[36959] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIP and RIPv2, "The glue that makes the internet work"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Fri Apr 27 10:11:09 2001
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: fenner@research.att.com (Bill Fenner), nanog@merit.edu
From: rs@seastrom.com (Robert E. Seastrom)
Date: 27 Apr 2001 10:08:11 -0400
In-Reply-To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com's message of "Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:11:02 +0000 (UCT)"
Message-ID: <8766fqzb90.fsf@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> 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.
Or lack of sufficient clue in their IT departments to implement
anything but static routing (sadly, very often the case in my
experience). Which of course is preferable to the four-router
thirty-route OSPF "designs" I have seen that put each router in its
own area (!).
---rob
