could be indefinitely black-holed by
   RBridges with stale information as to the link to which the end
   station is attached.

   For end-station address information locally learned from frames
   received, the time out from the last time a native frame was received
   or decapsulated with the information conforms to the recommendations



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   of [802.1D].  It is referred to as the "Ageing Time" and is
   configurable per RBridge with a range of from 10 seconds to 1,000,000
   seconds and a default value of 300 seconds.

   The situation is different for end-station address information
   acquired via the TRILL ESADI protocol.  It is up to the originating
   RBridge to decide when to remove such information from its ESADI LSPs
   (or up to ESADI protocol timeouts if the originating RBridge becomes
   inaccessible).

   When an RBridge ceases to be appointed forwarder for VLAN-x on a
   port, it forgets all end-station address information learned from the
   observation of VLAN-x native frames received on that port.  It also
   increments a per-VLAN counter of the number of times it lost
   appointed forwarder status on one of its ports for that VLAN.

   When, for all of its ports, RBridge RBn is no longer appointed
   forwarder for VLAN-x, it forgets all end-station address information
   learned from decapsulating VLAN-x native frames.  Also, if RBn is
   participating in the TRILL ESADI protocol for VLAN-x, it ceases to so
   participate after sending a final LSP nulling out the end-station
   address information for the VLAN that it had been originating.  In
   addition, all other RBridges that are VLAN-x forwarder on at least
   one of their ports notice that the link state data for RBn has
   changed to show that it no longer has a link on VLAN-x.  In response,
   they forget all end-station address information they have learned
   from decapsulating VLAN-x frames that show RBn as the ingress
   RBridge.

   When the appointed forwarder lost counter for RBridge RBn for VLAN-x
   is observed to increase via the TRILL IS-IS link state database but
   RBn continues to be an appointed forwarder for VLAN-x on at least one
   of its ports, every other RBridge that is an appointed forwarder for
   VLAN-x modifies the aging of all the addresses it has learned by
   decapsulating native frames in VLAN-x from ingress RBridge RBn as
   follows: the time remaining for each entry is adjusted to be no
   larger than a per-RBridge configuration parameter called (to
   correspond to [802.1D]) "Forward Delay".  This parameter is in the
   range of 4 to 30 seconds with a default value of 15 seconds.

4.8.4.  Shared VLAN Learning

   RBridges can map VLAN IDs into a smaller number of identifiers for
   purposes of address learning, as [802.1Q-2005] bridges can.  Then,
   when a lookup is done in learned address information, this identifier
   is used for matching in place of the VLAN ID.  If the ID of the VLAN
   on which the address was learned is not retained, then there are the
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   o  The RBridge no longer has the information needed to participate in
      the TRILL ESADI protocol for the VLANs whose ID is not being
      retained.

   o  In cases where Section 4.8.3 above requires the discarding of
      learned address information based on a particular VLAN, when the
      VLAN ID is not available for entries under a shared VLAN
      identifier, instead the time remaining for each entry under that
      shared VLAN identifier is adjusted to be no longer than the
      RBridge's "Forward Delay".

   Although outside the scope of this specification, there are some
   Layer 2 features in which a set of VLANs has shared learning, where
   one of the VLANs is the "primary" and the other VLANs in the group
   are "secondaries".  An example of this is where traffic from
   different communities is separated using VLAN tags, and yet some
   resource (such as an IP router or DHCP server) is to be shared by all
   the communities.  A method of implementing this feature is to give a
   VLAN tag, say, Z, to a link containing the shared resource, and have
   the other VLANs, say, A, C, and D, be part of the group { primary =
   Z, secondaries = A, C, D }.  An RBridge, aware of this grouping,
   attached to one of the secondary VLANs in the group also claims to be
   attached to the primary VLAN.  So an RBridge attached to A would
   claim to also be attached to Z.  An RBridge attached to the primary
   would claim to be attached to all the VLANs in the group.

   This document does not specify how VLAN groups might be used.  Only
   RBridges that participate in a VLAN group will be configured to know
   about the VLAN group.  However, to detect misconfiguration, an
   RBridge configured to know about a VLAN group SHOULD report the VLAN
   group in its LSP.

4.9.  RBridge Ports

   Section 4.9.1 below describes the several RBridge port configuration
   bits, Section 4.9.2 gives a logical port structure in terms of frame
   processing, and Sections 4.9.3 and 4.9.4 describe the handling of
   high-level control frames.

4.9.1.  RBridge Port Configuration

   There are four per-port configuration bits as follows:

   o  Disable port bit.  When this bit is set, all frames received or to
      be transmitted are discarded, with the possible exception of some
      Layer 2 control frames (see Section 1.4) that may be generated and
      transmitted or received and processed within the port.  By
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   o  End-station service disable (trunk port) bit.  When this bit is
      set, all native frames received on the port and all native frames
      that would have been sent on the port are discarded.  (See
      Appendix B.)  (Note that, for this document, "native frames" does
      not include Layer 2 control frames.)  By default, ports are not
      restricted to being trunk ports.

      If a port with end-station service disabled reports, in a TRILL-
      Hello frame it sends out that port, which VLANs it provides end-
      station support for, it reports that there are none.

   o  TRILL traffic disable (access port) bit.  If this bit is set, the
      goal is to avoid sending any TRILL frames, except TRILL-Hello
      frames, on the port since it is intended only for native end-
      station traffic.  By default, ports are not restricted to being
      access ports.  This bit is reported in TRILL-Hello frames.  If RB1
      is the DRB and has this bit set in its TRILL-Hello, the DRB still
      appoints VLAN forwarders.  However, usually no pseudonode is
      reported, and none of the inter-RBridge links associated with that
      link are reported in LSPs.

      If the DRB RB1 does not have this bit set, but neighbor RB2 on the
      link does have the bit set, then RB1 does not appoint RB2 as
      appointed forwarder for any VLAN, and none of the RBridges
      (including the pseudonode) report RB2 as a neighbor in LSPs.

      In some cases even though the DRB has the "access port" flag set,
      the DRB MAY choose to create a pseudonode for the access port.  In
      this case, the other RBridges report connectivity to the
      pseudonode in their LSP, but the DRB sets the "overload" flag in
      the pseudonode LSP.

   o  Use P2P Hellos bit.  If this bit is set, Hellos sent on this port
      are IS-IS P2P Hellos.  By default TRILL-Hellos are used.  See
      Section 4.2.4.1 for more information on P2P links.

   The dominance relationship of these four configuration bits is as
   follows, where configuration bits to the left dominate those to the
   right.  That is to say, when any pair of bits is asserted,
   inconsistencies in behavior they mandate are resolved in favor of
   behavior mandated by the bit to the left of the other bit in this
   list.

