Hello Dino, thanks for this comment - that's an interesting point of view.
Hmm, how do the O (or RA in another draft) and the P bit fit into this picture? They do mean something about how the packet is handled, don't they? Regards, Marc On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 21:34:15 -0700, Dino Farinacci wrote: >> Generally speaking about flags, having both, ignore-when-unknown flags and >> drop-when-unknown flags would be nice IMHO. Problem is our limited space >> of >> 64bit shim header though. > > The flag bits in the LISP header are not used that way. They are > enable-bits so you can overload fields and keep the header small. The flags > are designed based on "enable-bits" in many hardware designs where the > enable-bits indicate which parallel signal lines are in effect (voltage, > verify, ECC, parity, etc). > > The bits do not mean anything about how the packet is handled but what > control data is transmitted with the data-packet. > > Dino > _______________________________________________ lisp mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp
