[rrg] Fundamental objections to ahost-basedscalableroutingsolution

Tony Li tony.li at tony.li
Fri Nov 28 12:15:32 PST 2008


 

|> Ok, but what about asymmetric decap? 
|
|As some one I know in the Industry likes to say 'there is no free lunch
|here' ;-)


Or, in other words, it's just not going to happen.


|> That implies that the 
|> ETR does a mapping lookup on the receipt of a packet, buffers 
|> the packet until the lookup succeeds, and the does the 
|> compare.  
|
|Oh you mean like the IPv6 neighbor discovery process!?  


Two wrongs don't make a right.


|>This seems like another fine way of DoSing the ETR.


|Of course, so implementation has to be smart. 


Step 1 is going to be not doing this.

;-(

Tony



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