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Re: Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes?


From: Loránd Jakab <ljakab () ac upc edu>
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:31:43 +0100

On 12/08/2010 11:08 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
On 8 dec 2010, at 20:10, Mohacsi Janos wrote:

     Do you think adopting LISP or similar architectures to reduce the problems mentioned above?
[...]
Do you lose initial packets when there is no mapping state yet?

Yes. But there are proposals to minimize the chances of that occurring,
by pro-actively refreshing mappings in the local cache before their TTL
expires, and warming up the cache with all entries of an upstream
resolver (with a bulk cache transfer) at router boot time.

-Lorand Jakab


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