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

[Felix Lin <[e-mail]>]

Arthur,

I tried searching for this paper on Internet but was unsuccessful. Is it
available publicly? How do I find it?

Thx
Felix
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Dimitrelis" <[e-mail]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: what is the fundamental difference between OSPF and IS-IS?


> 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
>