>> ISIS is great for ISP environments, but does not nicely adapt to a unix >> environment where the kernel has no idea about ISO/OSI protocols and >> you have to do everything via raw sockets.
> This is actually a feature, the fact that ISIS doesn't require IPv6 to be > up and running before it can get itself started While I happen to like the elegant way ISIS is layered directly over layer 2, the practical advantage is mostly gone with IPv6, where routers communicate using link-local addresses. For what it's worth, Babel is quite able to establish adjacencies before addressing is up as well as in pure IPv4 networks. (I still think that the ISIS approach is more elegant, though. But unfortunately it breaks down once you start including link layers that cannot easily carry layer 2 frames, such as GRE tunnels.) -- Juliusz _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