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4.9.2.  RBridge Port Structure

   An RBridge port can be modeled as having a lower-level structure
   similar to that of an [802.1Q-2005] bridge port as shown in Figure
   11.  In this figure, the double lines represent the general flow of
   the frames and information while single lines represent information
   flow only.  The dashed lines in connection with VRP (GVRP/MVRP) are
   to show that VRP support is optional.  An actual RBridge port
   implementation may be structured in any way that provides the correct
   behavior.









































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                     +----------------------------------------------
                     |                RBridge
                     |
                     | Interport Forwarding, IS-IS.  Management, ...
                     |
                     +----++----------------------+-------------++--
                          ||                      |             ||
                    TRILL || Data                 |             ||
                          ||                   +--+---------+   ||
            +-------------++-----+             |   TRILL    |   ||
            |    Encapsulation   |      +------+ IS-IS Hello|   ||
            |    Decapsulation   |      |      | Processing |   ||
            |     Processing     |      |      +-----++-----+   ||
            +--------------------+      |            ||         ||
            |  RBridge Appointed +------+            ||         ||
        +---+   Forwarder and    |                   ||         ||
        |   |  Inhibition Logic  +==============\\   ||   //====++
        |   +---------+--------+-+   Native       \\ ++ //
        |             |        |     Frames         \++/
        |             |        |                     ||
   +----+-----+  +- - + - - +  |                     ||
   |  RBridge |  |  RBridge |  |                     || All TRILL and
   |   BPDU   |  |    VRP   |  |                     || Native Frames
   |Processing|  |Processing|  |                     ||
   +-----++---+  + - - -+- -+  |            +--------++--+ <- EISS
         ||             |      |            |   802.1Q   |
         ||            |       |            | Port VLAN  |
         ||             |      |            |and Priority|
         ||            |       |            | Processing |
     +---++------------++------+------------+------------+ <-- ISS
     |        802.1/802.3 Low-Level Control Frame        |
     |        Processing, Port/Link Control Logic        |
     +------------++-------------------------------------+
                  ||
                  ||        +------------+
                  ||        | 802.3 PHY  |
                  ++========+ (Physical  +======== 802.3
                            | Interface) |         Link
                            +------------+

                  Figure 11: Detailed RBridge Port Model

   Low-level control frames are handled in the lower-level port/link
   control logic in the same way as in an [802.1Q-2005] bridge port.
   This can optionally include a variety of 802.1 or link specific
   protocols such as PAUSE (Annex 31B of [802.3]), link layer discovery
   [802.1AB], link aggregation [802.1AX], MAC security [802.1AE], or
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   these frames may affect higher-level processing.  For example, a
   Layer 2 registration protocol may affect the confidence in learned
   addresses.  The upper interface to this lower-level port control
   logic corresponds to the Internal Sublayer Service (ISS) in
   [802.1Q-2005].

   High-level control frames (BPDUs and, if supported, VRP frames) are
   not VLAN tagged.  Although they extend through the ISS interface,
   they are not subject to port VLAN processing.  Behavior on receipt of
   a VLAN tagged BPDU or VLAN tagged VRP frame is unspecified.  If a VRP
   is not implemented, then all VRP frames are discarded.  Handling of
   BPDUs is described in Section 4.9.3.  Handling of VRP frames is
   described in Section 4.9.4.

   Frames other than Layer 2 control frames, that is, all TRILL and
   native frames, are subject to port VLAN and priority processing that
   is the same as for an [802.1Q-2005] bridge.  The upper interface to
   the port VLAN and priority processing corresponds to the Extended
   Internal Sublayer Service (EISS) in [802.1Q-2005].

   In this model, RBridge port processing below the EISS layer is
   identical to an [802.1Q-2005] bridge except for (1) the handling of
   high-level control frames and (2) that the discard of frames that
   have exceeded the Maximum Transit Delay is not mandatory but MAY be
   done.

   As described in more detail elsewhere in this document, incoming
   native frames are only accepted if the RBridge is an uninhibited
   appointed forwarder for the frame's VLAN, after which they are
   normally encapsulated and forwarded; outgoing native frames are
   usually obtained by decapsulation and are only output if the RBridge
   is an uninhibited appointed forwarder for the frame's VLAN.

   TRILL-Hellos, MTU-probes, and MTU-acks are handled per port and, like
   all TRILL IS-IS frames, are never forwarded.  They can affect the
   appointed forwarder and inhibition logic as well as the RBridge's
   LSP.

   Except TRILL-Hellos, MTU-probes, and MTU-acks, all TRILL control as
   well as TRILL data and ESADI frames are passed up to higher-level
   RBridge processing on receipt and passed down for transmission on
   creation or forwarding.  Note that these frames are never blocked due
   to the appointed forwarder and inhibition logic, which affects only
   native frames, but there are additional filters on some of them such
   as the Reverse Path Forwarding Check.






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4.9.3.  BPDU Handling

   If RBridge campus topology were static, RBridges would simply be end
   stations from a bridging perspective, terminating but not otherwise
   interacting with spanning tree.  However, there are reasons for
   RBridges to listen to and sometimes to transmit BPDUs as described
   below.  Even when RBridges listen to and transmit BPDUs, this is a
   local RBridge port activity.  The ports of a particular RBridge never
   interact so as to make the RBridge as a whole a spanning tree node.

4.9.3.1.  Receipt of BPDUs

   Rbridges MUST listen to spanning tree configuration BPDUs received on
   a port and keep track of the root bridge, if any, on that link.  If
   MSTP is running on the link, this is the CIST root.  This information
   is reported per VLAN by the RBridge in its LSP and may be used as
   described in Section 4.2.4.3.  In addition, the receipt of spanning
   tree configuration BPDUs is used as an indication that a link is a
   bridged LAN, which can affect the RBridge transmission of BPDUs.

   An RBridge MUST NOT encapsulate or forward any BPDU frame it
   receives.

   RBridges discard any topology change BPDUs they receive, but note
   Section 4.9.3.3.

4.9.3.2.  Root Bridge Changes

   A change in the root bridge seen in the spanning tree BPDUs received
   at an RBridge port may indicate a change in bridged LAN topology,
   including the possibility of the merger of two bridged LANs or the
   like, without any physical indication at the port.  During topology
   transients, bridges may go into pre-forwarding states that block
   TRILL-Hello frames.  For these reasons, when an RBridge sees a root
   bridge change on a port for which it is appointed forwarder for one
   or more VLANs, it is inhibited for a period of time between zero and
   30 seconds.  (An inhibited appointed forwarder discards all native
   frames received from or that it would otherwise have sent to the
   link.)  This time period is configurable per port and defaults to 30
   seconds.

   For example, consider two bridged LANs carrying multiple VLANs, each
   with various RBridge appointed forwarders.  Should they become
   merged, due to a cable being plugged in or the like, those RBridges
   attached to the original bridged LAN with the lower priority root
   will see a root bridge change while those attached to the other
   original bridged LAN will not.  Thus, all appointed forwarders in the




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   lower priority set will be inhibited for a time period while things
   are sorted out by BPDUs within the merged bridged LAN and TRILL-Hello
   frames between the RBridges involved.

4.9.3.3.  Transmission of BPDUs

   When an RBridge ceases to be appointed forwarder for one or more
   VLANs out a particular port, it SHOULD, as long as it continues to
   receive spanning tree BPDUs on that port, send topology change BPDUs
   until it sees the topology change acknowledged in a spanning tree
   configuration BPDU.

   RBridges MAY support a capability for sending spanning tree BPDUs for
   the purpose of attempting to force a bridged LAN to partition as
   discussed in Appendix A.3.3.

