I like ISIS over V6 as the option. Just carry V4 info. But for anyone that wants to run IPX, DecNet, Appletalk, Banyon VinesŠ
You could do ISIS on L2 and carry all the AFI/SAFI info without requiring V6. A good solution, john On 5/31/14, 4:03 PM, "Juliusz Chroboczek" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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 _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
