Re: LISP Works - Re: Facebook Issues/Outage in Southeast?
The fact that LISP does help in IPv6 Transition solutions (due to its inherent AF agnostic design), is compelling. As you say, real edge 2 edge is
Dear Cameron, On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com> wrote: the goal - and LISP helps here, regardless of the AF. (you'll will still want to do multi-homing in IPv6, and ingress TE, and mobility, etc.).
Sorry, when i said e2e w.r.t IPv6 i was talking about end to end, not edge to edge. I think there is a big difference.
Oops, i meant end to end too, don't know why I typed edge2edge. :-)
IMHO, ILNP is the more interesting solution and avoids expensive encapsulation and questionable assumptions about ISP MTU, all my ISP links are GigE and 10GigE and they are all set to default 1500 bytes ... good or bad, this is just how they roll off the line from every ISP in every city i buy transit... and LISP tunnels do not work so well with 1500 byte MTU.
I beg to differ, LISP works excellent with 1500 byte MTU. But you point out a significant aspect of LISP; hosts behind LISP rely a bit on path MTU discovery, with all it's benefits and drawbacks. But that's not a show stopper i've seen on the lisp beta network. We live in a world where PMTUD is daily practice, ILNP will not make PMTUD go away. My major concern with ILNP is that eventually all hosts need to be upgraded/changed to take advantage of ILNP. If we take a hard look at something like SCTP... it never was really populair in the wild even though it's in the Linux kernel. I'd rather load new software on hundreds CPE's then change ten thousands of hosts, with all variations, versions, servicepacks. Another example: the rate at which IPv6 has been adopted in operating systems is horrible, we cannot wait another 10 or so years. So I actually consider it one of the best features of LISP that hosts don't need to be changed and the scope has been reduced to just the 'edge' or 'CPE'. In this sense one might even consider LISP to be more backwards compatible then ILNP. :-) Last, ILNP has no viable plan for IPv4, an address family we cannot easily discard. The critique in draft-irtf-rrg-recommendation-14 on ILNP's hIPv4 is heavy, and can be summerized with: "It appears that hIPv4 involves major practical difficulties which mean that in its current form it is not suitable for IETF development.." Kind regards, Job Snijders
Dear Cameron & everybody, On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Job W. J. Snijders <job@instituut.net> wrote:
The fact that LISP does help in IPv6 Transition solutions (due to its inherent AF agnostic design), is compelling. As you say, real end 2 end is the goal - and LISP helps here, regardless of the AF. (you'll will still want to do multi-homing in IPv6, and ingress TE, and mobility, etc.).
Have you already joined the LISP Beta Network? All you need is a router that can run the LISP images (871, 1841, 2821, 7200 etc) It's completely open, and the guys behind lisp-support@external.cisco.com can hook you up for free, provide you with everything you need: beta image, a block of public ipv4/ipv6 space and configuration guides, although it's only about 10 lines of config. :-) You could use LISP at home, like I do, and get some hands on experience - enjoy the net behind LISP! http://lisp4.cisco.com/ provides more information. Kind regards, Job Snijders
Sorry guys,
Have you already joined the LISP Beta Network? All you need is a router that can run the LISP images (871, 1841, 2821, 7200 etc)
It's completely open, and the guys behind lisp-support@external.cisco.com can hook you up for free,
The correct address is lisp-support@cisco.com Kind regards, Job
On Sep 30, 2010, at 17:15 , Job W. J. Snijders wrote:
Dear Cameron & everybody,
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Job W. J. Snijders <job@instituut.net> wrote:
The fact that LISP does help in IPv6 Transition solutions (due to its inherent AF agnostic design), is compelling. As you say, real end 2 end is the goal - and LISP helps here, regardless of the AF. (you'll will still want to do multi-homing in IPv6, and ingress TE, and mobility, etc.).
Have you already joined the LISP Beta Network? All you need is a router that can run the LISP images (871, 1841, 2821, 7200 etc)
FYI There is also an opensource version (www.openlisp.org) L.
It's completely open, and the guys behind lisp-support@external.cisco.com can hook you up for free, provide you with everything you need: beta image, a block of public ipv4/ipv6 space and configuration guides, although it's only about 10 lines of config. :-)
You could use LISP at home, like I do, and get some hands on experience - enjoy the net behind LISP!
http://lisp4.cisco.com/ provides more information.
Kind regards,
Job Snijders
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