Re: Routing protocols?

[Fredrik Widell <]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 10:43:47AM +0100, Niall Murphy wrote:
> > I am looking at doing some IPv6 routing and I'm wondering what the status of the
> > various routing protocols is:
> > 
> > 1) RIP is working I've been told (but I don't want to use it)
> 
> Might be working, but I won't use it either.
> 
> > 2) Is BGP working/defined?
> 
> Yes.  Works well.
> 
> > 3) What about IS-IS?
> 
> Cisco doesn't have IS-IS for IPv6 yet, and also no OSPFv3 or EIGRP/IPv6.
> 
> > 4) Who is doing production v6 routing at the moment?
> 
> Depends on what you call "production v6 routing".  For normal definitions
> of "production", I'd say "nobody" ('cause there are no production
> qualit routers, almost everything is done via tunnels, etc. etc.)


You can use a plain PC with Linux/FreeBSD etc and run zebra
to do ipv6 BGP OSPF and RIP2. Look at www.zebra.org


> 
> Gert Doering
>         -- NetMaster
> 

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Regards

	/Fredrik

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