> Hi, > > I was reading http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-lisp-24 when I noticed > the following text in section 6.1.4, 'Map-Reply Message Format': > > Locator: an IPv4 or IPv6 address (as encoded by the 'Loc-AFI' field) > assigned to an ETR. Note that the destination RLOC address MAY be > an anycast address. A source RLOC can be an anycast address as > well. The source or destination RLOC MUST NOT be the broadcast > address (255.255.255.255 or any subnet broadcast address known to > the router), and MUST NOT be a link-local multicast address. The > source RLOC MUST NOT be a multicast address. The destination RLOC > SHOULD be a multicast address if it is being mapped from a > multicast destination EID. > > It talks about source and destination RLOCs, which seems weird in the context > of a map-reply message. My feeling is that this text belongs in a more > generic section, or am I missing something here? I thought that locators in > map-replies are always meant to be used as destination RLOCs.
Destination RLOCs are in the locator-set of an EID-record of the Map-Reply payload. You want the source and destination addresses to be RLOCs so the Map-Reply can be routed directly back to the requestor, by the core routers. Dino > > Thanks, > Sander > > _______________________________________________ > lisp mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp _______________________________________________ lisp mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp
