OpenLISP: an open source implementation of the locator/ID separation protocol
Damien Saucez, Luigi Iannone, Olivier Bonaventure · DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) · 2009
The network research community has recently started to work on the design of an alternate Internet Architecture aim- ing at solving some scalability issues that the current Inter- net is facing. The Locator/ID separation paradigm seems to well fit the requirements for this new Internet Architecture. Among the various solutions, LISP (Locator/ID Separation Protocol), proposed by Cisco, has gained attention due to the fact that it is incrementally deployable. In the present paper we give a short overview on Open- LISP, an open-source implementation of LISP. Beside LISP's basic specifications, OpenLISP provides a new socket-based API, namely the Mapping Sockets, which makes OpenLISP an ideal experimentation platform for LISP, but also other related protocols.