On Sep 30, 2010, at 6:56 AM, Jack Bates wrote: > On 9/30/2010 8:46 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> I have no NAT whatsoever in my home network. RIP is not at all useful in my >> scenario. >> >> I have multiple routers in my home network. They use a combination of BGP >> and OSPFv3. >> > > Except you must configure those things. The average home user cannot. > The average home user cannot configure RIP. What is your point?
>> If your network is of a scale where it exceeds the utility of static, then, >> it is almost certainly of a scale >> and topology where it exceeds the utility of RIP. > > While it is possible for a router to create static routes automatically based > on DHCPv6 assignment information, this has no loop prevention and is > suboptimal depending on the configuration that things get plugged in. I'm not > talking good network design here. I'm talking, buy box, plug in wherever it > fits. Things should work. > RIP has no loop prevention and is suboptimal depending on the configuration that things get plugged in. RIP breaks more often than DHCP in my experience. Owen