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ID/loc mapping distribution protocol (was Re: [RAM] Incremental Deployment of LISP




El 08/04/2007, a las 4:37, Dino Farinacci escribió:

You are right non Marcelo. I think taking the high-road by doing a LISP-push model gives you the best of all worlds.

by push model, we are talking about destributing the ID to locator mapping database to all LISP routers?

I would say all high-level routers

i am not sure what do you mean by high level router... could you expand?

 and not to every LISP ITR (or ETR).


but the ITR are the ones than need the information (hence the ones that should have it), right?


Of course, in addition, routers making TE would also benefit from it, so it makes sense to pass it to them also (but they are ITRs after all, right?)


are you thinking in using a protocol for that distribution, like BGP for instance?

A new protocol more optimized perhaps for flooding that has authentication built-in.



what is the motivation for a new protocol?

i mean, BGP does seem to provide what is needed, and it is well known by the community

do you think that BGP is lacking some of the required capabilities?

note that for globally distributing the ID to locator mapping information, you would just need to enable another instance of BGP with maybe some extensions, that would carry the id to loc mapping to all the routers running this new instance. I think that from a deployment perspective, this is much better than designing a new protocol, since it would only require configure existent routers (maybe some software patch) but not deploying a new protocol (I think this would go along with the general LISP policy of minor changes rather than new protocols, doesn't it?)

There have been a few proposals on this area before, which were very interesting imho, but i guess some people though they were too complex

We can start simple. This doesn't need to be complex and if we keep policy out of it ;-) we can keep it easier

but probably the complex part of policy is to provide enough information and flexibility to allow for local configurations, so this needs to be build in the protocol from scratch, just as BGP has it.



. Please note, this protocol would be there to distribute EID-RLOC mappings and not the reachability status of the RLOCs.


of course, fully agree

Dino



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