Locator/ID Separation Protocol on Cisco IOS XR
Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) is a simple, incremental, network-based protocol designed to implement separation of Internet addresses into Endpoint Identifiers (EIDs) and Routing Locators (RLOCs).
LISP stands for Locator/ID Separation Protocol and is a next-generation IP routing feature that creates a new paradigm in how IP addressing is assigned and interpreted by splitting the device identity, known as an endpoint identifier (EID), and its location, known as its routing locator (RLOC), into two different namespaces. Creating separate IP addresses for EID and RLOC functions yields several advantages, including improved scalability of the routing system through greater aggregation of RLOCs and improved multihoming efficiency and ingress traffic engineering. Hosts do not have to change IP addresses and therefore, no IP address numbering costs are involved with the LISP implementation.
LISP sites use IP addresses in the EID namespace to address hosts and in Domain Name System (DNS) in exactly the same way they are currently used. These addresses are not advertised within the non-LISP RLOC namespace (that is, the Internet), but instead are advertised by the LISP mapping services. The LISP site router supports the LISP functionality of Ingress Tunnel Router (ITR) and Egress Tunnel Router (ETR).
LISP is a pull model analogous to DNS and is massively scalable. LISP is address family agnostic and can be deployed incrementally.
LISP creates a Level of indirection with two namespaces: EID and RLOC. The EID (Endpoint Identifier) is the IP address of a host. The RLOC (Routing Locator) is the IP address of the LISP router for the host. EID-to-RLOC mapping is the distributed architecture that maps EIDs to RLOCs. The LISP Map Lookup is analogous to a DNS lookup. DNS resolves IP addresses for URLs. LISP resolves locators for queried identifiers or EID prefix.
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Proxy Ingress Tunnel Router (PITR) and Proxy Egress Tunnel Router (PETR). PITR must be configured using map resolver (no ALT support).
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Default table support for EID and RLOC space.
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The router lisp command in global configuration mode enables LISP configuration mode.
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The LISP command line interface, show commands output, and schema is to be changed in Cisco IOS XR Release 4.3.1 to be similar to the LISP command line interface on Cisco IOS. |