From: Brad Ellis (ironbrad@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 00:03:12 GMT-3
Does anyone know of a major ISP that currently uses IS-IS in their network?
I heard rumors that UUNET uses it...but they are unconfirmed.
thanks,
-Brad
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin M. Woods" <kev@nil.org>
To: "Rob Barton" <rob.barton@telus.com>
Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: ISIS question
> Someone has already provided you the correct advice on this, but I want to
> add my $0.02 on the protocol itself.
>
> In terms of learning ISIS in general, it depends on where you want to
work.
> If you are really into large-scale ISP backbones then ISIS is a must know
> (most of the Tier 1 providers run ISIS as their primary IGP). Enterprise
> networks do not generally run this protocol because not many really know
it
> and very few vendors support it.
>
> A service provider based CCIE track is being worked on and I am guessing
it
> will certainly contain ISIS, maybe a large part of the test. ISIS is also
> quite prevalent on the CCIE R&S recertification test (for IP), mainly
> because the people who wrote many of the questions are from the ISP
support
> side within Cisco.
>
> Kevin
>
> // I haven't heard too much about ISIS being on the exam lately. Can
> // anybody give some advice as to wether we need to be "exam ready" for
> // ISIS. I imagine that even if it is on the exam, it wouldn't be worth
> // very much.
> //
> // I have also heard that Decnet has now been dropped from the exam, but
no
> // official word from Cisco. Any comments?
> //
> // - Rob Barton
>
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