[141656] in North American Network Operators' Group
IPv6 routing protocols
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Fri Jun 10 06:04:08 2011
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <4DF105D8.7050300@foobar.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:03:33 +0200
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 9 jun 2011, at 19:41, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> Iljitsch noted: "IPv6 routing protocols also pretty much only use link =
locals". This is not true in the general case.
So which routing protocols communicate using global addresses then?
As far as I know only BGP but BGP runs over TCP so it's different from =
all other routing protocols. And it still carries link local next hop =
addresses.=
