Re: RIP and RIPv2, "The glue that makes the internet work"

[Ulf Zimmermann <ulf () Alameda net>]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:44:50AM +0000, bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:
>       POP quiz!
>
>  What was/is the largest production network (in number of end nodes) that
>  used/uses RIP as the IGP?

I have worked in an enviroment with over 12,000 nodes, which used RIPv1
and class B address space. And it was a pain, the software/hardware
engineers who original built that stuff didn't want to give up
control.

>  What was/is the largest production network (in number of end nodes) that
>  used/uses static routing as the IGP?
>
>       ---------------------------------------------------------
>  
> > That was last month's issue. I chuckled too. But, for a small end-point LAN,
> > it's not bad. Consider it appropriate tech, applied in appropriate places.
> > Even fully static routes aren't bad, on small enough networks.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John M . Brown [mailto:jmbrown () ihighway net]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 6:51 PM
> > > To: nanog () merit edu
> > > Subject: RIP and RIPv2, "The glue that makes the internet work"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Latest Linux Mag has this really nice long article about how
> > > RIP and its new version RIPv2 is the GLUE that makes the internet
> > > work.  
> > >
> > > I almost fell down on that.
> > >
> > > Oh, wait, I do know a couple of exchange points that wanted to or are
> > > running RIP.  No REALLY!!
> > >
> > > jmbrown

-- 
Regards, Ulf.

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