On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:45:04AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:36:30AM +0530, Murugan KAT wrote:
> 
> > Let us think of a single RTM having for both V4 and V6. 
> > But to what extent this is valid from routing stacks.? Will it be valid to
> > propogate V4 routing info. also to V6 domain.? Obviously the other way is
> > not valid?
> 
> In a multi-protocol world, this might well be valid at least for "site"-local
> routing. Think OSPF, which provides routing information primary for OSI 
> protocols, but propagates the topology information to other protocol modules
> (e.g., IPv4).
> 
> Now, if you have a node that only speaks one of the protocols involved,
> it obviously can't do this - but we're speaking of multiprotocol capable
> nodes already, right?

I forgot: obviously, you need some way to associate the, say, OSI address
of a local net or node with it's IPv4 and IPv6 network address.

Regards,
        -is

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