Cisco IOS XE IP Routing Protocols Configuration Guide, Release 2 - Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence [Cisco IOS XE Software]

Table Of Contents

Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

Finding Feature Information

Contents

Prerequisites for Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

Information About Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

General Steps for Improving Convergence Time in the IS-IS Network

How to Set Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

Configuration Examples for Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

Enabling IS-IS on a Router and Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence: Example

Where to Go Next

Additional References

Related Documents

Standards

MIBs

RFCs

Technical Assistance

Feature Information for Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

First Published: November 30, 2007

Last Updated: May 4, 2009

This module describes how to configure an IS-IS router with parameters that are recommended as a basic step to improve network convergence.

Finding Feature Information

For the latest feature information and caveats, see the release notes for your platform and software release. To find information about the features documented in this module, and to see a list of the releases in which each feature is supported, see the "Feature Information for Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence" section.

Use Cisco Feature Navigator to find information about platform support and Cisco IOS XE software image support. To access Cisco Feature Navigator, go to http://www.cisco.com/go/cfn. An account on Cisco.com is not required.

Contents

•Prerequisites for Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

•Information About Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

•How to Set Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

•Configuration Examples for Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

•Where to Go Next

•Additional References

•Feature Information for Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

Prerequisites for Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

•It is assumed that you already have IS-IS running on your network.

•Before performing the tasks in this module, you should be familiar with the concepts described in the "Overview of IS-IS Fast Convergence" module.

Information About Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

Before you configure the features in this module, you should understand the following concept:

•General Steps for Improving Convergence Time in the IS-IS Network

General Steps for Improving Convergence Time in the IS-IS Network

The process described in this module consists of configuration commands that are recommended as general first steps for improving convergence time in any IS-IS network. Performing the steps in the following process can help you save network resources and speed up network convergence.

How to Set Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

You can set best practice parameters to improve the convergence time in your IS-IS network. This section contains the following task:

•Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

Follow these steps for each router in your IS-IS network. To minimize the number of adjacencies, LSDBs, and related SPF and PRC computations that are performed, it is recommended that you have configured all Level 1 routers as Level 1 by using the is-type command. We recommend that you use the metric-style wide command because some features, such as setting prefix tags and MPLS traffic engineering, require that routers that are running IS-IS generate the new-style TLVs that have wider metric fields. If you use the default narrow metric style for IS-IS, the router generates and accepts old-style type, length, and value objects (TLVs). For more information on setting prefix tags, see the "Reducing Alternate-Path Calculation Times in IS-IS Networks" module.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. enable

2. configure terminal

3. router isis [area-tag]

4. is-type [level-1 | level-1-2 | level-2-only]

5. metric-style wide [transition] [level-1 | level-2 | level-1-2]

6. set-overload-bit [on-startup {seconds | wait-for-bgp}] [suppress {interlevel | external}]

7. no hello padding

8. end

DETAILED STEPS

Command or Action

Purpose

Step 1

enable
Example:

Router> enable

Enables privileged EXEC mode.

•Enter your password if prompted.

Step 2

configure terminal
Example:

Router# configure terminal

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 3

router isis [area-tag]
Example:

Router(config)# router isis

Enables IS-IS as an IP routing protocol and assigns a tag to a process, if required.

•Enters router configuration mode.

Step 4

is-type [level-1 | level-1-2 | level-2-only]
Example:

Router(config-router)# is-type level-1

Configures the routing level for an instance of the IS-IS routing process.

•It is recommended that IS-IS nodes that operate at a single level be configured as Level 1 to minimize the number of adjacencies, LDSBs, and related SPF and PRC calculations.

Note You can also set the IS-IS level type on the interface by entering the isis circuit-type command.

Step 5

metric-style wide [transition] [level-1 | level-2 | level-1-2]
Example:

Router(config-router)# metric-style wide

Globally changes the metric value for all IS-IS interfaces.

•Wide style metrics are required for prefix tagging.

Step 6

set-overload-bit [on-startup {seconds | wait-for-bgp}] [suppress {interlevel | external}]
Example:

Router(config-router)# set-overload-bit on-startup 360

Configures the router to signal other routers not to use it as an intermediate hop in their shortest path first (SPF) calculations.

•Setting the overload bit gives the router enough time to build its BGP and CEF tables prior to the router being used as a transit node.

