[117433] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OSPF vs IS-IS vs PrivateAS eBGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cord MacLeod)
Sat Sep 12 15:38:17 2009
From: Cord MacLeod <cordmacleod@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <01B071CE08A7514CB72950074134151A013EA474@STNTEXCH12.cis.neustar.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:37:09 -0700
To: "Fouant, Stefan" <Stefan.Fouant@neustar.biz>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 12, 2009, at 7:48 AM, Fouant, Stefan wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Cord MacLeod [mailto:cordmacleod@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 9:50 PM
>> To: North American Network Operators Group
>> Subject: Re: OSPF vs IS-IS vs PrivateAS eBGP
>>
>> I'd also add that ISIS supports IPv6 through the addition of TLVs
>> whereas OSPF was redesigned into OSPFv3.
>>
>> Personally I like ISIS due to it's simplicity and use it for router
>> loopback advertisement only.
>
> Cord, so you've piqued my interest. Are you saying you run ISIS for
> loopback recursion, but another protocol for everything else?
Correct. I use ISIS in level 2 only to announce my loopbacks, then
BGP for everything else.
