[85020] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Misc][Rant] Internet router (straying slightly OT)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Sep 30 11:54:18 2005
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: "Robert E.Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>,
Sabri Berisha <sabri@cluecentral.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Sep 2005 06:32:22 PDT."
<17213.15974.330499.500268@roam.psg.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:53:51 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <17213.15974.330499.500268@roam.psg.com>, Randy Bush writes:
>
>>> To get an understanding of routing-protocols, begin with RIP[3] and
>>> perhaps run your own RIP-lab
>> necromancy will be severely punished.
>
>many hand-on routing workshops start with rip, though with the
>warning "you will now learn why not to use rip." it makes it
>easy to teach poison reverse, ... in a relatively small setting.
And it's much easier to understand, at least for a beginner.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
