[130245] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIP Justification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Sep 30 09:49:23 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4CA49041.1080305@brightok.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:46:17 -0700
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 30, 2010, at 6:27 AM, Jack Bates wrote:
> On 9/29/2010 3:20 PM, Jesse Loggins wrote:
>> What are your views of when and
>> where the RIP protocol is useful?
>=20
> 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.
>=20
I have no NAT whatsoever in my home network. RIP is not at all useful in =
my scenario.
I have multiple routers in my home network. They use a combination of =
BGP and OSPFv3.
> Shocked I didn't even see v6 mentioned in the thread (though you did =
clarify v2, which isn't the v6 implementation). :(
>=20
If your network is of a scale where it exceeds the utility of static, =
then, it is almost certainly of a scale
and topology where it exceeds the utility of RIP.
Owen
