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Re: RIP Justification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glen Kent)
Thu Sep 30 13:00:05 2010
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikZFLU0cNxC1r_6y0hbYS9virZPRz2mTtwZU5LF@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:29:46 +0530
From: Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
RIP cannot also be used for traffic engineering; so if you want MPLS
then you MUST use either OSPF or ISIS. RIP, like any other distance
vector protocol, converges extremely slowly - so if you want faster
convergence then you have to use one of ISIS or OSPF.
Glen
