Re: [homenet] Routing over IPv6 [was: Single or Multiple Routing Protocols...]

2014-06-01 Thread Leddy, John
Not going to weigh in on what IGP. Following on bellow, it would be good to think about what we are looking for from the IGP. Link state, full topology view, sub-second convergence? Or reachability? And stability. Independent of the choice of IGP, we still have to configure it, or recommend setti

[homenet] Routing over IPv6 [was: Single or Multiple Routing Protocols...]

2014-06-01 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> [...] 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've received a few questions about this by private mail, so please let me lecture a little. The cha

Re: [homenet] Single or Multiple Routing Protocols in Homenet

2014-06-01 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi Tim, > Just as a reminder, here is what we converged on at IETF89 for text in the > homenet arch. The “zero or one” protocol message was clear. I don’t recall a > clear answer on whether to pass config info via the routing protocol or a > separate protocol, but as HNCP shapes up as a proposa

Re: [homenet] Single or Multiple Routing Protocols in Homenet

2014-06-01 Thread Tim Chown
On 1 Jun 2014, at 13:38, Sander Steffann wrote: > Hi, > > Op 1 jun. 2014, om 12:50 heeft Gert Doering het volgende > geschreven: > >> On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 10:47:03AM +0200, Pierre Pfister wrote: >>> So even if most will agree that supporting multiple routing protocol is a >>> madness in t

Re: [homenet] Single or Multiple Routing Protocols in Homenet

2014-06-01 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, Op 1 jun. 2014, om 12:50 heeft Gert Doering het volgende geschreven: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 10:47:03AM +0200, Pierre Pfister wrote: >> So even if most will agree that supporting multiple routing protocol is a >> madness in the general case. >> It?s not that hard to ?support it? while r

Re: [homenet] Single or Multiple Routing Protocols in Homenet

2014-06-01 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 10:47:03AM +0200, Pierre Pfister wrote: > So even if most will agree that supporting multiple routing protocol is a > madness in the general case. > It?s not that hard to ?support it? while requiring one single routing > protocol as mandatory in home networks. > And

Re: [homenet] Single or Multiple Routing Protocols in Homenet

2014-06-01 Thread Pierre Pfister
Hello, I’m not going to argue about which routing protocol to use (Juliusz remark about GRE tunnel was interesting thought), but… See how hard it is ? Home routers vendors will have a bad enough time putting a single routing protocols in their routers, we can’t ask them to put two of them. Ne