On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Dino Farinacci <[email protected]> wrote:

> So we are thinking of putting some data-plane authentication in which we
>> can talk about later. This is work in progress and nothing has been
>> published yet.
>
>
How might this work without the ETR being required to do look-ups in order
to perform the authentication check?


> This is where you need a firewall (at the access SP) to do mapping database
> lookups to verify the (source-EID, source-RLOC) binding.
>

I'm not clear on what you are suggesting.  Certainly it will not be the case
that "native Internet" service providers will gain the ability to peek into
LISP inner-headers and do any kind of check.


> Also, we do have data-plane gleaning in an ETR specified in the spec. So
> the packet could be accepted in an ETR, source-EID and RLOC gleaned, and
> when the SYN-ACK is returned, the map-cache can be verified. That way, you
> put the mapping database lookup in the place where it is already being done
> for other reasons.
>

You are describing a case where the ETR is also the ITR?

-- 
Jeff S Wheeler <[email protected]>
Sr Network Operator  /  Innovative Network Concepts
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