December 2020
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
22h 40m
English
LISP and VXLAN
Today we review two important network overlay technologies: Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) and Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN). In the traditional Internet architecture, the IP address of an endpoint denotes both its location and its identity. Using the same value for both endpoint location and identity severely limits the security and management of traditional enterprise networks. LISP, defined in RFC 6830, is a protocol that enables separation of the endpoint’s identity and its location.
LISP has a limitation in that it supports only Layer 3 overlay. It cannot carry the MAC address because ...