[130195] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIP Justification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Downs)
Wed Sep 29 16:58:31 2010
From: James Downs <egon@egon.cc>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <op.vjtaonxhtfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:53:40 -0700
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 29, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Ricky Beam wrote:
> The 1% where it was a necessary evil... dialup networking where the
> only routing protocol supported was RIP (v2) [netblazers] -- static
> IP clients had to be able to land anywhere -- but RIP only lived on
> the local segment, OSPF took over network-wide. (Later MaxTNT's were
> setup with OSPF
I remember RIP across chassis for the TotalControl bonded dialup
stuff, and as you mention, static IPs, but I haven't seen it in
serious use for a long time.
Cheers,
-j
