On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:03:21AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> 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.

I was confused. ELOWCOFFEE. s/OSPF/IS-IS/g in the above.

        -is

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