internal routing-protocols for IPv6

[Peter Debreczeni]

Kristoff Bonne wrote:
> 
> Salutation/greetings, (also to everybody else who replied too)
> 
> >> Just a general question; for the moment, static routing works just
> >> fine, but what would be the best INTERNAL routing-protocol for a
> >> IPv6-network?
> >> (Looking into the possibility to have cisco-router or unix-boxes acting
> >> as routers).
> 
> >    - RIP-for-IPv6 (is this 'RIPv6' ???)?
> >    Is it just as limited at RIP on IPv4?
> > => RIPng is RIPv2 with IPv6 support. Cheap but very limited...
> 
> True, but I guess this is a first step.
> At least, it's better than static routing. ;-)

RIP is a funny thing , but not a trully routing protocol ... :)


> 
> At this time, I only have a single box (a cisco-router) acting as
> 'gateway' to the 6bone; but I like to add redundancy to this; so I do need
> to get rid of static routes.
> 
> >    - OSPF.
> >    OK, I've seen RFCs on this, but are there already implementations off
> >    this?
> > => at least one easy to find (Zebra).
> As my 'central point' is a cisco-router, I would need it BOTH in cisco and
> on the unix-boxes.
> 
> (I could use RIP to go to a unix-box and then use zebra to continue in
> OSPF; but let's not make things more difficult then necessairy. ;-)

Why u need to use RIP? OSPF is a good internal use routing protocol, but
we used with zebra , and sometimes zebra freezed our ciscos OSPF.
I don`t remember what sw version, but if sb would like to know i`ll see
it.


> 
> >    - EIGRP?
> >    Does EIGRP exist for IPv6? As this is 'cisco-stuff', not supported on
> >    unix-boxes, I guess.
> > => it is a patented protocol too. And as far as I know there is no support
> > for IPv6 even it should be easy to add.
> OK. Bad idea.
> Next!
> 
> >    - ISIS?
> >    We used to do both OSI CLNS and IPv4 routing in this; so ... could IPv6 be
> >    added? Are there implementations of this?
> > => there are some plans about IPv6 support in the new IS-IS but not yet
> > available.
> 
> If I remember correctly from the time I used this), one of the great
> things about ISIS, is that you can use a single routing-protocol to carry
> both OSI and IPv4 routing.
> 
> So, it would be great to use a single routing-protocol to carry both IPv4
> and IPv6 routing.
> 
> Anycase, are there any implementations of ISIS on unix-boxes. (without the
> v6-extensions, that is!)
> 
> >    - internal BGP?
> > => *not* an IGP!
> Technically speaking not, but you could use it as a IGP (just assign a
> private AS-number to your 'customers').
> 
> Again the same remark:
> This would have the advantage to use a single routing-protocol for both
> v4 and v6 routing.
> 
> >    Supported by the unix-routers?
> > => yes, BGP4+ for IPv6 is supported by many softwares (nearly as much
> > supported as RIPng).
> Great!
> 
> Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.
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