[143561] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OSPF vs IS-IS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Wheeler)
Fri Aug 12 11:30:07 2011
In-Reply-To: <D27108BC-6E8F-467C-8A93-149295139283@jsyoung.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:29:27 -0400
From: Jeff Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I thought I'd chime in from my perspective, being the head router
jockey for a bunch of relatively small networks. I still find that
many routers have support for OSPF but not IS-IS. That, plus the fact
that most of these networks were based on OSPF before I took charge of
them, in the absence of a compelling reason to change to another IGP,
keeps me from taking advantage of IS-IS. I'd like to, but not so
badly that I am willing to work around those routers without IS-IS, or
weight that feature more heavily when purchasing new equipment.
There are many routers with OSPF but no IS-IS. I haven't seen any
with IS-IS but no OSPF. I don't think such router would be very
marketable to most non-SP networks.
--=20
Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
Sr Network Operator=A0 /=A0 Innovative Network Concepts
