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At 12:48 AM 10/16/98 -0400, [email protected] wrote: >IGP wise, EIGRP is easy and fast and it works. If ou need a *lot* of >interoperability, use OSPF. Not that I want to perpetuate this thread, but I did want to add at least a couple of observations. One of the reasons why I *like* OSPF is that it somewhat forces you to build your network within a set of architectural constraints. You can't just plug boxes together in a haphazard fashion and expect it to work efficiently -- in order to scale, one needs to partition the network into areas, etc. Ditto for IS-IS. On of the reasons (methinks) why many people like EIGRP is that they can sidestep a lot of architectural planning, plug stuff together in virtually any haphazard manner, and it generally just does the right thing. Of course, I'm not really fond of this approach, but there seem to be a lot of people who are. And, of course, the efficiency depends greatly on how things are plugged together, and how address allocation is done throughout the network (for auto-aggregation), but for the most part, people can just slap stuff together, build a really sloppy network, and it will still hobble along. Like I said, just an observation. - paul
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