Portland Flashcards
1
Q
PMAC
A
PortLand further assigns internal Pseudo MAC
(PMAC) addresses to all end hosts to encode their position in the topology.
2
Q
Where is the Fabric Manager?
A
On a dedicated machine
3
Q
What is Fabric Manager used for?
A
Maintaining soft state of network
4
Q
4 parts of PMAC
A
pod
position
port
vmid
5
Q
How does PMAC reduce forwarding table sizes?
A
Only routing table on the AMAC machine are the PMACS that belong to it (and vice versa).
