From: Leigh Harrison (ccileigh@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Jun 25 2006 - 05:22:57 ART
Hi there,
If you're after straight forward routing, then I would go for RIPv2.
I've put it in on a few sites recently and it works like a charm. On th
other hand, if you were looking at doing some more granular routing,
then don't forget that OSPF is metric based rather than RIPv2's hop count.
LH
Radioactive Frog 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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