[Xorp-users] (no subject) - ISIS

[Kristian Larsson]

Sorry for top posting, I'm using my phone..

If anyone wants to take on this task I would just like to recommend going with the latter approach, ie take the OSPF process and hack away rather than try to integrate isisd from quagga as I think the resulting code, given my memory of it, would be rather fugly ;-) 

Just my .02$

Btw, how does the OSPF process do sockets today? Given that it idea neither UDP nor TCP I guess it uses some form of raw sockets, right? Does those sockets allow the manipulation of L2 data? How should one go about sending the LLC/SNAP frames that isis typically uses contrary to the ethernet2 that normal IP packets use?

  -K 

"Ben Greear" <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:

>On 07/08/2010 09:09 PM, Patricio Latini wrote:
>> Ben, thanks for the prompt response.
>> Right now i have Xorp running in a pretty nice lab enviroment with OSPF
>> and BGP with PIM multicast.
>> However two Service providers that i work with, have told me they are
>> planning to switch in the short term to IS-IS in V4 to support a single
>> protocol operation in V4/V6. That is why i was asking about ISIS, i
>> understand that OSPFv2 and V3 can do the same but at least what i have
>> seen is that seems to be a shift to ISIS in some service providers.
>>
>> BTW, I have used XORP in my lab for years and consider it the most
>> stable and performant routing suite for linux
>
>Glad it's been working for you!
>
>It might be possible to take the IS-IS support in Quagga and wrap it
>into a xorp process, but likely it's not a trivial undertaking.
>
>Or, maybe copy the OSPF code and start hacking on it.
>
>Either way, I don't have time to do it..but can help answer questions
>if someone else wants to make the attempt.
>
>Thanks,
>Ben
>
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