The Complete IS-IS Routing Protocol

  • 9h 26m
  • Hannes Gredler, Walter Goralski
  • Springer
  • 2005

The IS-IS routing protocol has gone through a high-speed evolution in recent years. Initially deployed by the largest ISPs in a desperate search for a stable link-state protocol, it quickly gained popularity for its advantages in link-state routing. Today, it is a widely deployed protocol even at smaller ISPs but because of its meteoric adoption it has been sparsely documented. As service providers add multivendor platforms from both Cisco and Juniper Networks, it is difficult to get a complete picture of the IS-IS that is deployed in the field. As service providers deploy increasingly multivendor implementations of IS-IS, they desperately need to know how to interoperate the protocol on different routing platforms. Only a book such as The Complete IS-IS Routing Protocol can provide the insight and practical solutions necessary, because it takes a multivendor, real-world competitive approach to implementing IS-IS. The Complete IS-IS Routing Protocol will be the seminal book on IS-IS for many years to come.

About the Authors

Walter J. Goralski is a Senior Member of Technical Staff with Juniper Networks Inc. and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Pace University Graduate School in New York. He has spent more than 30 years in the data communications field, including 14 years with AT&T, and is the author of several books on DSL, the Internet, TCP/IP and SONET, as well as of articles on data communications and other technology issues.

Hannes Gredler is a Professional Services Consultant at Juniper Networks Inc., where he is deploying/advising for numerous carriers and ISPs running the IS-IS, BGP and MPLS suite of protocols in their core backbones. He has been in the telecom industry for 7 years and holds a Master's degree for Manufacturing and Automation from the Technical University of Graz (Austria). Hannes holds a CCIE certification (#2866) since 1997 as well as JNCIE (#22) certification since 2001. Besides his engagement at Juniper Networks, Inc., Hannes is actively involved in Open-Source Developments of networking decoders, where he contributed large parts of the Routing and Signaling Protocol Engines for tcpdump/libpcap tcpdump.org/ and Etherreal ethereal.com.

In this Book

  • Foreword
  • Introduction, Motivation and Historical Background
  • Router Architecture
  • Introduction to the IOS and JUNOS Command Line Interface
  • IS-IS Basics
  • Neighbour Discovery and Handshaking
  • Generating, Flooding and Ageing LSPs
  • Pseudonodes and Designated Routers
  • Synchronizing Databases
  • Fragmentation
  • SPF and Route Calculation
  • TLVs and Sub-TLVs
  • IP Reachability Information
  • IS-IS Extensions
  • Traffic Engineering and MPLS
  • Troubleshooting
  • Network Design
  • Future of IS-IS
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