On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Noel Chiappa<[email protected]> wrote:
>    > From: Christopher Morrow <[email protected]>
>
>    > While a non-lisp node receiving a LISP udp/0 packet dropping it seems
>    > fine to me, a translator dropping a udp/0|null-sum packet instead of
>    > translating it properly or telling the source-system: "oops, something
>    > bad happened" is unacceptable (in my mind).
>
> Ow; now you're making my head hurt.

sorry about that.

> I don't think LISP was ever intended to work in the circumstance where an
> IPv[46] xTR was talking directly to an IPv[64] (i.e. the opposite of the
> other one) xTR, via a IPv[4-6] translator box - just like we don't expect
> IPv4 routers to talk to IPv6 routers through an IPv[4-6] translator box.

Nope, perhaps not. The original version of this discussion started on
ipv6@, and was about what to do if/when a 4to6 (say a nat64 device)
translator gets a packet that would match the criteria in question.

> So I'm not sure we need to worry about that case either? Or do we need that
> case to work? Are there really going to be operational cases _during the term
> of the LISP experimental phase_ with IPv4-only xTRs needing to talk to
> IPv6-only xTRs?
>
> (That is of course separate from the case where a IPv6-only xTR wants to talk
> to another IPv6-only xTR, and there is no direct v6-native path between them -
> it was at that point that my head started to hurt....)

sorry :(

-Chris
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