Lisp Flow Mapping: Beryllium: Release Notes

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Major Features

The major features of Beryllium release:

  • NSH Support: Support for NSH and SPI-based mappings in LISP Mapping System and LISP SB.

  • Decoupling of SB and NB mappings: Support for parallel data stores for SB registrations and NB mappings.

  • Merge support on SB registrations: Support merging mapping registrations from SB for the same virtual address.

  • Integrating NB policy and SB mappings: Support for combining SB registrations and NB mappings.

  • GUI support: Initial GUI support for adding new mappings and visibility into the mapping system via DLUX.

  • Support for multi-tenancy/segmentation with Source-Dest policies.

  • API changes to adapt to IETF LISP YANG models

Target Environment

For Execution

N/A

For Development

N/A

Known Issues and Limitations

  • Testing methodology

    • All modules have been unit tested. Integration tests have been performed for all major features. System tests have been performed on most major features.

      • Merging of locators and NB-SB integration of mappings are new features that have received the least amount of testing.

    • Registering and retrieval of basic mappings have been tested more thoroughly. More complicated mapping policies have gone through less testing.

Changes Since Previous Releases

Migration from Previous Releases

Aside from adjusting to the removal of EoL-ed API there are no additional steps needed for migration to this release.

Compatibility with Previous Releases

  • Southbound plugin is compatible with previous releases.

  • Northbound APIs have been upgraded according to the recently published IETF YANG models. The new API is not compatible with the previous releases.

Deprecated, End of Lifed, and/or Retired Features/APIs

  • The NB API in Lithium is now EoLed.