Well we have postulated in many designs that if the use of an RTR is in place, 
that can help with all sorts of state-based scaling issues. We could have ITRs 
simply point a default or some /4, or /8 EID-prefixes to a set of RTRs that ARE 
on path.

So the map-cache can have very coarse entries and get everywhere on the network.

Dino

On Mar 20, 2013, at 12:02 PM, "Joel M. Halpern" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, there are regular reports of folks taking down BGP sessions because 
> they exceed the number of prefixes they can handle.
> And LISP EIDs are more granular and varied than BGP prefixes usually are.
> So it does seem a reasonable question to ask how we will protect ourselves 
> against this sort of problem.
> 
> It is true that a device with enough local memory for the whole mapping table 
> is, by definition, not subject to this kind of attack.  But it seems doubtful 
> that we can expect most ITRs or ETRs to have that much memory.
> 
> One of my concerns with the categorization is that the various practices 
> needed to counter different threats are not inherently consistent.  or are 
> they always generally applicable.  (Some of them are just plain good advice.  
> Some of them are good advice for internet deployment.  Some are good advice 
> for VPN deployments.)   So will the reader be able to tell whether he is at 
> risk for a given attack, and what he should be doing for his problem space 
> while still keeping an effective and operable LISP infrastructure?
> 
> Yours,
> Joel
> 
> On 3/20/2013 2:55 PM, Dino Farinacci wrote:
>>>> From: Ronald Bonica <[email protected]>
>>> 
>>>> 3) query the map cache for each packet. If no entry exists, discard the
>>>> packet and query the map server
>>> 
>>>> If you choose Option 3, won't the victim ETR map cache overflow?
>>> 
>>> We've been over this ground about 18 times, haven't we?
>>> 
>>> Answer #5: Don't have a fixed-sized cache. Then it cannot overflow.
>> 
>> Yep, you are right Noel.
>> 
>> Just like the BGP RIB does not have a fixed-size cache. So what happens when 
>> there is no memory for BGP, ditto for LISP. There is no magic here folks.
>> 
>> Dino
>> 
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