On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Mark Nash - Lists <markl...@uwol.net> wrote: > Yes, there are lots of old things in my head. I can dig out my old Netware > CNE badge, ran 10-Base2, Token-Ring, Arcnet, Apple's PhoneNet, and can hang > as a first chair tuba player in any of the top 10 symphony orchestras in our > country, but to quote Leslie Nielson "That's not important right now". > > And then there's the fact that I live quite comfortably, using RIP for my > business. > > If it's time to change, we will change, but I haven't seen a compelling > *enough* reason to get over my philosphical problem that I laid out in my > previous post. I want to know if this RIP "problem" is smoke & mirrors > masking an ACTUAL problem.
Ok, RIP works, and is stable if it is left alone. No routing loops, so backup routes. As long as someone does not decide to audit your network you should be ok. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jeremy Parr > To: WISPA General List > Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 1:59 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] RIP vs other routing protocols > On 2 September 2010 16:38, Mark Nash - Lists <markl...@uwol.net> wrote: >> >> We know how to avoid routing loops. As I said before, RIP has been around >> for decades and I know it well. >> >> Our engineer wants to get us into OSPF, which I have no experience with >> and don't understand. Since I don't really have anything to do with the >> operation of my business anymore, it's likely that I will never understand >> OSPF and that's why I'm having a problem. >> >> It's philosophical. I have felt in the past like my hands were tied when >> one person knew things about my network that I didn't know. I don't like >> that feeling. I know that I can do RIP. I can fix whatever goes wrong if I >> need to. >> >> If it's stable and works like it should ;) > > Not to be snide, but you are probably the only person who still knows rip. > ;-P > > ________________________________ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
