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Re: RIP and RIPv2, "The glue that makes the internet work"

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Thu Apr 26 23:45:52 2001 
On Thu, 26 April 2001, [email protected] wrote:
>     On the other hand, reports of large, multinational networks
>     running static routing in their cores seem to indicate a
>     desire to have routing in the core more stable than any dynamic
>     protocol will allow.  

You only need a dynamic routing protocol if there are alternate
paths in your network.  If don't have more than one way to get
from point A to point B, static routing may be acceptable.