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EXPERIMENTAL

Authors:

Y. Nachum
L. Dunbar
I. Yerushalmi
T. Mizrahi

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INDEPENDENT

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7586

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Abstract

This document introduces the Scalable Address Resolution Protocol (SARP), anarchitecture that uses proxy gateways to scale large data centernetworks. SARP is based on fast proxies that significantly reduce switches'Filtering Database (FDB) table sizes and reduce impact of ARP and NeighborDiscovery (ND) on network elements in an environment where hosts within onesubnet (or VLAN) can spread over various locations. SARP is targeted formassive data centers with a significant number of Virtual Machines (VMs) thatcan move across various physical locations.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.