[c-nsp] OSPFv3 Multiple Address Families Support in IOS

Mark Tinka mark.tinka at seacom.mu
Mon Aug 11 16:13:20 EDT 2014


On Tuesday, August 05, 2014 07:48:22 PM Christopher Werny 
wrote:

> I noticed that support for multiple address families in
> OSPFv3 was added in recent IOS versions.  I am currently
> thinking about updating the IOS version on my routers
> and subsequently consolidating OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 into
> OSPFv3 for both IPv4 and IPv6.
> 
> Has anyone done this before and can share some experience
> with it? What are (in your opinion) the pros and cons of
> the aforementioned consolidation of OSPFv2/v3 into only
> OSPFv3?

The thing to remember is that even if you're using OSPFv3 to 
carry IPv4 NLRI, you still need an IPv6 link layer.

I first saw this capability in OSPFv3 back in the early days 
of Junos 9. But we ran IS-IS then so the temptation was 
shortlived :-).

Mark.
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