From firewalls-gc  Wed Jul 02 16:21:44 1997
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco ! com>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 16:21:44 +0000
To: firewalls-gc
Subject: Re: RIP vs. OSPF
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At 08:51 AM 07/02/97 -0700, Kelly E. Gibbs wrote:

>
>Would it be a fair statement that OSPF is now the chosen protocol over RIP?

I'm not sure what you mean by "chosen," but I would suggest that it [ospf]
is much more preferable over any classful routing protocol, especially RIP.

I would also suggest reading:

 RFC1923, "RIPv1 Applicability Statement for Historic Status,"
 http://www.internic.net/rfc/rfc1923.txt

>If so, could someone offer any comment on why and which do you think will
>be the more dominate protocol in the future?
>

Classless routing protocols, of course.

- paul

>Thanks,
>Kelly
>


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