Re: [RAM] Comment on draft-farinacci-lisp-00.txt (LISP)

[Yakov Rekhter <yakov at juniper.net>]

Tony,

> On Mar 31, 2007, at 6:31 PM, Ross Callon wrote:
> 
> >  (1) You are going to make the data plane MUCH slower; or
> >  (2) You are going to very lightly load the data plane; or
> >  (3) You are going to implement the control aspects of LISP
> >     somewhere other than on the central processor; or
> >  (4) You are going to build routers whose central processor is
> >     several orders of magnitude faster than on current routers; or
> >  (5) You feel that you can implement LISP on a PE router
> >     with a load on the control plane which is at least 10,000
> >     times smaller than the load on the data plane (so that each
> >     time a packet goes to the control plane, on the average there
> >     are 10,000 or more packets that will be forwarded via the data
> >     plane before the next packet needs to go to the control plane)
> >
> > I am guessing that the answer is either (5), or perhaps (3), or
> >   (6) You are going to deploy LISP closer to the edge (and NOT
> >     in the PE router).
> 
> 
> If I can paraphrase you, Ross, doing packet forwarding at 10Mpps  
> doesn't scare me.

How many EID-to-RLOC mappings ICMP messages per second an ITR/ETR be
required to originate/receive ?

Yakov.

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