[192627] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Bass)
Thu Nov 10 13:42:26 2016
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From: David Bass <davidbass570@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:42:19 -0500
To: Josh Reynolds <josh@kyneticwifi.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Are you sure those other vendors don't do it too? Lol. =20
Dual stack ISIS on Juniper is a thing of beauty...
> On Nov 10, 2016, at 1:01 PM, Josh Reynolds <josh@kyneticwifi.com> wrote:
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> Cisco is the only "real" IS-IS vendor.
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> 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 OSP=
F.
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>> 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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