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Re: RIP Justification

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Thu Sep 30 09:27:39 2010

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:27:29 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Jesse Loggins <jlogginsccie@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinW=V+RqCOf1DmBzuD06WzQk6upkZTNtU_cRCc6@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 9/29/2010 3:20 PM, Jesse Loggins wrote:
> What are your views of when and
> where the RIP protocol is useful?

Home networks when dual NAT isn't being used. It's also the perfect 
protocol for v6 on home networks where multiple home routers might be 
connected in a variety of ways.

Shocked I didn't even see v6 mentioned in the thread (though you did 
clarify v2, which isn't the v6 implementation). :(

Jack


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