Integrated IS-IS Metrics

IPv6, Routing

Intermediate System to Intermediate System, known as IS-IS is a link-state interior gateway routing protocol that was originally designed to route ISO Connectionless Network Protocol (CLNP). IS-IS was standardized in ISO 8473. IS-IS was later extended to route IP. The original IS-IS IP specification was ratified in IETF RFC1195. IS-IS for IP networks is sometimes

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IPv6 Next Hop

Home Lab, IPv6, Routing

Over the last two weeks I’ve been focusing on strengthening my knowledge of IPv6 and it got me thinking about usage of link local addresses as the next hop for routing. It became apparent that this difference from IPv4 makes it possible to have equal cost next hops via the same output interface and for

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