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On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 07:19:24PM +0530, Abhishek Verma wrote: > > Hi, > > I am sure that there would be very few people running RIP in their > networks, but since the IETF RIP mailing list is dead, and also > because its more of an operational question, the Nanog list felt most > appropriate to me for the following post. i guess i'm among the very few then. > Why would you, as an operator, recieve RIPv2 Request messages? The > only reason that comes to my mind is when a remote RIPv2 router has > just come up. That time its going to multicast this message on all its > interfaces configured to run RIP. This is the *only* reason that comes > to my mind. thats the normal way > However, there is text in the RFC 2453 that states that RIP can use > this message to request specific networks also. It also states that > such a request can only be made by a diagonistic software and cannot > be used for routing. My doubt is, how can a diagnostic software, use > the services of RIP for doing that? kind of depends on the implementation of RIP you are using. > I assume (please correct me if i am wrong) that the RIP requests are > only then, used for requesting the entire routing tables, and nothing > else. The 'diagnostics' story sounds too far fetched to me! ripv2 allows for requesting specific prefixes. not too far fetched. > > Thanks, > Abhishek V. > > P.S. > I tried googling but nothing came up. > > -- > Class of 2004 > Institue Of Technology, BHU > Varanasi - India
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