[BBLISA] anybody doing IPv6 for real operations?/possible presentation topic

Dean Anderson dean at av8.com
Mon Mar 15 14:27:52 EDT 2010


On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Benjamin Cline wrote:
> >     He does seem to be claiming that you can use IS-IS to forward IPv6
> > without enabling IPv6 on the router, but that would indeed be magic,
> > and isn't how it works.
> > 
> 
> I'm glad you're able to translate Dean-speak into English. The 
> particular point of his that I was questioning (and which I quoted in my 
> original reply) was "So you can route IPv6 on IS-IS on routers that 
> don't know anything about IPV6. You can't do that with OSPF or OSPF6." 
> As we both noted, this does seem to be magic and I wanted Dean to 
> explain just how this was possible.

Sorry for not being clear. But that isn't what I mean.

> I'm sorry if you (or anyone else) found my comments about tunneling IPv6 
> inside IS-IS to be confusing or to imply I don't understand IP routing. 
> I was mostly being flippant, but it's also the only way I could think of 
> to make Dean's claim regarding the magic of IS-IS even remotely possible.

Well, I made no such claim. Probably you should try to be less
troll-like and less flippant. And then everyone would be less confused.

		--Dean

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