Re: what is the fundamental difference between OSPF and IS-IS?

Arthur Dimitrelis <arthurd@ARC.CORP.MOT.COM> Fri, 23 August 2002 00:47 UTC

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Sorry, I take that last point back. The said paper is available in electronic
form, but I have no idea if it's free (in a monetary sense) or not.

arthur

Arthur Dimitrelis wrote:

> Hi,
>
> there is a paper by Radia Perlman that answers your question, entitled "A
> Comparison Between Two Routing Protocols: OSPF and IS-IS". It appeared in the
> September 1991 issue of the IEEE Network Magazine. Contact me off list if you
> need help finding it (it's freely available in electronic form).
>
> cheers,
> Arthur
>
> "Liu B." wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Thanks for answering my previous questions. I am reading RFC 1142 (OSI IS-IS
> > Intra-domain Routing Protocol), in order to compare OSPF with IS-IS. There
> > are so many common things between two of them, such as area routing, virtual
> > link, designated router ... what is the fundamental difference (or
> > improvement?) between OSPF and IS-IS?
> >
> > Thanks again for all your helps.
> >
> > Bin Liu