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Re: RIP Justification
From: Jack Carrozzo <jack () crepinc com>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:43:48 -0400
Dynamic routing is hard, let's go shopping. Seriously though, I can't think of a topology I've ever encountered where RIP would have made more sense than OSPF or BGP, or if you're really die-hard, IS-IS. Let it die... My $0.02, -Jack On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:53 AM, John Kristoff <jtk () cymru com> wrote:
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:20:48 -0700 Jesse Loggins <jlogginsccie () gmail com> wrote:OSPF. It seems that many Network Engineers consider RIP an old antiquated protocol that should be thrown in back of a closet "never to be seen or heard from again". Some even preferred using a more complex protocol like OSPF instead of RIP. I am of the opinion thatComplexity depending on your perspective. The implementation might be more complicated to code, but by and large the major implementations after years of experience seem to be very stable now. If the physical topology and stability is increasingly "interesting", RIP may be a more complex protocol to use and troubleshoot than OSPF. In essence, dealing with loops and topology changes in RIP involves a set of incomplete and unsatisfactory hacks for more than the simplest of environments.every protocol has its place, which seems to be contrary to some engineers way of thinking. This leads to my question. What are your views of when and where the RIP protocol is useful? Please excuse me if this is the incorrect forum for such questions.As an implementation of distance vector, its at least useful as a teaching tool about routing theory, history and implementations. John
Current thread:
- Re: RIP Justification, (continued)
- Re: RIP Justification Scott Morris (Sep 30)
- Re: RIP Justification Scott Morris (Sep 29)
- Re: RIP Justification Chris Woodfield (Sep 29)
- Re: RIP Justification Scott Morris (Sep 30)
- Re: RIP Justification Yasuhiro Ohara (Sep 29)
- Re: RIP Justification Chris Woodfield (Sep 29)
- Re: RIP Justification Owen DeLong (Sep 29)
- Re: RIP Justification Jack Bates (Sep 30)
- Re: RIP Justification Owen DeLong (Sep 30)
- Re: RIP Justification Jack Bates (Sep 30)
- Re: RIP Justification Owen DeLong (Sep 30)
- Re: RIP Justification John Kristoff (Sep 30)
- Re: RIP Justification Jack Carrozzo (Sep 30)
- Re: RIP Justification Glen Kent (Sep 30)
- Re: RIP Justification Scott Morris (Sep 30)
- RE: RIP Justification George Bonser (Sep 30)
- Re: RIP Justification Marshall Eubanks (Sep 30)
- Re: RIP Justification Jack Carrozzo (Sep 30)
- Re: RIP Justification Jack Carrozzo (Sep 30)
- RE: RIP Justification Nathan Eisenberg (Sep 30)
- Re: RIP Justification Jack Carrozzo (Sep 30)
- Re: RIP Justification Jack Bates (Sep 30)
- Re: RIP Justification Jack Carrozzo (Sep 30)
- Re: RIP Justification Heath Jones (Sep 30)