Davide Cherubini - PhD Thesis - UniCA Eprints
Davide Cherubini - PhD Thesis - UniCA Eprints
Davide Cherubini - PhD Thesis - UniCA Eprints
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2.1 Understanding IS-IS(a) IS-IS single path(b) IS-IS multiple equivalent pathsFigure 2.1: Single and multiple pathsThe main disadvantage of a link state routing protocol is that it does not scalewell, as more routers are added to the routing domain. In fact, by increasing thenumber of routers, the size and the frequency of the topology updates increase. Inthe meantime also time taken to calculate end-to-end routes increases. This lackof scalability means that a link state routing protocol is unsuitable for routingacross the Internet at large. That is the reason why IGPs only route traffic withina single AS.7