NSAP Address–to–Host Name Mapping
As discussed in the preceding section, an NSAP can be long (up to 20 bytes, compared to 4 bytes in IP addresses). Also, the hexadecimal representation doesn't provide any operational convenience for router configuration, troubleshooting, or routine operations activities, such as inspection and maintenance of the IS-IS routing environment. Working with long NSAP addresses might be a daunting task, especially in high-pressure troubleshooting situations.
The SysID appears in several attributes, such as adjacency information, identifiers of link-state packets (LSPs) in the IS-IS database, and features in the output of many commands that are used by network operators to gather information about the network. Most people ...
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