[130201] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIP Justification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dale W. Carder)
Wed Sep 29 17:36:21 2010
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:36:01 -0500
From: "Dale W. Carder" <dwcarder@wisc.edu>
In-reply-to: <AANLkTinW=V+RqCOf1DmBzuD06WzQk6upkZTNtU_cRCc6@mail.gmail.com>
To: Jesse Loggins <jlogginsccie@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Thus spake Jesse Loggins (jlogginsccie@gmail.com) on Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 01:20:48PM -0700:
> This leads to my question. What are your views of when and
> where the RIP protocol is useful?
I most often see RIPv2 used simply to avoid paying vendor license fees to run
more sophisticated things such as OSPF.
Dale