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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: OSPF -vs- ISIS
"Wayne E. Bouchard" <[email protected]> writes: >> One vendor in particular sees ISIS as "an ISP protocol" and OSPF as "an >> enterprise protocol". Their implementation of the latter has often gotten >> many enterprise-oriented features (e.g. dial-on-demand link support) that >> the other didn't, whereas the former was known for reliability because the >> coders were admonished to touch it rarely and test the heck out of every >> change because screwing up might break the Internet. > > To that end, you also need to be aware that outside of the "major" > vendors, most don't even know what ISIS is. So if you're trying to > integrate other vendors' equipment into your network, you may have no > choice but OSPF. The other edge of that sword is that letting someone outside of the "major" vendors' OSPF (1) talk to your cloud qualifies as "risky behavior". ---rob (1) where "major vendors" means "widely deployed", not "widely deployed for money". the question is whether installing on your network is an unspoke part of their beta testing strategy.
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