This show was recorded on July 7, 2011 (the week before Cisco Live Las Vegas), where Greg and Ethan were joined by subject matter expert Victor Moreno of Cisco in a topical podcast about LISP, the Locator/ID Separation Protocol.

QUESTIONS WE ASKED

What is LISP?
What problems are addressed by LISP?
How does LISP impact your existing core routing infrastructure?
What’s the difference between an RLOC and an EID?
How does LISP help with device mobility?
How does a packet get from one LISP site to another?
LISP uses a (sort of) tunnel, so how much overhead is introduced?
How does PMTUD work in a LISP environment?
How does LISP help us with multihoming & equal-cost load-balancing between sites?
What are LISP’s loop prevention & route optimization mechanisms?
Is there a way to apply routing policies to a LISP environment?
Is LISP going to talk directly to devices like vCenter or OpenFlow controllers?
Do all LISP routers maintain a synchronized routing table?
Cisco has an inside joke that “the only way is the overlay.” What’s that mean?
Are enterprises dependent on their ISPs if they’d like to leverage LISP?
What are some applications for privately deployed LISP inside the data center?
How does LISP detect when a host has moved from one domain to another?
What is the RFC status of LISP?
Would Cisco bet the data center on LISP?
What Cisco platforms will LISP be supported on?
Will LISP support highly dynamic environments where hosts move frequently?
What is Cisco’s reaction to informational RFC6115, Recommendation for a Routing Architecture?
What security is baked into the current LISP iteration?