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Re: RIP in Operation

  • From: Tony Li
  • Date: Thu Sep 16 12:16:02 2004 

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?



This allows a remote node to obtain the routing table information from
a remote router in a simple manner.



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!


Sorry, no. The thinking at the time was that this was a good way to debug
routing problems. Of course, this was in the pre-traceroute days.

Tony