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Re: [lisp] LISP EID Block Size

Sander Steffann <sander@steffann.nl> Thu, 31 October 2013 16:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [lisp] LISP EID Block Size
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> I'll explain one experiment and will be crystal ear about it. 
> 
> (1) We want to have a LISP site send to both LISP sites and not LISP sites. 
> (2) We want an ITR to do mapping database lookups when the destination address is an EID. 
> (3) We want the ITR to forward packet s by doing a traditional FIB lookup when the destination is not an EID. 

I understand what the technical idea is. There are already EIDs out there (including my own network) that are not in any special prefix. Therefore "address is in special prefix" != "address is an EID". Unless you break LISP for already existing sites I don't see how having a special prefix is going to help in (correctly) determining whether an address is an EID.

> Good Zen?

Sorry, still not (yet?) liking this idea.
Sander

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