Hi,

On 31 Oct. 2013, at 09:31 , Sander Steffann <[email protected]> wrote:

>> I'll explain one experiment and will be crystal ear about it. 
>> 
>> (1) We want to have a LISP site send to both LISP sites and not LISP sites. 
>> (2) We want an ITR to do mapping database lookups when the destination 
>> address is an EID. 
>> (3) We want the ITR to forward packet s by doing a traditional FIB lookup 
>> when the destination is not an EID. 
> 
> I understand what the technical idea is. There are already EIDs out there 
> (including my own network) that are not in any special prefix. Therefore 
> "address is in special prefix" != "address is an EID”.

That is not correct. With an EID block you would have:

Address in special prefix == address is an EID

Address not in special prefix != is not an EID

Basically if it is n the special block you know it is an EID, if it is not in 
the special block you have no idea and you have to check.

Luigi


> Unless you break LISP for already existing sites I don't see how having a 
> special prefix is going to help in (correctly) determining whether an address 
> is an EID.
> 
>> Good Zen?
> 
> Sorry, still not (yet?) liking this idea.
> Sander
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