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Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why?
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 07:41:40 +0200
On 10/Nov/16 21:43, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
And at the day work I also prefer OSPFv2 simply because I do not need more protocols in the stack. We are running a MPLS network with the internet service in a L3VPN. IPv6 is also in the L3VPN. This means the underlying network is pure IPv4 and totally isolated from the internet. Why make it more complicated by introducing something that is not IP based?
I'd counter that "Why not make it less complicating by removing an easily-reachable attack vector?" Sure, you can easily protect your OSPF domain from external attack, but that's something your router CPU and/or data plane would have to deal with it had to, and we've all seen situations where filters break in certain code for various reasons. Or vendors change the way filtering works in newer code without properly notifying customers about such changes. Mark.
Current thread:
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why?, (continued)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? David Barak via NANOG (Nov 09)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Randy Bush (Nov 09)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? David Barak via NANOG (Nov 09)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? RT Parrish (Nov 09)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Josh Reynolds (Nov 09)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Mark Tinka (Nov 09)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Josh Reynolds (Nov 10)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? sthaug (Nov 10)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Josh Reynolds (Nov 10)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Nick Hilliard (Nov 10)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Baldur Norddahl (Nov 10)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Mark Tinka (Nov 10)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Baldur Norddahl (Nov 11)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Mark Tinka (Nov 11)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Baldur Norddahl (Nov 12)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Mark Tinka (Nov 12)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Josh Reynolds (Nov 09)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Josh Reynolds (Nov 10)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Nick Hilliard (Nov 10)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Josh Reynolds (Nov 10)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Nick Hilliard (Nov 10)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Josh Reynolds (Nov 10)
- Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why? Nick Hilliard (Nov 10)