On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 09:53 -0800, Yakov Rekhter wrote: > What would these other ITR(s) do with the packets of these > flows as these other ITR(s) are in the process of acquiring mapping > info ? Would these other ITR(s) buffer all of them until they acquire > the mapping info ? (with link speeds of of several Gb/s that may > be a *lot* to buffer). Or would they drop all of them until they > acquire the mapping info ? (with link speeds of several Gb/s that > may be a *lot* to drop). >
The other option would be for the ITR to punt the packets to its default mapper, as in APT. The ITR's default mapper has the full mapping table, and delivers the packet while sending the ITR the mapping info for its cache. Dan _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
