Dino Farinacci <[email protected]> writes:
>> Both of these servers process Map-Request messages, albeit with
>> different semantics. Hence the D bit in Map-Request messages is needed
>> to differentiate which server is to process a given Map-Request message.
>
> The reason I explained the above was that the D-bit tells the receiver
> of a Map-Request what type of message to return regardless of the
> colocation status of the servers.
OK, that's close to the distinction I was making. The defining text is
probably from section 5:
D: The "DDT-originated" flag. It is set by a DDT client to indicate
that the receiver SHOULD return Map-Referral messages as
appropriate. Use of the flag is further described in
Section 7.3.1. This bit is allocated from LISP message header
bits marked as Reserved in [RFC6830].
But when I read it, the phrase "the receiver SHOULD return Map-Referral
messages as appropriate" wasn't at all clear. I assume now that what it
means is, "should return Map-Referral messages *as described in this
document*, whereas D=0 means it should be processed as described in RFC
6833". The defining characteristic isn't the type of messages to be
returned but which processing to apply, as a DDT server and a Map-Server
are very different things (defined in different RFCs!).
Dale
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