Re: RIP protocol from a Cisco Router

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Mon, 3 Aug 1998 20:53:36 -0700 (PDT)


On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> >On 4 Aug 1998, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> Classic RIP does not support subnetting. You should switch to a newer
> >> version of routed that support RIPII (assuming the Ciscos support it),
> >What sort of question is that? Cisco supports _everything_ :-)
> Rubbish - we have no end of trouble with cisco routers and RIP for ages.

How odd considering gated and routed chat RIPv2 away happily with ciscos,
as well as oh, just about everything else on our WAN.

> Tried to get RIP working between Digital Unix 3.2D2 and 4.0a and a large
> number of Windows NT systems and other Unix and Apple Macs - NighTmare ( =
> NT :-) )

Well if it was NT then no wonder. But this is hardly a failing of Cisco if
NT cant speak RIPv2 according to RFCs. But microsoft has a disturbing
tendency to ignore RFCs not just in the area of routing.

I wasnt aware MacOS spoke RIPv2.

> In the end we dumped the Cisco's routers, rationalised to Class B addresses
> and went to asante switches and used Unix to route everything else - fixed
> it!

Thats called swatting a fly with a sledgehammer, I believe. (Other people
would call it a kludge).

-Dan

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