Re: IPv6: IS-IS or OSPFv3
Having worked for seveal SP's 'tier 1' and otherwise along with a couple of router vendors IMO MT is one of those thing people ask for just in case. Sure we _could_ always find a use for it, but we don't always look at the potential diffrent IGP topologies are going to cause for our NOC staff @ 2am over a holiday weekend when some does decide to break. -jim ------Original Message------ From: Randy Bush To: Mark Tinka Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IPv6: IS-IS or OSPFv3 Sent: Dec 27, 2008 9:27 AM
For IS-IS, highly recommend MT to avoid any nasties while turning up v6 in a dual-stack environment.
as one who has been burned when topologies are not congruent, i gotta ask. if i do not anticipate v4 and v6 having different topologies, and all my devices are dual-capable, would you still recommend mt for other than future-proofing? randy Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network
Hi, Thanks all of you to provide your inputs on my questions! The main idea behind Multitopology in IS-IS is to enabling the IPv6 routing in the redundant part of the network so that way I will not mess around with the current IPv4 routing or services which is running or serving to customers currently! so by migrating redundant part of the topology to IPv6 using Multitopology IS-IS and make it that part as a active for IPv6 for testing how it works! and then I can enable the IPv6 on my whole network! I guess that might be the good benefit. Same thing we can do with OSPFv3 also as I can enable IPv6 routing using OSPFv3 on my redundant part of the network and after successful migration i can enable it on my whole network! But again as far as expansion is concern IS-IS is good protocol to consider. OSPF does have bit more complexity in terms of operation. again the one question is how about the router resource utilization for both the protocol if I will be running IPv6 and IPv4 in the network! One more question: do we need to enable the IPv6 on each and every router of the service provider network including P routers also? does it really required to run IPv6 on each and every router? or running it on only PE router is sufficient to support the customers needs? regards Devang Patel On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:29 AM, <deleskie@gmail.com> wrote:
Having worked for seveal SP's 'tier 1' and otherwise along with a couple of router vendors IMO MT is one of those thing people ask for just in case. Sure we _could_ always find a use for it, but we don't always look at the potential diffrent IGP topologies are going to cause for our NOC staff @ 2am over a holiday weekend when some does decide to break.
-jim ------Original Message------ From: Randy Bush To: Mark Tinka Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IPv6: IS-IS or OSPFv3 Sent: Dec 27, 2008 9:27 AM
For IS-IS, highly recommend MT to avoid any nasties while turning up v6 in a dual-stack environment.
as one who has been burned when topologies are not congruent, i gotta ask. if i do not anticipate v4 and v6 having different topologies, and all my devices are dual-capable, would you still recommend mt for other than future-proofing?
randy
Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network
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