The MPLS WG Archive

[Chris Metz <chmetz@cisco.com>]

Hi-
Check out:

Perlman, Radia, "Interconnections Second Edition", Addison-Wesley, 2000

Retana, et al, "Advanced IP Network Design", Cisco Press, 1999

Cheers ...


At 10:44 AM 6/19/2000 -0600, Irwin Lazar wrote:
>See:
>http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/osi_rout.htm for an
>OSI primer.
>
>and
>
>http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios113ed/113ed_cr/n
>p1_c/1cisis.htm
>for configuration information.
>
>Also see my web site at http://www.itprc.com/ for more IP routing
>information.
>
>Irwin
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Wang [mailto:david.wang@metro-optix.com]
>Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 11:56 AM
>To: mpls@UU.NET
>Subject: RE: MPLS and IS-IS
>
>
>
>Hi All,
>
>I need to learn some basics of IS-IS. I checked amazon.com, cl.com (San Jose
>Computer literature book store), bookpool.com and several other technology
>bookstores. To my great surprise I couldn't find any book about IS-IS. I
>couldn't find any tutorial or white paper about the IS-IS protocol on the
>Internet either. All I can read is the 10 years old RFC 1142 and RFC 1195.
>
>1. When IS-IS protocol is used to route IP packet only, what kind of lay 3
>protocol the IS-IS routers use to communicate link state information (the
>link state advertisements) and other protocol related information, IP or
>CLNP? What is the encapsulation format of these packets. What the standard
>specify and what people actually implement?
>
>2. Can someone recommend me a book, a white paper or some tutorials so I may
>get started quicker.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>David
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: HANSEN CHAN [mailto:hchan@newbridge.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 7:22 AM
>To: mpls@UU.NET
>Subject: MPLS and IS-IS
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>I have been hearing IS-IS is a better protocol to be used than OSPF in a
>MPLS
>network for TE application. Is that a fair statement? What are the technical
>reasons?
>
>Appreciate if someone can shed some light on this subject.
>
>Thanks,
>Hansen




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