From: john matijevic (john.matijevic@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 05 2007 - 14:04:49 ART
Team,
Thanks for all the replies!!! looks like I am leaning towards OSPF for this
implementation, this would be thousands of nodes network, previously I have
implemented OSPF on network with hundreds of nodes, and that implementation
was very successful.
Sincerely,
John
On 7/5/07, Swan, Jay <jswan@sugf.com> wrote:
>
> There's a good discussion of "which IGP" in the Cisco Press book
> "Optimal Routing Design". There's also a Networkers presentation on it
> that's given almost every year.
>
> As usual, it depends on what you're trying to accomplish. In very large
> networks, design is the main limiting factor in scalability. In short,
> EIGRP scales better in very large hub-and-spoke topologies (such as
> really big DMVPN implementations), whereas OSPF scales better in meshy
> topologies.
>
> Both protocols require tuning in large environments. EIGRP can be tuned
> to converge very quickly (~200ms) in dual-homed, L3-switched
> access-distribution-core type environments; OSPF may be near this now
> with all the recent enhancements, but I'm not sure.
>
> Obviously EIGRP is proprietary, which can be a problem. Also, you need
> to use a link-state protocol if you are doing MPLS TE.
>
> Jay
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> john matijevic
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> To: Cisco certification
> Subject: OT routing protocol for internal network
>
> Hello Team,
> Curious as to which routing protocol is best for internal network for
> large
> network containing thousands of devices. I have implemented OSPF for a
> pretty large network and I tend to prefer OSPF, want to see what people
> think of EIGRP, as well as others, obviously RIP would not be
> considered.
> Please reply offline.
> Sincerely,
> John
>
>
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