> On Mar 9, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek > <j...@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> wrote: > >>> Brian, ever the pessimist, expects things to go wrong whenever they >>> can. I happen to agree with Brian. >>> >>> (Which, by the way, is the reason why I think that the way networks >>> containing both IS-IS and Homenet IS-IS will silently break is a major >>> f*ck up. Section 6.3. Yeah, I was too tired to argue that point.) > >> The user would have to go out of their way to configure their >> non-homenet IS-IS router specifically to interoperate with the homenet >> IS-IS. How would they know how to do this other than to be familiar with >> the other requirements? It’s not like they would be able to accidentally >> drop a non-homenet IS-IS router into their network and have it start >> silently failing. > > It's 2017. There's an animated discussion on Stackoverflow about how to > install IS-IS on an ordinary PC in order to get it to interoperate with > Homenet. There are some people who point out that the Homenet variant of > IS-IS is not interoperable with stock IS-IS, but they get voted down. > ``Haters will hate, but I've been running it that way for three days and > it works just fine''. > > I'm not asking for full interoperability, I just wish source-specific > IS-IS would refuse to establish neighbour relationships with non-specific > IS-IS. We'll pay for that mistake at some point.
But I say we are doing that by using a homenet specific authentication password, a non-homenet router will not form adjacencies with a homenet router. Yes the user can bypass this forcefully, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t addressed the issue. Anyway I guess we disagree. Thanks, Chris. > Ted once wrote that we cannot prevent people from being stupid. Ted is of > course right, but I still think that we should strive to minimise the > consequences of human stupidity. > > -- Juliusz > > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > homenet@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
