RE: IS-IS IPAM platform

["Aaron Gould" <aaron1 () gvtc com>]

Our atm network in san diego was the full base 16 hex for the 13 byte nsap prefix of all the atm switches in our 
4-level PNNI cloud

This may be slightly off topic of ISIS practices though

But, yeah, we didn't encode any switch mgmt. ip into the nsap addressing as I recall... just the pnni peer groups had 
hex identities

-Aaron

-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Bryan Holloway
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 12:46 PM
To: Randy Bush; Tom Beecher
Cc: Nanog
Subject: Re: IS-IS IPAM platform

I've always wondered about folks' opinions about one thing, though:

In y'all's opinion, do you prefer/recommend using base-10 digits or hex 
in your NSAP addresses? I like the former for readability, but the 
latter can (could) be better for automation. Maybe.

I got into a heated argument about this once with ATM back in the day, 
but my brain's to frazzled to remember the takeaways.


On 4/13/20 7:37 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> > Just encode the router loopback IPv4 address in the system identifier bytes
> > and call it a day.
>
> i think asp wrote this up back in the early '90s.  anyone have a cite?
>
> randy