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Re: [Misc][Rant] Internet router (straying slightly OT)

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Fri Sep 30 11:55:00 2005

In message <[email protected]>, Randy Bush writes:
>
>>> To get an understanding of routing-protocols, begin with RIP[3] and
>>> perhaps run your own RIP-lab
>> necromancy will be severely punished.
>
>many hand-on routing workshops start with rip, though with the
>warning "you will now learn why not to use rip."  it makes it
>easy to teach poison reverse, ... in a relatively small setting.

And it's much easier to understand, at least for a beginner.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb