From: Elias Chari (elias.chari@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Jun 25 2006 - 09:29:01 ART
Hi,
Personally I do not favour RIP because of slower convergence and more
bandwidth consumption with routing updates (you seem to have some low BW
links) and it is more prone to loops. If I was to deploy a new routing
protocol for an enterprise customer, I would definitely not use RIP, I would
consider either OSPF or EIGRP (if all Cisco environment).
Don't forget that you can use STUB, NSSA areas, on-demand circuit etc with
OSPF which are very useful in cutting down the routing table hence less
memory and processing required. Also for stub sites that only have a single
link to the hub, you may want to consider a default route out instead of
running a dynamic routing protocol.
I guess what I am getting at is, study your topology, the business
requirements, look at all the options and then decide on what and how you
will deploy.
Rgds
Elias
On 6/25/06, Radioactive Frog <pbhatkoti@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Group,
>
> A company have 4 offices in metropolitan city. All 4 are connected with
> high
> speed network (1 or 2 T1's ). These four offices are in fully mess. Each
> metropolitan city has approximately 40-60 regional offices connected to
> it.
> They all have Leased link say 64 or 128K.
>
> Total: 4 metropolitan city offices x 40-60 offices in each
>
> One of the metropolitan city is Headquarter and have database and mail
> server inside. That got to be accessed from the all remote sites (regional
> and other metropolitan cities).
>
> Which protocol is best for this scenario ?? RIPV2 or OSPF ? (no bgp, eigrp
> or igrp).
>
> From my calculation: RIP should be enough as no of hops are less then the
> required.
> ------------------------------
>
> Headquarter--------->4 Metro offices(4hops) ------->50-60 remote offices
> (1
> hop) = total 6 hops total
>
> So in worse case if packet goes through messed network (4 metro
> offices) we
> will be not using more then 6 hops.
> In addition to this RIP-V2 doesn't need more processing power and high end
> router.
> OSPF requires memory and high end routers.
>
> What you guys think ??
>
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