{"draft":"draft-ietf-trill-address-flush-06","doc_id":"RFC8383","title":"Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): Address Flush Message","authors":["W. Hao","D. Eastlake 3rd","Y. Li","M. Umair"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"20","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links","abstract":"The TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) protocol, by\r\ndefault, learns end station addresses from observing the data plane.\r\nIn particular, it learns local Media Access Control (MAC) addresses\r\nand the edge switch port of attachment from the receipt of local data\r\nframes and learns remote MAC addresses and the edge switch port of\r\nattachment from the decapsulation of remotely sourced TRILL Data\r\npackets.\r\n\r\nThis document specifies a message by which a TRILL switch can\r\nexplicitly request other TRILL switches to flush certain MAC\r\nreachability learned through the decapsulation of TRILL Data packets.\r\nThis is a supplement to the TRILL automatic address forgetting (see\r\nSection 4.8.3 of RFC 6325) and can assist in achieving more rapid\r\nconvergence in case of topology or configuration change.","pub_date":"May 2018","keywords":["convergence","VLAN","data label","FGL"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC8383","errata_url":null}