Re: EIGRP support !Cisco

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Nick Olsen <nick () flhsi com> wrote:
> This is what I figured from a quick googling. Just wanted to make sure I
> wasn't missing anything..

you could employ one of the several methods to migrate from 'less
desirable igp' to 'more desirable igp' on all of the things in
question... there's people that have done this before even :)

> Thanks!
>
> Nick Olsen
>  Network Operations
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>
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> From: "Nick Hilliard" <nick () foobar org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 1:03 PM
> To: nick () flhsi com, nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: EIGRP support !Cisco
>
> On 08/01/2014 17:52, Nick Olsen wrote:
> > Completely agree. But this is needed to integrate into an existing
> network.
> > OSPF would've been my first choice.
>
> you'll need to pay cisco tax then.  Cisco opened up most of eigrp to the
> ietf as an informational rfc, but didn't release anything related to eigrp
> stub areas.  This means that the ietf release is not that useful if a
> vendor wanted feature parity with cisco's implementation.  So far I'm not
> aware of any vendors who have implemented it.  Maybe some will do so in
> future.
>
> Nick