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Re: (ASCEND) Ascend Max 4004 & Series56 Digital Modem Remote Gateway Probs (fwd)



On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 09:26:26AM -0400, Phillip Vandry wrote:


Another Cisco guy spoke warmly about ISIS in Stockholm RIPE30.


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> > PM RIP support is stellar - it is just RIPv1.  Not doing RIPv2 is not the
> > same has having problems.  Livingston/Lucent deliberately skipped RIPv2 since
> > it is inferior to OSPF, and they were working on, and then fielded a solid
> > OSPF base.  They had RIPv2 running, I know they guy who wrote it one
> > afternoon as a warm up, they deliberately decided not to support it because
> > it is so inferior to OSPF.  And their OSPF is simple to use and reliable.
> 
> I heard some valid arguments recently against OSPF. Agreed that RIPv2 is
> probably no better (or worse), though.
> 
> They were pushing EIGRP instead of OSPF (they were Cisco people). Obviously
> EIGRP is not an option for anyone who hasn't got a 100% Cisco network.
> 
> The complaints against OSPF is that it forces you to have a network that is
> structured with a backbone area having the required properties of the
> OSPF backbone (zero) area, that is, every other area connects to it.
> 
> Because you can only summarize routes at area boundaries, you can't just
> have a single area 0 and do away with the concept of areas if you wanted
> to, for large networks.
> 
> I wonder if you think these are valid concerns regarding OSPF? I have
> only limited experience with it.
> 
> -Phil
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