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Subject: Re: what is the fundamental difference between OSPF and IS-IS?
From: Erblichs <erblichs () EARTHLINK ! NET>
Date: 2002-08-23 16:49:12
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Bin Liu,
I will assume that
The two biggest differences in my opinion are:
1) IS-IS is a pure SPF computation based LS protocol.
IS-IS : Routes computed between L2 to L2 routes in
IS-IS are link-state / SPF computations. L1 routers
have no direct outside area connection. L2 routers
have that direct connection. Yes, a router can be
a L1/L2 router.
OSPF : Like routes (non-local) within OSPF are distance
vector computation.
2) Neighbor to adjacency formation process.
OSPF : Uses a heavy weight process to initially synchronize
its link state databases for adjacencies. Then it uses
flooding to keep them synchronized.
IS-IS : Uses complete and partial link-state protocol data
units which describe every LSP in the database and are
periodicly multicasted.
Mitchell Erblich
Ex-Extreme Networks IS-IS Software Developer.
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"Liu B." wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Thanks for answering my previous questions. I am reading RFC 1142 (OSI IS-IS
> Intra-domain Routing Protocol), in order to compare OSPF with IS-IS. There
> are so many common things between two of them, such as area routing, virtual
> link, designated router ... what is the fundamental difference (or
> improvement?) between OSPF and IS-IS?
>
> Thanks again for all your helps.
>
> Bin Liu
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