4.9.4.  Dynamic VLAN Registration

   Dynamic VLAN registration provides a means for bridges (and less
   commonly end stations) to request that VLANs be enabled or disabled
   on ports leading to the requestor.  This is done by VLAN registration
   protocol (VRP) frames: GVRP or MVRP.  RBridges MAY implement GVRP
   and/or MVRP as described below.

   VRP frames are never encapsulated as TRILL frames between RBridges or
   forwarded in native form by an RBridge.  If an RBridge does not
   implement a VRP, it discards any VRP frames received and sends none.

   RBridge ports may have dynamically enabled VLANs.  If an RBridge
   supports a VRP, the actual enablement of dynamic VLANs is determined
   by GVRP/MVRP frames received at the port as it would be for an
   [802.1Q-2005] / [802.1ak] bridge.

   An RBridge that supports a VRP sends GVRP/MVRP frames as an
   [802.1Q-2005] / [802.1ak] bridge would send on each port that is not
   configured as an RBridge trunk port or P2P port.  For this purpose,
   it sends VRP frames to request traffic in the VLANs for which it is
   appointed forwarder and in the Designated VLAN, unless the Designated
   VLAN is disabled on the port, and to not request traffic in any other
   VLAN.

5.  RBridge Parameters

   This section lists parameters for RBridges.  It is expected that the
   TRILL MIB will include many of the items listed in this section plus
   additional Rbridge status and data including traffic and error
   counts.




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   The default value and range are given for parameters added by TRILL.
   Where a parameter is defined as a 16-bit unsigned integer and an
   explicit maximum is not given, that maximum is 2**16-1.  For
   parameters imported from [802.1Q-2005], [802.1D], or IS-IS [ISO10589]
   [RFC1195], see those standards for default and range if not given
   here.

5.1.  Per RBridge

   The following parameters occur per RBridge:

   o  Number of nicknames, which defaults to 1 and may be configured in
      the range of 1 to 256.

   o  The desired number of distribution trees to be calculated by every
      RBridge in the campus and a desired number of distribution trees
      for the advertising RBridge to use, both of which are unsigned
      16-bit integers that default to 1 (see Section 4.5).

   o  The maximum number of distribution trees the RBridge can compute.
      This is a 16-bit unsigned integer that is implementation and
      environment dependent and not subject to management configuration.

   o  Two lists of nicknames, one designating the distribution trees to
      be computed and one designating distribution trees to be used as
      discussed in Section 4.5.  By default, these lists are empty.

   o  The parameters Ageing Timer and Forward Delay with the default and
      range specified in [802.1Q-2005].

   o  Two unsigned octets that are, respectively, the confidence in
      { MAC, VLAN, local port } triples learned from locally received
      native frames and the confidence in { MAC, VLAN, remote RBridge }
      triples learned from decapsulating frames.  These each default to
      0x20 and may each be configured to values from 0x00 to 0xFE.

   o  The desired minimum acceptable inter-RBridge link MTU for the
      campus, that is, originatingLSPBufferSize.  This is a 16-bit
      unsigned integer number of octets that defaults to 1470 bytes,
      which is the minimum valid value.  Any lower value being
      advertised by an RBridge is ignored.

   o  The number of failed MTU-probes before the RBridge concludes that
      a particular MTU is not supported, which defaults to 3 and may be
      configured between 1 and 255.






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   Static end-station address information and confidence in such end
   station information statically configured can also be configured with
   a default confidence of 0xFF and range of 0x00 to 0xFF.  By default,
   there is no such static address information.  The quantity of such
   information that can be configured is implementation dependent.

5.2.  Per Nickname Per RBridge

   The following is configuration information per nickname at each
   RBridge:

   o  Priority to hold the nickname, which defaults to 0x40 if no
      specific value has been configured or 0xC0 if it is configured
      (see Section 3.7.3).

   o  Nickname priority to be selected as a distribution tree root, a
      16-bit unsigned integer that defaults to 0x8000.

   o  Nickname value, an unsigned 16-bit quantity that defaults to the
      configured value if configured, else to the last value held if the
      RBridge coming up after a reboot and that value is remembered,
      else to a random value; however, in all cases the reserved values
      0x0000 and 0xFFC0 through 0xFFFF are excluded (see Section 3.7.3).

5.3.  Per Port Per RBridge

   An RBridge has the following per-port configuration parameters:

   o  The same parameters as an [802.1Q-2005] port in terms of C-VLAN
      IDs.  In addition, there is an Announcing VLANs set that defaults
      to the enabled VLANs on the port (see Section 4.4.3) and ranges
      from the null set to the set of all legal VLAN IDs.

   o  The same parameters as an [802.1Q-2005] port in terms of frame
      priority code point mapping (see [802.1Q-2005]).

   o  The inhibition time for the port when it observed a change in the
      root bridge of an attached bridged LAN.  This is in units of
      seconds, defaults to 30, and can be configured to any value from 0
      to 30.

   o  The Desired Designated VLAN that the RBridge will advertise in its
      TRILL Hellos if it is the DRB for the link via that port.  This
      defaults to the lowest VLAN ID enabled on the port and may be
      configured to any valid VLAN ID that is enabled on the port (0x001
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   o  Four per-port configuration bits: disable port (default 0 ==
      enabled), disable end-station service (trunk, default 0 ==
      enabled), access port (default 0 == not restricted to being an
      access port), and use P2P Hellos (default 0 == use TRILL Hellos).
      (See Section 4.9.1.)

   o  One bit per port such that, if the bit is set, it disables
      learning { MAC address, VLAN, port } triples from locally received
      native frames on the port.  Default value is 0 == learning
      enabled.

   o  The priority of the RBridge to be DRB and its Holding Time via
      that port with defaults and range as specified in IS-IS [ISO10589]
      [RFC1195].

   o  A bit that, when set, enables the receipt of TRILL-encapsulated
      frames from an Outer.MacSA with which the RBridges does not have
      an IS-IS adjacency.  Default value is 0 == disabled.

   o  Configuration for the optional send-BPDUs solution to the wiring
      closet topology problem as described in Appendix A.3.3.  Default
      Bridge Address is the System ID of the RBridge with the lowest
      System ID.  If RB1 and RB2 are part of a wiring closet topology,
      both need to be configured to know about this, and know the ID
      that should be used in the spanning tree protocol on the specified
      port.

5.4.  Per VLAN Per RBridge

   An RBridge has the following per-VLAN configuration parameters:

   o  Per-VLAN ESADI protocol participation flag, 7-bit priority, and
      Holding Time.  Default participation flag is 0 == not
      participating.  Default and range of priority and Holding Time as
      specified in IS-IS [ISO10589] [RFC1195].

   o  One bit per VLAN that, if set, disables learning { MAC address,
      VLAN, remote RBridge } triples from frames decapsulated in the
      VLAN.  Defaults to 0 == learning enabled.

6.  Security Considerations

   Layer 2 bridging is not inherently secure.  It is, for example,
   subject to spoofing of source addresses and bridging control
   messages.  A goal for TRILL is that RBridges do not add new issues
   beyond those existing in current bridging technology.





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   Countermeasures are available such as to configure the TRILL IS-IS
   and ESADI protocols to use IS-IS security [RFC5304] [RFC5310] and
   ignore unauthenticated TRILL control and ESADI frames received.
   RBridges using IS-IS security will need configuration.

