[143779] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OSPF vs IS-IS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cameron Byrne)
Wed Aug 17 10:06:10 2011
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1108170956530.20154@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:05:36 -0700
From: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 17, 2011 6:58 AM, "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Randy Bush wrote:
>
>>> What would you rather rely on at 3am in the morning when things are
>>> breaking? Someone who has just learned IS-IS or someone who already
>>> has good experience with OSPF?
>>
>>
>> what would you rather rely on at three in the morning when things are
>> breaking, someone who has just learned OSPF or someone who already
>> has good experience with IS-IS?
>>
>> this seems a silly reversal until you realize that OSPF is significantly
>> more complex and thus harder.
>
>
> And if the person who is involved at 3 AM is well versed in OSPF, this all
becomes a non-issue.
>
And if the person at 3am ..... no.
What's sad is that there are only 2 real options and they are both imperfect
yet there is really no innovation I know of going on in this area
Cb
> jms
>
