[36958] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIP and RIPv2, "The glue that makes the internet work"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Apr 26 23:43:09 2001
Date: 26 Apr 2001 20:39:41 -0700
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To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 26 April 2001, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> On the other hand, reports of large, multinational networks
> running static routing in their cores seem to indicate a
> desire to have routing in the core more stable than any dynamic
> protocol will allow.
You only need a dynamic routing protocol if there are alternate
paths in your network. If don't have more than one way to get
from point A to point B, static routing may be acceptable.
