Supported IS-IS and ES-IS Standards and Features

The JUNOS software substantially supports the following IS-IS standards:

• International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) 8473, Information technology — Protocol for providing the connectionless-mode network service
• ISO/IEC 9542, Information processing systems — Telecommunications and information exchange between systems — End system to Intermediate system routeing [sic] exchange protocol for use in conjunction with the Protocol for providing the connectionless-mode network service (ISO 8473)
• ISO/IEC 10589, Information technology — Telecommunications and information exchange between systems — Intermediate System to Intermediate System intra-domain routeing [sic] information exchange protocol for use in conjunction with the protocol for providing the connectionless-mode network service (ISO 8473)
• RFC 1195, Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and Dual Environments
• RFC 2104, HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication
• RFC 2763, Dynamic Hostname Exchange Mechanism for IS-IS
• RFC 2966, Domain-wide Prefix Distribution with Two-Level IS-IS
• RFC 2973, IS-IS Mesh Groups
• RFC 3277, Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) Transient Blackhole Avoidance
• RFC 3358, Optional Checksums in Intermediate System to Intermediate System (ISIS)
• RFC 3359, Reserved Type, Length and Value (TLV) Codepoints in Intermediate System to Intermediate System
• RFC 3373, Three-Way Handshake for Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) Point-to-Point Adjacencies
• RFC 3567, Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) Cryptographic Authentication
• RFC 3784, Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) Extensions for Traffic Engineering (TE)
• RFC 3787, Recommendations for Interoperable IP Networks using Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS)
• RFC 3847, Restart Signaling for Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS)
• RFC 4205, Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) Extensions in Support of Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS)
• RFC 5120, M-ISIS: Multi Topology (MT) Routing in Intermediate System to Intermediate Systems (IS-ISs)
• RFC 5130, A Policy Control Mechanism in IS-IS Using Administrative Tags
• Internet draft draft-ietf-bfd-base-05.txt, Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (except for the transmission of echo packets)
• Internet draft draft-ietf-isis-igp-p2p-over-lan-06.txt, Point-to-point operation over LAN in link-state routing protocols (expires October 2006)
• Internet draft draft-ietf-isis-ipv6-06.txt, Routing IPv6 with IS-IS
• Internet draft draft-ietf-isis-wg-255adj-02.txt, Maintaining more than 255 circuits in IS-IS

JUNOS IS-IS supports authentication for protocol exchanges (HMAC-MD5 or simple authentication), link-state packets, sequence-number packets (CSNP and PSNP), and IS-IS hello packets (IIH).

The JUNOS software supports the advertising of MPLS label-switched paths into IS-IS.

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