Re: OSPF for IPv4 over IPv6 only?

[Nico Schottelius via Bird-users]

Ondrej Zajicek <santi...@crfreenet.org> writes:
>> I was facing the same issue before, and unfortunately, RFC 5838
>> explicitly forbids IPv4 over IPv6 for OSPF.
>
> Well, we could add 'extended next hop' option to override it, even if it
> would be non-standard. It is rather small deviation.

That would be amazing.

It might also give a good testbed to write a follow up RFC on it later,
in case there are others who also want to run their core IPv4 free.

> I also thought about 'integrated-OSPFv3', where both IPv4 and IPv6 ranges
> are propagated in one instance, but that seems like much larger deviation.

After reading RFC5838, I absolutely agree with you.

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