Hi, On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 09:16:44PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Sat, 31 May 2014, Gert Doering wrote: > > >> This is actually a feature, the fact that ISIS doesn't require IPv6 to be > >> up and running before it can get itself started and you know the topology > >> of the home. > > > > Uh, what? So the benefit of ISIS (over ISO/OSI transport) in the home would > > be "you can have IPv4 in your homenet, without having IPv6"? > > No, that's not what I said and not what I intended. > > You can do topology and router discovery without needing IPv4 or IPv6 > running if you use ISIS.
True, but for what purpose? Maybe I'm a bit daft today, but I cannot see
the scenario where this would be useful.
If I'm going to do IPv6 "later on", I'm not really sure how much you're
going to win by running ISIS "right away, before IPv6 is running" - and
as you say, you don't intend to be not running IPv6 at all. So what?
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> > Then it was quite clear: I can't see a point in doing protocol work to
> > solve something in a fashion that would be very very very similar to an
> > already-existing protocol that has mature implementations.
>
> And what protocol are you referring to? Babel? OSPFv3? RIPv2? I can guess
> you're referring to OSPFv3 since you're now saying "similar" (which wasn't
> in your earlier email), but I don't understand why you feel the need for
> irony and need the reader to guess instead of just saying what you mean.
Oh well. Maybe my irony detector needs recalibration. I thought it was
absolutely obvious from the context of "link state protocol" and "transports
opaque LSAs" (plus "a new protocol very much like an existing protocol")
that only OSPFv3 would fill that niche. RIPv2 is most certainly not a
link state protocol...
Yes, I didn't say "similar", because I wrote a sentence that repeated the
same thing twice. Which implies "quite similar".
But oh well, I'll refraim from trying to use humor to bring across a message
that should have been obvious in the first place.
Gert Doering
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