Re: [Misc][Rant] Internet router (straying slightly OT)

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia 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