[AusNOG] VPLS OSPF question

[Mark Smith]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au>
> To: "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
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> Sent: Thursday, 18 April 2013 7:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] VPLS OSPF question
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> So what are the advantages of EIGRP over OSPF or IS-IS, that make the trade off 
> of using a proprietary protocol verses open ones worth accepting?
> 
> IGRP had advantages over RIP, however, we now have OSPF and IS-IS. EIGRP had 
> advantages when you were running multiple layer 3 protocols, such as IPX and 
> Appletalk, but we're not any more. I understand that recent versions of 
> EIGRP can concurrently support IPv4 and IPv6, but then so can IS-IS.
> 

And OSPFv3 is gaining that capability too (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5838)

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> ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: Scott Weeks <surfer at mauigateway.com>
>>  To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
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>>  Sent: Thursday, 18 April 2013 7:16 AM
>>  Subject: Re: [AusNOG] VPLS OSPF question
>> 
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>> 
>>  --- brad at bradpeczka.com wrote:
>>  From: Brad Peczka <brad at bradpeczka.com>
>> 
>>  It should be pointed out that Cisco are currently in the process of opening 
> up 
>>  EIGRP
>>  ----------------------------------------------
>> 
>>  Note that they're not opening all of it up.  Some things, such 
>>  as stub networks, are not going to be part of the opening up.
>> 
>>  scott
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