On Jul 22, 2016 3:38 AM, "Dino Farinacci" <farina...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > - VXLAN-GPE does not appear compatible with VXLAN-GPE. If a VXLAN host receives a VXLAN packet for some protocol other than Ethern the payload will be misinterpreted. A separate port number was required. I assume that a user using VXLAN in HW must upgrade HW to use VXLAN-GPE > > Tom, one clarification. Did you really mean VXLAN-GPE is not compatible with VXLAN-GPE or did you mean VXLAN? > Yes
> This is how a VXLAN-GPE encapsulator (an upgraded system) can talk to a VXLAN decapsulator (an existing system) with the LISP control-plane: > > (1) The encapsulator does a lookup on a MAC address to the mapping system. > (2) What gets retunred is the decapsultor’s IP address and an encapsulation format. In this case the encapsulation format is VXLAN. > (3) The VXLAN-GPE supuported encapsulator then encapsulates packets with UDP port 4789. > > I am told you can do this with BGP as well by negotiating what encapsulations are supported. > > Dino >
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