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

Arthur Dimitrelis <arthurd@ARC.CORP.MOT.COM> Fri, 23 August 2002 00:08 UTC

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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

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