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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Giuseppe (Pino) de Candia [mailto:gdecandia@midokura.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 31, 2015 10:08 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Cathy Zhang<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Henry Fourie; OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions); Irena Berezovsky<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [openstack-dev] [neutron][networking-sfc] API clarification questions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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> Cathy> No restriction as long as the ports are routable. Originally we think we need to specify L2 and L3 service type. But later we found out it is not needed if we program the switch to set the next hop destination to the service function’s MAC. This way
no matter whether it is L2 or L3, it always works.<br>
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<p>Hi Cathy, my understanding is that:<br>
-for an L2 service, don't modify the packet (ignoring possible encapsulation to signal policy )<br>
-for an L3 service, set the dst MAC in the packet equal to the the service port's MAC<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>How can the SDN implementation know which kind of service it's dealing with to decide whether to modify the MAC?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Cathy> You can always modify the MAC which will work for both L2 and L3 service.
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Cathy</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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