IS-IS

[Alex Bligh]

Ondrej (or anyone else),

On 19 Dec 2012, at 11:56, Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> We already started some work on IS-IS [1], although the work was
> postponed mainly by work on IPv4 / IPv6 merge [2], which is suggested
> prerequisite for IS-IS, as its use of raw ethernet frames and integrated
> IPv4/IPv6 topology makes current single-address_family BIRD behavior and
> internals inconvenient.
> 
> I would prefer to continue in implementating IS-IS. If you want
> something similar for your thesis, i would suggest to implement OLSR
> (RFC 3626) or Babel (RFC 6126), these are protocols that would be nice
> to have in BIRD but i don't plan to implement them myself, and they
> could be easily implemented in current BIRD. Or perhaps we could
> discuss that off-list and find some solution.
> 
> [1] https://git.nic.cz/redmine/projects/bird/repository/revisions/fed1bceb2cf6d424396347921cfc9775c9a8af9b
> 
> [2] https://git.nic.cz/redmine/projects/bird/repository?rev=integrated

Any movement on this? I'd also be interested in IS-IS.

The two links above just go to a login page :-(

The dependency on the IPv4/IPv6 merge is only a prerequisite if you
want to route both IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously. IS-IS also has
other uses (e.g. trill / SPB / 802.1aq).

-- 
Alex Bligh




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