netdev - Re: [RFC net-next 0/6] net: Identifier Locator Addressing

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Date:	Thu, 4 Jun 2015 11:00:13 +0200
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, agartrell@...com, maheshb@...gle.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 0/6] net: Identifier Locator Addressing

On 06/03/15 at 12:58pm, Tom Herbert wrote:
> The data path for ILA is a simple NAT translation that only operates
> on the upper 64 bits of a destination address in IPv6 packets. The
> basic process is:
> 
>    1) Lookup 64 bit identifier (lower 64 bits of destination) in a table
>    2) If a match is found
>       a) Overwrite locator (upper 64 bits of destination) with
>          new locator
>       b) Adjust any checksum that has destination address included in
>          pseudo header
>    3) Send or receive packet

Nice. I like this a lot!
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