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Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): Address Flush Message
RFC 8383

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2026-05-20
(System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['convergence', 'VLAN', 'data label', 'FGL']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "M. Umair": changed name from "Mohammed Umair" to "M. Umair", cleared country (was "Bengaluru, Karnataka 560087 India"), changed order from "3" to "4"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "Y. Li": changed name from "Yizhou Li" to "Y. Li", cleared country (was "China"), changed order from "2" to "3"
2026-05-20
(System)
Changed author "D. Eastlake 3rd": changed name from "Donald Eastlake" to "D. Eastlake 3rd", cleared country (was "Milford, MA 01757 USA"), changed order from "1" …
Changed author "D. Eastlake 3rd": changed name from "Donald Eastlake" to "D. Eastlake 3rd", cleared country (was "Milford, MA 01757 USA"), changed order from "1" to "2"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "W. Hao": changed name from "Hao Weiguo" to "W. Hao", cleared country (was "Nanjing 210012, China"), changed order from "0" to "1"
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2018-12-19
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Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'The TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) protocol, by default, learns end station addresses from …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'The TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) protocol, by default, learns end station addresses from observing the data plane. In particular, it learns local Media Access Control (MAC) addresses and the edge switch port of attachment from the receipt of local data frames and learns remote MAC addresses and the edge switch port of attachment from the decapsulation of remotely sourced TRILL Data packets.

This document specifies a message by which a TRILL switch can explicitly request other TRILL switches to flush certain MAC reachability learned through the decapsulation of TRILL Data packets. This is a supplement to the TRILL automatic address forgetting (see Section 4.8.3 of RFC 6325) and can assist in achieving more rapid convergence in case of topology or configuration change.')
2018-05-31
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8383, changed title to 'Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): Address Flush Message', changed …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8383, changed title to 'Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): Address Flush Message', changed abstract to 'The TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) protocol, by default, learns end station addresses from observing the data plane. In particular, it learns local Media Access Control (MAC) addresses and the edge switch port of attachment from the receipt of local data frames and learns remote MAC addresses and the edge switch port of attachment from the decapsulation of remotely sourced TRILL Data packets.', changed pages to 20, changed standardization level to Proposed Standard, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2018-05-31, changed IESG state to RFC Published)
2018-05-31
(System) RFC published