On Sep 30, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Heath Jones wrote: > On 30 September 2010 22:11, Jack Carrozzo <j...@crepinc.com> wrote: >> As it was explained to me, the main difference is that you can have $lots of >> prefixes in IS-IS without it falling over, whereas Dijkstra is far more >> resource-intensive and as such OSPF doesn't get too happy after $a_lot_less >> prefixes. Those numbers can be debated as you like, but I think if you were >> to redist bgp ospf on a lab machine you'd get the point. > > Both OSPF and IS-IS use Dijkstra. IS-IS isn't as widely used because > of the ISO addressing. Atleast thats my take on it.. > > RIPv2 is great for simple route injection. I'm talking really simple, > just to avoid statics.
And there, my friend, is the crux of the matter. There's almost no place imagineable where injecting routes from RIPv2 is superior to statics. Owen
