[130315] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIP Justification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Oct 1 05:24:34 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4CA49714.40007@brightok.net>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 02:21:24 -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 6:56 AM, Jack Bates wrote:
> On 9/30/2010 8:46 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> I have no NAT whatsoever in my home network. RIP is not at all useful =
in my scenario.
>>=20
>> I have multiple routers in my home network. They use a combination of =
BGP and OSPFv3.
>>=20
>=20
> Except you must configure those things. The average home user cannot.
>=20
The average home user cannot configure RIP. What is your point?
>> 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.
>=20
> While it is possible for a router to create static routes =
automatically based on DHCPv6 assignment information, this has no loop =
prevention and is suboptimal depending on the configuration that things =
get plugged in. I'm not talking good network design here. I'm talking, =
buy box, plug in wherever it fits. Things should work.
>=20
RIP has no loop prevention and is suboptimal depending on the =
configuration
that things get plugged in.
RIP breaks more often than DHCP in my experience.
Owen