   IEEE 802.1 port admission and link security mechanisms, such as
   [802.1X] and [802.1AE], can also be used.  These are best thought of
   as being implemented below TRILL (see Section 4.9.2) and are outside
   the scope of TRILL (just as they are generally out of scope for
   bridging standards [802.1D] and 802.1Q); however, TRILL can make use
   of secure registration through the confidence level communicated in
   the optional TRILL ESADI protocol (see Section 4.8).

   TRILL encapsulates native frames inside the RBridge campus while they
   are in transit between ingress RBridge and egress RBridge(s) as
   described in Sections 2.3 and 4.1.  Thus, TRILL ignorant devices with
   firewall features that cannot be detected by RBridges as end stations
   will generally not be able to inspect the content of such frames for
   security checking purposes.  This may render them ineffective.  Layer
   3 routers and hosts appear to RBridges to be end stations, and native
   frames will be decapsulated before being sent to such devices.  Thus,
   they will not see the TRILL Ethertype.  Firewall devices that do not
   appear to an RBridge to be an end station, for example, bridges with
   co-located firewalls, should be modified to understand TRILL
   encapsulation.

   RBridges do not prevent nodes from impersonating other nodes, for
   instance, by issuing bogus ARP/ND replies.  However, RBridges do not
   interfere with any schemes that would secure neighbor discovery.

6.1.  VLAN Security Considerations

   TRILL supports VLANs.  These provide logical separation of traffic,
   but care should be taken in using VLANs for security purposes.  To
   have reasonable assurance of such separation, all the RBridges and
   links (including bridged LANs) in a campus must be secured and
   configured so as to prohibit end stations from using dynamic VLAN
   registration frames or otherwise gaining access to any VLAN carrying
   traffic for which they are not authorized to read and/or inject.

   Furthermore, if VLANs were used to keep some information off links
   where it might be observed in a bridged LAN, this will no longer
   work, in general, when bridges are replaced with RBridges; with
   encapsulation and a different outer VLAN tag, the data will travel
   the least cost transit path regardless of VLAN.  Appropriate counter
   measures are to use end-to-end encryption or an appropriate TRILL
   security option should one be specified.




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6.2.  BPDU/Hello Denial-of-Service Considerations

   The TRILL protocol requires that an appointed forwarder at an RBridge
   port be temporarily inhibited if it sees a TRILL-Hello from another
   RBridge claiming to be the appointed forwarder for the same VLAN or
   sees a root bridge change out that port.  Thus, it would seem that
   forged BPDUs showing repeated root bridge changes and forged TRILL-
   Hello frames with the Appointed Forwarder flag set could represent a
   significant denial-of-service attack.  However, the situation is not
   as bad as it seems.

   The best defense against forged TRILL-Hello frames or other IS-IS
   messages is the use of IS-IS security [RFC5304] [RFC5310].  Rogue end
   stations would not normally have access to the required IS-IS keying
   material needed to forge authenticatible messages.

   Authentication similar to IS-IS security is usually unavailable for
   BPDUs.  However, it is also the case that in typical modern wired
   LANs, all the links are point-to-point.  If you have an all-RBridged
   point-to-point campus, then the worst that an end-station can do by
   forging BPDUs or TRILL-Hello frames is to deny itself service.  This
   could be either through falsely inhibiting the forwarding of native
   frames by the RBridge to which it is connected or by falsely
   activating the optional decapsulation check (see Section 4.2.4.3).

   However, when an RBridge campus contains bridged LANs, those bridged
   LANs appear to any connected RBridges to be multi-access links.  The
   forging of BPDUs by an end-station attached to such a bridged LAN
   could affect service to other end-stations attached to the same
   bridged LAN.  Note that bridges never forward BPDUs but process them,
   although this processing may result in the issuance of further BPDUs.
   Thus, for an end-station to forge BPDUs to cause continuing changes
   in the root bridge as seen by an RBridge through intervening bridges
   would typically require it to cause root bridge thrashing throughout
   the bridged LAN that would be disruptive even in the absence of
   RBridges.

   Some bridges can be configured to not send BPDUs and/or to ignore
   BPDUs on particular ports, and RBridges can be configured not to
   inhibit appointed forwarding on a port due to root bridge changes;
   however, such configuration should be used with caution as it can be
   unsafe.

7.  Assignment Considerations

   This section discuses IANA and IEEE 802 assignment considerations.
   See [RFC5226].




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7.1.  IANA Considerations

   A new IANA registry has been created for TRILL Parameters with two
   subregistries as below.

   The initial contents of the TRILL Nicknames subregistry are as
   follows:

      0x0000 Reserved to indicate no nickname specified
      0x0001-0xFFBF Dynamically allocated by the RBridges within each
          RBridge campus
      0xFFC0-0xFFFE Available for allocation by RFC Required (single
          value) or IETF Review (single or multiple values)
      0xFFFF Permanently reserved

   The initial contents of the TRILL Multicast Address subregistry are
   as follows:

      01-80-C2-00-00-40  Assigned as All-RBridges
      01-80-C2-00-00-41  Assigned as All-IS-IS-RBridges
      01-80-C2-00-00-42  Assigned as All-ESADI-RBridges
      01-80-C2-00-00-43 to 01-80-C2-00-00-4F  Available for allocation
                         by IETF Review

7.2.  IEEE Registration Authority Considerations

   The Ethertype 0x22F3 is assigned by the IEEE Registration Authority
   to the TRILL Protocol.

   The Ethertype 0x22F4 is assigned by the IEEE Registration Authority
   for L2-IS-IS.

   The block of 16 multicast MAC addresses from <01-80-C2-00-00-40> to
   <01-80-C2-00-00-4F> is assigned by the IEEE Registration Authority
   for IETF TRILL protocol use.

8.  Normative References

   [802.1ak]  "IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks /
              Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks / Multiple
              Registration Protocol", IEEE Standard 802.1ak-2007, 22
              June 2007.

   [802.1D]   "IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks /
              Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges", 802.1D-2004, 9 June
              2004.





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   [802.1Q-2005]
              "IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks /
              Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks", 802.1Q-2005, 19 May
              2006.

   [802.3]    "IEEE Standard for Information technology /
              Telecommunications and information exchange between
              systems / Local and metropolitan area networks / Specific
              requirements Part 3: Carrier sense multiple access with
              collision detection (CSMA/CD) access method and physical
              layer specifications", 802.3-2008, 26 December 2008.

   [ISO10589] ISO/IEC, "Intermediate system to Intermediate system
              routeing information exchange protocol for use in
              conjunction with the Protocol for providing the
              Connectionless-mode Network Service (ISO 8473)", ISO/IEC
              10589:2002.

   [RFC1112]  Deering, S., "Host extensions for IP multicasting", STD 5,
              RFC 1112, August 1989.

   [RFC1195]  Callon, R., "Use of OSI IS-IS for routing in TCP/IP and
              dual environments", RFC 1195, December 1990.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC2464]  Crawford, M., "Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet
              Networks", RFC 2464, December 1998.

   [RFC2710]  Deering, S., Fenner, W., and B. Haberman, "Multicast
              Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6", RFC 2710, October
              1999.

