In message <[email protected]> Michael Richardson writes: > >>>>> "Curtis" == Curtis Villamizar <[email protected]> writes: > >> 2. Add a new field to the router capabilities that carries the > >> full 48 bit mac address, or even some munged together "longer > >> id," based on multiple mac addresses on the device, or some such. > > Curtis> Not backwards compatible. The older OSPF routers will see > Curtis> only the non-unique 32 bits and the network won't work. > > There are no zOSPF routers today.
Yes and there are/were ATM switches that implement RFC1577, LANE, MPOA, and NHRP. None of that worked very well and it all is essentially abandoned work now. Pre-existence alone is not a worth while evaluation criteria. If zOSPF works perfectly, including in the presence of legacy routers which don't look at a new 48 bit mac address router-id extension, we have no reason to continue the discussion. We just indicate "use zOSPF" and we're done. There seems to be consensus that we're not done. Curtis _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
