Most if not all IGPs can be configured to work without multicast. Now if you're talking IPv6 you may have some issuesÅ
On 10/11/13 2:13 PM, "William Waites" <wwai...@tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:41:46 -0700, joel jaeggli <joe...@bogus.com> said: > > > you take all the useful information that an IGP could be (or is) > > providing you, and then you ignore it and do something else. > >Yes, that's another part of the conversation, encouraging the use of >an IGP, which has been a source of trouble for them because of broken >wireless bridges from a very commonly used vendor that randomly eat >multicast packets, so it's not as straightforward as it should be. > > > evil is not a synonym for ugly patch placed over a problem that > > could be handled better. > >Ok, fair enough. My first experience with PBR was as a summer intern in >the mid-1990s who inherited management of a large ATM network that had >a big VPN-esque thing built entirely that way and with no >documentation. It certainly felt evil at the time. ;) > >-w > >-- >The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in >Scotland, with registration number SC005336.