Re: RIP in Operation

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 07:19:24PM +0530, Abhishek Verma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am sure that there would be very few people running RIP in their
> networks, but since the IETF RIP mailing list is dead, and also
> because its more of an operational question, the Nanog list felt most
> appropriate to me for the following post.

        i guess i'm among the very few then.

 
> Why would you, as an operator, recieve RIPv2 Request messages? The
> only reason that comes to my mind is when a remote RIPv2 router has
> just come up. That time its going to multicast this message on all its
> interfaces configured to run RIP. This is the *only* reason that comes
> to my mind.

        thats the normal way

> However, there is text in the RFC 2453 that states that RIP can use
> this message to request specific networks also. It also states that
> such a request can only be made by a diagonistic software and cannot
> be used for routing. My doubt is, how can a diagnostic software, use
> the services of RIP for doing that?

        kind of depends on the implementation of RIP you are using.

> I assume (please correct me if i am wrong) that the RIP requests are
> only then, used for requesting the entire routing tables, and nothing
> else. The 'diagnostics' story sounds too far fetched to me!

        ripv2 allows for requesting specific prefixes.  not too
        far fetched.

> Thanks,
> Abhishek V.
>
> P.S.
> I tried googling but nothing came up.
>
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