   [RFC3376]  Cain, B., Deering, S., Kouvelas, I., Fenner, B., and A.
              Thyagarajan, "Internet Group Management Protocol, Version
              3", RFC 3376, October 2002.

   [RFC3417]  Presuhn, R., Ed., "Transport Mappings for the Simple
              Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", STD 62, RFC 3417,
              December 2002.

   [RFC3419]  Daniele, M. and J. Schoenwaelder, "Textual Conventions for
              Transport Addresses", RFC 3419, December 2002.

   [RFC4286]  Haberman, B. and J. Martin, "Multicast Router Discovery",
              RFC 4286, December 2005.




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   [RFC5226]  Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
              IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
              May 2008.

   [RFC5303]  Katz, D., Saluja, R., and D. Eastlake 3rd, "Three-Way
              Handshake for IS-IS Point-to-Point Adjacencies", RFC 5303,
              October 2008.

   [RFC5305]  Li, T. and H. Smit, "IS-IS Extensions for Traffic
              Engineering", RFC 5305, October 2008.

   [RFC6165]  Banerjee, A. and D. Ward, "Extensions to IS-IS for Layer-2
              Systems", RFC 6165, April 2011.

   [RFC6326]  Eastlake, D., Banerjee, A., Dutt, D., Perlman, R., and A.
              Ghanwani, "Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links
              (TRILL) Use of IS-IS", RFC 6326, July 2011.

9.  Informative References

   [802.1AB]  "IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Networks /
              Station and Media Access Control Connectivity Discovery",
              802.1AB-2009, 17 September 2009.

   [802.1ad]  "IEEE Standard for and metropolitan area networks /
              Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks / Provider Bridges",
              802.1ad-2005, 26 May 2005.

   [802.1ah]  "IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks /
              Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks / Provider Backbone
              Bridges", 802.1ah-2008, 1 January 2008.

   [802.1aj]  Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks / Two-Port Media
              Access Control (MAC) Relay, 802.1aj Draft 4.2, 24
              September 2009.

   [802.1AE]  "IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks /
              Media Access Control (MAC) Security", 802.1AE-2006, 18
              August 2006.

   [802.1AX]  "IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks /
              Link Aggregation", 802.1AX-2008, 1 January 2008.

   [802.1X]  "IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks /
              Port Based Network Access Control", 802.1X-REV Draft 2.9,
              3 September 2008.





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   [RBridges] Perlman, R., "RBridges: Transparent Routing", Proc.
              Infocom 2005, March 2004.

   [RFC1661]  Simpson, W., Ed., "The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)", STD
              51, RFC 1661, July 1994.

   [RFC3411]  Harrington, D., Presuhn, R., and B. Wijnen, "An
              Architecture for Describing Simple Network Management
              Protocol (SNMP) Management Frameworks", STD 62, RFC 3411,
              December 2002.

   [RFC4086]  Eastlake 3rd, D., Schiller, J., and S. Crocker,
              "Randomness Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC 4086,
              June 2005.

   [RFC4541]  Christensen, M., Kimball, K., and F. Solensky,
              "Considerations for Internet Group Management Protocol
              (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping
              Switches", RFC 4541, May 2006.

   [RFC4789]  Schoenwaelder, J. and T. Jeffree, "Simple Network
              Management Protocol (SNMP) over IEEE 802 Networks", RFC
              4789, November 2006.

   [RFC5304]  Li, T. and R. Atkinson, "IS-IS Cryptographic
              Authentication", RFC 5304, October 2008.

   [RFC5310]  Bhatia, M., Manral, V., Li, T., Atkinson, R., White, R.,
              and M. Fanto, "IS-IS Generic Cryptographic
              Authentication", RFC 5310, February 2009.

   [RFC5342]  Eastlake 3rd, D., "IANA Considerations and IETF Protocol
              Usage for IEEE 802 Parameters", BCP 141, RFC 5342,
              September 2008.

   [RFC5556]  Touch, J. and R. Perlman, "Transparent Interconnection of
              Lots of Links (TRILL): Problem and Applicability
              Statement", RFC 5556, May 2009.

   [RP1999]   Perlman, R., "Interconnection: Bridges, Routers, Switches,
              and Internetworking Protocols, 2nd Edition", Addison
              Wesley Longman, Chapter 3, 1999.

   [VLAN-MAPPING]
              Perlman, R., Dutt, D., Banerjee, A., Rijhsinghani, A., and
              D. Eastlake 3rd, "RBridges: Campus VLAN and Priority
              Regions", Work in Progress, April 2011.




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Appendix A.  Incremental Deployment Considerations

   Some aspects of partial RBridge deployment are described below for
   link cost determination (Appendix A.1) and possible congestion due to
   appointed forwarder bottlenecks (Appendix A.2).  A particular example
   of a problem related to the TRILL use of a single appointed forwarder
   per link per VLAN (the "wiring closet topology") is explored in
   detail in Appendix A.3.

A.1.  Link Cost Determination

   With an RBridged campus having no bridges or repeaters on the links
   between RBridges, the RBridges can accurately determine the number of
   physical hops involved in a path and the line speed of each hop,
   assuming this is reported by their port logic.  With intervening
   devices, this is no longer possible.  For example, as shown in Figure
   12, the two bridges B1 and B2 can completely hide a slow link so that
   both Rbridges RB1 and RB2 incorrectly believe the link is faster.

            +-----+        +----+        +----+        +-----+
            |     |  Fast  |    |  Slow  |    |  Fast  |     |
            | RB1 +--------+ B1 +--------+ B2 +--------+ RB2 |
            |     |  Link  |    |  Link  |    |  Link  |     |
            +-----+        +----+        +----+        +-----+

                  Figure 12: Link Cost of a Bridged Link

   Even in the case of a single intervening bridge, two RBridges may
   know they are connected but each sees the link as a different speed
   from how it is seen by the other.

   However, this problem is not unique to RBridges.  Bridges can
   encounter similar situations due to links hidden by repeaters, and
   routers can encounter similar situations due to links hidden by
   bridges, repeaters, or Rbridges.

A.2.  Appointed Forwarders and Bridged LANs

   With partial RBridge deployment, the RBridges may partition a bridged
   LAN into a relatively small number of relatively large remnant
   bridged LANs, or possibly not partition it at all so a single bridged
   LAN remains.  Such configuration can result in the following problem:

   The requirement that native frames enter and leave a link via the
   link's appointed forwarder for the VLAN of the frame can cause
   congestion or suboptimal routing.  (Similar problems can occur within
   a bridged LAN due to the spanning tree algorithm.)  The extent to
   which such a problem will occur is highly dependent on the network



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   topology.  For example, if a bridged LAN had a star-like structure
   with core bridges that connected only to other bridges and peripheral
   bridges that connected to end stations and are connected to core
   bridges, the replacement of all of the core bridges by RBridges
   without replacing the peripheral bridges would generally improve
   performance without inducing appointed forwarder congestion.

   Solutions to this problem are discussed below and a particular
   example explored in Appendix A.3.

   Inserting RBridges so that all the bridged portions of the LAN stay
   connected to each other and have multiple RBridge connections is
   generally the least efficient arrangement.

