Re: RIP Justification

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

The knowhow for BGP in that environment is all of about 30 minutes worth of
training. They should find a way to get it, IMHO.

Owen

On Oct 4, 2010, at 10:56 PM, Jonathon Exley wrote:

> It also scales better from the SP point of view. If you have 1000 L3VPN services on your PE node using OSPF to the 
> customer that would require a lot of memory for the multiple LSDBs and a lot of CPU for the SPF calculations.
> BGP is nicer but the reality is that many enterprises don't have the know-how. 
>
> Jonathon 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heath Jones [mailto:hj1980 () gmail com] 
> Sent: Saturday, 2 October 2010 12:39 a.m.
> To: Tim Franklin
> Cc: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: RIP Justification
>
> On 1 October 2010 12:19, Tim Franklin <tim () pelican org> wrote:
> > Or BGP.  Why not?
>
> Of course, technically you could use almost any routing protocol.
> OSPF and IS-IS would require more configuration and maintenance, BGP even more still.
>
> I think this is a pretty good example though of how RIPv2 is probably the most appropriate for the job. It doesnt 
> require further configuration from the provider side as new sites are added and is very simple to set up and maintain.
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