> BTW: livingston will have OSPF shortly (at least that is what I heard)..
Actually, I'd be quite happy to see RIP v2. The new Skyline Veloces
I'm been testing support this, and it seems a lot more likely to
appear in other cheap routers, such as Pipelines, in the near
future. It's much simpler to implement than OSPF.
> for an ISP, there is no reason to have RIP used at all unless you have
> users with static ip's.. and then RIp is only needed if they can float
> between portmasters.
It depends on the configuration of the network.
cjs
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