RE: IS-IS without CLNS routing

From: Grant W. Patten (gpatten@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sat Apr 21 2001 - 23:13:27 GMT-3


   
Yes. It uses CLNS. But the clns routing statement is not in the config
and I don't know why it is necessary because clns isn't being routed just
as ip routing protocol packets aren't routed. They only go within the
locally connected segments.

-Grant

At 08:33 AM 4/22/2001 +0800, Haohong Lin wrote:

>When you run IS-IS routing process, CLNS routing automatically turns on.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of Grant
>W. Patten
>Sent: 2001 04 22 9:30
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: IS-IS without CLNS routing
>
>
>I was in a discussion with some colleagues about using IS-IS without
>enabling CLNS routing. They pointed out that the chapters in the Caslow
>and the Doyle books both list the first step for configuring IS-IS as being
>turning on CLNS routing. However, I tested it out to be sure and it seems
>you don't have to enable CLNS routing to get IS-IS to work correctly. This
>makes sense, as CLNS packets (like LSA's) are only going across a single
>data-link and do not need to be routed. It's not a big deal, but I'd like
>to understand why both books seem to agree that it is necessary to turn
>CLNS routing on. What am I missing?
>
>-Grant
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