Re: (PM) Connection Time takes 37 seconds (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Thu, 8 Jan 1998 21:06:22 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time System Administrator shaped the electrons to say...
> I found that enabling RIP on the Ether port makes connection much faster.
>???? Who knows .. maybe a GURU can tell us why/

You probably had an odd routing situation and packets from the PM were
travelling to the server by a different route. And now with RIP they're
using a route closer to (or the same as) that of the CISCO.

Traceroute with and without RIP routes could possibly show the difference

-MZ

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