Re: [nsp] Advantages of IS-IS over OSPF

From: Vijay Gill (vijay@umbc.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2000 - 23:49:01 EDT


On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, George Robbins wrote:

> Heh... ISP's shouldn't be runing an interior routing protcol over
> their backbone, it'll snap or bite sooner or later. 8-)

> c) BGP w/Confederations for each POP or city/suburban area provide
> the internal routing between cities within your territory,
> external routing and backup via other providers where indicated.

I think I see what you're saying. Run an igp instance in each pop and
then statically route the other routers for other pops and run i-bgp
between them?

This is an ... amazing plan. I think PGEX was implementing something like
this if I remember correctly.

/vijay



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