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Re: RIP Justification
From: "Crist Clark" <Crist.Clark () globalstar com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:11:55 -0700
On 9/29/2010 at 4:24 PM, Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net> wrote: where 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.
I've got a RIPv2 daemon written in a few dozen lines of Perl to do something very similar. In other situations, RIPv2 has strong KISS appeal.
Current thread:
- 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)