OSPF vs IS-IS vs PrivateAS eBGP

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Sat Sep 12 01:23:04 UTC 2009


> I seem to get the impression that isis is preferred in the core. Any
> reasons why folks dont prefer to go with ospf?

a bit harder to attack clnp (is-is) than ip (ospf)

is-is a bit simpler to configure, though you can get a sick as you
want.  but don't.

a bit simpler to code, so worked and was stable when ospf was far
flakier than it is now.

randy




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