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Re: RIP in Operation

  • From: Patrick W Gilmore
  • Date: Thu Sep 16 11:32:19 2004

On Sep 16, 2004, at 11:20 AM, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Abhishek Verma wrote:

I am sure that there would be very few people running RIP in their networks,

Actually you'd be surprised.. its quite common as its very simple and used on a
lot of low end routers in favor of more cpu/memory intensive ospf/isis. I know
of a number of customers we have using RIP v1 and v2

It's also the only protocol (currently in use) which doesn't require an adjacency to be formed, allowing interesting tricks and one-way communications.

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TTFN,
patrick