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Re: IGP choice

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Oct 26 12:18:24 2015

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Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 10:55:46 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Joe Provo <nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net>
In-Reply-To: <20151025013814.GA4816@gweep.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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>> i may have missed it, but one of my fave features of is-is is that it is
>> a link-local non-ip protocol.  hard to disrupt/attack remotely.
> This is overlooked far too often IMNSHO. As is the comparison of 
> error/attack surface of "feature-rich" OSPF against "lean" IS-IS.

i just wish the is-is protocol folk had not suffered from so much ospf
feature envy and garbaged it up in a futile attempt to penetrate the
enterprise.

randy

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