[130518] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIP Justification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Oct 5 04:04:14 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <035FE016D625174BA7C7A9FA83E6C179871482BDA9@winexmp02>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 00:59:20 -0700
To: Jonathon Exley <Jonathon.Exley@kordia.co.nz>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The knowhow for BGP in that environment is all of about 30 minutes worth =
of
training. They should find a way to get it, IMHO.
Owen
On Oct 4, 2010, at 10:56 PM, Jonathon Exley wrote:
> It also scales better from the SP point of view. If you have 1000 =
L3VPN services on your PE node using OSPF to the customer that would =
require a lot of memory for the multiple LSDBs and a lot of CPU for the =
SPF calculations.
> BGP is nicer but the reality is that many enterprises don't have the =
know-how.=20
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> Jonathon=20
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heath Jones [mailto:hj1980@gmail.com]=20
> Sent: Saturday, 2 October 2010 12:39 a.m.
> To: Tim Franklin
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: RIP Justification
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> On 1 October 2010 12:19, Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org> wrote:
>> Or BGP. Why not?
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> Of course, technically you could use almost any routing protocol.
> OSPF and IS-IS would require more configuration and maintenance, BGP =
even more still.
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> I think this is a pretty good example though of how RIPv2 is probably =
the most appropriate for the job. It doesnt require further =
configuration from the provider side as new sites are added and is very =
simple to set up and maintain.
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