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Re: OSPF vs IS-IS vs PrivateAS eBGP

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glen Kent)
Fri Sep 11 20:36:34 2009

In-Reply-To: <m2ljlelry8.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:05:27 +0530
From: Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

I seem to get the impression that isis is preferred in the core. Any
reasons why folks dont prefer to go with ospf?

Glen

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>> Unless you want your customers to have very substantial control over
>> your  internal network, don't use an SPF IGP like ospf or is-is.
>                                              with your customer ^
>
> i know that's what you meant, but i thought it worth making it very
> explicit.
>
> practice safe routing, do not share blood with customer.
>
> is-is in core with ibgp, and well-filtered ebgp (and packet filters a la
> bcp 38) to customers.
>
> randy
>
>


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