From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 18 19:20:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA20763 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 19:20:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from nak.myhouse.com (nak.myhouse.com [209.70.45.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA20746 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 19:20:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zoonie@nak.myhouse.com) Received: (qmail 1647 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Nov 1997 03:22:38 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 22:22:38 -0500 (EST) From: zoonie To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" cc: Scot Elliott , akl@wup.de, amr@wup.de, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RIP vs. OSPF In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > Not true. RIP v1 (Novell 3.1x) supports fixed-length subnets. That is, > *all* subnets must have the same netmask. RIP v1 also assumes that all > subnets of a network are contiguous, which is not necessarily so, these days. > > RIP v 2 supports variable-length subnet masks and remote subnets, but > still is not as good as OSPF. true, but OSPF is best if you have redundant paths. i don't exactly remember the entire network diagram since i deleted it but i don't think that there were redundant paths.... > I recommend going to OSPF and using default routes on the Novell gateways > and static routes *to* the Novell gateways. Novell fileserver routing is > pathetic, particularly 3.x. assuming that there weren't any redunant paths on the network i would recommend using RIPv2 myself and go to OSPF if you have redundant paths on your network for the quicker convergance. why incur the overhead of OSPF if there is no good technical reason for it? i say this from experiance because i worked at a place where we didn't have any redundant paths on the network but it was setup with OSPF as the routing protocol....then one day OSPF just took a hike for no reason at all (this was on cisco IOS 9.1) and i agured the technical merits of it vs RIP for the network with a friend and co-worker of mine. i favored OSPF at the time and my friend favored RIP. after some discussion and giving it some thought i really didn't see a reason to run OSPF and incur the overhead. that's my 2 cents worth.....