RIP Justification

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Fri Oct 1 10:33:18 UTC 2010


On Sep 30, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Heath Jones wrote:

> On 30 September 2010 22:11, Jack Carrozzo <jack at crepinc.com> wrote:
>> As it was explained to me, the main difference is that you can have $lots of
>> prefixes in IS-IS without it falling over, whereas Dijkstra is far more
>> resource-intensive and as such OSPF doesn't get too happy after $a_lot_less
>> prefixes. Those numbers can be debated as you like, but I think if you were
>> to redist bgp ospf on a lab machine you'd get the point.
> 
> Both OSPF and IS-IS use Dijkstra. IS-IS isn't as widely used because
> of the ISO addressing. Atleast thats my take on it..
> 
> RIPv2 is great for simple route injection. I'm talking really simple,
> just to avoid statics.

And there, my friend, is the crux of the matter. There's almost no place
imagineable where injecting routes from RIPv2 is superior to statics.

Owen





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