Re: [lisp] [ipdir] LISP WG: Loc/ID separation - not separate namespaces

Dino Farinacci <dino@cisco.com> Thu, 19 March 2009 00:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [lisp] [ipdir] LISP WG: Loc/ID separation - not separate namespaces
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> Loc-AFI is a 16 bit field with two currently defined options: IPv4
> or IPv6.

Robin, you can have n namespaces with the same AFI value. RFC 2547  
VPNs is an example of this. And there are plenty more examples as well.

Dino