The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
draft-ietf-lisp-rfc6830bis-12

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Network Working Group                                       D. Farinacci
Internet-Draft                                                 V. Fuller
Intended status: Standards Track                                D. Meyer
Expires: September 20, 2018                                     D. Lewis
                                                           Cisco Systems
                                                       A. Cabellos (Ed.)
                                                       UPC/BarcelonaTech
                                                          March 19, 2018

               The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
                     draft-ietf-lisp-rfc6830bis-12

Abstract

   This document describes the Data-Plane protocol for the Locator/ID
   Separation Protocol (LISP).  LISP defines two namespaces, End-point
   Identifiers (EIDs) that identify end-hosts and Routing Locators
   (RLOCs) that identify network attachment points.  With this, LISP
   effectively separates control from data, and allows routers to create
   overlay networks.  LISP-capable routers exchange encapsulated packets
   according to EID-to-RLOC mappings stored in a local Map-Cache.

   LISP requires no change to either host protocol stacks or to underlay
   routers and offers Traffic Engineering, multihoming and mobility,
   among other features.

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Farinacci, et al.      Expires September 20, 2018               [Page 1]
Internet-Draft                    LISP                        March 2018

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  Requirements Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   3.  Definition of Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   4.  Basic Overview  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.1.  Packet Flow Sequence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   5.  LISP Encapsulation Details  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     5.1.  LISP IPv4-in-IPv4 Header Format . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     5.2.  LISP IPv6-in-IPv6 Header Format . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
     5.3.  Tunnel Header Field Descriptions  . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   6.  LISP EID-to-RLOC Map-Cache  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
   7.  Dealing with Large Encapsulated Packets . . . . . . . . . . .  19
     7.1.  A Stateless Solution to MTU Handling  . . . . . . . . . .  20
     7.2.  A Stateful Solution to MTU Handling . . . . . . . . . . .  21
   8.  Using Virtualization and Segmentation with LISP . . . . . . .  21
   9.  Routing Locator Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
   10. Routing Locator Reachability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
     10.1.  Echo Nonce Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
   11. EID Reachability within a LISP Site . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26
   12. Routing Locator Hashing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
   13. Changing the Contents of EID-to-RLOC Mappings . . . . . . . .  28
     13.1.  Database Map-Versioning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
   14. Multicast Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
   15. Router Performance Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
   16. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
   17. Network Management Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
   18. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
     18.1.  LISP UDP Port Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
   19. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32