[j-nsp] LSP's with IPV6 on Juniper

Jared Mauch jared at puck.nether.net
Wed Aug 29 10:34:59 EDT 2018



> On Aug 29, 2018, at 10:28 AM, heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
> 
> Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 01:17:48AM -0400, Jared Mauch:
>> Yes, I’m always reminding folks that router-id may be well known to be the same integer representation of your IP address in the protocol encoding, but often it’s not a requirement.
> 
> its not; the reverse actually.  it is just a 32 bit integer, though many
> platforms take the value from the loopback address and/or can be configured
> from an ipv4 address formatted integer.  So, there is nothing to be changed
> in the protocol.


We’re saying the same thing, it’s just if you’re doing inet_ntoa/inet_addr for your presentation or configuration layer.

- Jared


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