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

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Fri, 9 Jan 1998 11:22:30 -0600 (CST)

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, MegaZone wrote:

> 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.

Thats got to be it. Usually, enabling rip would slow things down.

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