   There are four techniques that may help if the problem above occurs
   and that can, to some extent, be used in combination:

   1. Replace more IEEE 802.1 customer bridges with RBridges so as to
      minimize the size of the remnant bridged LANs between RBridges.
      This requires no configuration of the RBridges unless the bridges
      they replace required configuration.

   2. Re-arrange network topology to minimize the problem.  If the
      bridges and RBridges involved are configured, this may require
      changes in their configuration.

   3. Configure the RBridges and bridges so that end stations on a
      remnant bridged LAN are separated into different VLANs that have
      different appointed forwarders.  If the end stations were already
      assigned to different VLANs, this is straightforward (see Section
      4.2.4.2).  If the end stations were on the same VLAN and have to
      be split into different VLANs, this technique may lead to
      connectivity problems between end stations.

   4. Configure the RBridges such that their ports that are connected to
      the bridged LAN send spanning tree configuration BPDUs (see
      Section A.3.3) in such a way as to force the partition of the
      bridged LAN.  (Note: A spanning tree is never formed through an
      RBridge but always terminates at RBridge ports.)  To use this
      technique, the RBridges must support this optional feature, and
      would need to be configured to use it, but the bridges involved
      would rarely have to be configured.  This technique makes the
      bridged LAN unavailable for TRILL through traffic because the
      bridged LAN partitions.

   Conversely to item 3 above, there may be bridged LANs that use VLANs,
   or use more VLANs than would otherwise be necessary, to support the
   Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol or otherwise reduce the congestion



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   that can be caused by a single spanning tree.  Replacing the IEEE
   802.1 bridges in such LANs with RBridges may enable a reduction in or
   elimination of VLANs and configuration complexity.

A.3.  Wiring Closet Topology

   If 802.1 bridges are present and RBridges are not properly
   configured, the bridge spanning tree or the DRB may make
   inappropriate decisions.  Below is a specific example of the more
   general problem that can occur when a bridged LAN is connected to
   multiple RBridges.

   In cases where there are two (or more) groups of end nodes, each
   attached to a bridge (say, B1 and B2), and each bridge is attached to
   an RBridge (say, RB1 and RB2, respectively), with an additional link
   connecting B1 and B2 (see Figure 13), it may be desirable to have the
   B1-B2 link only as a backup in case one of RB1 or RB2 or one of the
   links B1-RB1 or B2-RB2 fails.

                  +-------------------------------+
                  |             |          |      |
                  |  Data    +-----+    +-----+   |
                  | Center  -| RB1 |----| RB2 |-  |
                  |          +-----+    +-----+   |
                  |             |          |      |
                  +-------------------------------+
                                |          |
                                |          |
                  +-------------------------------+
                  |             |          |      |
                  |          +----+     +----+    |
                  | Wiring   | B1 |-----| B2 |    |
                  | Closet   +----+     +----+    |
                  | Bridged                       |
                  | LAN                           |
                  +-------------------------------+

                     Figure 13: Wiring Closet Topology

   For example, B1 and B2 may be in a wiring closet and it may be easy
   to provide a short, high-bandwidth, low-cost link between them while
   RB1 and RB2 are at a distant data center such that the RB1-B1 and
   RB2-B2 links are slower and more expensive.

   Default behavior might be that one of RB1 or RB2 (say, RB1) would
   become DRB for the bridged LAN including B1 and B2 and appoint itself
   forwarder for the VLANs on that bridged LAN.  As a result, RB1 would
   forward all traffic to/from the link, so end nodes attached to B2



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   would be connected to the campus via the path B2-B1-RB1, rather than
   the desired B2-RB2.  This wastes the bandwidth of the B2-RB2 path and
   cuts available bandwidth between the end stations and the data center
   in half.  The desired behavior would be to make use of both the
   RB1-B1 and RB2-B2 links.

   Three solutions to this problem are described below.

A.3.1.  The RBridge Solution

   Of course, if B1 and B2 are replaced with RBridges, the right thing
   will happen without configuration (other than VLAN support), but this
   may not be immediately practical if bridges are being incrementally
   replaced by RBridges.

A.3.2.  The VLAN Solution

   If the end stations attached to B1 and B2 are already divided among a
   number of VLANs, RB1 and RB2 could be configured so that whichever
   becomes DRB for this link will appoint itself forwarder for some of
   these VLANs and appoint the other RBridge for the remaining VLANs.
   Should either of the RBridges fail or become disconnected, the other
   will have only itself to appoint as forwarder for all the VLANs.

   If the end stations are all on a single VLAN, then it would be
   necessary to assign them between at least two VLANs to use this
   solution.  This may lead to connectivity problems that might require
   further measures to rectify.

A.3.3.  The Spanning Tree Solution

   Another solution is to configure the relevant ports on RB1 and RB2 to
   be part of a "wiring closet group", with a configured per-RBridge
   port "Bridge Address" Bx (which may be RB1 or RB2's System ID).  Both
   RB1 and RB2 emit spanning tree BPDUs on their configured ports as
   highest priority root Bx.  This causes the spanning tree to logically
   partition the bridged LAN as desired by blocking the B1-B2 link at
   one end or the other (unless one of the bridges is configured to also
   have highest priority and has a lower ID, which we consider to be a
   misconfiguration).  With the B1-B2 link blocked, RB1 and RB2 cannot
   see each other's TRILL-Hellos via that link and each acts as
   Designated RBridge and appointed forwarder for its respective
   partition.  Of course, with this partition, no TRILL through traffic
   can flow through the RB1-B1-B2-RB2 path.

   In the spanning tree configuration BPDU, the Root is "Bx" with
   highest priority, cost to Root is 0, Designated Bridge ID is "RB1"
   when RB1 transmits and "RB2" when RB2 transmits, and port ID is a



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   value chosen independently by each of RB1 and RB2 to distinguish each
   of its own ports.  The topology change flag is zero, and the topology
   change acknowledgement flag is set if and only if a topology change
   BPDU has been received on the port since the last configuration BPDU
   was transmitted on the port.  (If RB1 and RB2 were actually bridges
   on the same shared medium with no bridges between them, the result
   would be that the one with the larger ID sees "better" BPDUs (because
   of the tiebreaker on the third field: the ID of the transmitting
   bridge), and would turn off its port.)

   Should either RB1 or the RB1-B1 link or RB2 or the RB2-B2 link fail,
   the spanning tree algorithm will stop seeing one of the RBx roots and
   will unblock the B1-B2 link maintaining connectivity of all the end
   stations with the data center.

   If the link RB1-B1-B2-RB2 is on the cut set of the campus and RB2 and
   RB1 have been configured to believe they are part of a wiring closet
   group, the campus becomes partitioned as the link is blocked.

A.3.4.  Comparison of Solutions

   Replacing all 802.1 customer bridges with RBridges is usually the
   best solution with the least amount of configuration required,
   possibly none.

   The VLAN solution works well with a relatively small amount of
   configuration if the end stations are already divided among a number
   of VLANs.  If they are not, it becomes more complex and problematic.

   The spanning tree solution does quite well in this particular case.
   But it depends on both RB1 and RB2 having implemented the optional
   feature of being able to configure a port to emit spanning tree BPDUs
   as described in Appendix A.3.3 above.  It also makes the bridged LAN
   whose partition is being forced unavailable for through traffic.
   Finally, while in this specific example it neatly breaks the link
   between the two bridges B1 and B2, if there were a more complex
   bridged LAN, instead of exactly two bridges, there is no guarantee
   that it would partition into roughly equal pieces.  In such a case,
   you might end up with a highly unbalanced load on the RB1-B1 link and
   the RB2-B2 link although this is still better than using only one of
   these links exclusively.










