[Babel-users] Implementing Babel on Bird

[Denis Ovsienko]

> 2/ Since Babel can use IPv4 to communicate between neighbours (see Section
>    4. of RFC 6126), the IPv4 implementation could use that.  However, it
>    wouldn't be interoperable with all known Babel implementations (babeld
>    and Quagga).

RFC6126 defines that IPv6 and IPv4 are both eligible for Babel packets exchange (not to be confused with nexthops). Existing implementations prove the former and the new implementation could prove the latter.

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    Denis Ovsienko