Компьютерлік желілерде маршруттау протоколы (IS-IS)

Computer network routing protocol
a computer network protocol

Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS IS, also written ISIS) is a routing protocol designed to move information efficiently within a computer network, a group of physically connected computers or similar devices. It accomplishes this by determining the best route for data through a packet switching network. The IS IS protocol is defined in ISO/IEC 10589:2002 as an international standard within the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference design. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) republished IS IS in , but that RFC was later marked as historic by because it republished a draft rather than a final version of the (International Organization for Standardization) ISO standard, causing confusion. In 2005, IS IS was called "the de facto standard for large service provider network backbones."

IS IS is an interior gateway protocol, designed for use within an administrative domain or network. This is in contrast to exterior gateway protocols, primarily Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which is used for routing between autonomous systems (RFC 1930). IS IS is a link state routing protocol, operating by reliably flooding link state information throughout a network of routers. Each IS IS router independently builds a database of the network's topology, aggregating the flooded network information. Like the OSPF protocol, IS IS uses Dijkstra's algorithm for computing the best path through the network. Packets (datagrams) are then forwarded, based on the computed ideal path, through the network to the destination.

The IS IS protocol was developed by a team of people working at Digital Equipment Corporation as part of DECnet Phase V. It was standardized by the ISO in 1992 as ISO 10589 for communication between network devices that are termed Intermediate Systems (as opposed to end systems or hosts) by the ISO. The purpose of IS IS was to make the routing of datagrams possible using the ISO developed OSI protocol stack called CLNS. IS IS was developed at roughly the same time that the Internet Engineering Task Force IETF was developing a similar protocol called OSPF. IS IS was later extended to support routing of datagrams in the Internet Protocol (IP), the Network Layer protocol of the global Internet. This version of the IS IS routing protocol was then called Integrated IS IS (RFC 1195)

IS IS is also used as the control plane for IEEE 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging (SPB). SPB allows for shortest path forwarding in an Ethernet mesh network context utilizing multiple equal cost paths. This permits SPB to support large Layer 2 topologies, with fast convergence, and improved use of the mesh topology. Combined with this is single point provisioning for logical connectivity membership. IS IS is therefore augmented with a small number of TLVs and sub TLVs, and supports two Ethernet encapsulating data paths, 802.1ad Provider Bridges and 802.1ah Provider Backbone Bridges. SPB requires no state machine or other substantive changes to IS IS, and simply requires a new Network Layer Protocol Identifier (NLPID) and set of TLVs. This extension to IS IS is defined in the IETF proposed standard RFC 6329.