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Appendix B.  Trunk and Access Port Configuration

   Many modern bridged LANs are organized into a core and access model,
   The core bridges have only point-to-point links to other bridges
   while the access bridges connect to end stations, core bridges, and
   possibly other access bridges.  It seems likely that some RBridge
   campuses will be organized in a similar fashion.

   An RBridge port can be configured as a trunk port, that is, a link to
   another RBridge or RBridges, by configuring it to disable end-station
   support.  There is no reason for such a port to have more than one
   VLAN enabled and in its Announcing Set on the port.  Of course, the
   RBridge (or RBridges) to which it is connected must have the same
   VLAN enabled.  There is no reason for this VLAN to be other than the
   default VLAN 1 unless the link is actually over carrier Ethernet or
   other facilities that only provide some other specific VLAN or the
   like.  Such configuration minimizes wasted TRILL-Hellos and
   eliminates useless decapsulation and transmission of multi-
   destination traffic in native form onto the link (see Sections 4.2.4
   and 4.9.1).

   An RBridge access port would be expected to lead to a link with end
   stations and possibly one or more bridges.  Such a link might also
   have more than one RBridge connected to it to provide more reliable
   service to the end stations.  It would be a goal to minimize or
   eliminate transit traffic on such a link as it is intended for end-
   station native traffic.  This can be accomplished by turning on the
   access port configuration bit for the RBridge port or ports connected
   to the link as further detailed in Section 4.9.1.

   When designing RBridge configuration user interfaces, consideration
   should be given to making it convenient to configure ports as trunk
   and access ports.

Appendix C.  Multipathing

   Rbridges support multipathing of both known unicast and multi-
   destination traffic.  Implementation of multipathing is optional.

   Multi-destination traffic can be multipathed by using different
   distribution tree roots for different frames.  For example, assume
   that in Figure 14 end stations attached to RBy are the source of
   various multicast streams each of which has multiple listeners
   attached to various of RB1 through RB9.  Assuming equal bandwidth
   links, a distribution tree rooted at RBy will predominantly use the
   vertical links among RB1 through RB9 while one rooted at RBz will
   predominantly use the horizontal.  If RBy chooses its nickname as the
   distribution tree root for half of this traffic and an RBz nickname



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   as the root for the other half, it may be able to substantially
   increase the aggregate bandwidth by making use of both the vertical
   and horizontal links among RB1 through RB9.

   Since the distribution trees an RBridge must calculate are the same
   for all RBridges and transit RBridges MUST respect the tree root
   specified by the ingress RBridge, a campus will operate correctly
   with a mix of RBridges some of which use different roots for
   different multi-destination frames they ingress and some of which use
   a single root for all such frames.

                              +---+
                              |RBy|---------------+
                              +---+               |
                             /  |  \              |
                           /    |    \            |
                         /      |      \          |
                      +---+   +---+   +---+       |
                      |RB1|---|RB2|---|RB3|       |
                      +---+   +---+   +---+\      |
                        |       |       |    \    |
                      +---+   +---+   +---+    \+---+
                      |RB4|---|RB5|---|RB6|-----|RBz|
                      +---+   +---+   +---+    /+---+
                        |       |       |    /
                      +---+   +---+   +---+/
                      |RB7|---|RB8|---|RB9|
                      +---+   +---+   +---+

                  Figure 14: Multi-Destination Multipath

   Known unicast Equal Cost Multipathing (ECMP) can occur at an RBridge
   if, instead of using a tiebreaker criterion when building SPF paths,
   information is retained about ports through which equal cost paths
   are available.  Different unicast frames can then be sent through
   those different ports and will be forwarded by equal cost paths.  For
   example, in Figure 15, which shows only RBridges and omits any
   bridges present, there are three equal cost paths between RB1 and RB2
   and two equal cost paths between RB2 and RB5.  Thus, for traffic
   transiting this part of the campus from left to right, RB1 may be
   able to perform three way ECMP and RB2 may be able to perform two-way
   ECMP.

   A transit RBridge receiving a known unicast frame forwards it towards
   the egress RBridge and is not concerned with whether it believes
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   previous transit RBridge.  Thus, a campus will operate correctly with
   a mix of RBridges some of which implement ECMP and some of which do
   not.

   There are actually three possibilities for the parallel paths between
   RB1 and RB2 as follows:

   1. If two or three of these paths have pseudonodes, then all three
      will be distinctly visible in the campus-wide link state and ECMP
      as described above is applicable.

   2. If the paths use P2P Hellos or otherwise do not have pseudonodes,
      these three paths would appear as a single adjacency in the link
      state.  In this case, multipathing across them would be an
      entirely local matter for RB1 and RB2.  It can be freely done for
      known unicast frames but not for multi-destination frames as
      described in Section 4.5.2.

   3. If and only if the three paths between RB1 and RB2 are single hop
      equal bandwidth links with no intervening bridges, then it would
      be permissible to combine them into one logical link through the
      [802.1AX] "link aggregation" feature.  Rbridges MAY implement link
      aggregation since that feature operates below TRILL (see Section
      4.9.2).

                               +---+       double line = 10 Gbps
                 -----      ===|RB3|---     single line = 1 Gbps
                /     \   //   +---+   \
            +---+     +---+            +---+
         ===|RB1|-----|RB2|            |RB5|===
            +---+     +---+            +---+
                \     /   \    +---+   //
                 -----     ----|RB4|===
                               +---+

                    Figure 15: Known Unicast Multipath

   When multipathing is used, frames that follow different paths will be
   subject to different delays and may be re-ordered.  While some
   traffic may be order/delay insensitive, typically most traffic
   consists of flows of frames where re-ordering within a flow is
   damaging.  How to determine flows or what granularity flows should
   have is beyond the scope of this document.  (This issue is discussed
   in [802.1AX].)







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Appendix D.  Determination of VLAN and Priority

   A high-level, informative summary of how VLAN ID and priority are
   determined for incoming native frames, omitting some details, is
   given in the bulleted items below.  For more detailed information,
   see [802.1Q-2005].

   o  When an untagged native frame arrives, an unconfigured RBridge
      associates the default priority zero and the VLAN ID 1 with it.
      It actually sets the VLAN for the untagged frame to be the "port
      VLAN ID" associated with that port.  The port VLAN ID defaults to
      VLAN ID 1 but may be configured to be any other VLAN ID.  An
      Rbridge may also be configured on a per-port basis to discard such
      frames or to associate a different priority code point with them.
      Determination of the VLAN ID associated with an incoming untagged
      non-control frame may also be made dependent on the Ethertype or
      NSAP (referred to in 802.1 as the Protocol) of the arriving frame,
      the source MAC address, or other local rules.

   o  When a priority tagged native frame arrives, an unconfigured
      RBridge associates with it both the port VLAN ID, which defaults
      to 1, and the priority code point provided in the priority tag in
      the frame.  An Rbridge may be configured on a per-port basis to
      discard such frames or to associate them with a different VLAN ID
      as described in the point immediately above.  It may also be
      configured to map the priority code point provided in the frame by
      specifying, for each of the eight possible values that might be in
      the frame, what actual priority code point will be associated with
      the frame by the RBridge.

   o  When a C-tagged (formerly called Q-tagged) native frame arrives,
      an unconfigured RBridge associates with it the VLAN ID and
      priority in the C-tag.  An RBridge may be configured on a per-port
      per-VLAN basis to discard such frames.  It may also be configured
      on a per-port basis to map the priority value as specified above
      for priority tagged frames.

