[192625] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Reynolds)
Thu Nov 10 13:01:37 2016
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From: Josh Reynolds <josh@kyneticwifi.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:01:32 -0600
To: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Cisco is the only "real" IS-IS vendor.
Juniper, Brocade, Arista, Avaya, etc you're not getting it. Any of the
whitebox hardware or real SDN capable solutions, you're going to be on OSPF.
On Nov 10, 2016 12:13 AM, "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote:
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> On 10/Nov/16 04:52, Josh Reynolds wrote:
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> Vendor support for IS-IS is quite limited - many options for OSPF.
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> Depends on the vendor.
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> Cisco have as many knobs for IS-IS as they do for OSPF.
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> Juniper, not so much.
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> Don't know about other vendors.
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> At any rate, many of these knobs are not part of the original protocol
> spec., although they can be very useful when scaling.
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> Mark.
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