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Re: HSRP vs VRRP for IPv6 on IOS-XE - rekindling an old flame
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy)
Mon Aug 20 18:18:02 2012
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:15:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Randy <randy_94108@yahoo.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <01BC2B28-2E9C-4AAA-922C-62A03A641DB3@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
--- On Mon, 8/20/12, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
> Subject: Re: HSRP vs VRRP for IPv6 on IOS-XE - rekindling an old flame
> To: sthaug@nethelp.no
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Date: Monday, August 20, 2012, 1:31 PM
> VRRP is to HSRP what 802.1q is to
> ISL...
>=20
> I highly recommend using VRRP instead of HSRP because:
>=20
> 1.=A0=A0=A0 It is a more robust protocol
> 2.=A0=A0=A0 It is vendor agnostic
> 3.=A0=A0=A0 Being vendor agnostic it is more likely
> to have a continuing future.
>=20
> Does anyone still use ISL?
>=20
> Owen
>=20
...rhetorical question perhaps; historically, interesting:
ISL: I last used in 2005
CET: ....2000
./Randy
