And if we are talking in your context then a link-local multicast packet (or 
unicast for that matter) should STAY ON LINK, which means it should not be 
layer-3 encapsulated. So we are in agreement. 

Note, STAY ON LINK, in most circles, means contained within a 
subnet/VLAN/layer-2 domain.

Dino

On Mar 24, 2013, at 7:24 PM, "Joel M. Halpern" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I guess I saw "mobility" and thought it was abut the stuff we have seen in 
> drafts abut LISP for mobile devices (cellular and WiFi).  If the discussion 
> topic is VM movement and L2 extension, yes, I agree with what you have said.
> 
> Yours,
> Joel
> 
> On 3/24/2013 8:48 PM, Dino Farinacci wrote:
>> Joel - if we talk about link-local multicast being forwarded it is in 
>> context of an L2 overlay where EIDs are MAC addresses. So NVO3 related work, 
>> even though NVO3 is not limited to L2 overlays.
>> 
>> Dino
>> 
>> On Mar 24, 2013, at 3:54 PM, "Joel M. Halpern" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Maybe I am naive, but it strikes me that trying to extend link-local IPv6 
>>> multicasts with LISP is probably a bad idea.  Within the mobile device 
>>> scope, the registration mechanisms would seem to provide better tools for 
>>> things like address duplication prevention.
>>> 
>>> While I don't know if the documents capture it properly, the fragmentation 
>>> effect of mobile devices on EID resolution blocks is such that I generally 
>>> would want to keep them separate from the fixed devices.
>>> 
>>> Yours,
>>> Joel
>>> 
>>> On 3/24/2013 6:13 PM, Paul Vinciguerra wrote:
>>>> I know I’m showing up late to the party, but can someone expand upon
>>>> this from the RFC?
>>>> 
>>>> *5.  Source Addresses versus Group Addresses*
>>>> 
>>>>    Multicast group addresses don't have to be associated with either the
>>>> 
>>>>    EID or RLOC namespace.  They actually are a namespace of their own
>>>> 
>>>>    that can be treated as logical with relatively opaque allocation.
>>>> 
>>>>    So, by their nature, they don't detract from an incremental
>>>> 
>>>>    deployment of LISP-Multicast.
>>>> 
>>>> The documents make reference to:
>>>> 
>>>> (S-EID,G)
>>>> 
>>>> (S-RLOC,G)
>>>> 
>>>> It seems that while both these may be numerically identical (eg.
>>>> 239.255.255.254), in terms of LISP, doesn’t (S,G) have to much more
>>>> complex and represent either (S-EID,G-EID(IID)) and (S-RLOC,G-RLOC(IID))?
>>>> 
>>>> Once we introduce LISP mobility, what does (G) actually mean, especially
>>>> when (G) can refer to link-local multicast for a host that has roamed
>>>> off of its home subnet?
>>>> 
>>>> Paul
>>>> 
>>>> 
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