RE: IGP choice

["Jameson, Daniel" <Daniel.Jameson () tdstelecom com>]

A lot of  carriers use ISIS in the core so they can make use of the' overload bit' with a  'set-overload-bit on-startup 
wait-for-bgp".  Keeps them from black holing Traffic while BGP reconverges.,  when you have millions of routes to 
converge it can take forever.  It's also a really handy tool when you're troubleshooting or repairing a link,  set the 
OL bit,  and traffic gracefully moves,  then when you're done it gracefully moves back.  You can do the same thing with 
the Metric,  and Cost in OSPF,  just not quite  as elegant.

Largely I think it's preference,  ISIS and OSPF tackle most of the same stuff just in different ways.

-D

-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Matthew Petach
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 11:31 AM
To: marcel.duregards () yahoo fr
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: IGP choice

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:41 AM, marcel.duregards () yahoo fr <marcel.duregards () yahoo fr> wrote:
> sorry for that, but the only one I've heard about switching his core 
> IGP is Yahoo. I've no precision, and it's really interest me.
> I know that there had OSPF in the DC area, and ISIS in the core, and 
> decide to switch the core from ISIS to OSPF.

Wait, what?
*checks memory*
*checks routers*

Nope.  Definitely went the other way; OSPF -> IS-IS in the core.

> Why spend so much time/risk to switch from ISIS to OSPF, _in the core_ 
> a not so minor impact/task ?
> So I could guess it's for maintain only one IGP and have standardized 
> config. But why OSPF against ISIS ? What could be the drivers? People 
> skills (more people know OSPF than ISIS) --> operational reason ?

I'm sorry you received the wrong information, the migration was from OSPF to IS-IS, not the other way around.

Thanks!

Matt