OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why?

Thu Nov 10 18:42:19 UTC 2016

Are you sure those other vendors don't do it too?  Lol.  

Dual stack ISIS on Juniper is a thing of beauty...

> On Nov 10, 2016, at 1:01 PM, Josh Reynolds <josh at kyneticwifi.com> wrote:
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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 at 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.
>> 
>> Juniper, not so much.
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>> Don't know about other vendors.
>> 
>> At any rate, many of these knobs are not part of the original protocol
>> spec., although they can be very useful when scaling.
>> 
>> Mark.
>> 