Most if not all IGPs can be configured to work without multicast. Now if you're talking IPv6 you may have some issuesŠ On 10/11/13 2:13 PM, "William Waites" <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:41:46 -0700, joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> said:
you take all the useful information that an IGP could be (or is) providing you, and then you ignore it and do something else.
Yes, that's another part of the conversation, encouraging the use of an IGP, which has been a source of trouble for them because of broken wireless bridges from a very commonly used vendor that randomly eat multicast packets, so it's not as straightforward as it should be.
evil is not a synonym for ugly patch placed over a problem that could be handled better.
Ok, fair enough. My first experience with PBR was as a summer intern in the mid-1990s who inherited management of a large ATM network that had a big VPN-esque thing built entirely that way and with no documentation. It certainly felt evil at the time. ;)
-w
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