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RE: RIP Justification
From: Brandon Kim <brandon.kim () brandontek com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:42:09 -0400
Thanks Joe! You just added a new term to my vocabulary! "Technical Correctness" I think I'm going to go out of my way now to use this in the office... =)
From: jgreco () ns sol net Subject: Re: RIP Justification To: patrick () ianai net Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:24:59 -0500 CC: nanog () nanog orgwhere the RIP protocol is useful? Please excuse me if this is the =incorrectforum for such questions.RIP has one property no "modern" protocol has. It works on simplex = links (e.g. high-speed satellite downlink with low-speed terrestrial = uplink). Is that useful? I don't know, but it is still a fact.I once had cause to write a RIP broadcast daemon while on-site with a client; they had some specific brokenness with a Novell server and some other gear that was "fixed" by a UNIX box, a C compiler, and maybe 20 or 30 minutes of programming (mostly to remember the grimy specifics of UDP broadcast programming). I do not recall the specific routing issue, but being able to just inject a periodic "spoofed" packet was sufficient to repair them. While not the correct way to engineer a network, sometimes being able to bring a client's network back on-line in a crisis is more important than technical correctness. I feel reasonably certain that I would not have been able to cobble together a quick solution if they had been relying on OSPF, etc. A simple protocol can be a blessing. I concede it is more often a curse. .... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
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- RIP Justification Jesse Loggins (Sep 29)
- Re: RIP Justification Patrick W. Gilmore (Sep 29)
- Re: RIP Justification Charles Mills (Sep 29)
- Re: RIP Justification Joe Greco (Sep 29)
- RE: RIP Justification Brandon Kim (Sep 29)
- Re: RIP Justification Heath Jones (Sep 29)
- Re: RIP Justification Crist Clark (Sep 29)
- RE: RIP Justification Gary Gladney (Sep 29)
- RE: RIP Justification George Bonser (Sep 29)
- Re: RIP Justification Christopher Gatlin (Sep 29)
- Re: RIP Justification Mark Smith (Sep 29)
- Re: RIP Justification Christopher Gatlin (Sep 29)
- Re: RIP Justification Owen DeLong (Sep 29)
- Re: RIP Justification Mark Smith (Sep 29)
- Re: RIP Justification Patrick W. Gilmore (Sep 29)