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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Bill Manning considered fatal
two questions (and a task) for the list(s) 2. What will it take to get router vendors to modify default setup to select a classless IGP instead of (RIP,IGRP)? The power-off of the last IPv4 network. You should understand that there are many reasons for this: - All of the classful protocols today are incredibly hard to work with for a beginning user. OSPF has about 3 orders of magnitude more knobs than it needs. EIGRP (which we tried REALLY hard to keep simple) is about two orders of magnitude too hard. Both are resource intensive and require careful hand-holding. RIP2 is less piggish, but still is two orders of magnitude too messy. - Please recall that the technical savvy of the beginner customer base has dropped two orders of magnitude in just the last three years. - You don't need classful in a stub network for CIDR purposes. Yes, it helps for address efficiency IF the user can figure out VLSM. - The defaults need to be for the most common case: rank beginner in a stub. - There are many networks which are NOT the Internet. CIDR only applies to the Internet. I sympathize, but this is a case where the intelligent actually must lose to the tyranny of the majority. Tony
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