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RE: ISIS or OSPF?

  • From: "Scot Vrolyk" <svrolyk@netstream.com>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:03:06 -0800
  • Cc: "Scot Vrolyk" <svrolyk@ieee.org>, <mpls-ops@mplsrc.com>
  • Importance: Normal
  • Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 22:05:54 -0500
  • To: "Alan Claughan" <alan@is.co.za>, "Eric Osborne" <eosborne@cisco.com>

Please see below.......... Excerpted from Cisco MPLS Software Configuration
Guide Rev 9.3.10................
 IS-IS has somewhat better performance than OSPF in full mesh conditions
because IS-IS has
more sophisticated flooding capabilities (these capabilities, specifically
the ability to pace flooding and
block flooding on some interfaces, are also becoming available on OSPF).

Scot R. Vrolyk
Principal Network Architect

NetStream Communications, Inc.
1101 Creekside Ridge Dr. #150
Roseville, CA	95678
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Osborne [mailto:eosborne@cisco.com]
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:14 PM
To: Alan Claughan
Cc: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
Subject: Re: ISIS or OSPF?

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:56:48PM +0200, Alan Claughan wrote:
> Cisco put the Traffic Engineering extensions into IS-IS first, so in the
> early days of tag-switching IS-IS had to be used if TE was to be
> configured. But these days both IS-IS and OSPF are supported. I would
> advise sticking to the one you know and understand best!

Agreed.  From a cisco perspective, both IS-IS and OSPF are fully
supported.  Use the one you're familiar with, or whichever one fits
your needs.




eric

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