Re: IGRP vs OSPF
On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 12:27:45 PST, Peter Welte writes:
>does anyone have any opinion as to which is better,
>Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) or Open
>Shortest Path First (OSPF), and/or know if a
>Linux(Debian) router can be set up to use one or both
>of them?
I know OSPF from personal experience, and IGRP only from some course
long ago.
I´d go for OSPF not only because it´s easy to understand and implement
(there´s the "zebra" router project for linux, also deb´ianized in
unstable), but it´s also supported by a wide variety of hardware,
whereas IGRP is not so widespread eg you´ll have more chance for help
with OSPF.
AFAIK zebra largely supports the "standard" cisco way of configuration
so all those documentation out there may be of some value anyway ;-)
>p.s.- i need the information so i can do a
>presentation on IGRP, and i was rather hoping to be
>able to mention how IGRP is proprietary, and one would
> think the internet should be built on more open
>(OSPF(?)) protocols.
Well, I know of no ISP (which doesn´t have to mean much, most of us
don´t go tell the competition about the interior setup) which uses
IGRP, but I know of many using OSPF and some even IS-IS.
Also, since IGRP is proprietary, and ISPs need to consider a whole
bunch of hardware from different vendors (routers, terminal/dialup
servers etc pp) a not-so-proprietary solution has much more
likelihood...
hth,
&rw
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