[74172] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIP in Operation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W Gilmore)
Thu Sep 16 11:30:16 2004
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409161618460.19437-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Cc: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:29:38 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sep 16, 2004, at 11:20 AM, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Abhishek Verma wrote:
>
>> I am sure that there would be very few people running RIP in their
>> networks,
>
> Actually you'd be surprised.. its quite common as its very simple and
> used on a
> lot of low end routers in favor of more cpu/memory intensive
> ospf/isis. I know
> of a number of customers we have using RIP v1 and v2
It's also the only protocol (currently in use) which doesn't require an
adjacency to be formed, allowing interesting tricks and one-way
communications.
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TTFN,
patrick
