[Nsi-wg] VLAN swapping

Henrik Thostrup Jensen htj at nordu.net
Tue Sep 24 05:59:34 EDT 2013


On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:

> On 24 Sep 2013, at 04:42, John MacAuley <john.macauley at surfnet.nl> 
> wrote:
>> How in NML would I model the ability for a network to do VLAN swapping 
>> as the connection traverses the network?  Would I assume it can't and 
>> look for indication it can, or do I assume it can and look for 
>> indication it can't?
>
> The way to express this in NML is in the SwitchingService element, which 
> can have an attribute "labelSwapping", which can be true or false, and 
> is defined to be false by default.

Do you think a short explanation and example could be added in the 
"Network Service Interface Topology Representation" document.

I suspect most NSI implementors will not read the NML spec.


     Best regards, Henrik

  Henrik Thostrup Jensen <htj at nordu.net>
  Software Developer, NORDUnet



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