Linux-Hams archive - May 1999: Re: RIP2 for Linux

Re: RIP2 for Linux

Jonathan NAYLOR (dbmk.bnzyodty@sellinet.net)
05 May 1999 14:24:15 +0200

With all this talk about RIP-2 on amateur radio, why not look at RIP-98 instead ?

It is essentially a cut down version of RIP-2 that consumes much less bandwidth,
but for all intents and purposes includes the same routing information. RIP-2
includes a lot of nulls in its data and takes up more bytes than is needed to transfer
each routing item.

It would be quite easy to retro-fit RIP98 to an already existing RIP-2 program.

Its been in the ax25-utils for years as rip98d.

Jonathan HB9/G4KLX