[130216] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIP Justification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Heath Jones)
Wed Sep 29 19:54:53 2010
In-Reply-To: <201009292324.o8TNOxaP093631@aurora.sol.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:54:43 +0100
From: Heath Jones <hj1980@gmail.com>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
This is why they need a 'like' button on nanog!! :)
> I once had cause to write a RIP broadcast daemon while on-site with a
> client; they had some specific brokenness with a Novell server and some
> other gear that was "fixed" by a UNIX box, a C compiler, and maybe 20
> or 30 minutes of programming (mostly to remember the grimy specifics of
> UDP broadcast programming). =A0I do not recall the specific routing issue=
,
> but being able to just inject a periodic "spoofed" packet was sufficient
> to repair them.
