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Draining an IS-IS router: three vendors, three LSPs, and a bug in FRR

In the previous post, one LSP with both the attached bit and the overload bit gave a default route on Junos and FRR, and none on SR OS. I left two questions open: does every vendor keep the attached bit when overload is set, and what happens when the access router has several exits, which is the real use of a drain? And the first post tested only one sender, SR OS.

35 years of IS-IS, and vendors still disagree on two bits

IS-IS has carried IP since RFC 1195, in December 1990. If any routing protocol should behave the same on every router, it is this one. Yet when one LSP carries both the attached bit and the overload bit, Nokia SR OS, Juniper Junos and FRR do not install the same routes.