[77041] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Proper authentication model
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Wed Jan 12 06:26:24 2005
In-Reply-To: <41E4FC31.7000904@chello.at>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:25:21 +0100
To: "Gernot W. Schmied" <gernot.schmied@chello.at>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 12-jan-05, at 11:30, Gernot W. Schmied wrote:
>> True out of band management networks are very hard to build and very
>> hard to use, and you run the risk that you can't get at your stuff
>> because the management network is down.
> IS-IS can be highly recommended for true out of band management, it is
> reachable when IP goes down the drain entirely.
To me, true "out of band management" means that the management traffic
doesn't flow over production links. You are right that IS-IS can
continue to function when IP is confused (although with integrated
IS-IS OSI will probably be just as confused as IP). But IS-IS isn't a
management protocol, of course. :-)
IPv6 is also very useful in providing non-IPv4 management.
