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Re: ISIS and OSPF together


From: vijay gill <vgill () vijaygill com>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 10:35:12 -0700

Randy is correct. In most cases, the two protocols are running co-incident
for a while so you can do your table validation and topology mapping and
then you turn off OSPF. For vendors that aren't capable of supporting ISIS,
this is a feature and not a bug.



On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:

One scenario that i can think of when somebody might run the 2 protocols
ISIS and OSPF together for a brief period is when the admin is migrating
from one IGP to the other. This, i understand never happens in steady
state. The only time this can happen is if an AS gets merged into another
AS (due to mergers and acquisitions) and the two ASes happen to run ISIS
and OSPF respectively. In such instances, there is a brief period when
two
protocols might run together before one gets turned off and there is only
one left.

no.  some ops come to see the light and move their network from ospf to
is-is.  see vijay gill's nanog preso
http://nanog.org/meetings/nanog29/presentations/aol-backbone.ram




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