<p dir="ltr"><br>
I'm now recalling the days running multiprotocol networks. When having at least IP, IPX and either appletalk or Decnet running at once was normal. Actually there still are traces of IS-IS out there. I'm pretty sure I saw it in an element manager spec in the last few years. </p>
<p dir="ltr">And these children are having issues running IPv4 and IPv6 at once...</p>
<p dir="ltr">At least people aren't dumb enough to expect that bridging over the whole domain is okay any more. [Hmmm VPLS notwithstanding]</p>
<p dir="ltr">We now seem to be diversifying at the layer 2 protocol level instead.<br><br></p>
<p dir="ltr">N</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 29/06/2013 1:55 AM, "Julien Goodwin" <<a href="mailto:ausnog@studio442.com.au">ausnog@studio442.com.au</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 28/06/13 23:15, Mark Prior wrote:<br>
> AARNet might have only run Phase IV but at Adelaide Uni we were using<br>
> Phase V too (one of a basket of dead protocols :-)<br>
<br>
As are many carriers, but in a denial of history (for those of us who<br>
still have VAXen or Alphas kicking around) they call it IS-IS instead.<br>
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