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Christian Tacke Christian.Tacke+bird.network.cz at cosmokey.com
Mon Sep 26 19:37:52 CEST 2016


Hi Toke,


On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 18:34:18 +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
[...]
> > The docs claim babel in bird to be "alpha". Is that still true?
> 
> Would say so. There are no known bugs, but it lacks some features; the
> most obvious one being that it only speaks IPv6 (because Bird lacks
> dual-stack support).
[...]

So for non production, that sounds as good as ospf3,
really.


> Nope. The IETF working group has only just been formed a couple of
> months ago, and so there's not a consensus on what form any security
> features of Babel would take. Once we get around to discussing the
> security features I'll start thinking about implementing it, but until
> then, no auth...

Thanks for the info!

I hope, some auth is somewhere on the list. Because,
really, ipsec isn't fun, as we all know.

> -Toke

Christian


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