Re: Routing protocols?

[Francis Dupont <]

 In your previous mail you 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)
   2) Is BGP working/defined?
   3) What about IS-IS?
   4) Who is doing production v6 routing at the moment?
   
=> today you have:
 - for IGPs:
   * RIPng (still very used)
   * OSPFng (only some implementations but should replaced RIPng)
   * (integrated) IS-IS (IS-IS can deal with any protocol but I don't know
     a working/used implementation of IS-IS for IPv6)
 - for EGPs:
   * BGP4+ (used by almost everybody)
   * (integrated) IDRP (only one implementation)
 - for multicast:
   * PIM (dense and sparse mode)

Today RIPng and BGP4+ are the most used protocols on Unix boxes (with
free router daemons like gated, mrt, zebra, ...) and standard routers
(Cisco has an experimental code which should become a supported product
soon). I believe you can find some stats in 6bone documents...

Francis.Dupont@localhost