[133163] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pointer for documentation on actually delivering IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sun Dec 5 17:40:08 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikm-=0xT8kJV0_0GbC7FZXofOBn+Fh8oiL6VjuQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 14:38:32 -0800
To: James Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Radabaugh <mark@amplex.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 5, 2010, at 1:32 PM, James Hess wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Mark Radabaugh <mark@amplex.net> wrote:
>> of running RIPng. The thought of letting Belkin routers (if you can call
>> them that) into the routing table scares me no end.
>
> I think that indeed looks scary. I wouldn't be too concerned about the
> Belkin routers.
> How many SP routers are really designed to deal with mass numbers of
> RIP adjacencies?
>
RIP doesn't have adjacencies, per se. It's basically a stateless broadcast
based protocol. As such, the number of routers really has no major impact
other than the traffic level generated by all those broadcasts.
Owen
