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.

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2
Q

Where is the Fabric Manager?

A

On a dedicated machine

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3
Q

What is Fabric Manager used for?

A

Maintaining soft state of network

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4
Q

4 parts of PMAC

A

pod
position
port
vmid

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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).

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