Re: OSPF vs IS-IS

[Stefan Fouant <sfouant () shortestpathfirst net>]

I'll go with that... And one other thing... Traditionally it has been easier for developers to add new features to 
IS-IS because of the structure and flexibility of TLVs, whereas OSPF required the design of entirely new LSA types to 
support similar capabilities... I guess this has become less of an issue over the last few years however...

Nonetheless, if I was building a greenfield network today, I would personally go with IS-IS, but that is largely 
because of my many years working with the protocol...

Stefan Fouant
JNCIE-M, JNCIE-ER, JNCIE-SEC, JNCI
Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks
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On Aug 11, 2011, at 6:19 PM, Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:

> > 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.
>
> how about simpler and more stable?
>
> randy