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Mon May 8 22:03:00 UTC 2023

Saying that IS-IS in FRR is broken is incorrect, that it is in many ways weird - no offense to folks who coded it :)  (especially if you have worked with commercial code bases), that it doesn’t scale/naive, missing features - for sure.
FRR runs today some of the biggest DCs in the world and is reasonably stable within the feature set used (RFC7938), there’s interest in further IS-IS development - you could see some minor bug fixes/features coming from a particular company, if you are interested - join them and work together.

FRR is an Open Source project, whining about missing features is not helpful, coding (or at least testing) and contributing is.

Cheers,
Jeff

> On May 8, 2023, at 9:51 AM, Mark Tinka <mark at tinka.africa> wrote:
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> On 5/8/23 18:45, Mark Tinka wrote:
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>> Broken when talking to Cisco IOS XE. Catalogued here:
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>> https://lists.frrouting.org/pipermail/frog/2023-March/001265.html
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>> I have no doubt FRR can talk IS-IS to other instances of FRR, but that is not a realistic scenario in a large scale network with multiple vendors.
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> And do add, IS-IS in Quagga has been broken from the get. There is no work happening there to develop it. All hopes for a working IS-IS in non-commercial vendor code is happening in FRR.
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> I have not considered IS-IS in VyOS, as the my use-case is for Anycast running on FreeBSD.
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> Mark.