IS-IS Versus OSPF—A Closer Look
Table 7-2 provides concise point-by-point highlights of the differences between Integrated IS-IS and OSPF. The following section discusses in detail these differences and their relative merits between the two protocols. Where necessary, achitectural details are provided to elaborate the discussions. The discussions are organized in the following topics:
Encapsulation
Packet Formats and Encoding Issues
Neighbor Discovery and Adjacency Maintenance
Distribution of Routing Information
Route Characteristics and Metric Information
Robustness and Reliability Issues
Network Architecture
Stabilility, Convergence, and Scalability
Security
Operations: Maintenance and Troubleshooting
Conclusions: Which Protocol Is Better?
Encapsulation ...
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