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Re: [lisp] LISP EID Block Size

Dino Farinacci <farinacci@gmail.com> Sun, 03 November 2013 23:06 UTC

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From: Dino Farinacci <farinacci@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [lisp] LISP EID Block Size
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> That is not correct. With an EID block you would have:
> 
> Address in special prefix == address is an EID
> 
> Address not in special prefix != is not an EID

Luigi, I would say if Address is not a special prefix, it may be an EID but you can only find out by doing a mapping database lookup.

> Basically if it is n the special block you know it is an EID, if it is not in the special block you have no idea and you have to check.

Right, true.

Dino

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