Step 7

no hello padding
Example:

Router(config-router)# no hello padding

Disables IS-IS hello padding at the router level.

•By default the IS-IS Hello PDUs are padded to the full MTU size, possibly having a negative impact on time-sensitive application traffic that travels across low-bandwidth interfaces or on interface buffer resources when frequent hellos are configured. It is recommended to globally disable hello padding.

Step 8

end
Example:

Router(config-router)# end

Exits router configuration mode and returns to privileged EXEC mode.

Configuration Examples for Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

This section provides the following configuration example:

•Enabling IS-IS on a Router and Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence: Example

Enabling IS-IS on a Router and Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence: Example

The following example enables the IS-IS routing protocol on the interfaces for Router A, enables IS-IS on Router A, and configures Router A with the basic commands recommended to optimize IS-IS network convergence.

Router A
!
clns routing
process-max-time 50
ip routing protocol purge interface
router isis 
 passive-interface Loopback0
 net 49.1962.XXXX.XXXX.XXXX.00
 is-type level-2-only
 ispf level-2
 log-adjacency-changes
 ignore-lsp-errors
 metric-style wide level-2
 external overload signalling !Configure on Cisco 12000 series Internet routers
 set-overload-bit on-startup 180
 max-lsp-lifetime 65535
 lsp-refresh-interval 65000
 spf-interval 5 1 50
 prc-interval 5 1 50
 lsp-gen-interval 5 1 50
 no hello padding
 authentication mode md5 level-2
 authentication key-chain ON
 mpls traffic-eng router-id Loopback0 
 mpls traffic-eng level-2			
!
interface GigabitEthernet x/x/x
 negotiation auto
 ip router isis
 mtu 4470
 isis network point-to-point
 isis metric <metric> level-2
 isis circuit-type level-2-only
 isis authentication mode md5 level-2
 isis authentication key-chain ON
 carrier-delay ms 0
 dampening
interface POSx/y/x
 carrier-delay msec 0
 dampening
 ip router isis
 no peer neighbor-route
 isis metric 1 level-2
 isis circuit-type level-2-only
 isis authentication mode md5 level-2
 isis authentication key-chain ON
 pos ais-shut
 pos report lais
 pos report lrdi
 pos report pais
 pos report prdi
 pos report slos
 pos report slof
!
key chain ON
 key 1
  key-string mypassword
Where to Go Next

To configure features to improve IS-IS network convergence times, complete the optional tasks in one or more of the following modules:

•"Reducing Failure Detection Times in IS-IS Networks"

•"Reducing Alternate-Path Calculation Times in IS-IS Networks"

Additional References

The following sections provide references related to setting best practice parameters for IS-IS fast convergence.

Related Documents

Related Topic

Document Title

IS-IS commands: complete command syntax, command mode, defaults, command history, usage guidelines, and examples

Cisco IOS IP Routing Protocols Command Reference

Overview of Cisco IS-IS conceptual information

"Overview of IS-IS Fast Convergence"

Cisco IOS master command list, all releases

Cisco IOS Master Command List, All Releases

Standards

Standard

Title

No new or modified standards are supported, and support for existing standards has not been modified.

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MIBs

MIB

MIBs Link

No new or modified MIBs are supported by this feature, and support for existing MIBs has not been modified by this feature.

To locate and download MIBs for selected platforms, Cisco IOS XE software releases, and feature sets, use Cisco MIB Locator found at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/go/mibs

RFCs

RFC

Title

No new or modified RFCs are supported, and support for existing RFCs has not been modified.

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Technical Assistance

Description

Link

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Feature Information for Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

Table 1 lists the release history for this feature.

Use Cisco Feature Navigator to find information about platform support and software image support. Cisco Feature Navigator enables you to determine which Cisco IOS XE software images support a specific software release, feature set, or platform. To access Cisco Feature Navigator, go to http://www.cisco.com/go/cfn. An account on Cisco.com is not required.

Note Table 1 lists only the Cisco IOS XE software release that introduced support for a given feature in a given Cisco IOS XE software release train. Unless noted otherwise, subsequent releases of that Cisco IOS XE software release train also support that feature.

Table 1 Feature Information for Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

Feature Name

Releases

Feature Information

Setting Best Practice Parameters for IS-IS Fast Convergence

Cisco IOS XE Release 2.1

This feature was introduced on the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers.

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