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

Fri Sep 30 15:53:51 UTC 2005

In message <17213.15974.330499.500268 at roam.psg.com>, 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