I'm totally in concurrence with Stephan's point. Couple of things to consider: a) deciding to migrate to either ISIS or OSPFv3 from another protocol is still migrating to a new protocol and b) even in the case of migrating to OSPFv3, there are fairly significant changes in behavior from OSPFv2 to be aware of (most notably authentication, but that's fodder for another conversation). -Tony On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Stefan Fouant <sfouant@shortestpathfirst.net> wrote:
Well up until not too long ago, to support IPv6 you would run OSPFv3 and for IPv4 you would run OSPFv2, making IS-IS more attractive, but that is no longer the case with support for IPv4 NLRI in OSPFv3.
The only reason in my opinion to run IS-IS rather than OSPF today is due to the fact that IS-IS is decoupled from IP making it less vulnerable to attacks.
Stefan Fouant JNCIE-M, JNCIE-ER, JNCIE-SEC, JNCI Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks http://www.shortestpathfirst.net http://www.twitter.com/sfouant
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On Aug 11, 2011, at 8:57 AM, CJ <cjinfantino@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey all, Is there any reason to run IS-IS over OSPF in the SP core? Currently, we are running IS-IS but we are redesigning our core and now would be a good time to switch. I would like to switch to OSPF, mostly because of familiarity with OSPF over IS-IS. What does everyone think?
-- CJ
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