Protocol Extension
In Protocol Extension encapsulation, the
ingress Provider Edge (PE) device can use the Broadcast, Unknown Unicast, and Multicast
(BUM) bit to indicate that BUM traffic has been replicated at the ingress.
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This practice is essential because the MAC tables between the ingress and egress PE devices may sometimes be out of sync, leading to discrepancies in the handling of unknown unicast traffic.
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