On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:36:36AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your message. > > Quoting Nick Davey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >I'm scared. You need to use ripv1 as opposed to ripv2 and support > >network masks? > > Unfortunatelly, I think I have no options here. This a university > network, and this is the only way any department has to join the > backbone. Every router speaks RIPv1 (some of them, probably most of > them, only speak or listen to that) in order to publish their routes. >
You need to be kidding. RIPv1 to connect you to a campus network. What are they running, IMPs? Oh wait, I forgot it's porbably the academics that like to see split horizon and count to infinity issues in real life. Maybe they even enabled source routing on all routers. Yuck!.. -- :wq Claudio
