[74175] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIP in Operation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A. Hayden)
Thu Sep 16 12:21:13 2004
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:17:24 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <rhayden@geek.net>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: Abhishek Verma <abhishekv.verma@gmail.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409161618460.19437-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
We use RIP extensively on the edges of our network to build a Layer3
routed overlay between 3550/3750 switches and our 6500-based core. At
$2k/list for the EMI license PER SWITCH ($4k for 3750s), it just wasn't
feasible for us to use EMI just for OSPF when all we were really
announcing was a loopback and a /30 connected network.
We route filter and tune the RIP times down quite a bit. Meets our needs
on the edges.
Robert
University of Wisconsin Madison
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, 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
>
> Steve
>
