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Re: [v6ops] Looking for info on IGP choices in production dual-stack networks

Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Mon, 08 June 2015 06:50 UTC

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From: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
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hi,

On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 11:07:15PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> EIGRP and Babel are fine for IPv4 and IPv6 IGP operation but completely
> useless the moment you enable mpls, because they're distance vector
> protocols and mpls needs a full topology map in order to work.  

Don't tell that to my MPLS routers.  *TE* needs the topology map, normal
LSPs work perfectly well with distance-vector protocols.

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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