Segment routing
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Segment routing, a form of computer networking, is a modern variant of source routing that is being developed within the SPRING and IPv6 working groups of the IETF. In a segment routed network, an ingress node may prepend a header to packets that contain a list of segments, which are instructions that are executed on subsequent nodes in the network. These instructions may be forwarding instructions, such as an instruction to forward a packet to a specific destination or interface.
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See also
- Bang path
- Dynamic Source Routing
- Policy-based routing can also be used to route packets using their source addresses.
- Scalable Source Routing
References
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Krishnan, S. (2024-02-15). SRv6 Segment Identifiers in the IPv6 Addressing Architecture. IETF. I-D draft-ietf-6man-sids-06. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
External links
- The Segment Routing homepage
- The Linux implementation of IPv6 Segment Routing
- "About Segment Routing" (PDF). Cisco.
- "What is segment routing?". Juniper.
- "Benefits of segment routing and path computation". Nokia. September 15, 2015.
- "MPLS Segment Routing: Driving a modern approach to MPLS transport" (PDF). Arista.
- Jilani, Said (June 4, 2019). "Segment Routing 101 and the Future of MPLS". Aviat Networks.
- Ventre, Pier Luigi; Salsano, Stefano; Polverini, Marco; Cianfrani, Antonio; Abdelsalam, Ahmed; Filsfils, Clarence; Camarillo, Pablo; Clad, Francois (2021). "Segment Routing: A Comprehensive Survey of Research Activities, Standardization Efforts, and Implementation Results". IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 23: 182–221. arXiv:1904.03471. doi:10.1109/COMST.2020.3036826. S2CID 102352575.