Table Of Contents
Configure IS-IS Interface Parameters
Configure IS-IS Link-State Metrics
Set the Advertised Hello Interval
Set the Advertised CSNP Interval
Set the Retransmission Interval
Set the LSP Transmissions Interval
Set the Retransmission Throttle Interval
Specify Designated Router Election
Specify the Interface Circuit Type
Assign a Password for an Interface
Configure Miscellaneous IS-IS Parameters
Configure IS-IS Authentication Passwords
Tune LSP Interval and Lifetime
Configuring Integrated IS-IS
This chapter describes how to configure Integrated IS-IS. For a complete description of the integrated IS-IS commands listed in this chapter, refer to the "Integrated IS-IS Commands" chapter of the Network Protocols Command Reference, Part 1. To locate documentation of other commands that appear in this chapter, use the command reference master index or search online.
Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) is an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) dynamic routing specification. IS-IS is described in ISO 10589. Cisco's implementation of IS-IS allows you to configure IS-IS as an IP routing protocol.
IS-IS Configuration Task List
To configure IS-IS, complete the tasks in the following sections. Enabling IS-IS is required; the remainder of the tasks are optional, although you might need to perform them, depending upon your specific application.
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Configure IS-IS Interface Parameters
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In addition, you can filter routing information and specify route redistribution. See the "Filter Routing Information" and "Redistribute Routing Information" sections, respectively, in the "Configuring IP Routing Protocol-Independent Features" chapter for information on how to do this.
See the end of this chapter for an IS-IS configuration example.
Enable IS-IS
Unlike other routing protocols, enabling IS-IS requires that you create an IS-IS routing process and assign it to specific interfaces (rather than to networks). You can specify only one IS-IS process per router. Only one IS-IS process is allowed whether you run it in integrated mode, ISO CLNS only, or IP only.
Network entity titles (NETs) define the area addresses for the IS-IS area and the system ID of the router. Refer to the "Configuring ISO CLNS" chapter in Network Protocols Configuration Guide, Part 3 for a more detailed discussion of NETs.
To enable IS-IS, use the following commands starting in global configuration mode:
See the "IS-IS Configuration Example" section at the end of this chapter for an example of configuring IS-IS as an IP routing protocol.
Configure IS-IS Interface Parameters
Cisco Systems' IS-IS implementation allows you to alter certain interface-specific IS-IS parameters. Most interface configuration commands can be configured independently from other attached routers. The isis password command should configure the same password on all routers on a network. The settings of other commands (isis hello-interval, isis hello-multiplier, isis retransmit-interval, isis retransmit-throttle-interval, isis csnp-interval, and so on) can be different on different routers or interfaces. However, if you decide to change certain values from the defaults, it makes sense to configure them on multiple routers and interfaces.
You can perform these tasks, described in the following sections:
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Configure IS-IS Link-State Metrics
You can configure a cost for a specified interface. You can configure the default-metric for Level 1 or Level 2 routing. To configure the metric for the specified interface, use the following command in interface configuration mode:
isis metric default-metric {level-1 | level-2}
Configure the metric (or cost) for the specified interface.
Set the Advertised Hello Interval
You can specify the length of time (in seconds) between hello packets that the Cisco IOS software sends on the interface.
To specify the length of time between hello packets for the specified interface, use the following command in interface configuration mode:
isis hello-interval seconds {level-1 | level-2}
Specify the length of time, in seconds, between hello packets the Cisco IOS software sends on the specified interface.
The hello interval can be configured independently for Level 1 and Level 2, except on serial
point-to-point interfaces. (Because there is only a single type of hello packet sent on serial links, it is independent of Level 1 or Level 2.) Specify an optional level for X.25, SMDS, and Frame Relay multiaccess networks. X25, SMDS, ATM, and Frame Relay networks should be configured with point-to-point subinterfaces.Set the Advertised CSNP Interval
Complete sequence number PDUs (CSNPs) are sent by the designated router to maintain database synchronization. You can configure the IS-IS CSNP interval for the interface.
To configure the CSNP interval for the specified interface, use the following command in interface configuration mode:
isis csnp-interval seconds {level-1 | level-2}
Configure the IS-IS CSNP interval for the specified interface.
This feature does not apply to serial point-to-point interfaces. It applies to WAN connections if the WAN is viewed as a multiaccess meshed network.
Set the Retransmission Interval
You can configure the number of seconds between retransmission of IS-IS link state PDUs (LSPs) for point-to-point links. To set the retransmission level, use the following command in interface configuration mode:
isis retransmit-interval seconds
Configure the number of seconds between retransmission of IS-IS LSPs for point-to-point links.
The value you specify should be an integer greater than the expected round-trip delay between any two routers on the attached network. The setting of this parameter should be conservative, or needless retransmission will result. The value should be larger for serial lines.
Set the LSP Transmissions Interval
To configure the delay between successive IS-IS link state packet transmissions, use the following commands in interface configuration mode:
isis lsp-interval milliseconds
Configure the delay between successive IS-IS link state packet transmissions.
Set the Retransmission Throttle Interval
You can configure the maximum rate at which IS-IS link state PDUs (LSPs) will be retransmitted on point-to-point links, in terms of the number of milliseconds between packets. This is different from the retransmission interval, which is the amount of time between successive retransmissions of the same LSP.
