IS-IS
IS-IS is an IGP, link-state routing protocol, similar to OSPF. It forms neighbor adjacencies, has areas, exchanges link-state packets, builds a link-state database, and runs the Dijkstra SPF algorithm to find the best path to each destination, which is installed in the routing table.
Back when OSPF and IS-IS were developed, IP wasn’t the dominant protocol that it is today. When people think of OSI they automatically think of the OSI-model but back then, ISO (International Organization for Standardization) also created something similar to IP and UDP called CLNP (Connectionless-mode Network Protocol) and CLNS (Connectionless-mode Network Service).
ISO also uses some different terminology, for example:
- Router = Intermediate system
- Host = End system
Unlike OSPF which was developed by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), IS-IS was originally developed by DEC for CLNS, not IP and this is why it’s called IS-IS (Intermediate System – Intermediate System).
Later, IS-IS was adapted so that it could also route IP and is then called integrated IS-IS.
Links:
https://networklessons.com/cisco/ccie-routing-switching-written/introduction-to-is-is
Links to this page:
- home
- IS-IS - DIS and Pseudonode
- IS-IS - attached bit
- IS-IS - route filtering
- IS-IS - up-down bit
- IS-IS multitopology support
- Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP)
- MPLS-TE - why are IGPs necessary
- Multi-Topology Routing
- OSPF IS-IS comparison
- Passive interface
- RIP
- Routing - Difference between IGPs and EGPs
- Routing - Administrative Distance
- Routing - ip default-network command
- Routing - route tagging
- Routing NX-OS passive-interface default
- Routing Table