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Re: [SPAM] Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Fri Nov 11 01:22:53 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 07:22:47 +0100 (CET)
To: mark.tinka@seacom.mu
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <7a61d9bd-8713-6622-595e-5ca9169057cc@seacom.mu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> > I think people were looking for specifics about the implementation
> > deficits in the junos version which caused enough problems to justify
> > the term "not getting it"?
>
> The only IS-IS implementation we struggle with is Quagga.
>
> For that, we run OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 on Quagga and redistribute that into
> the IS-IS core.
>
> Use-case is Anycast (DNS, NTP, TACACS+, e.t.c.) on FreeBSD.
We have a similar use case, and we run BGP on Quagga. Works great.
Haven't seen a need for either IS-IS or OSPF on Quagga yet.
For our core IGP it's IS-IS all the way. We switched from OSPF to
IS-IS more than 10 years ago, and never regretted it.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
