>>> On 9/29/2010 at 4:24 PM, Joe Greco <jgr...@ns.sol.net> wrote: >> > where the RIP protocol is useful? Please excuse me if this is the = >> incorrect >> > forum for such questions. >> >> RIP has one property no "modern" protocol has. It works on simplex = >> links (e.g. high-speed satellite downlink with low-speed terrestrial = >> uplink). >> >> Is that useful? I don't know, but it is still a fact. > > I once had cause to write a RIP broadcast daemon while on-site with a > client; they had some specific brokenness with a Novell server and some > other gear that was "fixed" by a UNIX box, a C compiler, and maybe 20 > or 30 minutes of programming (mostly to remember the grimy specifics of > UDP broadcast programming). I do not recall the specific routing issue, > but being able to just inject a periodic "spoofed" packet was sufficient > to repair them.
I've got a RIPv2 daemon written in a few dozen lines of Perl to do something very similar. In other situations, RIPv2 has strong KISS appeal.
