Re: simple routing protocols and openvpn

[Brook Milligan <brook%nmsu.edu@localhost>]

On May 6, 2015, at 6:22 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> For only a few, RIP is more or less ok.  Modern practice is to use OSPF,
> which you'd get in net/quagga.  But I think you aren't having "RIP is
> ancient and not good enough" problems.

Thanks for the reassurance that this is not too complicated for RIP.  That was my thinking as well, but when it wasn't working I began to worry.

As I was preparing additional information to clarify the problem, I noticed that routed uses RIPv1 by default.  Switching on RIPv2 makes everything work as expected.  Why would one want to use RIPv1 anyway?  Is there a reason it is the default?

Sorry about bothering the list with this, but perhaps someone else will make a similar mistake.  Along those lines, would it be valuable to include an example gateways file in, for example, /usr/share/examples/routed?

Cheers,
Brook