IS-IS SR Stateful Switchover (SSO) support allows for a switchover from an active supervisor to a standby supervisor where MPLS traffic remains undisrupted during switchover. This involves reconciliation of all Segment Routing related information in the network using IS-IS Graceful Restart procedures. And also installing the same in forwarding hardware in a manner that does not disrupt the ongoing traffic.

IS IS adjacency is not formed between devices with different address families configured. For example,  a router