The retransmission throttle interval is typically not necessary, except in cases of very large networks with high point-to-point neighbor counts. To set the retransmission throttle interval, use the following command in interface configuration mode:
isis retransmit-throttle-interval milliseconds
Configure the IS-IS LSP retransmission throttle interval.
Set the Hello Multiplier
To specify the number of IS-IS hello packets a neighbor must miss before the router should declare the adjacency as down, use the following command in interface configuration command. The default value is 3.
Specify Designated Router Election
You can configure the priority to use for designated router election. Priorities can be configured for Level 1 and Level 2 individually.
To specify the designated router election, use the following command in interface configuration mode:
isis priority value {level-1 | level-2}
Configure the priority to use for designated router election.
Specify the Interface Circuit Type
You can specify adjacency levels on a specified interface. This parameter is also referred to as the interface circuit type.
To specify the interface circuit type, use the following command in interface configuration mode:
isis circuit-type {level-1 | level-1-2 | level-2-only}
Configure the type of adjacency desired for neighbors on the specified interface (the interface circuit type).
Assign a Password for an Interface
You can assign different passwords for different routing levels. Specifying Level 1 or Level 2 configures the password for only Level 1 or Level 2 routing, respectively. If you do not specify a level, the default is Level 1. By default, authentication is disabled.
To configure a password for the specified level, use the following command in interface configuration mode:
isis password password {level-1 | level-2}
Configure the authentication password for a specified interface.
Configure Miscellaneous IS-IS Parameters
These tasks differ from the preceding interface-specific IS-IS tasks because they configure IS-IS itself, rather than the interface.
You can configure optional IS-IS parameters as described in the following sections:
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Generate a Default Route
You can force a default route into an IS-IS routing domain. Whenever you specifically configure redistribution of routes into an IS-IS routing domain, the Cisco IOS software does not, by default, redistribute the default route into the IS-IS routing domain. The following command generates a default route into IS-IS, which can be controlled by a route map. You can use the route map to identify the level into which the default route is to be announced, and you can specify other filtering options configurable under a route map. You can use a route-map to conditionally advertise the default route, depending on the existence of another route in the router's routing table.
To generate a default route, use the following command in router configuration mode:
default-information originate [route-map map-name]
Force a default route into the IS-IS routing domain.
See also the discussion of redistribution of routes in the "Configuring IP Routing Protocol-Independent Features" chapter.
Specify the System Type
You can configure the router to act as a Level 1 (intra-area) router, as both a Level 1 router and a Level 2 (interarea) router, or as an interarea router only.
To specify router level support, use the following command in router configuration mode:
is-type {level-1 | level-1-2 | level-2-only}
Configure the system type (area or backbone router).
Configure IS-IS Authentication Passwords
You can assign passwords to areas and domains.
The area authentication password is inserted in Level 1 (station router level) LSPs, and the routing domain authentication password is inserted in Level 2 (area router level) LSPs.
To configure either area or domain authentication passwords, use the following commands in router configuration mode:
area-password password
Configure the area authentication password.
domain-password password
Configure the routing domain authentication password.
Summarize Address Ranges
You can create aggregate addresses that are represented in the routing table by a summary address. This process is called route summarization. One summary address can include multiple groups of addresses for a given level. Routes learned from other routing protocols also can be summarized. The metric used to advertise the summary is the smallest metric of all the more-specific routes.
To create a summary of addresses for a given level, use the following command in router configuration mode:
summary-address address mask {level-1 | level-1-2 | level-2}
Create a summary of addresses for a given level.
Set the Overload Bit
You can configure the router to set the overload bit (also known as the hippity bit) in its non-pseudonode LSPs. Normally the setting of the overload bit is allowed only when a router runs into problems. For example, when a router is experiencing a memory shortage, it might be that the Link State database is not complete, resulting in an incomplete or inaccurate routing table. By setting the overload bit in its LSPs, other routers can ignore the unreliable router in their SPF calculations until the router has recovered from its problems.
The result will be that no paths through this router are seen by other routers in the IS-IS area. However, IP and CLNS prefixes directly connected to this router will be still be reachable.
This command can be useful when you want to connect a router to an ISIS network, but don't want real traffic flowing through it under any circumstances. Examples are:
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To set the overload bit, use the following command in router configuration mode:
Tune LSP Interval and Lifetime
By default, the router sends a periodic LSP refresh every 15 minutes. LSPs remain in a database for 20 minutes by default. If they are not refreshed by that time, they are deleted. You can change the LSP refresh interval or the LSP lifetime. The LSP interval should be less than the LSP lifetime or else LSPs will time out before they are refreshed. The software will adjust the LSP refresh interval if necessary to prevent the LSPs from timing out.
To change the LSP refresh interval or lifetime, use the appropriate command in router configuration mode:
Monitor IS-IS
You can display the IS-IS link state database by using the following commands in EXEC mode:
IS-IS Configuration Example
This section contains an IS-IS configuration example. The example shows how to configure three routers to run IS-IS as an IP routing protocol. Figure 29 illustrates the example configuration.
Figure 29 IS-IS Routing
Router A
router isisnet 49.0001.0000.0000.000a.00interface ethernet 0ip router isisinterface serial 0ip router isisRouter B
router isisnet 49.0001.0000.0000.000b.00interface ethernet 0ip router isisinterface ethernet 1ip router isisinterface serial 0ip router isisRouter C
router isisnet 49.0001.0000.0000.000c.00interface ethernet 1ip router isisinterface ethernet 2ip router isis
