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

"Liu B." <binl@EEE-FS7.BHAM.AC.UK> Thu, 22 August 2002 14:19 UTC

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From: "Liu B." <binl@EEE-FS7.BHAM.AC.UK>
Subject: what is the fundamental difference between OSPF and IS-IS?
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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