Implementations/suggestions for Multihoming IPv6 for DSL sites

Mon Apr 11 15:15:59 UTC 2011

On 11, Apr, 2011, at 15:37 , Owen DeLong wrote:

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> On Apr 11, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Luigi Iannone wrote:
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>> On 11, Apr, 2011, at 15:17 , Owen DeLong wrote:
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>>>>> Doing IPv4 LISP on any kind of scale requires significant additional prefixes which at this time doesn't seem so practical to me.
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>>>> This is not accurate IMO. To inject prefixes in the BGP is needed only to make non-LISP sites talk to LISP sites. Even there you can aggressively aggregate, as explained in draft-ietf-lisp-interworking.
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>>>> As long as the LISP deployment progress you can even withdraw some prefixes from the BGP infrastructure and advertise only a larger aggregate in order for legacy site to reach the new LISP site.
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>>>> Luigi
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>>> Who said anything about BGP? I was talking about the amount of additional IP space needed vs. the
>>> amount of IPv4 free space remaining.
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>> Sorry. I misunderstood. 
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>> But can you explain better? Why should LISP require more IP space than normal IPv4 deployment?
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>> If you are a new site, you ask for an IP block. This is independent from whether or not you will use LISP.
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> Sure, but, if you also need locators, don't you need additional IP space to use for locators?

No, those are the IP address that you provider gives to your border router.

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>> If you are an existing site and you want to switch to LISP why you need more space? you can re-use what you have?
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> Perhaps I misunderstand LISP, but, I though you needed space to use for locators and space
> to use for IDs if you are an independently routed multi-homed site.

Not exactly. You do not need more space. You re-use what you have. 

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> If you are not an independently routed multi-homed site, then, don't you need a set of host IDs
> to go with each of your upstream locators?
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> As I understand LISP, it's basically a dynamic tunneling system where you have two discrete,
> but non-overlapping address spaces, one inside the tunnels and one outside.
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> If that's the case, then, I believe it leads to at least some amount of duplicate consumption of
> IP numbers.
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No true. I ask for a PI block that I will use as EID-Prefix, then the locators are part of the address space of my providers.
There is no duplication.

>> Or I missed the point again?
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> Or perhaps the complexity of LISP in the details still confuses me, despite people's insistence
> that it is not complex.
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IMHO it is very simple. As any new technology  there is just a learning curve to follow, but for LISP it is not steep ;-)

Luigi

> Owen
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>> thanks 
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>> Luigi
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>>> Owen
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