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Re: RIP Justification


From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 03:33:18 -0700


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

On 30 September 2010 22:11, Jack Carrozzo <jack () 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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