   In 802.1, the process of associating a priority code point with a
   frame, including mapping a priority provided in the frame to another
   priority, is referred to as priority "regeneration".

Appendix E.  Support of IEEE 802.1Q-2005 Amendments

   This informational appendix briefly comments on RBridge support for
   completed and in-process amendments to IEEE [802.1Q-2005].  There is
   no assurance that existing RBridge protocol specifications or
   existing bridges will support not yet specified future [802.1Q-2005]
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   protocol specifications or existing RBridges will support not yet
   specified future TRILL amendments.

   The information below is frozen as of 25 October 2009.  For the
   latest status, see the IEEE 802.1 working group
   (http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/1/).

E.1.  Completed Amendments

   802.1ad-2005 Provider Bridges - Sometimes called "Q-in-Q", because
         VLAN tags used to be called "Q-tags", 802.1ad specifies
         Provider Bridges that tunnel customer bridge traffic within
         service VLAN tags (S-tags).  If the customer LAN is an RBridge
         campus, that traffic will be bridged by Provider Bridges.
         Customer bridge features involving Provider Bridge awareness,
         such as the ability to configure a customer bridge port to add
         an S-tag to a frame before sending it to a Provider Bridge, are
         below the EISS layer and can be supported in RBridge ports
         without modification to the TRILL protocol.

   802.1ag-2007 Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) - This 802.1 feature
         is at least in part dependent on the symmetric path and other
         characteristics of spanning tree.  The comments provided to the
         IETF TRILL working group by the IEEE 802.1 working group stated
         that "TRILL weakens the applicability of CFM".

   802.1ak-2007 Multiple Registration Protocol - Supported to the extent
         described in Section 4.9.4.

   802.1ah-2008 Provider Backbone Bridges - Sometimes called "MAC-in-
         MAC", 802.1ah provides for Provider Backbone Bridges that
         tunnel customer bridge traffic within different outer MAC
         addresses and using a tag (the "I-tag") to preserve the
         original MAC addresses and signal other information.  If the
         customer LAN is an RBridge campus, that traffic will be bridged
         by Provider Backbone Bridges.  Customer bridge features
         involving Provider Backbone Bridge awareness, such as the
         ability to configure a customer bridge port to add an I-tag to
         a frame before sending it to a Provider Backbone Bridge, are
         below the EISS layer and can be supported in RBridge ports
         without modification to the TRILL protocol.

   802.1Qaw-2009 Management of Data-Driven and Data-Dependent
         Connectivity Fault - Amendment building on 802.1ag.  See
         comments on 802.1ag-2007 above.






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   802.1Qay-2009 Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering -
         Amendment building on 802.1ah to configure traffic engineered
         routing.  See comments on 802.1ah-2008 above.

E.2.  In-Process Amendments

   The following are amendments to IEEE [802.1Q-2005] that are in
   process.  As such, the brief comments below are based on drafts and
   may be incorrect for later versions or any final amendment.

   802.1aj Two-port MAC Relay [802.1aj] - This amendment specifies a MAC
         relay that will be transparent to RBridges.  RBridges are
         compatible with IEEE 802.1aj devices as currently specified, in
         the same sense that IEEE 802.1Q-2005 bridges are compatible
         with such devices.

   802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging - This amendment provides for improved
         routing in bridged LANs.

   802.1Qat Stream Reservation Protocol - Modification to 802.1Q to
         support the 802.1 Timing and Synchronization.  This protocol
         reserves resources for streams at supporting bridges.

   802.1Qau Congestion Notification - It currently appears that
         modifications to RBridge behavior above the EISS level would be
         needed to support this amendment.  Such modifications are
         beyond the scope of this document.

   802.1Qav Forwarding and Queuing Enhancements for Time-Sensitive
         Streams - Modification to 802.1Q to support the 802.1 Timing
         and Synchronization protocol.  This amendment specifies methods
         to support the resource reservations made through the 802.1Qat
         protocol (see above).

   802.1Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection - It appears that this
         amendment will be below the EISS layer and can be supported in
         RBridge ports without modification to the TRILL protocol.

   802.1Qbb Priority-based Flow Control - Commonly called "per-priority
         pause", it appears that this amendment will be below the EISS
         layer and can be supported in RBridge ports without
         modification to the TRILL protocol.

   802.1bc Remote Customer Service Interfaces.  This is an extension to
         802.1Q provider bridging.  See 802.1ad-2005 above.






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   802.1Qbe Multiple Backbone Service Instance Identifier (I-SID)
         Registration Protocol (MIRP).  This is an extension to 802.1Q
         provider backbone bridging.  See 802.1ah-2008 above.

   802.1Qbf Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE)
         Infrastructure Segment Protection.  This amendment extends
         802.1Q to support certain types of failover between provider
         backbone bridges.  See 802.1ah-2008 above.

Appendix F.  Acknowledgements

   Many people have contributed to this design, including the following,
   in alphabetic order:

      Bernard Aboba, Alia Atlas, Ayan Banerjee, Caitlin Bestler, Suresh
      Boddapati, David Michael Bond, Stewart Bryant, Ross Callon, James
      Carlson, Pasi Eronen, Dino Farinacci, Adrian Farrell, Don Fedyk,
      Bill Fenner, Eric Gray, Sujay Gupta, Joel Halpern, Andrew Lange,
      Acee Lindem, Vishwas Manral, Peter McCann, Israel Meilik, David
      Melman, Nandakumar Natarajan, Erik Nordmark, Jeff Pickering, Tim
      Polk, Dan Romascanu, Sanjay Sane, Pekka Savola, Matthew R. Thomas,
      Joe Touch, Mark Townsley, Kate Zebrose.





























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Authors' Addresses

   Radia Perlman
   Intel Labs
   2200 Mission College Blvd.
   Santa Clara, CA 95054-1549 USA

   Phone: +1-408-765-8080
   EMail: Radia@alum.mit.edu


   Donald E. Eastlake, 3rd
   Huawei Technologies
   155 Beaver Street
   Milford, MA 01757 USA

   Phone: +1-508-333-2270
   EMail: d3e3e3@gmail.com


   Dinesh G. Dutt
   Cisco Systems
   170 Tasman Drive
   San Jose, CA 95134-1706 USA

   Phone: +1-408-527-0955
   EMail: ddutt@cisco.com


   Silvano Gai
   Cisco Systems
   170 Tasman Drive
   San Jose, CA 95134-1706 USA

   EMail: silvano@ip6.com


   Anoop Ghanwani
   Brocade
   130 Holger Way
   San Jose, CA 95134 USA

   Phone: +1-408-333-7149
   EMail: anoop@alumni.duke.edu







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