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Re: [lisp] [nvo3] New Version Notification for draft-quinn-vxlan-gpe-00.txt

Roger Jørgensen <rogerj@gmail.com> Thu, 26 September 2013 18:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [lisp] [nvo3] New Version Notification for draft-quinn-vxlan-gpe-00.txt
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Dino Farinacci <farinacci@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Noel,
>> there's certainly no intention of keeping this out of the LISP WG, since this is not part of the charter we just thought an individual submission was more appropriate.
>>
>> We just started from the very practical consideration of the proliferation of encapsulations in the data center, and the lack of multiprotocol support in both VXLAN and LISP.
>
> Sorry I have to disagree. The protocols that LISP supports are *IP* protocols and the protocols that VXLAN supports are *the rest* since it is layer-2 solution. So this appears to be just rearranging the deck chairs.

This trouble me... why do we want to mix LISP and VXLAN? What is the
gain in it? I only smell complexity. L2 in L3 over L3?

How will a mix of LISP and VXLAN benefit the administrators of
datacenters, end-users in the end?



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